VEKN announces new Chairperson

Paris, France. November 1, 2010. – During the National Coordinators meeting at the European Continental Championship, the assembled National Coordinators along with the V:EKN advisory board, nominated Johannes Walch to be the Acting Chairperson of the Vampire: Elder Kindred Network, the official players’ organization for the trading card game, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle.

Johannes and the V:EKN advisory board announced that the new V:EKN website will be launched at the end of the year.

Some additional announcements:

• Robyn Tatu will remain as the Ratings coordinator and take over some of the organized play duties from Oscar Garza.
• Oscar Garza will still be available as an advisor and liaison with WW/CCP. He announced continued support from White Wolf for important events during 2011.
• LSJ will continue in his role as the Rules Monger and Tournament rules manager
• New to the Advisory board is Eric Chiang who will be the Storyline Coordinator and Ginés Quiñonero who is the V:EKN Website Coordinator.
  
• There will also be a Marketing team and the Marketing Director will be announced soon.

Systems for assigning National Coordinators, Princes and other volunteers and for communication between V:EKN and the player community where also outlined.

Additional information will be announced over the next 6 weeks and all the resources that players and tournament organizers need along with the V:EKN organization information will be available on the new website.

There will be a North-American Championship (NAC) and European Championship (EC) 2011. NAC is already announced, a vote for determining the location of the EC is currently held among the national coordinators, results due for end of November.

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Vampire: Elder Kindred Network, created in 1997, is the Official V:TES Players' Organization dedicated to the continued health of V:TES. The V:EKN endeavors to help V:TES grow in popularity through the embracing of new players as well as through the support of the existing fans.

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is a Deckmaster trading card game set in White Wolf’s World of Darkness. All rights reserved.

Direct inquiries to:

David Tatu, Scribe
Vampire: Elder Kindred Network
David_tatu (/at/) yahoo (/dot/) com