At the tournament level, does it seem that games tend to go to the Runner much more than the Corp?

That's a touchy subject.

Prior to the release of Opening Moves, data from OCTGN suggested that the runner has a noticeable advantage over the corporation, which improves to a significant advantage when the runner is criminal. See Here . This effect was more noticeable among the more highly-ranked players.

We're going to have to see how Howard Jackson affects corp balance, since he's pretty much the best thing going for corps right now, and he just came out. The ability to selectively draw and shuffle agendas back into R&D is going to have a big impact on the state of the game - much more than Rework did since HoJay has more upside. How much of a dent will it put into the runner advantage? I'm not sure. My gut feeling is that it will help, but it won't immediately shift the overall percentages to 50-50.

If the overall percentages are closer than 45-55, we can call it "better than Chess".

I don't see how that would matter in a tournament, anyway. In the tournament in which I participated, we had to come prepared with one corp and one runner deck. We used both decks, one at a time, against each opponent.

Are other tournaments different?

Are other tournaments different?

Of course not.