Janne Lonnqvist reports on the Summer Solstice, or Midsummer, Rage: Tribal War tournament in Helsinki, Finland.

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001
From: Janne Lönnqvist (lonkka@fantasiapelit.fi)
To: rageinfo@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Rage] Helsinki Midsummer tourmanet results

Hiya,
below are the results of the Midsummer tournament we had here in Helsinki
last Thursday.

I had a gut feeling that not that many people would attend, and it was
unfortunately true. Midsummer is one of the traditional Finnish holidays
(such as X-mas, new Year, May Day etc.) and on traditional holidays almost
everyone and their little sister will get absolutely and totally drunk. In
addition to this most people will get out to countryside either to their
summer cottage by a lake to light up a bonfire and go to sauna or go to
huge music festivals.

So I made a new cub deck to reflect this; Fianna with 5 cubs and almost all
the beer cards that can be fitted in (I think I dropped just one War
Whiskey). Unfortunately there are no bonfire or sauna cards in the game,
but I added few War Paints so that when the kids are dead drunk they can
paint their faces in the tradition of Norwegian metal bands and start
picking fights with old seniles. Unfortunately this tactic didn´t work out
and my cubbies were shown their true place in the Sept.


                                Wyrm kills/points of round              (total points)
I ROUND
                                        Pts
Samuli Linden           Philodox        9/20
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          -/10
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         -/8(all cubs)
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        4/4
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    -
WYRM                                    14

II ROUND
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         9/20(6 cubs)                    (9/28) (14 cubs)
Samuli Linden           Philodox        -/11                            (9/31)
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          -/10                            (-/20)
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        1/3                             (5/7)
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    -                               (-)
WYRM                                    -                               (14)

III ROUND
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        14/21                           (19/28)
Samuli Linden           Philodox        8/16                            (17/47)
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         8/12(2 cubs)                    (17/40) (16 cubs)
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          -/11                            (-/31)
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    -                               (-)
WYRM                                    -                               (14)


FINAL ROUND & TOTAL SCORE
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         4/21                            (21/61) (20 cubs)       
Samuli Linden           Philodox        4/7                             (21/54)
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        -/16                            (19/44)
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          8/8                             (8/39)
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    4/4                             (4/4)
WYRM                                    1                               (15)

Highlights:
Total of 20 cubs killed by Wendigos! (I had feared that my "Finnish
Midsummer with drunken cubs"-deck might encounter the chilly norhthern
climate (in the form of Chill of the Early Frost). Unfortunately it did in
the first game. Samuli had the same problem during the 2nd game with his
"stack all the Philodox cubs you can"-deck as he wanted to have as many
Philodox Garous around to be boosted with +3 renown in voting...)

I had to use my Regis Wallace (or Wallu as he´s known amongst the local
kids as he fetches booze for them) as alpha during the 1st game and he came
close to dying as the combat deck is built for cubs, poor victims etc.
Regis already had 2 wounds because of the Chill of Early Frost and he had
to defend himself with Take the Pain (I thought he was in a world of hurt),
but the opponent merely used Fight on! Probably the toughest Fight on!
ever, eh?

Fishbone Walker seemed to get mad during the finals because his (her?) pack
hadn´t scored any renown yet. After activating War paint Fishy uses
Instintive Backlash and hopes for the best... and Wakshani plays Go for the
Throat. Smack!

And below is Tommi´s winning deck:
Speaks-of-Fire (wendigo lupus philodox)
Leeds Quick-to-Anger (wendigo metis galliard)
Talks-to-Spirits (wendigo lupus theurge)

  Allies
Dust Spirit *3

  Enemies
Mind Eater

  Equipment
Spirit Whistle

  Events
Pounce
Counting Coup *3
Hail the Sun *3
Chill of the Early Frost *2
Doing Gaia's Work *3
Hunt Blessing *2
Scalp Hunt *3

  Gifts
Tornado River*2
Healing Sleep
Wisdom of the Ancient Ways
Wendigo Scream*2
Song of the Seasons*3
Sky Running *2
Inquire of Gaia
Camouflage

  Moots
Ditch Fight *3
Proving Ground *2
Challenge the Leader

  Rites
Rite of the Parted Veil
The Trodden Track

  Victims
Sig Royfried

  Full moon
Crush
Bear Hug
Big Honkin' Club
Evan's Move
Quick Slash
Nasty Neck Kick
Swipe
Roundhouse
Don't Even Try
Twist Knife

