Looks like it is over.
Thanks to Jatill for the fresh tournament idea.
The custom restrictions and auction system was a very interesting, and surprisingly balanced idea.I´m glad we didn´t play with 60 cards since some decks would have severely suffered from that.
One thing i didn´t like about the tournament was that it was very predictable how the decks for each individual set would look like and there was roughly no way to use that knowledge when it came down to deckbuilding.
The auction played a major role in deciding who would come out ahead and players should have bid a little more aggressive - but that was in the players hands. The delay to do this via the forum gave people some additional time to think about their bids and i was quite surprised it was over so "fast".
My predictions of the sets individual strength where later reflected in the auction - which surprisingly lead to Aww1979 "overbidding" Beta which cost him big time.
The outcome greatly influenced my personal choices (got waaaay to much life) with M11 and tried to exploit that.A few more bids there would have been healthier for the tournament in hindsight.
Antiquities and Fallen Empires both got and edge due to the Artwork restrictions which turned out to be very important.
The remaining Sets suffered from "mediocore" and overpriced cards too much, the auction didn´t make up for that (enough).
Personally i dislike the "huge" 4 people groups forcing you to play 24 matches.Mostly because of the (needed) deadline and a tight schedule.I skipped my own games (roughly 50% of each round) so i got no right to complain there
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The February tournament is going to use smaller groups (3 groups with 3 people). This leads to less matches to be played (18 instead of 24) and hopefully reduces the pressure a bit.Round2 is going to take slightly longer, overall it should be the same amount of matches, just with a player more and at a "light" schedule.
Also the used point system showed its flaws.
Jatill won the most games and finished 2nd in GroupA.
After 3 reports i had the same ammount of points in Group B than most people in Group A after ALL reports due to the "bonus" points.Was just impossible to catch up.
I´m trying a slightly different system for the next tournament and hopefully fix both issues.
Most games where exciting to play and it was an enjoyable tournament overall.The few "boring" games where mainly their individual sets fault - nothing the deckbuilders could do about that.
Who would have thought that Antiquities would come out ahead ?
Congratulations 240sxforever!