BlogNomic on BoardGameArena

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.

Regular tournaments

Periodically we post a voting message to the Discord:

🤠 3000 Scoundrels / 6️⃣ 6 Nimmt / 🗿 7 Wonders Architects / ⚔️ 7 Wonders Duel / 📜 Ancient Knowledge / 🍎 Applejack / 🟥 Azul / 🔙 Backgammon / 🐻 Bärenpark / 🐱 Boop / 🐰 Bunny Kingdom / 🧑‍🌾 Carcassonne / 🏡 Castles of Burgundy / 🖼️ Caper: Europe / 🥣 Century: Spice Road / ☯️ Chakra / 🗺️ Colorado / 🔱 Conspiracy / 🕵️ District Noir / 🧛 Dracula vs Van Helsing / 🧚 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 / 🪐 Planet: Unknown /⚡ Quirky Quarks / 🧙 Res Arcana / 🏗️ Santorini / 🪙 Scopa / 🧂 Sea Salt & Paper / 🐕 Spots / 💎 Splendor / 💍 Splendor Duel / 🍣 Sushi Go Party / 🚩 Tapestry / 🧌 Tash-Kalar / 🎷 Uptown / 🐦 Wingspan / 🔖 Wizards of the Grimoire

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

Feel free to edit the list above to include 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.

Invalid games: Chess, Hardback and Buyword are all banned by BGA from being run as tournaments, even privately; Coup is unable to be played turn-based due to the free 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.

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