“Competition and confrontation” can be said to be a never ending theme in the concept of “game”. And table games, as a form of confrontation that most needs to sit in the same space in competitive events, test the players’ mentality and expression management even more.
It is true that the happy experience of the board game itself is also important, but if we are playing a game of winners and losers. In such a high-pressure competitive state, the original entertainment experience priority of the game immediately relegated to the eighteenth line.
In the face of real board game competition, we need to consider not only the brainpower confrontation within the game, but also many, many things outside the game.
1 Preparation research and competition rules
I personally have not participated in many offline events, but there are many small details worth sharing.
Preparation and Environmental Studies
That time I was participating in a Yu-Gi-Oh shop game (60 participants).
Different from playing poker with friends laughing and laughing on weekdays, when the store game is held, there will be a lot of poker players who come to play at other times in the store.
The format of the competition is group stage + Swiss round within the group, and the players are matched in a best-of-three match.
side is a sub-card deck that will only be used in competitions. In my first competition, I simply added some commonly used counter cards.
The trick I used met a big brother with a swollen head dragon for special summons in the group stage, and he turned it over for me with a card. My immature environmental targeting and scene handling hit me hard.
If something happens, call the referee in time
The Hearthstone Gold Open is probably the major event I’ve played in the most. The large-scale open competition with 1,024 people, as well as the focus table, commentary booth, live broadcast and other arrangements, showed the vitality of competition everywhere.
It is different from the ladder ranking in the game. Hearthstone’s competitive game rules are based on the conquest system. (The class that each player wins can no longer be used, and the opponent will be defeated after all the participating classes have won.)
Because the design of these competition systems comes from artificial regulations outside the game system. Therefore, human error and referee intervention are inevitable in operation.
For example, if the opponent mistakenly entered a career that has already won, then theoretically at this time, the referee can be notified in the rules description to directly give a penalty. (A rematch is also possible if both sides accept it.)
Once I encountered a hanging card bug (never seen it online, but encountered it in an offline game), and in the end I had no choice but to call the referee to deal with it.
Players should choose to contact the referee as soon as possible if any disputes occur during the game. This is a very good habit.
Always keep an eye on your opponents and beware of cheating
As long as the rules exist, there will always be people who take advantage of loopholes.
There are a lot of interesting cases of cheating in Yu-Gi-Oh, and I will share them with you. While smiling, you should also take precautions.
toilet OTK
At a game king conference in the United States, in order to facilitate the management of referees. The time of each game is uniformly set to 40 minutes. If the game is not over by the time, the winner will be determined according to the remaining health of both sides.
So a player “witty” chose to go to the toilet at the beginning of the game, and then returned to the game when the time limit was approaching.
Taking a picture of “Naughty Xianxing Manzhu Shahua” on the field deducted 200 HP of the opponent. At this point, the game time is up, and the player who squatted in the pit won by a slight advantage of 200 points.
The variety of cheating methods is ever-changing and jaw-dropping. Interested friends can search for “Yu-Gi-Oh! cheating” at station B. UP master El XVI has produced a lot of related content.
The moral bottom line of some players is beyond the imagination of normal people. There is not much we can do, except to keep an eye on the opponent’s movements while sticking to our original intentions. If you have any inappropriate movements, remember to call the referee in time.
2 The world competition of board games
The above-mentioned competitions and personal experiences are all based on a relatively mature competitive system. So what kind of competitive competition does the well-known tabletop game have?
Carcassonne World Team Online Championship (WTCOC)
First of all, congratulations to the Chinese team for winning the runner-up! Break through history!
Carcassonne is an enduring German board game. Since 2006, the annual board game exhibition in Essen, Germany will bring together champions from all over the world to compete for the annual global championship.
Since 2015, the annual DICECON board game exhibition will also hold a domestic championship game. The five DICECON Beijing International Board Game Exhibition, the 5th Carcassonne World Championship China champions were born. They are Doro in 2015-2016. Cat, Yang Dong in 2017, Fountain in 2018-2019.
They went to the Carcassonne World Cup in Essen, Germany to compete for the final victory with the expectations of Carcassonne players in mainland China. Facing the other 35 top Carcassonne players from all over the world, only for the five-star red flag to be hoisted at the highest point of the Essen arena.
For more information about this Carcassonne online team competition, you can pay attention to Uncle Deng’s [Mibao Planet Board Game Evaluation]. The content of this competition is detailed and specific, and it is no exaggeration to read the feast.
Game of Thrones Edition World Championship
The Game of Thrones Board World Championships are primarily played on the throatmaster.net website, which gathers Game of Thrones board fans from all over the world.
