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* Each tournament is a random game from the page at https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?specificTag=30 | * Each tournament is a random game from the page at https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?specificTag=30 | ||
| − | * On selecting the game, | + | * 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 |
| − | * | + | * If there aren't any vetoes within ten minutes, the tournament opens |
| + | * Players can only join a BN Random tournament if they have '''never''' played the game before | ||
* Players are only allowed to read the game's rules: they cannot read up on strategy tips, or play any practice games | * 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 | * First tournament was Single Elimination, but Swiss might be better in future | ||
Revision as of 18:58, 17 August 2023
Tournament voting
BlogNomic players take part in occasional tournaments on BoardGameArena, taking a poll for games to play. This is a living list of voting emoji for those tournaments.
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
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.
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 the page at https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?specificTag=30
- 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
- If there aren't any vetoes within ten minutes, the tournament opens
- Players can only join a BN Random tournament if they have never played the game before
- 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.
