I think I am one step past you. I have a deck! Happy with it? Not yet.

I'd say you did pretty well for not being very happy with your deck

We having a tourney down in San Diego on November 5th at Game Empire. See the details below:

Special Rules: During this tournament, participants will be allowed to use the "Building the Winter Stores" agenda card created by Broson!

"Building the Winter Stores" (Agenda)
You may run any other agenda in addition to Building the Winter Stores.
Any Phase: Choose one of the following: Stand or kneel a character; give a character renown, stealth, or +2 STR until the end of the phase; or add 2 gold to your gold pool (Limit once per round).

The entry fee for this event will be $5

All participants that bring in at least 5 cans of food to donate will receive their own copy of the "Building the Winter Stores" agenda for use during the tournament.

Participants that bring in 10+ cans of food to donate will receive a copy of the agenda, and have their entry fee waived!

All cans will be donated to the San Diego Food Bank. Any money collected from entry fees will be used on canned food as well.

The tournament will start at 12:00pm, with registration opening at 11:30am. All standard deck building rules will apply.

$20 store credit to Game Empire will go to the winner!

I hope to make it out to Game Empire next week to participate. I just got the core set and a chapter pack a couple of weeks ago so I don't anticipate having a competitive deck, but it'll be nice to meet some more local players. Looking forward to it!

Jeff

ashermarx said:

Awesome! Come on down. It'll be nice to meet you.

Jeff... glad to see you'll be joining us! I've created a handy checklist that shows which chapter packs belong to which cycle. It can be helpful to beginners... shoot us an email at agotsocal @ gmail.com if you're interested and I'll send it your way.

Wish I could come!

Had a great time at the AGOT tourney at Game Empire. Thanks again to Chris for lending me his Clansmen deck. I was ready to take my core set deck to lists but I made out much better with the Clans. Looking forward to the start of the league this month.

Great to have you, Jeff! I received your email and will respond shortly. I also added Brian to the SoCal Thrones Facebook group so he should be able to add anyone else that needs to be on there. It's good for banter and keeping up with any impromptu thronesing.

To recap the event.... we collected ~200 cans for the San Diego Food Bank. Congrats to DeathJester for halting Crevic's nigh-unstoppable rush deck in the tourney final (Crevic had already beaten DJ with a turn 1 win earlier that day). Thanks to all who attended including out-of-towner Byron and newcomers Jeff and Brian. Also thanks to Game Empire for all their support, the venue, and $20 store credit to the winner. It was a great day of thronesing, capped off by several of us conquering the giant "beer tube" at the nearby watering hole. I'll see if I can post a pic or two.

Next up for the SD Thrones scene is the Winter League which starts one week from today. As DJ mentioned earlier, email us at agotsocal@ gmail.com to sign up and receive the rules sheet.

ashermarx said:

Glad you had fun with it! Just wait till the Lannister box comes out; they'll be even meaner.

Bronson said:

Crevic is alex right? What deck was he running?

Correct, Alex was second. He played Bara rush with Knights of the Realm.

Fieras said:

Yeah, Bara Knights. KL Robert and Core Stannis just went to town, it was quite fantastic.

SoCal Winter League starts TONIGHT! Come on down to Game Empire San Diego and get your Thrones on.

I figured I share some stats over here from Winter League.

We currently have 16 player signed up, but only 13 have actually played any games.

For those unfamiliar with our league, we're playing every Monday night at Game Empire. Players are only allowed to play each other 2 times during the league, and rankings are based on number of wins, with the tie breaker going to the player that has played the most games. On January 21st the top 8(?) players will be seeded, and play in a single elimination tournament for the finals.

If you;re interested, come on down to Game Empire in San Diego. We're only 3 weeks in, and you can catch up on games pretty quickly.

Matches Played after 3 weeks: 30
# of Different Decks Played: 22

Best House (W%, #W's): Lanni (1.000, 4)
Most Popular (games played): Baratheon (15)
Least (games played): Neutral (2)

Best Agenda (W%, #W's): Knights of the Realm (1.000, 2)
Most Popular (games played): No Agenda (14)

Best Deck (W%, #W's): Lanni/None, Martell/None, Bara/KotR (1.000, 2)
Most Popular (games played): Stark / Siege (11)

Man, I wish I was close enough to join this league! Plus I scoff at the idea of this being a "Winter" league. Psh! You haven't had winter until you've had an IL winter!

Staton said:

Haha, yeah, you are correct that we should probably put "Winter" in quotations, since here in San Diego the Ravens don't visit us much (except at the gaming table).

SoCal Thrones will be at Pair-A-Dice games in Vista on Saturday Dec 17 from noon to 6pm for demos, deckbuilding, melee and even league matches. We'll wrap up the day with a raffle... veteran or newbie, feel free to stop on by!

Some stats after 5 weeks of play in our Winter League (Player Rankings can be found on our Facebook group page).

For those of you not involved, we have 14 players. Each player is allowed to play up to 3 games against another player. Players are ranked by # of Wins, with # of games played being the first tie breaker. There is also a prize for the player that plays with the most variety of decks (house/agenda combos).

