[Tournament] Codex Asynchronous suMmer Swiss (CAMS19)

bansa · June 23, 2019, 5:27pm

I will go with [Law/Peace]/Finesse

FrozenStorm · June 23, 2019, 5:28pm

I disagree with that assessment @Legion, and regardless all skill levels are welcome and encouraged to participate!

Bryce_The_Rice · June 23, 2019, 6:42pm

Let’s be honest Legion, for 80% of us this isn’t a high skill tournament. There are the few big dogs, and the rest of us just flop around having fun.
And I sure have a lot of fun!

Nopethebard · June 23, 2019, 8:35pm

I flop especially.

FrozenStorm · June 24, 2019, 1:36pm

All right y’all, I have a minute and all decks have been submitted, so kicking things off a little early.

If you are still on the fence about joining, please feel free to do so! I can create pairings up through end of week 1 here, no problem.

Remember it is the responsibility of player 1 (the player listed first in the title) to post the thread that starts each match, and to please copy the exact spelling below for your thread title so the links work! If you have trouble with this let me or another judge (just @zhavier right now) know and we can assist you.

You can take a look at the tracker tab of the spreadsheet linked in the OP and also right here to follow along with results and stats, but just a quick summary on spec choices:

Bashing, Fire and Disease are the only unrepresented specs in this tourney, the other 17 are in play!
We have 4 green starters as our plurality starter, a first for forum tourneys afaik. Black, unsurprisingly, is second with 3 instances, and all 7 starters will be in play!
Finesse is our plurality spec in 7 of the 16 decks, showing its meteoric rise in meta prevalence as a strong early-game pressure splash. Growth and Strength are in 6 and 5, respectively, as other common choices
No one is running Purple/Peace, as it has fallen off as a big 3 choice in recent tourneys.

GL HF all!

CAMS19 Round 1

Bryce_The_Rice · June 25, 2019, 1:32am

Wow, this is a pretty big tournament. How exciting!

FrozenStorm · June 25, 2019, 5:34pm

Friendly reminder to @James and @EricF to start their matches Thank you to everyone else for getting things going promptly and getting your thread titles correct!

Hobusu · June 26, 2019, 7:07am

@FrozenStorm I think I should probably drop out of this tournament too, sadly… I don’t feel like I’d have time and energy to think my moves over as carefully as I should for a tournament, not to mention that there’s a good chance I’d only be able to take one turn per day at most.

EricF · June 26, 2019, 1:19pm

One move per day is the expected pace of play, so don’t let that stop you.

CarpeGuitarrem · June 26, 2019, 1:20pm

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, like “wait, if we’re supposed to be going more than one turn a day…uh oh”. I can get wanting to take the time and energy to carefully think over moves, but honestly I do tournaments to get as much Codex play as possible.

FrozenStorm · June 26, 2019, 1:50pm

Indeed, just in case anyone’s expectations are unclear: games typically end around turn 7 or 8, so a pace of play of roughly one turn per day is the expectation to finish games on time.

@Hobusu if you still feel participating will be undue burden during an otherwise busy time personally, I will of course remove you from further matchmaking. But don’t be at all ashamed if you want to continue at a slower pace of play, it won’t be a bother.

hardy83 · June 27, 2019, 1:08pm

…well, I’ll get father for the second time in roughly two weeks, in 4 weeks i have the final exam and defensio of a master’s thesis. i’ll certainly try to show my best codex (which isn’t very good, obviously) and i certainly take a tournament in my favourite game serious and respect all the players! but i cannot guarantee my highest personal skill for every single turn or match

so, i don’t want to disrespect the game, the tournament and the people playing it, but life’s of course bigger than codex who cares, if you can’t show your best game in this particular tournament? world class snooker or tennis players can’t perform in every tourney neither!

btw: i really like a tournament-format that’s still completely built on trust! everyone of us has the non-sanctionable possibility to peek at cards or manipulate the spreadsheet and still the format obviously works for quite some years. on the other hand, a really official tourney to find “THE best codex player worldwide” obviously would need a different format so that thought might also help, not to take this tourney too seriously

Hobusu · June 27, 2019, 4:39pm

I guess I was a bit unclear, but my main worry was whether I’d even have the energy to take a turn every day… and considering I’m only now replying to all this, that should make the answer to that question clear, heh. I’m sticking with my intent to drop, simply because I don’t want to have more things to remember to do for a while. Hopefully everything will be normal again by the the next tournament!

FrozenStorm · June 27, 2019, 5:00pm

no problem hobusu, best of luck with the move!

@Unity you will be given a bye unless @Legion wants to step into Hobusu’s spot

Legion · June 27, 2019, 5:28pm

Can I choose my codex freely or must i take hobusu’s?

FrozenStorm · June 27, 2019, 5:30pm

I’m fine with choosing whichever you like, though I would ask that you not intentionally “game the meta” by analyzing the field and selecting to specifically counter

Legion · June 27, 2019, 5:35pm

I’m not that devious. I’ll pick the standard miracle growth [anarchy]/strenght/growth, since i never managed to play it in a previous tournament. My goal would be play more than 3 matches…

FrozenStorm · June 27, 2019, 5:44pm

That sounds fine. @Unity you okay to start a new thread with the following link (or edit the title of your current thread?)

[CAMS19] Unity [Balance/Growth]/Present vs Legion [Anarchy]/Strength/Growth

Unity · June 27, 2019, 9:07pm

Sure. I hope I can finish this now on time.

Legion · June 27, 2019, 9:11pm

I already created the thread and pinged you, mate