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==Tournament voting==
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BlogNomic players take part in [https://boardgamearena.com/tournamentlist?d&time=0&prestige=0&type=0&players_per_match_min=0&players_per_match_max=0&gamecateg=0&status=finished&tournament_i_registered=0&full=true&text=BlogNomic occasional boardgame tournaments] on BoardGameArena.
BlogNomic players take part in [https://boardgamearena.com/tournamentlist?d&time=0&prestige=0&type=0&players_per_match_min=0&players_per_match_max=0&gamecateg=0&status=finished&tournament_i_registered=0&full=true&text=BlogNomic occasional tournaments] on BoardGameArena, taking a poll for games to play. This is a living list of voting emoji for those tournaments, to be pasted onto Discord for polls:
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On Discord, in the <nowiki>#online-board-games</nowiki> channel, you can react to [https://discord.com/channels/872395362336395324/1079530171872313404/1141795481249402982 the message at this link] to opt-in to the @bga-ping-group group that will be pinged when new tournaments become are available or are put up for a vote.
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Tournaments are generally two-player - we can do 3+ player ones, but should probably be wary about those with a ''lot'' of short turns, as they'll take a while spread across timezones.
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Invalid games: solved or easily cheatable games like chess, ''Hardback'' and ''Buyword'' are all currently [https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=90047 banned by BGA from being run as tournaments], even privately. ''Coup'' is [https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=11581 unable to be played turn-based due to the amount of at-any-time challenges] (even with just two players, where this wouldn't matter). Note also that games which are still in Beta can't be run as tournaments.
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==Regular tournaments==
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For a while we posted this group-curated list to the Discord so that people could emoji-vote on what to play:
  
 
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6️⃣ 6 Nimmt / 🗿 7 Wonders Architects / ⚔️ 7 Wonders Duel / 🍎 Applejack / 🟥 Azul / 🔙 Backgammon / 🐻 Bärenpark / 🐱 Boop / 🐰 Bunny Kingdom / 🧑‍🌾 Carcassonne / 🏡 Castles of Burgundy / 🥣 Century: Spice Road / ☯️ Chakra / 🔱 Conspiracy / 🕵️ District Noir / 🧚 Fairy Trails / 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Haggis / *️⃣ Hex / 🐝 Hive / 💡 Innovation (no expansions) / 🔊 Innovation (Echoes expansion) / 🏺 Innovation (Artifacts expansion) / 🌇 Innovation (Cities expansion) / 🏰 Kingdom Builder / 👑 Kingdomino / Ⓜ️ Machiavelli / 🌒 Nova Luna / 🪡 Patchwork / 🧙 Res Arcana / 🏗️ Santorini / 🪙 Scopa / 🧂 Sea Salt & Paper / 🐕 Spots / 💎 Splendor / 🍣 Sushi Go Party / 🚩 Tapestry / 🧌 Tash-Kalar / 🎷 Uptown / 🐦 Wingspan
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🤠 3000 Scoundrels / 6️⃣ 6 Nimmt / 🗿 7 Wonders Architects / ⚔️ 7 Wonders Duel / 📜 Ancient Knowledge / 🍎 Applejack / 🟥 Azul / 🔙 Backgammon / 🐻 Bärenpark / 🐱 Boop / 🐰 Bunny Kingdom / 🧑‍🌾 Carcassonne / 🌐 Cartographers / 🏡 Castles of Burgundy / 🖼️ Caper: Europe / 🥣 Century: Spice Road / ☯️ Chakra / 🗺️ Colorado / 🔱 Conspiracy / 🕵️ District Noir / 🧛 Dracula vs Van Helsing / 🦕 Evolution / 🧚 Fairy Trails / 🛣️ Faraway / 🌳 Forest Shuffle / 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Haggis / 🌸 Hanamikoji / 🏎️ Heat: Pedal to the Metal / *️⃣ Hex / 🐝 Hive / 💡 Innovation (no expansions) / 🔊 Innovation (Echoes expansion) / 🏺 Innovation (Artifacts expansion) / 🌇 Innovation (Cities expansion) / 🏰 Kingdom Builder / 👑 Kingdomino / 🪓 Knarr / Ⓜ️ Machiavelli / ⏳ Mandala / 🌒 Nova Luna / 🪡 Patchwork / 💰 Pax Renaissance / 🪐 Planet: Unknown /⚡ Quirky Quarks / 🧙 Res Arcana / 🏗️ Santorini / 🪙 Scopa / 🧂 Sea Salt & Paper / 🐕 Spots / 💎 Splendor / 💍 Splendor Duel / 🎲 Super Mega Lucky Box / 🍣 Sushi Go Party / 🚩 Tapestry / 🧌 Tash-Kalar / 🎷 Uptown / 🐦 Wingspan / 🔖 Wizards of the Grimoire
 
