Council of Elrond

OKay, its wednesday morning and I am ready to pick up Mikko from the airport, and then drive to Belgium. I will try and see if I can make reports about the ongoing tournament there.

To all who come, see you there...

To all who cant make it, see you another time at another worlds...

Bert

Mikko and I arrived safely today at the NIYH and we will scout the city later.

Go on with your report and don't forget the drinking sessions...

Go Flaneltina!

I'm leaving in a few hours! woo hoo!

Unfortunately, the 3D cards still haven't arrived at my place, so I won't be able to bring them for prizes. They'll have to be used as prizes for other tournaments. But don't worry: we have plenty of cool stuff for winners (and non-winners)!

Report of day 1:

Some peole had delayed flights. Mikko and I met Thomas Schrei at breakfast. THings started good with a beer umder the cathedral, then off for games.

Hero sealed deck: 4 players, Thomas Schrei won with 21.

Hero 1-deck Heiner Vierhues won there.

ARDA: Mikko won that one by pulling of Fate of the Ithil Stone.

DReamcards is on its way with 12 people.

ps. Go and see " The Dark Knight"

Sleepy now. So sleepy. Just got home. Lost Joe on the way somewhere, hope he's found a spot to sleep. Good beer & gin, I think Mark, Mark, Heiner, Leon and Mikko will concur. I think I got second place in minion sealed today but I'm not quite sure. Leon won it, though. That's for sure. Virtual cards? Who knows? As far as I'm concerned, that tourney didn't really happen.

OK, for day 2:

Minion sealed:

1. Leon Huisman
2. Kris van Beurden
3. Wolfgang Penetsdorfer

Virtuals:
1. Joe Bisz
Best deck: Nicolai Willineck

NIco, the germans will mail you your prize.

Evening program was cancelled since the whole group was having dinner till 10, then some went off for drinks. MIkko crawled back in the room at 5 in the morning.

Main event:

1. Heiner Vierhues 24 TP
2. Alfons v Impelen 22 TP
2. Mikko Vithemaki 22 TP
4. Bert Claessen 21 TP
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5. Mark Alfano 20 TP
5. Agustin de la Cruz
5. Oscar Coromino
8. Michel Schelfhout 19 TP
9. Dominic Kempf 18 TP
9. Marc Roca
9. Heraclio Sanchez
12. Wouter van Impelen 17 TP
12. Mario Nau-Theissen
14. Nicolas DeWiere 16 TP
14. Karsten Gerland
14. Wolfgang Penetsdorfer
17. Bruno de Lucia 15 TP
18. Martin Karlsson 14 TP
18. Luigi Sbaffi
18. Anoinio Flores
21. Stephane Hembert 12 TP
22. Franck Stassin 11 TP
23. Thomas Schrei 10 TP
23. Stifane Poirette
25. Birk Pfeiffer 9 TP
26. Hans-Werner Milpetz 8 TP
26. Herve Duval
28. Dominic Bergeret 6 TP
29. Jurgen Bolsens 4 TP
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Wannes Vansina, Luc Schreurs, Markus Richardz dropped.

Tonight the drinking game and tomorrow finals, a pair tournament a la nations cup on GCCG and a mixed sealed hero tournament.

There are rumours in the chat Heiner is the new champion of the world?!?

1st Heiner
2nd Alfons
3rd Bert
4th Mikko

If so: GERMANY FTW!! YEAHY!!! Please confirm!!

Almost good, MArtin.

Heiner did indeed win worlds.

1. Heiner (Red HIlls)
2. Alfons (hobbits dragonland)
3. MIkko (Strider short rest)
4. Bert (malady/wolfiehog)

Rest of the result:

Team tourney:
1. Agustin/Heraclio

MIxed Sealed
1. MArtin Karlsson.

I am typing this now with 5 guys peeping over my shoulder, and I am pretty much brainfried. I will post a more detailed result later this week. JUst suffices that Worlds 08 was decided on pretty much the last 5 minutes with a dice roll. Stay tuned......

My gratulations to Heiner. He finally made it.

yes I finally made it after the 3rd, 4th and 2nd places thelast 3 years . I was lucky to win after the 2 - 4 defeat against alfons in the second round of the final, but I think this was the compensation for the a little bit unluckly missed chances the last 3 years .

I will write a tournament report as soon I will find the time.

Weltmeisterliche Grüße

Heiner

Congrats Heiner!!!!

(btw Red Hills wins worlds for the 3rd time!)

And congrats to the spanish team. We sucked at the main event, but hey we won team championship

Thanks everybody for such a great time and congrats to Heiner as a deserving champion, he was relentless in his search fo vistory and that, at the end, paid its dividends. The venue was outstanding (sometimes too hot though) and everything ran smooth and relaxed. I'm also very glad Dominic found his cards!

And Manuel, you must be kidding, right? Four Spaniards out of five in the top ten is not that bad, while we all would have liked to reach the final!

Congratulations Heiner

LG Thomas