Game One
Sam Undue Anarchs > Geoff New Gangrel > Steve POT Beasts > Kieran New Ventrue > Paul Nephandi Horde

This could probably have fallen in several different ways, but was largely decided (IMO) by rushes, namely Geoff’s backwards rushes on Sam and Steve’s forwards on Kieran. If Sam could have gone forwards quicker without losing minions he would have started to accumulate vps (as the deck has proved on previous outings), and if Kieran could have called more votes prior to being torpered, Paul would have been under more pressure. Either way, Paul was able to build up sufficently to bleed Sam out, then a weakened Geoff and finally Steve; although he had lost four Nephandi by this stage to POT Beasts of one sort or another.

Game timed out: Paul 3.5 vps GW and Kieran 0.5 vps.

Game Two
Geoff Kindred Spirit Bleed > Kieran New Brujah > Steve New Brujah > Paul Baltimore Purge

A rather close game in many respects due to four strong decks being on the table. Steve suffered early from Kieran getting Dimitra into play first and then having to back transfer, plus he then lost a 7 cap Prince to graverobbing by Paul and had only a 4 cap primogen for many turns. However, he did crawl back until he had the 10 cap Prince of Monaco on the table and recovered pool steadily. Many fixed votes were on the table, stifling Kieran’s game and only Geoff was able to proceed relatively unchecked with repeated bleeds of 2 to 5 on Kieran. Awkwardly, though, Kieran was bloating semi-effectively (and often exceeding Geoff’s pool damage each turn). Paul had virtually zero pressure from Steve all game, but despite building up well was often reduced to simply bleeding Geoff for 2 a couple of times per turn. Everyone had been understandably twitchy about Purges hitting the table, but unfortunately Paul wasn’t able to draw any until the mid to late game, indeed he was jammed on stelth for several turns. When eventually he did drop his first Purge there was a blocking frenzy with Steve matching the required three stealth with intercept but then failing to negate the subsequent Shadow Body, Geoff then took over and was able to block (just), with a borrowed Rumour Mill. There was a minor rules violation here, Geoff should have blocked first, then Steve, but I think the result would have been the same, so no problem. Geoff then pushed forwards to oust Kieran, then Steve. Geoff lost Umma the Malk Justicar to another Purge and we then timed out.

Geoff 2.5 vps GW, Paul 0.5 vps.

Current Standings

Graham 10 GWs 5 Draws 48.0 vps 31 Total Games 0.32

Paul 7 GWs 3 Draws 31.0 vps 30 Total Games 0.23

Geoff 5 GWs 5 Draws 24.5vps 23 Total Games 0.22

Steve 4 GWs 1 Draws 13.5 vps 14 Total Games 0.29

Sam 3 GWs 3 Draws 18.0 vps 25 Total Games 0.12

Stevan 2 GWs 4 Draws 13.0 vps 29 Total Games 0.07

Andy 0 GWs 1 Draws 1.5 vps 5 Total Games 0.00

Nick 0 GWs 0 Draws 1.0 vps 1 Total Games 0.00

Richard 0 GWs 1 Draws 0.5 vps 3 Total Games 0.00

Kieran 0 GWs 0 Draws 0.5 vps 7 Total Games 0.00

Mark 0 GWs 0 Draws 0.0 vps 2 Total Games 0.00

Total: 37 Games (31 GW, 6 Draws 84%)

No positional changes, but points scored closing the gap on Graham. Will have to see if anyone can catch him.

Sam