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Feel free to add any suitable games that you think are worth playing. Tournaments are generally two-player - we can do 3+ player ones, but should probably be wary about those with a ''lot'' of short turns, as they'll take a while spread across timezones.
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If at least four people vote for a particular game, we started a tournament for it.
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This system was put on hold in September 2024 when we were struggling to get four votes for anything. We're currently trying a system of people just pitching games to play (maximum one per player per week) and any that get 3+ interested reactions get a tournament.
  
==BlogNomic Random Tournaments==
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==BlogNomic Random tournaments==
  
 
Starting in August 2023, BlogNomic is playing a number of tournaments of randomly selected two-player games from the BGA collection.
 
Starting in August 2023, BlogNomic is playing a number of tournaments of randomly selected two-player games from the BGA collection.
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Ground rules for those tournaments are (and by all means propose amendments on Discord):
 
Ground rules for those tournaments are (and by all means propose amendments on Discord):
  
* Each tournament is a random game from the page at https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?specificTag=30
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* Each tournament is a random game from [[BlogNomic_on_BoardGameArena/RandomGameList|this list]] (derived from https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?specificTag=30), selecting from games that nobody has flagged as being a game they have already played.
* On selecting the game and announcing it to the Discord, anyone who has played it before can immediately choose to veto and force a reroll
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* Players can only join a BN Random tournament if they have '''never''' played the game before.
* If there aren't any vetoes within ten minutes, the tournament opens
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* Players unfamiliar with a game are only allowed to read the game's rules: they cannot read up on strategy tips, or play any practice games.
* Players can only join a BN Random tournament if they have '''never''' played the game before
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* Tournaments will run in the Swiss format, with three matches.
* Players are only allowed to read the game's rules: they cannot read up on strategy tips, or play any practice games
 
* First tournament was Single Elimination, but Swiss might be better in future
 
  
Would be good to extract a canonical list of games so that we can veto in advance, but I'm not seeing an immediately obvious way to scrape that data out of BGA's web pages.
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==BN Tourney tournaments==
  
===Vetos / Has played, by person==
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A series of tournaments where players agree to play a series of games chosen by others in the group, without knowing in advance what will be picked.
  
See [[BlogNomic_on_BoardGameArena/RandomGameList]]
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Quoting Clucky:
  
'''pokes''':
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''Would be out for'': Anything rated 4/5 complexity or above; ''Has played'': Jaipur, Santorini, Haggis, 7 Wonders Duel, Cribbage, Strands, Carcassone, boop, Hex, Ultimate TicTacToe, Lost Cities, Hive, Chess, Connect Four, Reversi, Onitama, Checkers, Go, Pente, Blooms, Splendor, Backgammon, Abalone, Race for the Galaxy, Dots and Boxes, Schnapsen
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#Everyone signs up ahead of time. Might limit it to 8 signups just to keep the numbers working right.
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#Randomize the list of 8 players. In order, each one adds a game to the tournament. (If people are concerned with getting stuck playing a game they hate we could do a system that allows vetoes but I don't wanna over complicate things). Game must be playable with 2 people.
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#Tournaments are swiss style, 3 games, played over the course of 2 weeks each. (Note that with 8 players swiss, in order to win you have to go 3-0 but you can still lose the first round and finish 2-1)
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#After all 8 games have been played, see who has won the most tournaments and most games overall to be the Grand Champion
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[[Category:Other games]]
 
[[Category:Other games]]

Latest revision as of 07:55, 10 October 2024

BlogNomic players take part in occasional boardgame tournaments on BoardGameArena.

