NEW YORK CITY VTES LEAGUE

NEW YORK CITY VTES LEAGUE

Introduction: So what do you do when you have a small play group, not many tournaments and are trying to make things not stagnant for your players? You start up a league that's what! This is a description of what the New York City VTES league rules will be. Other people are free to use this idea, or hopefully use this idea to spice up this great game in other ways.

Disclaimer: This is not a "official" tournament in terms of VEKN records and rulings. This is an exercise to have fun while being competitive and hopefully to encourage my New York players to try out new decks.

Background: The New York VTES crew is about 8 consistent players and 6 inconsisent players. We play every Wednesday and Friday. It is a good group of people with interesting decks and varying play styles. We are all friends and although things get heated (as sometimes they tend to do in VTES) we all make amends and just have good times talking about the game and VTES in general. Okay, enough of this, on to the League!


LEAGUE RULES
The rules are simple.

OVERALL RULES
1) First person to Five Game Wins (GW) wins the league.
2) If someone gets a GW, the Victory Points in that game are NOT counted.
3) If the is NO game win, then Victory Points (VP) are counted.
4) Five Victory Points equal one Game Win
5) In 6 player game (see below), X effects (ex: Conservative Agitation, Parity Shift, Slave Auction) are capped at 5.

RULES IN TEST
1) No 3-player league games
2) 4 player - time limit: 1 hour 30 minutes
3) 5 player - time limit: 2 hours
4) 6 player - time limit: 2 hour 30 minutes
5) 1 League game per day


Common questions asked in development:

1) Q: Why have a league?
A: To add a bit of competitiveness with some actual prizes.

2) Q: Why only to 5 Game Wins?
A: I want the leagues to be short, to test out some League rules and to get prizes in the hands of the people who play. If someone wins early... okay next League! I predict each league will go 1-2 months. The number of games wins and the value of victory points maybe will change as time progresses.

3) Doesn't the people who go to Wed and Fri games have an advantage?
A: Technically... yes. But the purpose of the League is to encourage people to play. And the person who plays the extra day still needs to win of course.

4) Q: Are you still going to have tournaments?
A: Yes. A smaller tournament is in the works but I want to try and get out of towners to come.

5) Q: What is the prize support?
A: Currently its going to start small. Some packs or maybe some rares that I have laying around.

6) Q: Why allow 6 player games?
A: Because I don't want to penalize people for showing up. If we have 7 players, I may have 1 person play two games but can only win on one table.