this years Tourney of Stahleck is over and i dare say we had a very good time there. lack of sleep is always a good sign ;-)

congratulations go to Sato from Spain, winning the LCG Joust Championship. and to Fred Prault from france, winning the Standard Joust Championship.

we had 39 players from 8 countries competing in 7 AGOT tourneys all thru the weekend. below you find all the results (lacking a few bits of infos that will be added soon).

friday evening:

AGOT Draft (2x5KE, 2xAHOTh, 1xAHOTa) 4 Rounds

1 gerhard lanziger aut baratheon/targaryen 10
2 fred prault fra lannister 10
3 eddy saratov ger stark/greyjoy 9
4 andrew sestak cze lannister/martell 7
5 markus kelnreiter aut stark/greyjoy 7
6 jiri rozman cze lannister 7
7 david nagy hun ??? 6
8 willy esp martell/stark 6
9 gelb popov ger ??? 6
10 wolfgang penetsdorfer aut baratheon 6
11 martin herman cze baratheon/targaryen 5
12 patrik leinwather cze baratheon/martell 5
13 alfonso garcia esp ??? 4
14 christian kretschmer ger ??? 3
15 angel esp stark/greyjoy 2

AGOT Peasant LCG Tourney 3 Rounds

1 roberto tome esp targaryen 9
2 humberto jimenez-freile esp stark 9
3 pablo tobbias esp stark 6
4 gilles oth lux stark 6
5 alberto garcia esp greyjoy 6
6 sergio martin esp stark 3
7 jürgen duvendack ger stark 3
8 cosmin achim rom baratheon 3
9 estefania sarasola esp targaryen 3
10 hans hansen ger baratheon 3
11 manfred grüger ger lannister 3

Saturday morning/afternoon

AGOT LCG Joust (European Championship)

after 5 Rounds
1 david cuerdo esp lannister 15
2 raul cordero esp lannister 12
3 gilles oth lux baratheon 12
4 roberto tome esp targaryen 12
5 alfonso garcia esp lannister 12
6 cesar valthor esp stark 12
7 alberto stukov esp stark 9
8 pablo tobbias esp stark 9
9 eddi saratov ger targaryen 9
10 jose raknar esp baratheon 9
11 gerhard lanzinger aut lannister treaty greyjoy 9
12 gleb popov ger stark 9
13 fred prault fra lannister 9
14 kilian schödel ger lannister 9
15 ben jakob ger martell 9
16 thomas kisselbach ger targaryen 9
17 martin herman cze lannister 9
18 david nagy hun targaryen 9
19 markus kelnreiter aut stark winter 7
20 pablo rambla ulin esp baratheon 6
21 andrew sestak cze lannister 6
22 matthieu müller fra greyjoy 6
23 humberto jimenez-freile esp stark 6
24 hans hansen ger baratheon 6
25 willy esp baratheon 6
26 angel esp stark 6
27 pedro gesseri esp baratheon 6
28 sergio esp baratheon 6
29 estefania sarasola esp targaryen 4
30 ulrich hergl ger lannister 3
31 cosmin achim rom baratheon 3
32 patrik leinwather cze baratheon 3
33 jiri rozman cze stark shadows 3
34 maria perez esp targaryen 3
35 jürgen duvendack ger targaryen 0
36 manfred grüger ger ??? drop

quarterfinals
raul cordero vs david cuerdo
pablo tobbias vs cesar valthor
alberto stukov vs alfonso garcia
roberto tome vs gilles oth

semifinals
david cuerdo vs alfonso garcia
cesar valthor vs gilles oth

small final
cesar valthor vs david cuerdo

grand final
gilles oth vs alfonso garcia

Result Top 8
1 Alfonso García
2 Gilles Oth
3 David Cuerdo
4 Cesar Valthor
5 Alberto Stukov
6 Roberto Tome
7 Raul Cordero
8 Pablo Tobbias

