3 minutes ago, pheaver said:

For Coruscant? I got precisely 0 real life games in with Rebel Good Stuff before playing it there. I played it a handful of times on Vassal, against strong players. The reason was all the prizes for Coruscant (except the trophy, which I have enough of) can be had just by showing up on day 1 and doing reasonably well on the side event day 2.

For something like Worlds, I do all this analysis and get lots of games in, if possible. You can't do that all the time, or you'll burn out. At least, *I* can't do that all the time.

Spoken like a true loser.

This is why UK is on top.

Real practice games, maybe 2? Similar to what Paul said, the prizes were pretty much all participation so I was more interested in just being at the event and seeing all my friends.

I would describe the event as a mix between a Store Champ and an All Star Game in terms of what I was looking to get out of it, namely seeing lots of stuff and having fun at FFGland.

3 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

Spoken like a true loser.

This is why UK is on top.

If the UK (and Europe in general) can stomach x more amount of games than the competition in preparation for every tournament, then they deserve to win because they obviously love the game more.

Heck, a scrub like me gets burned out just by playing the number of consecutive games required to play IN a tournament. If you can tell me straight faced you are still having the time of your life after your 30th game with the same list, you’ve already won in my book.

14 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:

And this is one of the reason UK meta is on top right now: the sheer amount of quality games you can get there in uncomparable to any other place.

OMG, can we just stop this **** swinging contest please?

3 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:

Real practice games, maybe 2? Similar to what Paul said, the prizes were pretty much all participation so I was more interested in just being at the event and seeing all my friends.

I would describe the event as a mix between a Store Champ and an All Star Game in terms of what I was looking to get out of it, namely seeing lots of stuff and having fun at FFGland.

Did the winner of coruscant get to design their own card? Seeing as you and Paul have already had the privilege, I’m going to mark your incentive to win as a little lower than others. ?

1 minute ago, Kdubb said:

Did the winner of coruscant get to design their own card? Seeing as you and Paul have already had the privilege, I’m going to mark your incentive to win as a little lower than others. ?

Not Worlds.

7 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:

Real practice games, maybe 2? Similar to what Paul said, the prizes were pretty much all participation so I was more interested in just being at the event and seeing all my friends.

I would describe the event as a mix between a Store Champ and an All Star Game in terms of what I was looking to get out of it, namely seeing lots of stuff and having fun at FFGland.

Your honor!

4 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

Not Worlds.

I thought coruscant was essentially the system open finale? Didn’t Chumbalaya get to design a card for winning event just like this last year? Or is it only the worlds winner that gets to design the card now?

I could be missing something altogether though.

16 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:

I would describe the event as a mix between a Store Champ and an All Star Game in terms of what I was looking to get out of it, namely seeing lots of stuff and having fun at FFGland.

I have limited tournament experience but Regionals/Store Champs both felt significantly more intense and less casual/fun than both Worlds & Coruscant.

23 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:

And this is one of the reason UK meta is on top right now: the sheer amount of quality games you can get there in uncomparable to any other place.

While Jesper is probably an outlier even by UK standard, an average UK player get to play more and at higher level than most top players from other countries

This is a ridiculous assertion to make. Plenty of us manage to get 12+ quality games a month by a large margin, and yet I (and others) still managed to perform only mediocrely at Coruscant.

There are so many factors involved in an individual player's performance, nation of origin isn't particularly meaningful.

Let's look at the top 8: it was 4 European players playing against 4 American players, if I remember correctly. Let's assume all matchups are identical and the better player wins 75% of the time. Even if we assume the European players was straight better every game, there'd still only be a 31% chance all four Europeans made it through.

There's just so many factors that matter more than country of origin. I do dramatically better at tournaments that start after 10 or 11 AM instead of 9. Even something as stupid as that is dramatically more important than my country of origin.

1 minute ago, Kdubb said:

I thought coruscant was essentially the system open finale? Didn’t Chumbalaya get to design a card for winning event just like this last year? Or is it only the worlds winner that gets to design the card now?

I could be missing something altogether though.

Oh, you're right!

I also have no idea if that was a prize this time.

On 10/11/2018 at 8:57 AM, Tlfj200 said:

Hmm... weird. I do recall him being at the final table though.

Supernatural Vader *was* at the final table. In fact he won the whole thing. If only there had been an organized team of American players who had thought he was worthy enough of taking to the event after talking him up for 5 straight months on their podcast... oh well.