Since 2019, the site has hosted a world championship every year.
If you like this board game and have confidence in your power, you must not miss this game. (The website can be registered directly)
B exhibition UP main: video explanation of reeds on the beach
Dawn of Empires Community Championship
“Dawn of the Empire” is at least four hours long for a single game, which discourages countless players, but can you imagine that a game of this size has a competition?
Martens, a film and TV industry veteran, teamed up with Donaldson in 2017 to launch “Space Cats and Peace Turtles,” a podcast show devoted to Dawn of an Empire and similar strategy games.
As the channel’s fans continued to grow, the two founded the first “Space Cat and Peace Turtle Empire Dawn” tournament (held offline) in 2018, with as many as 108 participants.
Now that it has been changed to an online competition due to the impact of the epidemic, the enthusiasm of the fans is still irresistible. Last year, 336 people participated in the competition.
The online tournament that just ended this year even had 616 players participating. The schedule lasted for seven months, with a total of 124 games, a bloody imperial feast.
BGA’s 1st “Catan” Online World Championship
As a world-renowned German board game, the “Isle of Catan” game has always been a very popular board game event.
At the moment when the epidemic is raging, many offline board game competitions have moved online, and “Isle of Catan” is no exception.
2018 Cologne World Championships
As an online board game website with very good quality in all aspects, BGA has raised the banner of world board game competition in this era of declining offline competitions.
3 Upcoming Big Game: WSBG
If there is any major game worthy of attention in the board game industry this year, then WSBG must not miss it.
This is a giant comprehensive board game event to be released at the end of 2021, and the deadline for competition registration is September 1, 2022.
The main competition (audience) of the conference will be held from Wednesday, September 28 to Saturday, October 1, 2022.
Sunday will begin with four semifinals, with the overall winner receiving $2.5W and a championship bracelet worth over $3,000. (There are also bonuses for 2~4 places)
16 board game projects, how much can you dominate
It is worth pondering that the competition items of this game cover 16 board games, and each board game has its own game time and number of games.
The 16 board games will select 16 single category board game champions in the first four days.
The champion of each board game will receive an exclusive championship ring, as well as qualifications for Sunday’s finals. (Unique top 16 audition method)
The sixteen board games are:
Wednesday: Seven Wonders, Brilliant Gems. Thursday: Soar, Birmingham, Dominant Species, M&A. Friday: Gaia Project, Rail Tour, Helios (RA), Tile Story, Great Western Railway. Saturday: Catan, Colonize Mars, Scarlet Rage, Dune: Empire, Carcassonne.
You can choose one project to participate in each day, and four days still means four chances.
Entry fee: $900 = five days and four nights of accommodation at the BALLYS Hotel in Las Vegas (three-star) + entry fee + peripherals
If you only want to participate in the competition, do not want accommodation.
Participate in a single match: $250
Enter two races: $350
Participate in 3-4 races: $450
Interesting format worth playing
Only the tyrants selected by 16 board games with different gameplays can participate in the final competition, which means that the champion of the WSBG event will be a very versatile board game player.
What exactly is in common between powerful board game players, I believe everything will be revealed after the game is over.
The most worth mentioning is the championship competition after 16 projects.
There are some subtle changes to the format here.
First of all, the semi-finals and the finals are randomly determined, but it will ensure that the contestants will not play the games that they have already obtained the ring.
Second, each player in the finals has one more chance to ban a game.
The concept of ban/pick often exists more in moba video games, or games with occupational color divisions such as Hearthstone.
The concept of BP allows players to add a layer of decision-making related to “the advantages and disadvantages of the game” on the original game technology. As long as you think about it, you can get a very powerful advantage at the beginning of the game.
When we put our perspective into the field of board games we know, whether this BP format is the most suitable is hard to say, but it is enough to look forward to.
What is the overall strength of a board game player, and whether such a competition system can finally give a wonderful game, we will wait and see.
board game competition, board game party
Looking at WSBG as a whole, it is more like a huge board game party than a board game competition that gathers players from all over the world.
The sponsors and exhibitors of the competition are displayed on the official website. I believe everyone knows whether it is reliable or not.
Personally, what I care more about is whether the referee’s professional quality and rule judgment are complete under this brand-new rules competition system.
But in any case, this will be an example worth thinking about. Lay a solid foundation for future board game events.
4 Think a little
There are also a group of very powerful board game players in China. Perhaps we should also have a comprehensive board game event with a wide coverage that belongs to the Chinese.
Even if it’s just trying, it’s worth taking this step.
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