LCG Joust European Champion 09: Alfonso "Sato" Garcia

houses:

stark: 8
lannister: 9
baratheon: 9
greyjoy: 1
targaryen: 7
martell: 1
???: 1

AGOT Standard Joust (European Championship)

after 4 Rounds
1 david nagy hun baratheon 12
2 ben jakob ger baratheon 9
3 fred prault fra lannister 9
4 gleb popov ger baratheon 9
5 thomas kisselbach ger lannister 9
6 martin herman cze lannister 6
7 markus kelnreiter aut stark 6
8 andrew sestak cze lannister 6
9 willy esp baratheon 6
10 eddi saratov ger lannister 6
11 jiri rozman cze greyjoy winter 4
12 wolfgang penetsdorfer aut greyjoy 4
13 patrik leinwather cze baratheon 3
14 gerhard lanzinger aut lannister 3
15 kilian schödel ger martell 3

semifinals
david nagy vs gleb popov
ben jakob vs fred prault

small final
david nagy vs ben jakob

grand final
gelb popov vs fred prault

Standard Joust European Champion 09: Fred Prault

houses:

stark: 1
lannister: 6
baratheon: 5
greyjoy: 2
targaryen: 0
martell: 1

saturday evening:

AGOT Kingsmoot 2 rounds

1 hans hansen ger greyjoy 10
2 gilles oth lux baratheon 7
3 humberto jimenez-freile esp stark 7
4 alberto stukov esp greyjoy 7
5 pablo tobbias esp stark 6
6 alfonso garcia esp lannister 3
7 tobias ewald ger targaryen 3
8 cosmin achim rom baratheon 3
9 ulrich hergl ger greyjoy 3
10 angel esp stark 0
11 estefania sarasola esp targaryen 0
12 roberto tome esp targaryen 0

sunday morning/afternoon:

AGOT Multiplayer LCG 3 rounds

1 martin herman cze baratheon 23
2 cosmin achim rom baratheon 18
3 gilles oth lux baratheon 16
4 fred prault fra lannister 16
5 jiri rozman cze greyjoy 16
6 hans hansen ger greyjoy 15
7 ulrich hergl ger greyjoy 9
8 sergio esp greyjoy drop
9 alberto stukov esp targaryen drop
10 roberto tome esp greyjoy drop
11 angel esp stark drop
12 david nagy hun stark drop

AGOT Legacy Highlander 3 rounds

1 patrik leinwather cze baratheon brothers 9
2 willy esp baratheon brothers 6
3 ben jakob ger martell defenders 6
4 gerhard lanzinger aut lannister 3
5 eddi sarataov ger greyjoy 3
6 kilian schödel ger lannister 0

Way to go guys! 36 for LCG Joust - freaking awesome! That's a great number - hopefully the US can come close for our next National Championships.

And, er - another two Lannister decks in teh Top Four and another major tourney title for Lannister. sigth. Hopefully the Martelle xpansion shakes things up.

I'd love to get a look at that Targaryen deck list from the fourth place finisher.

Congrats on your excellent weekend - I look forward to tourney reprots and photos!

Thank you for the news, Thorondor, and congratulations on a great event!

Hopefully next year I'll be there too...

@tiziano: at least we had something from you there, that made a few players happy! but your whole self is even more welcome! remember the date: 8-10-0ct 2010.

Then the prints and the cards made it safely? I was worried, after the problems we had.

Date noted! October is definitely better than mid-December.

It was definately fun to participate at all the different events and to meet so many new people. But at the same time it was also quite an exhausting experience, especially after the LCG Joust Finals. All the following Melee games were so top-heavy, I think my brain still hurts.

A big "thank you" to thorondor (and mischraum?) for the organisation. October 8th 2010 has already been noted on the calendar.

By the way, Pablo played a Stark deck during the LCG Joust (no idea if he used an agenda or not) and Manfred played Lannister (no agenda).

I'll see if I find the time to write a small report for the LCG Joust. In the meantime you can find my Baratheon Joust deck on tzumainn.com. Feel free to comment and tear it up.

http://www.tzumainn.com/agot/decks/deck.php?current_deck_id=17129

And on a quick side note I have to say that the spanish players are simply crazy (there's no way to sugercoat this statement ). I'll just say "Walder Frey" and "Chaos Draft Tournament" (or whatever the name was) . But they know how to play, that's for sure, or else there wouldn't have been 7 spanish players in the top 8 of the LCG Joust. (Or maybe it was only their sheer number of players that did the trick. 15 out of 36 players came from Spain!)

