Yes please, gives you a place to coordinate expected start time and cadence, lets me know you’re on top of your games 
Reminder to everyone you should be finished with your Pod 1 matches and starting your Pod 2 matches to keep pace of play.
@Juan_Enriquez we need you to come back or let folks know you’re unable to continue. I will have to adjudicate by next week if we don’t hear anything.
If that happens, I’ll be in a group against just FrozenStorm and zhavier 
That is accurate and would be unfortunate, given the other group had 5
The groups are somewhat irrelevant, we could reorganize due to drop outs.
If you have a clear path forward to re-organize that in an equitable way I’m all ears, I don’t really have the time to work out how that would work
Juan’s games are turn-balanced in each pod, so we could squash the involved games together to make sure we still get to play all six colours. That does give us a lot to do.
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@charnel_mouse @zhavier if we don’t hear from @Juan_Enriquez in the next 24 hours, I will throw out Juan’s games & rematch the three of us to get us to 6 games each. It’ll be a little shuffling but we can manage it
Okay here’s a re-roll of Group B’s Juan matches between the three of us:
Group B Pod 4
- [XCAFRR21] Pod4 zhavier [Truth/Peace]/Finesse vs FrozenStorm Purple
- [XCAFRR21] Pod4 FrozenStorm Red vs charnel_mouse Black
- [XCAFRR21] Pod4 charnel_mouse White vs zhavier White
this should still give us games on all six decks, LMK if I made a mistake though!
In terms of seeding the next round, I’m open to either
- keeping it two players from each group, or
- Taking the #2 from Group B and the #3 from Group C and having a play-in game
So it isn’t just “well group B had three players, not fair two went to finals”
LMK your thoughts
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I’m the newbie, so I might miss a point here, but I don’t think it’s likely that group B second place will end up with only two victories. And I think in group A four victories are enough to be qualified. So all comes down to “are you qualified after scoring three victories?”
In group B that’s definitely the case, in group A it might not be the case.
How about doing this play-in game only exactly if those two both have the same number of victories?
And if you choose to do it differently: I’m perfectly fine with that, sometimes life is just not fair and we definitely are not in a situation where you can achieve fairness as doing a play-in is unfair for the one finishing in second in group B, not doing a play-in might come with an unfair feeling for others…
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Friendly reminder to everyone that you should be wrapped on your Pod2 games and starting your Pod3 games! Pace of play has generally been good, keep it up!
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Hey @FrozenStorm , did you already make up your mind about how to proceed with regards to this might-happen play in game (no pressure intended)? If I’m not mistaken it might even come to the point, that group A ends up with three people tied for the third place with two victories and group B also ending up with a tied second place with two victories… Crazy!
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I have not given it much thought tbh, work has been busy and occupying a lot of brain space.
The more than half the field tied thing makes it complicated though! Not totally sure how to handle that. Probably a mini bracket elim. Let’s finish the last two matches and figure it out from there
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How have people been finding the modified Blackhand Scourge? (Or “Black Bash”, as I’ve been recording it under.)
The garth and orpal show is pretty strong IMO, a little more one dimensional than standard Black but still perhaps the best mono (red is close). I may have the only loss on it (and zhav had a dream draw sequence to do it 
), did anyone else lose with it?
Dreamfire’s got two wins against it from Pod 1.
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To be fair, 4 of dreamfires 6 matches wer against black, and 1 of those was a mirror black match.
I got dumpstered by player 1 daymare, because of course
Well it is indeed looking like we will have our bottom 5 players all tied at 2-4. No real easy way to seed all of them other than a bracket, so I suggest either we:
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Just do an eight player bracket, randomly seeding those 5 into the lower spots, or
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Pick one of the five at random and seed a four player bracket as we planned
I don’t have a strong preference, any of y’all?
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How about going for route 2, but to let the number of victories in the first six games decide who goes as P1?