Matches Played: 64
# of Different Decks Played: 36

House Rankings (based on RPI)

House RPI W L ## W%
1 Lannister 0.526 6 4 10 0.600
2 Greyjoy 0.525 9 7 16 0.563
3 Martell 0.521 13 9 22 0.591
4 Neutral 0.486 1 1 2 0.500
5 Stark 0.483 10 13 23 0.435
6 Baratheon 0.468 16 16 32 0.500
7 Targaryen 0.467 9 14 23 0.391

Most Popular House (games): Baratheon (32)
Least Popular House (games): Neutral (2)

Most Popular Agenda (games): None (25)
Least Popular Agenda (games): TwtI (0)

Most Popular Deck: Stark Siege (15)
Deck(s) with the Most Wins: Bara No Agenda (6-1), Targ HttIT (6-5), and Stark Siege (6-9)

See you guys Saturday at PAD!

After 6 weeks of Winter League, here are some stats:

House Ranks (Best / Worse Match-ups are based on W% versus each house)

House RPI W L ## W% Best Match-up Worst Match-up
1 Martell 0.547 23 14 37 0.622 Targaryen Lannister
2 Greyjoy 0.520 17 15 32 0.531 Stark Lannister
3 Stark 0.497 18 19 37 0.486 Neutral Greyjoy
4 Targaryen 0.479 14 19 33 0.424 Lannister Martell
5 Lannister 0.474 7 9 16 0.438 Greyjoy Stark
6 Baratheon 0.472 20 22 42 0.476 Stark Martell
7 Neutral 0.438 1 2 3 0.333 Baratheon Stark

Total Matches Played: 100
# of Different Decks Played: 46

Most Popular House: 42 Baratheon
Least Popular House: 3 Neutral
Most Popular Agenda: 46 None
Least Popular Agenda: 0 TwtI
Most Played Deck: 21 Stark / Siege

Agenda Ranks (More games would improve the accuracy of the RPI#)

Agenda RPI W L W% ## Best Match-up Worst Match-up
1 NW 0.630 2 0 1.000 2 KoHH NA
2 TwtS 0.604 1 0 1.000 1 KoHH NA
3 HttIT 0.562 9 7 0.563 16 Wild BwB
4 TWB 0.550 1 1 0.500 2 None None
5 None 0.532 27 19 0.587 46 KoS KoW
6 KoW 0.528 10 6 0.625 16 None Wild
7 BwB 0.528 2 1 0.667 3 KoHH Alliance
8 Alliance 0.527 2 3 0.400 5 BwB CoS
9 Wild 0.502 1 2 0.333 3 KoW HttIT
10 Siege 0.495 11 10 0.524 21 KoW None
11 KotR 0.483 9 8 0.529 17 CoS KoHH
12 KoHH 0.482 11 14 0.440 25 KoS TwtS
13 TwtN 0.478 2 1 0.667 3 None MP
14 MP 0.457 3 7 0.300 10 None KoS
15 KoS 0.419 5 13 0.278 18 CoS None
16 CoS 0.414 4 8 0.333 12 Alliance None
17 TwtI 0.000 0 0 0.000 0 NA NA

Deck Ranks (Again, more games will improve the RPI)

Decks RPI W L ## W%
1 Baratheon / Alliance 0.775 1 0 1 1.000
2 Greyjoy / Wild 0.739 1 0 1 1.000
3 Lannister / MP 0.711 1 0 1 1.000
4 Martell / CoS 0.675 1 0 1 1.000
5 Martell / BwB 0.666 1 0 1 1.000
6 Martell / None 0.645 7 1 8 0.875
7 Baratheon / TwtN 0.644 1 0 1 1.000
8 Martell / Alliance 0.625 1 0 1 1.000
9 Lannister / NW 0.588 2 0 2 1.000
10 Targaryen / KoHH 0.578 2 0 2 1.000

This Monday will be our last night for Winter League games. The Finals will be on Saturday 1/21 at At-Ease Games in Poway

Player rankings are up on our Facebook page, but here are the current stats:

House Stats (Best / Worse Match-ups are based on W% versus each house)

House RPI W L ## W% Best Match-up Worst Match-up
1 Martell 0.520 25 20 45 0.556 Targaryen Lannister
2 Lannister 0.515 14 11 25 0.560 Martell Targaryen
3 Greyjoy 0.514 19 17 36 0.528 Baratheon Lannister
4 Stark 0.499 26 27 53 0.491 Neutral Greyjoy
5 Baratheon 0.479 25 26 51 0.490 Stark Martell
6 Targaryen 0.474 14 21 35 0.400 Lannister Martell
7 Neutral 0.446 1 2 3 0.333 Baratheon Stark

Total Matches Played: 124
# of Different Decks Played: 53

Most Popular House: Stark (53)
Least Popular House: Neutral (3)
Most Popular Agenda: None (58)
Least Popular Agenda: TwtS (1)
Most Played Deck: Stark / Siege (29)

