I've created a little blog over on cardgamedb, where I'll post updates on Stahleck as time permits. Feel free to check it out.

http://www.cardgamedb.com/forums/index.php?/blog/17-ratatoskrs-road-to-stahleck-2011/

This is a very nice idea. Thank you! Looking forward to reading more about it.

Semifinals in progress. HouseAgenda breakdowns can be found on the blog. If anybody wants to post them here, feel free. Th iPad is a PITA.

no maester path in semi-finals

Very cool. I love the House and Agenda breakdowns, though I'd love to see more indication of which House is playing which. Obviously at least one of the Knights of the Realm decks was Lanni, as that won the Melee, but how much of the rest was Bara or other Houses.

I'm surprised to see so many people ran The White Book.

When I'm home and on a real computer again, I can post the complete list. Or Wolfgang will do it.

Five of the KotR agendas were out of Bara, two out of Lanni, one out of Stark. The White Book was run out of Lanni (3) and Stark (2).

I wasn't that surprised to see TWB, it's quite common - and pretty decent - in Melee, actually.

detailed statistcs posted for the joust

Ratatoskr said:

Excellent, I was just logging in to check and see if we'd heard anything.

Someone is playing Stark Kings of Summer? I'm definitely rooting for that.

I'm guessing you got this elsewhere by now, but stil. Results are online.

Grats on t8 Good showing, especially considering your expectations going in.

The Final was Greyjoy Winter Choke vs Lanny City of Shadows. Lanny got to 13 power before Greyjoy choke finally wore him down - Lanny's gold producing locations were either stolen by Support of the Kingdom or discarded because of Kings of Winter, and Greyjoy got 3 Burned and Pillaged on a Lanny Alchemists' Guild Hall, so Lanny had no plot gold either. It was quite sad, really, and I felt very very very sorry for the Lanny player.

Anyway, this was my first major tournament, and I did surprisingly well. I did OK in the melee - 13 points after 3 tables (Last place, first place, third place), but I kept making stupid mistakes. There are some really really really really really really stupid Targ Knights of three Hollow hill decks floating around which basically killed my deck and was not fun to play against at all - they are decks with no board presence, and rely on playing reset after reset after freaking reset to completely wipe the board over and over again. I could have won table 3, but I was sleep deprived and didnt realise that I could have stolen The Viper from Martell if I played my Fury plot.

In the joust - I did amazingly for a first tournament, far better than I expected. I was originally planning to play Stark City of Shadows, but then I figured i couldn't play such an intensive deck for 6 hours or more, and that I should play something nice and easy. I threw together a Stark Siege deck in 20 minutes (It was put together so quickly that i forgot to put in King's Landing Sansa, and I had no time to cut to 60, so I ran a 65 card deck). It had a close first game against Martell Summer, won against Greyjoy Maester, died against Greyjoy Choke (I then had a rematch, where I beat him before he could choke me), and then won 3 games in a row - Targ Summer, Martell knights of the Hollow Hill and Stark City of Shadows. I then made the cut to the top 32 where I faced my first Stark Siege mirror . I would have won, but he discarded the Blackfish in a Claim 2 power challenge and meant I would be stuck on 14 the following turn. He then proceeded to flood the board with characters and I proceeded to draw income locations for 2 turns, allowing him to beat me down. It was suitably fitting that he won the game with Sansa intriguing my hand.

Interestingly, I played in the tournament where you played someone else's deck and all but one of the people who played with or against my deck seemed to think my deck was utter crap. It may be because what seemed like "straightforward" Stark Siege to me is quite unusual for other people - Lots of Nobles, Lots of dupes and lots and lots of protection.

Thanks to everyone for an awesome awesome tournament, and for making me feel very welcome at my first Stahleck. It has been an amazing experience so far, and there are still some silly Tourneys left for tomorrow - I'll probably be playing in the 2 v2 because pretty much everyone at Hand of the King is goign to be playing Cat o' the canals and that won't be particularrly intersting.

I'll post a more detailed tourney report later. Right now, I need my beauty sleep....

Tomdidiot said:

Me too, i was staying in the room with a gang of lumberjacks i guess. They were even snoring so hard that noone except me notice dthe fire syrene in the night. Well false alarm, but still worringly in some way. ;-)

I personally will not give a detailled reprot for myself, i arrived late on saturday morning, made some not so good deck changes 24 hours before the tournament and did´t play that clever to be honest. I used a Martell maester deck with basically all the maester stuff, the Martell nobles and one of the cards you would hear people talk about everywhere in the alleyways of castle Stahleck... Ghaston Grey. Burned and pillaged i think was the other card name you could hear in so many conversations in different languages there if you listened closely. I think these were the most noteable cards at the joust tournament. I can´t say much about the joust tournamnet in general since i went 3:3 (placing 45th out of 119) and so i never really saw the big highlights deck this year. I lost a mirror match badly, as well as a Targ kothh deck burned all of my charahcters and the probably best game for me at the weekened was the third game l lost against a Greyjoy choke deck, were every player had the chance to take the win - even if i had 3x burned and pillage on my locations and my tin link and the gold link got discarded asap by the raven event.

Besides the joust main event the most enjoyable gaming format for me was again highlander legacy format, compared to the actual game envirorement i just have the feeling that the old cards are more powerful, but in general better balanced. It seldom happens that you don´t find answers for your opponents actions in highlander.

