BlogNomic on BoardGameArena

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, to be pasted onto Discord for polls:

6️⃣ 6 Nimmt / 🗿 7 Wonders Architects / ⚔️ 7 Wonders Duel / 🍎 Applejack / 🟥 Azul / 🔙 Backgammon / 🐻 Bärenpark / 🐱 Boop / 🐰 Bunny Kingdom / 🧑‍🌾 Carcassonne / 🏡 Castles of Burgundy / 🖼️ Caper: Europe / 🥣 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. On Discord, in the #online-board-games channel, react to the pinned message to opt-in to a role that will be pinged when new tournament signups are available.

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.

Vetos / Has played, by person

See BlogNomic_on_BoardGameArena/RandomGameList

pokes: 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