Board Game Arena

Not sure if anyone that makes Arena decisions will see this, but I think the guru process needs to be altered a little. For one, if a game's configuration results in only a few completed games and no Elite league achievements, then you can't keep the same configuration in the next season. For games ...

If you are a guru in this game, please vote to put games back to a 200 point game. At 400 it is difficult to complete in 3 months, and no one has made the elite league in a year. If you like longer games you can always set them up as individual ranked games, but Arena games need to be faster. There ...

We've had two seasons in a row with 9 players. I understand this is some people's cup of tea, but it does not work well for an arena league where part of the purpose is to achieve the elite level. This season may only have 1-2 completed games, meaning mathematically no one could advance. You'd think...

I went into previous seasons, and there were a total of 14-19 players that even played a single game. So getting 9 in a single game will take time. But to make matters worse, 9 players in a game, including passing, will make games about 150% longer than usual. There will be very few games completed,...

This season's Arena league is 9 players? Are there even 9 players that play this game regularly? Who voted for this?

Perhaps I'm biased because I've had a lot of success in Pingimus (OK, I'm certainly biased), but I do think it is more suited for competitive gameplay than something like Concept. A few specific thoughts to comments you make - Fortunately, in my Arena and Rated games I have not seen any recurring is...

If you are interested in real-time arena-league games, please reply to this thread with days of the week / times of day (with time zone) you would be interested. Speaking for myself, I'll need a bunch more games to have any hope of reaching the Elite league this season. As for my availability, I am ...

Even though I've been a heavy Arena League player, I haven't achieved guru status in this game in a while. With that said I'm enjoying mixing it up between 3 players and 4 players, and between card passing vs not. My main request (which I don't know if we can influence) is that this game should remo...

I'm a numbers guy so I really enjoyed this analysis. Not sure if the OP is still reviewing replies, but a few thoughts based on the data / follow-up ideas: - I was surprised that for the Pantheon expansion the Science win condition did not happen more often. I felt like for me it was over 50%. - For...

One player posted a perfect record with well over 100 wins(including against other good players), but I think they just had the ability to project more moves into the future than their opponent. I doubt they developed a computer to play for them. A specific board could be solved, but given there are...