Decklist and some thoughts posted. Report to follow.

http://www.cardgamedb.com/forums/index.php?/blog/17/entry-78-the-tourney-report-pt-1-the-deck/

Stahleck 2011 personal feelings!

source:

http://www.agotcards.org/talkboard/v/17

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It Was a great tourney. Lots of people. Very different decks and the greyjoy finally on the top! Harren you were simply great and all ironborn lovers will wait your card!

I'm speaking about joust event cause i'm not a melee player so I cannot be skilled to judge (anyway congratulations to french achieving their title )

Spanish superiority is impressive. All top 6 was for them. And in most of the cases they get "elimanted by themselves".

I finished swiss with a 4-2

I played the same deck of Krahlich cause i'm not testing since june. Stukov Humber and Krahlick helped me a lot showing me their stark decks and plots and suggesting me modification (Spanish guys helping an italian, brothers in law... and before tourney they didn't exitated to show me decklist and so on to help... i really appreaciated that... thx a lot again!).

I lost a mirror match with stark siege simply because in last round (time called) I knelt all my stark military very confidently... When i counted powers and I saw I was at 14th and not 15th I realized it was not my day (anyway Rogue30 played very well so it was a close game)

Game after I lost against my worst match up that is Baratheon/Knight (Portuguese player... your comunity and your skill is increased a lot since last year! Go on fighting for the win next year ). I finished swiss 4-2 and unluckly people that beaten me finished 3-3 so i was 37th and out of top 32.

6 rounds with 120 people is always dangerous for Opponent score issue.

Anyway, let's say that I never faced spanish so i was little bit lucky

I watched all top krahlick games (him and humber are the best spanish stark guys) to learn... I saw kralich playing like a robot and only unluck made him lose semifinal against a lannister... he was 14th and draw for 3 rounds no character in a deck with 42 characters (deck of 62 cards). Fate.

The most funny games were yesterday... free games without tension... I lost every game played against spanish. Ingrid and aioria playing lannister like a second skin. Humber teaching me how to break asses playin a stark epic events like no others... and khralick teaching me and commenting me all its move...

It was simply great... an they deserved this great result as a comunity!

I wanna thx here all people that demostrate friendship making me sign Meera... saying to me "Thx for meera" after a game they won... you were very friendly and this made me feel "at home"... I thx also the guys that sayed to me that "Meera is too strong" laughing only because a red keep was blanked... only a few were arrogant but this is normal... I think it is like in football... everybody is a master for himself... we are all "the best coach" in every sport... but I felt a little bit surprised when those comments were made by martell players... I don't think that their cards are so bad... what do you think?

and finally 2 mentions:

Thx thorondor... this tourney was simply great! You put a lot of effort in agot creating the hugest event in the world... there is nothing compared on castle stahleck tourney around... and you made this simply thx to your passion... we really appreciate it and we will always be proud to says that "European did it better" also this year

second mention: I cannot remember your name and i'm so sorry about that... I'm talking to you... english player playing Stark/Widow's watch deck... you with Korean origin (I think)... you were a rock and roll guy! Friendship with a smile for everyone and totally "On fire" all the Week End! You rocked and arrived in top! I'm proud of you my friend stark player!

Go Wolves! And now i'm exited to meet my American friends in Black Friday next WE... Keep on rocking in a free world

from spanish forum (thx stukov)

120 players.

Houses:

Baratheon 16 -- 13,3%
Greyjoy 13 ----- 10,8%
Lannister 14 --- 11,6%
Martell 21 ------ 17,5%
Stark 37 -------- 30,1%
Targaryen 19 -- 15,8%

Agendas:
No Agenda 16 (3 Bara, 3 GJ, 4 Lanni, 1 Martell, 3 Stark, 2 Targ)
Alliance 1 (Bara with Lanni)
City of Shadows 11 (1 Bara, 5 Lanni, 5 Stark)
Kings of Summer 15 (1 Bara, 4 Martell, 1 Stark, 9 Targ)
Knights of the Realm 11 (8 Bara, 2 Martell, 1 Stark)
Treaty with the Isles 2 (2 Bara)
Kings of Winter 3 (3 GJ)
Knights of the Hollow Hill 11 (1 GJ, 7 Martell, 3 Targ)
The Maester's Path 25 (6 GJ, 5 Lanni, 7 Martell, 6 Stark, 1 Targ)
Siege of Winterfell 21 (Stark)
Heir to the Iron Throne 4 (Targ)

En el Top 8

3 Greyjoy
2 Lannister
2 Stark
1 Targaryen

Greyjoy house lesser represented in the tourney but most represented in top! Great Work Kraken Lovers!!!

Gualdo said:

~Dude, you quote content that comes from my blog in a thread dedicated to my blog, and you thank someone else for it? The nerve!

sorry :-) I just came back from stahleck and I need to sleep!!! :-)

Gualdo said:

It was greating meeting you too! You're also a really great guy - you're always incredibly friendly to everyone. Thanks again for designing Meera Reed and signing my copy.. It's a real pity we didn't get a chance to actually play, but hoepfully, I'll be able to figure out how to use OCTGN and play you before Stahleck comes along next year.

Good luck at Black Friday!

Oh, and I'm not Korean, I'm half Thai, half Chinese. Don't worry - you're not the first person to think I'm Korean.

There will be occasion for sure to play before stahleck... Take holiday in march and let's go to madrid together for a great tourney (this year we will pass 100 players for sure ;-))!!!

I am happy to see a lannister knights deck won the melee.