On July 1st, 2020, the VEKN has published its newsletter for June 2020. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an update of the current VTES tournament situation and an interview Gonazalo del Río (national coordinator of Chile).
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for June 2020 on VEKN.net.
On June 2nd, 2020, the VEKN has published its newsletter for May 2020. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the open playtest for contesting vampires, a Q&A with regards to the VEKN Facebook group, and interview with Tomasz Izydorczyk (National VTES Coordinator for Poland), along with his favourite deck.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for May 2020 on VEKN.net.
On May 1st, 2020, the VEKN has published its newsletter for April 2020. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview with key people from Black Chantry, the unfortunate news that the VTES EC 2020 has been canceled, and finally an interview with Wes Weston (veteran VTES player / national coordinator of Canada).
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for April 2020 on VEKN.net.
On April 1st, 2020, the VEKN has published its newsletter for March 2020. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely
a tournament report of the Grand Prix Ibérico 2020 (along with all 5 finalist decks and an interview with the tournament winner), an interview with VTES artist amy Wilkins, and finally some information on the VTES 5th Edition.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for March 2020 on VEKN.net.
On March 3rd, 2020, the VEKN has published its newsletter for February 2020. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the announcement of a number of major tournaments, a tournament report of the South American Cup, a second tournament report of the North American Cup, some card changes of the Assamite/Quietus, and an interview with VTES artist Samuel Araya.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for February 2020 on VEKN.net.
Ayelech by Samuel Araya
On February 1st, 2020, the VEKN has published its newsletter for January 2020. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the announcement of the VTES 5th Edition “spoiler season”, the announcement of a number of major tournaments, a clarification about so-called limited tournaments, and finally an extensive discussion of the Goratrix Wall deck archetype with Mika Nurmikolu, who won the Finnish Grand Prix 2019 with the deck.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for January 2020 on VEKN.net.
On January 7th, 2020, the VEKN has published its newsletter for December 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview with Ben Peal (in his function as Black Chantry product director) on the plans and new products for 2020, a tournament report of the VTES North American Cup 2019 (part II) taking place Heath, Ohio, and finally, a 2019 retrospective with regards to VTES.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for December 2019 on VEKN.net.
On December 3rd, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for November 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, this time a large number of tournament reports, namely the Bologna Grand Prix 2019, South American Continental Championship 2019, the North American Cup 2019, the Finnish National Championship 2019, the Hungarian National Championship 2019, the Danish National Championship 2019, and the Portuguese National Championship 2019. In addition the newsletter contains a short interview with the US National VTES Coordinator, Mark Loughman, and some product news from Black Chantry.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for November 2019 on VEKN.net.
On November 4th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for October 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the announcement of the North American Cup tournament series, tournament reports of the Australian Continental Championship 2019 and the Asian Continental Championship 2019, and an interview with the German National VTES coordinator, Rudolf Scholz.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for October 2019 on VEKN.net.
On October 3rd, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for September 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the VEKN Code of Ethics, a tournament report of the 2019 Swedish National Championship, and new VTES community content in the forms of Bindusara´s Jyhad Diary blog and the Struggle, Interrupted YouTube channel (and Twitch stream).
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for September 2019 on VEKN.net.
On August 31st, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for August 2019. The newsletter covers this time almost exclusively the VTES European Championship 2019, which took place during mid-August. Topics in this issue include tournament reports of the week of nightmares tournaments and the actual EC tournaments, the tournament winning decks of EC Day 1 and Day 2, and finally an interview with this year’s EC winner, Otso from Finland.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for August 2019 on VEKN.net.
Foreshadowing Destruction by Javier Santos. New card art for the 25th Anniversary set.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for July 2019 on VEKN.net.
On July 1st, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for June 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an extensive report of the 2019 North American VTES Championship (NAC) (including the respective tournament winning decks), an interview with the NAC 2019 winner Corwin Brindley, and finally an interview with the new national coordinator for VTES in Brazil, Kleber Bertazzo.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for June 2019 on VEKN.net.
Pentex Subversion w/ pre-2019 cardtext.