Looking forward to next year.

Jeko

Aye, that was a funny and sleepless weekend. I slept like a stone the last night. ;-)

I´m a little sad that i totally missed that so many people would play LCG joust - i expected more participants in the standard joust (which also had a good number of players). I had very little time in the past few months (- i moved for a new job) so i could only play some of my established decks for standard which went fairly well (4th place joust, Baratheon brothers).

That led me to the crazy decision to play a ´totally untested 30 minute Martell deck for LCG joust, without the Princess of the sun expansion (just for the fun of it). Anyway it wasn´t that bad and the record at the end was 3-2. The last two chapter packs really brought some important and very playable cards for Martell, i think they will easily be on a same level with the top houses once everyone has teh chance to include the expansion pack cards.

Another proof for my very little preparation time was that i totally missed to include in my highlander deck the 5KE locations. But Martell defenders can go easily without many resources. ;-)

Summarized the whole event was great fun, i could only remember two slopes from the whole weekend. 1. I really missed all the friendly people from Italy. 2. I hated that my Baratheon playing opponents always had Sally Saan early in the game while i almost never saw him at all. ;-)

By the way my impression that shadow mechanic is a little bit too strong overreprented was consolidated in the LCG joust event. It´s a pity that a lot of the more expensive charachters especially uniques (3+) dissapeared from people´s decks for s0 and s1 charachters. As a snapshot this development is okay, but i would really like too see some future cards that make it interesting to play ´more expensive uniques again (or something which works against the shadow mechanic). After all the events, the very small highlander tournament seemed to be the event with the most interesting decks, because they all were very diversified.

Jekothalep said:

And on a quick side note I have to say that the spanish players are simply crazy (there's no way to sugercoat this statement ). I'll just say "Walder Frey" and "Chaos Draft Tournament" (or whatever the name was) .

Oh you are so right, that "Walder Frey" song is still ringing in my head. After a while i thought they were singing the "rains of castamere". :-) The refrain is pretty easy to sing along, just imagine you are in a big stadium and the player with no. 11 attends at the playground and the whole audience is singing full of agitation and joy "Waaaaaaaldeeeeeer Frey, Waaaaaldeeeer Freeeey".

Never found that old patriach so enjoyful like this weekend. ;-)

Hi all,

it was definitely a cool experience. I had a lot of fun albeit I have to tell that out rather small meta does not lack some cards but plays a different game, which is far slower. The most fun part was the internationality of the event, i.e., having people from all over Europe.

Being the kingsmoot champion, I have to admit that I profited from some of the opponents being drunk in combination with some Walder Frey-like tactics on my side . Multi-player was a lot of fun, especially that on the final table EVERYBODY could have won and there was no king-making aspect to it.

Castorp

Hi all!

It has been a great weekend in every way I can imagine, so I hope I will be able to repeat in october and meet many of you again.

The Spanish Team seems to do it quite well, but we miss a lot of people there, so now that we are more than in the US, let´s everybody go to fight for the "unofficial" title of World Champion (we had more players, and more countries... )

Thanks to Wolfang for organizing this great event!

I´ve made a report in my blog , along with my deck (2nd in ths Joust Swiss) just in case anyone wants to read it.

Thank you guys for being so nice!!

Masi

Congrats to the winners. Very awesome to see big interesting European tournaments and this looks like a fun one.

Also interesting to see the House played stats. Seems that Europeans play Stark a lot more in Joust and Greyjoy less.

LaughingTree said:

Man, that sounds like an awesome time, especially the Walder Frey stuff. Any video?

Could the lack of Greyjoy be a contributing factor for Stark's strong showings? I've always found that Greyjoy's saves are a real pain for Stark's kill and high military claim. So much so that Greyjoy usually enjoys quite an advantage over them. (Fitting, too, in a Nedly way.)