The Hall of Fame was introduced a few years after. The original announcement was:
V:TES Hall of Fame
To enter the V:TES Hall of Fame, a player has to win a minimum
of five tournaments, and those tournaments must have had their results
posted on the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad. Many
amazing players will be missed because of the absence of those public
results. This list celebrates those who have done well with the game,
and have worked to publicize the strengths of the game by publishing
their tournament winning deck lists. Players are listed by the number
of tournaments that they have won, and if there is a tie for the
number of tournament wins, then they are in alphabetical order by
their first name.
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Who do you expect to appear on this list?
Did they make it?
On October 26th, 2013, Jeff decided to move on something else. Since then, the TWDA and the Hall of Fame have been hosted on the French VEKN website and been maintained by your humble servant.
A good entry in the TWDA includes the name of the tournament, the date and place it took place, the attendance, the number of preliminary rounds, a link to the report and the name of the winner of course! But many old entries were missing some pieces.
I made some researches on the internet (especially the newsgroup) to find out some missing informations, especially for 1997-2001 tournaments, which was tedious but fun. Long-forgotten names of players and places were brung back to life, memories of old reports and deck lists from another century, another style of play were excavated. At that time, it wasn't uncommon to find 4-players finals or decks with more than 90 cards, or fun records such as the youngest tournament winner.
The next step was to reduce the size of the HTML file to make it faster to access, and put back the deck lists in form. Nowadays, all deck list are formatted quite the same way, but back then, some people prefered to list their deck by disciplines, or list their crypt by giving their vampires nicknames. Some decks lists have sections written in foreign languages to make things harder.
I wrote a program that extract every deck and their metadata (such as the name of the winner, date and place etc.), put everything in form, check that the link towards the deck is unique, and write down the Hall of Fame at the same time (that's why the name of the winner must be exactly the same for each winning deck).
Regularily, I run it further back in time (I've been back to 2005). Re-running it on years that already have been processed doesn't require a lot of work since the crypts won't change (they already have the desired format), but processing a year for the first time requires a lot of work. I have to check that only the presentation, and not the content, has changed.
Extracting the crypt isn't as easy at it seems as the program must understand that Carna (7) refers to Carna, the Princess Witch in one copy (not seven) for instance, or on which line the deck list starts or ends.
There's still some extra work to do to extract the library (which should be a bit easier), create pages with decks lists sorted by clan, but anyway, thanks to the automaton, decks are much easier to record now.
Links:
The tournament archive winning deck: http://www.vekn.fr/decks/twd.htm
The hall of fame: http://www.vekn.fr/hall_of_fame.htm
Many thanks to Neil Muller for reporting missing informations and errors. If you find errors, or TWD that are missing, please report to vtesrating@gmail.com
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