Thank you very much, mzi!

 Hello Dark Initiate.

Sorry, I did not want to sound harsh or whatever.

I think Joffrey, the owner from L'Autre Monde (rue Hors-Chateau 20, Liège) will be at the Game Con (he is somewhat associated with the Club Objectif Jeux to organise the IRV Game Con, And I'm sure he will bring some AP to sell during the Con, I'll ask him to do so).

Anyway, missing one or two last APs is not a big deal, I'm sure that you can do very efficient decks without these AP's as well.   Cards description are available on DeckBuilder and CardgameDB, and feel free to ask for borrowing some card you could need from us, we would be more than happy to help you to finish to build your deck. All we want is happy players playing what they wish to play in the best conditions.

And the competition will be top level, with 2009, 2010 and 2011 Euro Champions, 2009 French Champ, 2011 finalist,…

We are more than happy to receive the support of FFG. Again, the Euro champ will design his card, and this year will have free access to Worlds Champ (excluding travel and hostels expanses) and will have first round bye.

In addition, we have a lot of nice prizes, everyone will come back at home with a gift, thanks to FFG, EagleCard, l'Autre Monde and Objectif Jeux.

See you there, starting friday 26 october evening with chat, free play, socializing, famous belgian beers tasting,…

and saturday 27 october in the morning 10:00am, for final registration and decklist checks, tournament will start at 11:00am.

Finally sunday, for a fun and somewhat chaotic variant (ticking clock and hidden stories)

FredhoT

D-day minus two…

W00t!

thx to FFG, Objectif Jeux, l'Autre Monde and EagleCrd for their kind support. Everyone had a blast and grabbed cool prizes thanks to them.

Thx to the whole organisation team for the help in making things running as smoothly as possible.

Final Ranking European Championship - Call of Cthulhu LCG, 27th october, 2012 (Liège Asylum):

1. Damien (B_P) - B
2. Minas (Durango) - B
3. mzi - B
4. Max (Mr Patate) - B
5. Wolfgang (Thorondor) - A
6. Paul (Dark Initiate) - CAN
7. Vincent (Darkman) - NL
8. Roberto (Carioz) - I
9. Arnaud (Arcanis) - B
10. PlasticXO - F
11. Gilles (jekothalep) - L
12. Graham - JP
13. Francesco (konx) - I
14. Christian K. - D
15. Michael (jhaelen) - D
16. Stéphane (Evil) - B
17. Jonathan (Achil) - B
18. Christian G. - D
19. Fred (FredhoT) - B
20. Supa - B
21. Bryan - B
22. Kris (bearpaw) - B
23. Raymond - B
24. Florentin (Myotaro) - L

Sunday "Side Event" ranking (ticking clock & hidden stories):

1. Jon (Achil)
2. Damien (B_P)
3. Supa
4. Minas (durango)
5. Raymond
6. Fred (FredhoT)
7. Wolfgang (thorondor) puis Loïc
8. Bryan
9. Christian K. (2 rondes sur 4)
10. Michael (2 rondes sur 4)

Are we going to see some of the decks posted?

dboeren said:

Also, Jonathan played COCLCG's Dark Byakhee deck (unmodified as far as I could tell) which you may have already seen here and over at CardGameDB.

I'm confident several players will post their decklists either here or at the Cenacle. I'll post links if I find any.

I also plan on giving a short personal report about the tournament.

Awesome tournament, as always! Great organization, great location and, most important, great people :) It's always nice to meet the european cthulhu community :)

This year my deck sucked! I saw the new cards (especially Necronomicon) only 10 days before the tournament, and the moment I saw the shub-necro I panicked. Great card, combo enabler and in general a complete no-go for my deck that I've been playtesting.  With only 1 week available I couldn't find an apppropriate solution and that has been obvious the day of the tournament, sigh. ^^ I decided to play a more streamlined Cthulhu-Yog deck, counting on a bit more early rounds pressure but it didn't work (zero playtest = you lose).

I want to congratulate to Damien again…very interesting metagame choice!

if someone will be in Stahleck, see you there…or otherwise, see you for the regional season :)

Francesco / Konx

Konx said:

Thanks!

I'll explain my choices for my deck, but I don't know when I'll do it (before or after the worlds).

It was a great tournament. I always meet some really interesting people and interesting decks.

And I'm really happy to win this European tournament. Last time I won a big one tournament was 4 years ago. It was about time! :D

wow. haha. didnt realise the dark byakhee sucked so much ( though it does take a bit to get used to ). do you know if he played the same deck on the sunday ?? either he did and just had a bad day on the saturday ( or got some practice with it ), or he trashed it and found a better one !! sorry Jonathon for the poor performance. i hope the top spot on sunday was some consolation and you got some goodies.

can't wait for some lists !!

Yep, my congratulations to Damien, too!

COCLCG said:

I don't know if he also played it on Sunday - I had to leave early and didn't see what he played.

The funny thing is both me and Wolfgang (who picked me up on the to Liege) had independently considered playing the Dark Byakhee. We both had the problem that we didn't have the time to create a new deck and like Francesco our two latest APs arrived only a week before the tournament.

I had played four test games using Dark Byakhee against my old deck and DB won only once. Two games were very close, though, taking over an hour and ending with 2:3 stories. On the day before the tournament we played another two test games, one against Wolfgang's old deck and one against Christian's preliminary deck (based on Ulrich's deck from GenCon 2011(?)). DB didn't win against either so we decided to go with our old decks.

In the tournament I actually played against Jonathan in the second round (after being crushed by mzi in round one) and immediately recognized the deck. My familiarity with the deck caused me to become overconfident, though, so after leading with two stories to zero I made a small mistake, allowing him to score his first story, followed by a surprising win of the 'Village of Ash' helped by taking over my 'Julia Brown'. In the end we both had two stories and ran out of time. He was declared winner because he had one success token more than me.

Deserves me right, I guess. Well, at least I won the two last games but that was a small consolation.

Anyway, just like last year it was a great tournament with many interesting decks and to my big surprise a fair share of combo decks, as well. I was definitely glad I had decided to keep Snow Graves in my deck… I have few opportunities to play CoC between tournaments, so I played as many games as I could in the time I had.

I'll refrain from saying more about the other decks, though, before Worlds (i.e. November 11th), since several players asked for it.

oh well. at least its seen some good use as a tester ( which is what i use it for against my other decks ). it was made back in the ancient relics cycle ( with a one card change to update using ya-te-veo ). perhaps it just doesn't match the newer decks available anymore. but i still like it and it has served me well to date. thanks for the consideration !!

and yes. congrats to damien of course !!

Great tourney!

Thanks go to Fred for his hospitality and a well run event!

I have posted my deck in the appropriate section.

The tournament was great.

I will only comment other decks after Worlds is over.

Hello.

Decklists are being compiled at the moment by Loïc in DeckBuilder. As soon as he has finished the work (it may tale a few more days, hey, after all, 24 decklists!) I'll post all of them  except the ones that players have explicitely asked not to do so before the Worlds. Mmmh, only 10 days left to wait…  ;-)

Please no flame war on the "no scouting or deck secrecy" topic here! We promise to post all decks after the Worlds. So the info will be shared among the whole community.

But after all, the Allies did not send their D-Day plan to the Axis before it started. 

I'll post a more formal report later on, but I've a lot of home improvement works to do during this All-Saints "long" WE, so I don't know yet when I'll find the time to write it.

Thanks for the update, that's great news!

At least in my opinion, it's perfectly valid to keep the decks secret until after the final round of competition (which is what Worlds is for some players) so as not to tip off your opponents.