13 minutes ago, Kdubb said:

Did the winner of coruscant get to design their own card? Seeing as you and Paul have already had the privilege, I’m going to mark your incentive to win as a little lower than others. ?

My honor!

7 minutes ago, Kdubb said:

I thought coruscant was essentially the system open finale? Didn’t Chumbalaya get to design a card for winning event just like this last year? Or is it only the worlds winner that gets to design the card now?

I could be missing something altogether though.

My card is a good boy

7 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

I have limited tournament experience but Regionals/Store Champs both felt significantly more intense and astoundingly less casual/fun than both Worlds & Coruscant.

I've got a lot of nostalgia for 2016 store champ season where we had a ton of new players who had started and a growing, enthusiastic community. 2017 post Worlds until 1.0 died was pretty miserable by comparison. My hope is that 2.0 brings the former back. Coruscant was super fun and laid back, so hopew are high.

Who would want to design a card that will be useless in 3.0?

Just now, skotothalamos said:

Supernatural Vader *was* at the final table. In fact he won the whole thing. If only there had been an organized team of American players who had thought he was worthy enough of taking to the event after talking him up for 5 straight months on their podcast... oh well.

You got us?

rekt?

1 minute ago, Chumbalaya said:

My honor!

My card is a good boy

I've got a lot of nostalgia for 2016 store champ season where we had a ton of new players who had started and a growing, enthusiastic community. 2017 post Worlds until 1.0 died was pretty miserable by comparison. My hope is that 2.0 brings the former back.

Did you design 0-0-0? Mad props just for including the character.

4 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:

I've got a lot of nostalgia for 2016 store champ season where we had a ton of new players who had started and a growing, enthusiastic community. 2017 post Worlds until 1.0 died was pretty miserable by comparison. My hope is that 2.0 brings the former back.

Hopefully. I need to start keeping track of "Laughs per game". It might be the only stat that truly matters.

32 minutes ago, pheaver said:

For Coruscant? I got precisely 0 real life games in with Rebel Good Stuff before playing it there. I played it a handful of times on Vassal, against strong players. The reason was all the prizes for Coruscant (except the trophy, which I have enough of) can be had just by showing up on day 1 and doing reasonably well on the side event day 2.

For something like Worlds, I do all this analysis and get lots of games in, if possible. You can't do that all the time, or you'll burn out. At least, *I* can't do that all the time.

I know the answer already, but how long before world's this year did you pick your list and how many games did you play with it in practice?

3 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

Hopefully. I need to start keeping track of "Laughs per game". It might be the only stat that truly matters.

Number of F bombs you make Alex drop on stream is my new personal metric for success.

Trending at over 0, which is a strong start

5 hours ago, __underscore__ said:

Wait, so if Worlds is 'FFGCon' and Coruscant is a 'useless meme tournament' then what are the big, melting pot tournaments that the US players do actually care about? Especially considering that GenCon for Nationals has quite the barrier of entry.

Americans only care about the events they win. If they lose, they clearly didn't care, so the results don't matter.

1 minute ago, skotothalamos said:

Americans only care about the events they win. If they lose, they clearly didn't care, so the results don't matter.

Plenty of us tried, cared, and failed. Why is everyone being so weird about this?

To answer to other question, gencon and Nationals, and system opens are usually the tournaments most us players care the most about.

2 minutes ago, skotothalamos said:

Americans only care about the events they win. If they lose, they clearly didn't care, so the results don't matter.

I pronounce you the victor! You win! (I also don't care).

Just now, Brunas said:

Plenty of us tried, cared, and failed. Why is everyone being so weird about this?

To answer to other question, gencon and Nationals, and system opens are usually the tournaments most us players care the most about.

And by failing, forever conclusively proved the UK (not Europe - the UK) is better than all of America, now, forever, and in the past.

All data is conclusive.

Sudoko, please.

14 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:

My honor!

My card is a good boy

I've got a lot of nostalgia for 2016 store champ season where we had a ton of new players who had started and a growing, enthusiastic community. 2017 post Worlds until 1.0 died was pretty miserable by comparison. My hope is that 2.0 brings the former back. Coruscant was super fun and laid back, so hopew are high.

You failed to make Trioculus real, so we will never forgive you.

13 minutes ago, Scott Pilgrim2 said:

Did you design 0-0-0? Mad props just for including the character.

I did and I'm super happy with him.

11 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

Hopefully. I need to start keeping track of "Laughs per game". It might be the only stat that truly matters.

If my game with Dee was any indication, I'll take the over.