Board Game Arena

Excellent!
I just registered to all 4 tournaments

Here are the 10 new animal cards:
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/9647592/harmonies-pulse

What do you think of them?

Excellent, thanks again for creating these tournaments!

The link to Cup 1 is the wrong one (Spring league).
Here is the good link:
https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=571973

Interesting point, but I tend to disagree. With 4 players you have the same intrinsic luck factors than with 2: draws of tiles and animals (+ spirits). But you have two big edge factors less: (1) direct control on what is available for your opponent (blocking), (2) easy two-step planning from the ti...

My take on this would be that Luck = 1 corresponds well to spiritless 2-player games. But then add 1 Luck point if you use nature spirits, and 1 more if you have more than 2 players. So Luck = 3 for 4-player spirit games indeed. About facing over-powered spirits, I am tempted to go even further than...

Side discussion: do you think a future extension will bring a "Face C" board? If yes, what could be a fun one? Personnally I imagine a 2-players board where a boundary is shared by each player's territory, so you can rely on your opponent's tiles to complete the patterns of your own animal...

I agree with this interpretation.
- Higher arena scores for the top players come from a lower luck factor in the arena format.
- The main aspect decreasing the luck factor in the recent change (season 23 to season 24) is not the switch to Side B but the removal of Nature Spirits.

Thank you for the time spent in organizing this and all the fun for the Harmonies community

In the other hand, nothing forces you to play your spirit. I can imagine a game where you see you can take a good combo of flat animals, while your opponent has a long-to-build spirit, and you deliberately decide to ignore your own spirit to rush your opponent in 7 turns. That would be a legitimate ...

Classic "variance swing" for Ellektra :D Actually your insights made me think about another interesting debate: how much of an advantage is it to be player 2? I have the feeling it is quite much, but I should check my records to support it with data (ex: percentage win on every position)...