Thanks to everyone who came out for Eudemonia’s first Store Championship! This is also the first store championship I’ve TO’d, and I have to thank Brian, Matthew and Tim for all their help in running the event. We had a software malfunction, and decided to abandon technology and run the tournament on paper. Someone hacked NRTM! Noise perhaps? Or Maxx? Paper pairings were a pain, but we made it work. Lets just say I’m very appreciative to live in the age of iPads and smart phones (when they work).
Runners
We had a turnout of 26 people, and ran 5 rounds of swiss with a cut to Top 8. This is the first SC I know of in the Bay Area where The Valley was legal, and we certainly saw it affect deck selection. Glacier was very well represented, with only 2 NBN fast advance decks holding out against the storm of Clots… which didn’t show up! Of the 26 Corp decks, only 2 ran any copies of Clot, and both of those were Shapers who opted for 1 copy each. It seems everyone believed bringing FA would be too risky, but also assumed everyone else would bring the Clots which would make it so. Despite the FA-hate in The Valley, the only two NBN FA decks made it all the way to the finals. We had quite a diverse top 8 with every faction on both sides represented, and of the 16 total decks in the cut, 14 were unique identities. Seems like diversity is alive and well in the current Netrunner meta!
Corps
Congratulations to Matthew Harrison-Trainor, on what I believe is his 3rd Store Championship win! Congrats also to Tim Wong who had a great run in the swiss and the top 8, only dropping 1 game until the finals, and who got the bye for regionals as Matthew already has his.
This was the biggest store championship I have been a part of at 55 players.
Luckily that rain cleared up in the morning because we had to announce pairings outside!
We played 6 rounds of Swiss and then cut to the top 8. The final game was played around 11:30pm. It was a long day!
One of the 4 play areas.
With that number of players, I decided it was best if I focus on running the event which ended up being a good idea. I was able to focus on rulings and getting game results entered into the iPad which probably saved us about an hour over the day.
At the end of the day, Matthew Harrison-Trainor won his second Store Championship with Andy and NEH. Noah McKee had an insane run in Swiss, ending up with 22 prestige after only dropping 1 game.
A few players hanging out in the afternoon sun between rounds
I always like to see the Corp/Runner win ratio.
Corps had a healthy advantage at 53% of the wins vs 43% for runner. The missing percents were in the ties (where Corp also had an advantage).
Over 330 games were played that day (not including the non-tournament games I forced people to play between rounds when they finished early).
In terms of Corp IDs, NEH was the most prevalent at 14 players. This matches expectations but what was a bit surprising was the amount of ETF at 9 players. From there, there was great diversity featuring everything from Gagarin to Custom Biotics.
Andromeda was of course featured heavily but I was surprised to see how popular Chaos Theory is right now (actually beating Andy in the popularity contest). Overall, there was a huge amount of diversity in runner IDs.
Here are the achievements for the Games of Berkeley GNK tournament on April 12th:
Runner
I Know A Guy:Have the most Connection resources installed at the end of each of the games that you win.
Corp
CEO of the Year: Have the most amount of Agendas scored at the end of each of your games that you win.
Both of these are added up throughout the tournament and the winner is the player who has the most in each category. There will be special prizes for these. Please help get the word out about these!
Here are the achievements for the Games of Berkeley GNK tournament on March 8th:
Runner
Level 11 H@X0R:Have the most programs installed at the end of each of the games that you win.
Corp
Sometimes a threat is enough: Have the least amount of Ice rezzed at the end of each of your games that you win.
Both of these are added up throughout the tournament and the winner is the player who has the most in each category. There will be special prizes for these. Please help get the word out about these!
Twenty two players attended the 2015 Gamescape North Store Championship. It was a very competitive field. We had a pretty even split on Corp and Runner wins:
NBN totally dominated on the Corp side:
While the Runner side was split pretty evenly:
Noah McKee fought his way through the Swiss and top 8 elimination rounds to be crowned (or plaqued?) store champion.
Forty two players competed on Saturday, February 21st 2015 at the Game Kastle Santa Clara Store Championship. The field was diverse! We played 6 rounds with no cut.
The top 8 featured Leela, Blue Sun, Kit, Tennin, Noise, CI, Andy, ETF, Kate, RP, Gabe, and NEH. The Corp/Runner Win/Lose ratio was nearly 50/50. What a great time to play Netrunner!
I collected the decks for the top 4 players and posted them on Netrunner DB. Here they are:
With all that rain coming down, only 14 players attended the tournament this month. They were in for a treat as we tried out achievements for the first time. Read the above link for the details on how those worked.
GoB employee and all around good guy, Jamie, won this month! He posted his decks to NetrunnerDB for all to enjoy.
Last year I organized a casual Netrunner meetup during the Game Developers Conference here in San Francisco. A bunch of people showed up so let’s do it again!
For those of you who clicked this link and don’t know what is going on, Netrunner is an asymmetrical physical card game of bluffing, risk, intrigue, and teacup giraffes.
It is a heck of a lot of fun too. So if you know how to play or want to learn, here are the details.
We will meet in the food court of the Sony Metreon on Tuesday, March 3rd starting at 6pm and going until they kick us out. That is the street level of the Metreon. Look for this guy or all the people playing card games.