Brawl #6 Planned Changes

[JonathanCrazyJ]

6 rounds seemed a solid amount to me, 5 seems a bit short, but not massive issue.

Ecs are great it they are balanced, removal seems a little sad... just make sure ecs are balanced and it's fine

[Fippe94]

The thing is that it is pretty hard to come up with fun and balanced ECs. In war, they can play with roles, deck restrictions ,salvage, discards, vaults.
In Brawl we can mostly just play with points, since each round has unique stuff to do for each role.

[andretimpa]

5 rounds seems optimal for me.

About ECs it depends if ECs are good. good ECs > no ECs > bad ECs, after all

[Fippe94]

Re:EC: this Brawl we are planning to have a little more of a theme to each individual round, which would partly replace event cards in a way.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Hmm ok themed rounds could work. I suppose 5 rounds could be solid too, but 6 is better imo

[OldTrees]

Removing Wagers but keeping Challenges means that anyone that wanted to use a Wager would have the option to make a Challenge instead. Only time will tell, but I think that Challenges add more to Brawl than Wagers.


I found event cards interesting, but only mildly so in comparison to the rest of brawl.


Interestingly, with only 5 rounds and the point rewards as they are now, consistently scoring +1 place in 1 event is worth 9 points.

[MyNameIsJoey]

On that note, I do hope scoring stays the same
I hated how 6th round meant more than the rest of brawl altogheter.

[CleanOnion]

On that note, I do hope scoring stays the same
I hated how 6th round meant more than the rest of brawl altogheter.

I haven't touched the scoring values from last year - only removed R6 and points for any teams after the 5th (we don't expect more than 5 teams). If these points are popular then fair enough, but as yet they were marked for review.

For reference, in case I do decide to change the scoring:

Place ~> Round v	5th	4th	3rd	2nd	1st
Round 1	3	4	5	6	7
Round 2	3	4	5	6	7
Round 3	6	8	10	12	14
Round 4	6	8	10	12	14
Round 5	9	12	15	18	21

I'll probably increase points given overall, to account for less rounds - currently the points spent on Auction are a much larger fraction of the total points earned - however I will admit I was planning on having the points increase less as rounds go on, compared to previous Brawls. There's still a couple weeks to go - Auction won't be starting until early January at the latest - so plenty of time for everyone to get a say.