The numbers are closer than yesterday but the top four are the same. I imagine further thinning of the bottom three clans represented after today.

Looks like people are realising that Lion is pretty darn good. I think they had the highest winning percentage on Day 1Z. Weird how Phoenix was such an anomaly on that first day... maybe they're just keeners?

Usually something like that indicates that Phoenix would be a deck with some nasty tricks, but weak once players learn how to play around it. Now that we're on day 3, we're seeing more skilled play, and people are managing Phoenix ring conflict effects better.

"more skilled play"

Unicorn's at the highest percentage of all three days

#feelsgood

I have been playing mostly Lion Toturi's Army until the first cycle of cards flesh out some of the half baked Phoenix tech (starting with more reasonably priced Shugenja so I do not feel like I am playing a Courtier deck). Lion is very reliable because they are so Character driven that the Conflict deck is more of an accessory than the party dress. When you have two paths to get your Clan Champion into play almost for free and a card to lay down some serious fate on a breaking band of Bushi you are going to wreck some face.

Plus Lion have enough courtiers to present a decent enough political presence so as not to get completely rolled over on politically. A Crane splash makes them pretty bonkers. If I had been able to attend, they would have been amongst my top choices to play, and likely what I settled on.

I really hope Lion does not do well enough to get a keeper role. Lion splash Crane with Disdainful Remark is going to be a beating.

5 minutes ago, Ishi Tonu said:

Plus Lion have enough courtiers to present a decent enough political presence so as not to get completely rolled over on politically. A Crane splash makes them pretty bonkers. If I had been able to attend, they would have been amongst my top choices to play, and likely what I settled on.

I really hope Lion does not do well enough to get a keeper role. Lion splash Crane with Disdainful Remark is going to be a beating.

I tried Lion with Crane splash last night. Pretty tight. 3x Admit Defeat (star of the show), 2x Political Rival, 3x Steward of Law, combined with a heavier political focus was pretty brutal. Especially when you pop out that Political Rival on their first attack, then swing military Water, then swing Political for the final attack.

4 minutes ago, Shu2jack said:

I tried Lion with Crane splash last night. Pretty tight. 3x Admit Defeat (star of the show), 2x Political Rival, 3x Steward of Law, combined with a heavier political focus was pretty brutal. Especially when you pop out that Political Rival on their first attack, then swing military Water, then swing Political for the final attack.

With all the hype over Dragon splash, I really feel the Crane splash was underrated in the core only environment. I've had pretty good results with it in any clan that has enough courtier support to make it reasonable. I even found some success with the Crane splash out of Unicorn. Steward/For Shame is great bow tech in addition to creating problems for Scorpion, which looked to be a top clan choice in the core only environment. I think it will need a little tweeking depending on what clans get keeper roles, but, I think we'll see a lot more from the Crane splash once Disdainful Remark is in the mix.

19 minutes ago, Shu2jack said:

I tried Lion with Crane splash last night. Pretty tight. 3x Admit Defeat (star of the show), 2x Political Rival, 3x Steward of Law, combined with a heavier political focus was pretty brutal. Especially when you pop out that Political Rival on their first attack, then swing military Water, then swing Political for the final attack.

This mix is why our local Lion player can basically count his losses since game release on one hand. My Pony deck only got that kinda scary after I splashed Scorpion (of all things.) Wish I could have gone to Worlds. Best of luck Unicorn.

36 minutes ago, Shu2jack said:

I tried Lion with Crane splash last night. Pretty tight. 3x Admit Defeat (star of the show), 2x Political Rival, 3x Steward of Law, combined with a heavier political focus was pretty brutal. Especially when you pop out that Political Rival on their first attack, then swing military Water, then swing Political for the final attack

I do the exact same splash in Unicorn. It's a great mixture of cards, and with 5 extra courtiers, it makes For Shame so much more playable.

After 4 rounds we have eight undefeated with 40 points each:

3 Crane, 3 Lion, 1 Scorpion, 1 Phoenix

Top 26:

8 Crane, 8 Lion, 3 Crab, 2 Phoenix, 2 Scorpion, 2 Dragon, 1 Unicorn

Dragon and Scorpion are really under performing considering their numbers today. This has been the largest Unicorn showing and I guess this proves that they need some OP cards.

If I've understood correctly, each day of the competition so far (Weds, Thurs & Fri) is completely independent. So the high volume of Phoenix players on Weds coupled with their much lower numbers on Thurs or Fri is purely coincidental - it's not an indication of diminishing Clan performance.

Have I got that right?

Oh, I haven't investigated how the tournament is staged. Is it three different pools/flights of players, with some from each advancing to one pool in the later stages? I assumed it was everyone day 1, cut, more people day 2, cut, etc.

8 minutes ago, Caldera said:

If I've understood correctly, each day of the competition so far (Weds, Thurs & Fri) is completely independent. So the high volume of Phoenix players on Weds coupled with their much lower numbers on Thurs or Fri is purely coincidental - it's not an indication of diminishing Clan performance.

Have I got that right?

Right. Although it's been split over 3 physical days, everything up til now has technically been "Day 1". Day 2 starts tomorrow with a couple Swiss rounds for the players who've finished with 34+ points from the rounds played in their day 1 group.

11 minutes ago, Zesu Shadaban said:

Right. Although it's been split over 3 physical days, everything up til now has technically been "Day 1". Day 2 starts tomorrow with a couple Swiss rounds for the players who've finished with 34+ points from the rounds played in their day 1 group.

Cheers

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

If I've understood correctly, each day of the competition so far (Weds, Thurs & Fri) is completely independent. So the high volume of Phoenix players on Weds coupled with their much lower numbers on Thurs or Fri is purely coincidental - it's not an indication of diminishing Clan performance.

Have I got that right?

So, is the chart at the top a total of all the days or just the numbers of day three?

1 hour ago, Brekekekiwi said:

So, is the chart at the top a total of all the days or just the numbers of day three?

My understanding is that this is just group 1B (today). I think someone on the Facebook group calculated the total representation across all three groups, I'll try to find that when I have more time later. AFAIK though the overall numbers were pretty close to this.