On Discord, in the #online-board-games channel, you can react to the message at this link to opt-in to the @bga-ping-group group that will be pinged when new tournaments become are available or are put up for a vote.

Tournaments are generally two-player - we can do 3+ player ones, but should probably be wary about those with a lot of short turns, as they'll take a while spread across timezones.

Invalid games: solved or easily cheatable games like chess, Hardback and Buyword are all currently banned by BGA from being run as tournaments, even privately. Coup is unable to be played turn-based due to the amount of at-any-time challenges (even with just two players, where this wouldn't matter). Note also that games which are still in Beta can't be run as tournaments.

Regular tournaments

For a while we posted this group-curated list to the Discord so that people could emoji-vote on what to play:

🤠 3000 Scoundrels / 6️⃣ 6 Nimmt / 🗿 7 Wonders Architects / ⚔️ 7 Wonders Duel / 📜 Ancient Knowledge / 🍎 Applejack / 🟥 Azul / 🔙 Backgammon / 🐻 Bärenpark / 🐱 Boop / 🐰 Bunny Kingdom / 🧑‍🌾 Carcassonne / 🌐 Cartographers / 🏡 Castles of Burgundy / 🖼️ Caper: Europe / 🥣 Century: Spice Road / ☯️ Chakra / 🗺️ Colorado / 🔱 Conspiracy / 🕵️ District Noir / 🧛 Dracula vs Van Helsing / 🦕 Evolution / 🧚 Fairy Trails / 🛣️ Faraway / 🌳 Forest Shuffle / 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Haggis / 🌸 Hanamikoji / 🏎️ Heat: Pedal to the Metal / *️⃣ Hex / 🐝 Hive / 💡 Innovation (no expansions) / 🔊 Innovation (Echoes expansion) / 🏺 Innovation (Artifacts expansion) / 🌇 Innovation (Cities expansion) / 🏰 Kingdom Builder / 👑 Kingdomino / 🪓 Knarr / Ⓜ️ Machiavelli / ⏳ Mandala / 🌒 Nova Luna / 🪡 Patchwork / 💰 Pax Renaissance / 🪐 Planet: Unknown /⚡ Quirky Quarks / 🧙 Res Arcana / 🏗️ Santorini / 🪙 Scopa / 🧂 Sea Salt & Paper / 🐕 Spots / 💎 Splendor / 💍 Splendor Duel / 🎲 Super Mega Lucky Box / 🍣 Sushi Go Party / 🚩 Tapestry / 🧌 Tash-Kalar / 🎷 Uptown / 🐦 Wingspan / 🔖 Wizards of the Grimoire

If at least four people vote for a particular game, we started a tournament for it.

This system was put on hold in September 2024 when we were struggling to get four votes for anything. We're currently trying a system of people just pitching games to play (maximum one per player per week) and any that get 3+ interested reactions get a tournament.

BlogNomic Random tournaments

Starting in August 2023, BlogNomic is playing a number of tournaments of randomly selected two-player games from the BGA collection.

Ground rules for those tournaments are (and by all means propose amendments on Discord):

  • Each tournament is a random game from this list (derived from https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?specificTag=30), selecting from games that nobody has flagged as being a game they have already played.
  • Players can only join a BN Random tournament if they have never played the game before.
  • Players unfamiliar with a game are only allowed to read the game's rules: they cannot read up on strategy tips, or play any practice games.
  • Tournaments will run in the Swiss format, with three matches.

BN Tourney tournaments

A series of tournaments where players agree to play a series of games chosen by others in the group, without knowing in advance what will be picked.

Quoting Clucky:

  1. Everyone signs up ahead of time. Might limit it to 8 signups just to keep the numbers working right.
  2. Randomize the list of 8 players. In order, each one adds a game to the tournament. (If people are concerned with getting stuck playing a game they hate we could do a system that allows vetoes but I don't wanna over complicate things). Game must be playable with 2 people.
  3. Tournaments are swiss style, 3 games, played over the course of 2 weeks each. (Note that with 8 players swiss, in order to win you have to go 3-0 but you can still lose the first round and finish 2-1)
  4. After all 8 games have been played, see who has won the most tournaments and most games overall to be the Grand Champion