Inside the announcement of the contents of the upcoming VTES 25th anniversary set, is the information “hidden”, that both the card text of Parity Shift and Pentex Subversion is changed! Big news indeed, since both cards have quite powerful effects and are therefore staple cards in many decks. Unfortunately the announcement does not contain the exact new card text, but only the general information about what the change is about.
The card changes according to the announcement are:
Both changes have quite considerable impact for future (tournament) deck building, but I think that these changes are reasonable considering that a single Pentex Subversion could shut down certain decks completely, and early Parity Shifts a huge pool swing of ten pool towards the player playing the Parity Shift. Both cards are still viable for both casual and tournament deck buildings in my humble opinion.Alongside with these two changes are three other card changes that have a lesser impact on (most) tournament deck building:
Some explanation about these card changes and the reasoning behind it are given in the announcement by Black Chantry (see link above).
On June 3rd, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for May 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the 25th anniversary of VTES, some information about the upcoming Russian and Portuguese language versions of VTES, and three short tournament reports (with the respective tournament winning decks) of the 2019 French, German and Polish national VTES championships.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for May 2019 on VEKN.net.
Art by Carmen Cornet from the upcoming VTES 25th Anniversary product
On April 29th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for April 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely two tournament reports (Grand Prix 2019 Spain & Brazilian national championship) including the tournament winning decks, a rules questions & answer section, and the (usual) Black Chantry summary.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for April 2019 on VEKN.net.
On March 29th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for March 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview on the currently production pipeline with Ben Peal, (design director of Black Chantry), a tournament report of the VTES Grand Prix in Brno (Czech Republic), another tournament report of the Italian National VTES Championship 2019, and finally a FAQ on the VTES Card Creator at Drivethrucards.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for March 2019 on VEIN.net.
On February 28th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for February 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview of with artist Javier Santos, a summary of the production activity of Black Chantry, and a list of updated card texts (5).
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for February 2019 on VEKN.net.
On February 2nd, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for January 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview of with artist Javier Santos, a summary of the production activity of Black Chantry, aand an overview of some current VTES online sources.
Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for January 2019 on VEKN.net.
On December 31st, 2018, the VEKN has published its newsletter for December 2018. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely a tournament report of the VTES Grand Prix Bologna & the Chilean VTES national championship, an interview of with artist Heather Kreiter, links to two new instructional VTES videos, and information about the upcoming VTES starter (featuring four Sabbat clans). Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for December 2018 on VEKN.net.
On December 2nd, 2018, the VEKN has published its newsletter for November 2018. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the announcement for the EC 2019 (in Paris) and the locations of the European Grand Prix tour 2019. Furthermore there’s an interview with artist Key Mayer Jr. (who has a considerable amount of VTES artwork) and tournaments of three Nordic national championships, which too took place in November 2018. Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for November 2018 on VEKN.net.
On November 3rd, 2018, the VEKN has published its newsletter for October 2018. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely news on the VEKN Facebook group, an FAQ on the (then upcoming) Anthology 1 set, and a large number of rules questions answered by the VEKN rules director. Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for October 2018 on VEKN.net.
On September 30th, 2018, the VEKN has published its newsletter for September 2018. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview with Igor Beslin & Martin Weinmayer on the topic of VTES online (on the Lackey platform), a list of rules questions (and answers) as stated during the EC 2018, and finally the announcement that an official VEKN Facebook group named “Vampire: Elder Kindred Network” has been created. Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for September 2018 on VEKN.net.
On September 1st, 2018, the VEKN has published its newsletter for August 2018. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely a lengthy report of the VTES European Championship 2018 in Warsaw, Poland, including an interview with EC champion 2018 Ivan Chebunin from Belorussia, and finally an article on Weenie Auspex decks discussed by two veteran VTES players. Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for August 2018 on VEKN.net.
Earlier this month, a new VTES blog named Information Highway has been launched, and as subtitle “VTES strategy blog” already suggests the emphasis of the blog. The blog is hosted by three VTES players from France, namely Serge, Maxime & Gilles. The first post was an interview with Spanish player Jorge Delagdo, followed by two posts on hints for beginners and on varying deck sizes for different deck types.
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