 New Moon
Dishin' Up the Combo
Channel Spirit
Deflect the Blow
Fetal Position
Steel Jaw
Block and Strike
Steel Arm to the Chest
Y'Broke Mah Laig!
You're So Predictable
Spirit Smack

Take care,
Janne, Tamagotchi Wolverine

Date: Wed Jun 27, 2001  10:36 am
From: Janne Lönnqvist (lonkka@fantasiapelit.fi)
To: rageinfo@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Rage] Full Helsinki Results


Results for the tournament:
We didn´t have information that Victory Piles of all players in every round
should´ve been tallied, only just winner´s Victory Pile of the finals.

After each player´s results are listed all the Victory Pile cards that me
and Tommi remembered...


I ROUND
                                        Pts     Wyrm    Non-wyrm        Other
                                                        Garou etc
Samuli Linden           Philodox        20      9       5               6
        -Leeds Quick-To-Anger
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          10      -       8               2
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         8       -       8 (all cubs)    -
        -2x Little Hans
        -2x Douglas MacDougal
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        4       4       -               -
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    -       -       -               -
WYRM                                    14      -       9               5
Tot                                             13      30              13

II ROUND
                                        Pts     Wyrm    Non-wyrm        Other
                                        (tot)           Garou etc
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         20(28)  9       11 (6 cubs)     -
Samuli Linden           Philodox        11(31)  -       8               3
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          10(20)  -       10              -
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        3(7)    1       -               2
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    -(-)    -       -               -
WYRM                                    -(14)   -       -               -
Tot                                             10(23)  29(59)          5(18)

III ROUND
                                        Pts     Wyrm    Non-wyrm        Other
                                        (tot)           Garou etc
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        21(28)  14      5               2
Samuli Linden           Philodox        16(47)  8       1               7
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         12(40)  8       4 (2 cubs)      -
        -Little Hans
        -Douglas MacDougal
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          11(31)  -       9               2
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    -(-)    -       -               -
WYRM                                    -(14)   -       -               -
Tot                                             30(53)  78(19)          11(29)

FINAL ROUND & TOTAL SCORE
                                        Pts     Wyrm    Non-wyrm        Other
                                        (tot)           Garou etc
Tommi Nirha             Wendigo         21(61)  4       17 (4 cubs)     -
Samuli Linden           Philodox        7(54)   4       -               3
Nina Jatuli             Galliard        16(44)  -       14              2
Jere Suvanto            Fianna          8(39)   8       -               -
Janne Lönnqvist         Fianna  Cubs    4(4)    -       -               -
        -Wakshani
WYRM                                    1(15)   -       1               -
Tot                                             20(73)  32(110) 5(34)

Cards in Tommi´s Victory Pile at the end of the Finals:
-Bandit Blackmane
-Douglas MacDougal
-Douglas Steady-Hand
-Eyes-of-Crystal
-Little Hans
-Mother Blackfang
-Hogling


Unfortunately I´ve recieved conflicting information about the card that the
winner chooses. One source says that winner can choose from Victory Pile
the winner had during ANY round of the tournament and other says that from
the FINAL round.

In addition Tommi would like to get more cards listed (if any other players
would happen remember them, but they haven´t indicated whether they´d
remember any or not). When I e-mailed Tommi this morning (now it is early
evening around here) that I´d like to have a card picked from the cards
that we were able to remember or I had to randomly choose a card, I only
got the following answer (which I take as a "up yours" or "choose yourself"
as he hasn´t replied to my second, more recent, plea to pick a card):

"This little piggy wallowed in a wyrm warren
 this little piggy had some fun with his brethren
 this little piggy went and ate a few children
 this little piggy tried to make a caern barr*splash*"

So out of these 15 cards I randomly (with a trusty D20) managed to select
HOGLING (threw a 15).

Sorry for the mess, but we didn´t have the full details for the tournament
and the card choosing had to be more hurried than the winner would´ve liked
because of other tournaments. 

If Azrael folks are unhappy with these decisions feel free to decide that
our tournament didn´t qualify as a Storyline Tournament (making its results
void) or decide another card if my method wasn´t approvable.

Take care,
Janne, Tamagotchi Wolverine

Caern of the Screaming Electrons | The Tournament Archives | email Lurks-Between-Bytes