![]() New user on the sub? Please make sure you read our rules below and check out our Contribution Guides since we have additional rules regarding specific topics. Steve Koleszar under the watchful eye of his brother Luke.Flair icons are BoardGameGeek microbadges and are used with permission. Overall, I believe the tournament was fun, and I’m hoping I get to run it again next year. The tiebreaker rules state the person who spent more on their seat wins ties, so Andrew pipped Randy for the 4th seat. Andrew Martin 3rd: Xenos, 140-13 = 127 points.In the end, the Geodens came down with the win, winning even before bids were subtracted from the final scores. Planets were sniped, power was converted to satellites. It became a race to get the orange planet on tile 4, which the Geodens did, and then built up to their planetary institute, and then used the dig tile (privilege for going first) to dig on the red planet, giving them their first of many 3 point science bumps. The Geodens were stuck a bit at the beginning, choosing to be on tile 1 and had H. ![]() Sceadeau happily scooped up Geodens for 0.The third bid Sceadeau bid 0, Randy bid 1, and Sceadeau beat a hasty retreat, not interested in spending any points for his choice of race.Then, starting over, the bidding continues, this time for second seat and choice of race. After all players bid (with rebidding allowed, but not able to come back in after a pass), the player who bid the most writes down their bid and takes the race of their choice. The method for the bidding was the first player bids as many end game points as they want for their choice of race, going first. ![]() ![]() The random bidding order was Jason, Andrew, Sceadeau, Randy. The four finalists were Jason Leggett, Randy Williams, Sceadeau D’Tela, and Andrew Martin. The races selected, at random: Geodens, Ambas, H. The final table, using seed: 275368427 ( ) The highest was the table that had a 25 point bid followed by an 18 point bid. That table bid 4 points for first, 1 point for second. Lowest bids were the David Platnik, Sceadeau D’Tela, Veronica Garcia. Can’t win them all.Įach table had its own feel to the bids. It also had the side effect of adding 30 minutes to the setup of the game as people were staring at everything before making their determination of how many extra points a race would score. These rules were used to get people outside of their comfort zones – to get races to the table that people undervalue/don’t usually play with, forcing improvisation and rewarding overall mastery of the game. Nowhere in the rules does it suggest this as the way to set up the game. There was a small bit of grumbling, as people weren’t used to playing in this manner. Once a seat was picked, a faction was chosen, and bidding would continue to the next seat in order. Boards were set up randomly, factions were selected randomly (4 total factions, 3 player games), and then the players would bid end game victory points to pick a seat. The semifinals had people talking, as it was a format almost none of the competitors were used to. Each of the double winners had their own table, along with Daniel Farrow IV, who had a win and the closest second. The semifinals, which ran at the same time as the Terraforming Mars semifinals, only saw 12 winners (out of 20) show up, so the tables were set up as four 3 player tables. Sceadeau D’Tela, David Cederquist, and Sam Wolff. Hallas was also good for second most of the time. Good faction if you wanted to come in second, though. ![]() They were picked 12 times and had a record of 1-6-3-2. Terrans, which was picked the most, only had a win percentage of 9%. The only other faction to pull down a 50% win rate were Nevlas, but they were only played 4 times. Taklons had a slightly higher win rate (50%) vs Ambas (45%). You see, players were asked to record scores, seating order, and factions down on a score sheet, and one person recorded their name in the name spot and in the faction spot, so my stats will be a bit off.īrown factions were taken 91% of the time, split between Ambas (50%) and Taklon (41%). Also, you may notice a faction that isn’t included in your game. These numbers reflect games being played on the base map only. I was able to compile stats about the factions at this tournament, and for the heats, some interesting numbers emerged. We went over that time slot on roughly half the tables, so will have to increase the time slot to 4 hours next year. We had exactly 64 unique entrants, over two heats, in a “3” hour time slot. These are the ramblings of a game master who ran Gaia Project as a trial event. ![]()
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