[Tournament] Codex Asynchronous sPring Swiss 2025 (CAPS25)

charnel_mouse · April 16, 2025, 8:40pm

I came up with a deck, and then realised it’s the same as zango’s… so I’ll try [Anarchy]/Demonology/Disease.

Bryce_The_Rice · April 16, 2025, 8:43pm

ok mono purple

James · April 20, 2025, 6:31am

I’ll play.

I reckon that whilst the Garrison nerf is appropriate because of its monocolour synergies, without OG Garrison Blue is in a bad spot for how it wins in lots of match ups. Some of the Law units such as Constable and Guardian actually need a slight buff, perhaps?

Anyway, I’ll gather evidence with monoblue.

zango · April 20, 2025, 10:06pm

That is indeed an uphill battle that you chose here, @James . All the best for your endeavor, but it’s great to have you back on board. I totally agree that mono blue is in a very tough spot, even before the nerf but afterwards even more so. But I would guess the same holds for many other specs like monogreen.

@thehug0naut & @charnel_mouse sorry for picking what you wanted to use. Maybe that is an important indicator that after nerfing almost every top tier individual spec, that the specs I chose might be in need of a nerf as well…

last try to reach @AncientSlumber - are you with us, do you still want to participate?

charnel_mouse · April 21, 2025, 9:57am

Well, there was a Feral/Peace combination I was thinking of toying with – Rampaging Elephant taps for Garrison draw, then untaps itself – but I doubt it’s playable.

zango · April 21, 2025, 5:55pm

Let’s begin the tournament!
We will play with Balance Patch 2.1a which obviously still has it’s flaws, but that’s what a tournament like this is for - to figure out what most definitely needs further adjustments. Please make sure to link the relevant rule changes somewhere at the beginning of each thread.

With now 7 players I still intend to go for a round robin but then with a cut to directly play a final series best of three. The better seeded player gets to decide on whether they will be P1 or P2 in the first game. In case there is no clear cut to the best two players, there will be as little as possible elimination games between the relevant players with P1/P2 ordering swapped in comparison to their round robin match. If more than one person joins in lately, I will revert to the standard three strike rule.
Please voice your opinion in case you prefer anything else or whether you like this approach.

Round 1:

[CAPS25] Round1: P1 FrozenStorm [Past]/Peace/Anarchy vs P2 Bryce_The_Rice monopurple
[CAPS25] Round1: P1 charnel_mouse [Anarchy]/Demonology/Disease vs P2 dwarddd monopurple
[CAPS25] Round1: P1 thehug0naut [Bashing]/Balance/Disease vs P2 James monoblue
bye: @zango (any late joiner can choose whether to battle me as P1 or as P2 and will afterwards play each round alternating between P1/P2)

Good luck and a lot of fun to everyone - may the odds be ever in your favor!

zango · April 23, 2025, 4:48pm

@thehug0naut please do start your game

zango · May 2, 2025, 2:15pm

As I just realized that @James has a bye next round and as @thehug0naut usually plays multiple games in parallel I’d like to start the next round “early”. So here comes
Round 2

As usual: please denote the new balance changes somewhere close to the start of the thread.

Good luck and a lot of fun to everyone!

Also: can somebody please reply to this post as I will not be allowed to post a fourth message in a row? Thanks in advance!

FrozenStorm · May 2, 2025, 3:13pm

You bet @zango , and GL HF in the thread I put up

zango · May 8, 2025, 9:01pm

with two games already concluded, @thehug0naut thankfully agreed to play two games in parallel, so I chose to start the next round and pick as next round the one where @charnel_mouse has the bye.

So let’s start round 3

As always, please denote the current balance changes somewhere at the top of each thread. Have a lot of fun in your games!

FrozenStorm · May 8, 2025, 9:24pm

@zango I think this is my 3rd straight P1 game, just making sure I’m not accidentally ending up with too many P1 starts at someone else’s P2 expense?

zango · May 8, 2025, 9:36pm

No you don’t have to worry about that. I put quite some time into different LLMs with trying to create the perfect round robin where everybody plays once against everybody else, while everybody has three games as P1 and all the matches are in a good order so that nobody plays on the same side of the table too often in a row. I failed horribly and hence copy pasted something from a chess tournament page. There every requirement was met except for the last one. And now with me picking the one round where charnel has the bye it got even worse for you, sorry for that. But I can assure you that your other three games are all as P2.

Also I did realize that I hadn’t linked the tracker sheet and as I’m not allowed anymore to edit the opening post, you can find the link here

The next rounds are prepared in the tab “GUI…” in a rather cryptic way

zango · May 19, 2025, 5:33am

And here comes
Round 4

Good luck and have a ton of fun everyone! And again please don’t forget blabla balance changes blabla…