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Hi there, Nations Cups used to be the most competitive and intense tournament on the Days of Wonder platform. If you enjoyed the Ticket to Ride anniversary organized on BGA by Rwain for Days of Wonder https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39553 (grats again Exalted Angel who will join thi...

Hi there, Nations Cups used to be the most competitive and intense tournament on the Days of Wonder platform. When ? Traditionally : Sept-November Format : 2 player USA. Tournament : Group phase, then KO round. Clash : 2 teams of 4 players are scheduled to meet each week Match : Live play, 6-game ma...

Well considering that the format of the tournament on a single game every match was already a crapshoot, it is not that much worse to play 4ers in a finale. The tournament is just not a world championship, it is just a tournament. I think some player, among them me, wanted something a bit more inter...

Thanks Rwain for everything, the end looks thrilling.

Little side-note for those who are interested in continuing to explore the competitive play of TTR.
I opened reigstration for a 2-player USA and Europe League.

More info : https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41248

Hello, The Ticket to Ride Competitive has a dedicated discord server which you can access by sending me a DM. We are resuming our 2-player League with promotions and relegations season-to-season from scratch, taking advantage of the positive dynamic created by the TTR tournament organized by @rwain ...

menettm wrote: ↑07 January 2025, 18:50 Le mode Arena n'a plus la bonne définition pour les Aventuriers du Rail (USA et Europe), cela n'est plus vraiment compétitif avec les extensions qui aident surtout les chanceux à gagner....
Le mode Arena devient sans réel intérêt pour TTR...

Niveller la compétition par le bas...

I think it mainly depends on players availability. A few italian are just more available during american nights than the European evenings.
Quite a few players are also resident in a foreign country so their flag may not represent their nationality or their time zones.

This is how it was in the Java app on the Days of Wonder website. This is how it was on the cross platform Steam/Apple/Android App. Each map and each variant had itd own rankings because games are totally different. The Swiss could as well be an expansion of the Europe Map. Having different arenas, ...

Yes looks like you're right. Looking at past Swiss Tournaments it seems like lowest ranked player got the bye.

I think we all did the simulation on the number of wins needed to move through.

I'd still hope that ELO is not used as last tie-breaker.

My bad, I posted yesterday and was wrong on all counts (Paolo and the 1/2 point for bye winner). Sorry about that. It'd be good to have a full set of rules for semi-finals. I believe first round is random. But we may need confirmation on that for instance. And a full set of tiebreakers so that we ha...