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I've been banning Baby Gigazaur followed by King

i believe how it works in round-robin and swiss is that the first tiebreaker is total points of all opponents. But in round-robin that's going to be the same since everyone plays everyone. The second tiebreaker is average opponent ELO so in the case of a round-robin, this means the lower ELO player ...

Thanks. It’s great to hear advice from a pro. I gave this situation a lot of thought and made a really unconventional move. I put a blue 4-point card into a Wonder stage with a repeat ability, hoping to find Theology. It wasn't there. Later, I used the second repeat ability and put a card with two ...

Just take the 5 pointer. You’ll get caravansery and you just need to win on blue so grabbing blues in age 2 is huge. Artemis means your money is fine too. Then if he doesn’t take the 4 pointer, you can discard it. not going artemis artemis with that 4 in 2nd move if opp doesnt take 4 ? (one of the ...

Just take the 5 pointer. You’ll get caravansery and you just need to win on blue so grabbing blues in age 2 is huge. Artemis means your money is fine too. Then if he doesn’t take the 4 pointer, you can discard it.

thank you all so much for the kind words and support, I had checked in on this post a few days or so after posting and didn't see any traffic so didn't come back for a bit. I really appreciate it. For those who enjoy the content, I post daily gameplay + commentary videos as well as I started to post...

I watched Age I of the first game you posted and I'm trying to be as nice as possible, but you really just gave your opponent everything they wanted. Great players may look luckier than others, but it's because they're great players and put themselves in favorable positions and avoid plays that do t...

so you're proposing that a) higher rated players are intentionally being matched with lower rated players. This doesn't alone help anyone, it's still possible to lose to a weak player and your elo gets destroyed when this happens so it's all accounted for with elo. But to combat this, we have b) whe...

I agree that the coins idea feels bad, was just calling out the finding. For the VP idea, it still just feels bad since player 1 maintains a big advantage with going for red and green which it doesn’t address.

maybe @giovep can chime in here as he and some of the top Italian players did a lot of work building and designing an AI for playing 7wd base game. They saw the same problem (~67% winrate for player 1 with high-level play) and came up with some cool solutions that would be easy to implement on BGA. ...