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The tournament just finished. I found that the 4-round heavy shadow games mitigated the second-player advantage you’re speaking about. There’s longer to “play catch-up” and the heavy shadow helps as well. I definitely still like going second obviously, but I wasn’t dreading going through the motions...

Wow that’s interesting!
Three players have won a gold, silver and bronze.
Nobody has ever won the same medal twice.

Thanks for doing this!

Thanks for making the poll! Having played >200 games now, and about evenly split between regular and advanced modes, I feel I have some input about this. - I think there’s good evidence that Advanced entails less luck than regular mode. The players with the highest ELOs (with aqualta18 being a notab...