Agenda Stats

Agenda RPI W L W% ##
1 PBtT 0.666 4 0 1.000 4
2 TWB 0.606 4 2 0.667 6
3 TwtS 0.585 1 0 1.000 1
4 NW 0.564 2 1 0.667 3
5 HttIT 0.539 9 9 0.500 18
6 None 0.539 33 25 0.569 58
7 Alliance 0.528 3 3 0.500 6
8 BwB 0.527 3 2 0.600 5
9 TwtI 0.507 1 1 0.500 2
10 KoW 0.507 10 7 0.588 17
11 Siege 0.490 15 14 0.517 29
12 TwtN 0.487 2 1 0.667 3
13 KotR 0.479 11 10 0.524 21
14 MP 0.479 5 11 0.313 16
15 Wild 0.469 1 2 0.333 3
16 KoHH 0.462 11 15 0.423 26
17 KoS 0.418 5 13 0.278 18
18 CoS 0.409 4 8 0.333 12

Deck stats are too incomplete to really mean anything.

Since this is the Socal meta thread, I thought I'd mention our Los Angeles/South Bay play group. We've met the last two weeks in Manhattan Beach. Last week we met at my house for my inauguraul AGOT experience. We had 4 players and it was a blast. Special thanks to Chris Schoenthal who both introduced me to the game and made the long trek up. This week we started our now weekly gathering at the Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach. We had 5 this week and hopefully we will see more next week. For next week, we are trying to decide between Tuesday and Wednesday, so if you would like to join us, please weigh in on what day works best for you.

Congratulations to DeathJester26 on winning the SoCal Winter League! He narrowly defeated Bronson in a Martell-Maesters vs Stark-Maesters, 11 plot, 2 hour, 15-14 power count final. The balance of power swung back and forth several times during the game- a LOT of fun to watch Sadly my ability to play a wide variety of decks decently didn't help me come anywhere near winning the League. Thanks to DeathJester for all the work he put into the league setup and stat-keeping!

I'm going to try and have final stats for the league posted here by the end of the week.

Thank you everyone for participating. Now, it's time to get serious...

For anyone who was not in the Winter League, we still meet Monday nights at Game Empire around 6pm.

Congrats John. I am still bummed I did not have the time to participate in the Winter League. I will work on building some decks this weekend and hope to be out there on Monday.

Some final stats for the SoCal 2011 Winter League:

House stats (ranked by RPI, best agenda requires a minimum of 3 games to count):

House RPI W L ## W% Best Matchup (W%) Worst Matchup (W%) Best Agenda (W%)
Martell 0.535 35 23 58 0.603 Targaryen (0.917) Lannister (0.333) No Agenda (0.667)
Greyjoy 0.512 24 23 47 0.511 Martell (0.636) Lannister (0.429) Winter (0.563)
Stark 0.509 34 32 66 0.515 Neutral (1.000) Martell (0.417) Knights (0.667)
Lannister 0.491 17 19 36 0.472 Martell (0.667) Targaryen (0.333) PBtT (0.667)
Baratheon 0.474 28 31 59 0.475 Lannister (0.600) Martell (0.222) Treaty South (0.800)
Targaryen 0.470 16 25 41 0.390 Lannister (0.667) Martell (0.083) Hollow Hill (0.667)
Neutral 0.445 1 2 3 0.333 Baratheon (0.500) Stark (0.000) N/A

Agenda stats (ranked by W%):

Agenda W L ## W%
Treaty South 4 1 5 0.800
PBtT 5 2 7 0.714
Night's Watch 2 1 3 0.667
Treaty Isles 2 1 3 0.667
Treaty North 2 1 3 0.667
Brotherhood 3 2 5 0.600
Winter 12 9 21 0.571
No Agenda 41 31 72 0.569
Maesters 14 12 26 0.538
Siege 18 16 34 0.529
Knights 12 14 26 0.462
HttIT 10 12 22 0.455
Alliance 3 4 7 0.429
White Book 5 7 12 0.417
Hollow Hill 11 17 28 0.393
Summer 6 13 19 0.316
Shadows 4 9 13 0.308
Wildlings 1 3 4 0.250

Deck stats (top 15 by RPI, minimum of 3 games played):

Deck RPI W L ## W%
Martell/Summer 0.625 2 1 3 0.667
Lannister/PBtT 0.613 5 2 7 0.714
Martell/No Agenda 0.605 12 6 18 0.667
Baratheon/Treaty South 0.588 4 1 5 0.800
Stark/Maesters 0.573 5 3 8 0.625
Martell/Maesters 0.550 5 5 10 0.500
Greyjoy/No Agenda 0.547 10 8 18 0.556
Greyjoy/Winter 0.525 9 7 16 0.563
Martell/Hollow Hill 0.516 8 7 15 0.533
Stark/Siege 0.509 18 16 34 0.529
Baratheon/No Agenda 0.504 12 7 19 0.632
Greyjoy/Maesters 0.499 2 2 4 0.500
Targaryen/HttIT 0.491 10 12 22 0.455
Targaryen/Hollow Hill 0.487 2 1 3 0.667
Lannister/White Book 0.485 4 6 10 0.400

Player stats will be up on our Facebook group page.

Thank you everyone for making AGoT fun.