Well, while we got brutalized in the end, this was a really good run overall. A decent amount of small things and some big things held us back a little, had some circumstances been different we might even have won. Second place is a pretty good start for me though
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Congrats
on winning!
Spoiler for Awesome 2nd place prize:
Hey
Fatsos we got your favourite thing: Disappointment!
Our main issue was activity of course, basically we were a 3man team that only worked on Friday-evening-shifts. If we were lucky we had the intel (that was my job and with few exceptions I put that up quite early each round), maybe up to 2 deck ideas and thoughts on up to 2 opponents 6 hours before deadline. So in those 6 hours we had to do everything else, which resulted in some questionable transmutes, disc/salv and occasionaly we even failed at the decks themselves. And of course, we could probably have thought of better decks had we invested more time and our testing was minimal. The latter might have been part of the reason why DBH did as terribly as it did, I remember us thinking "DBH should beat it" for several decks (that we mindgated perfectly, which however beat DBH anyways) without ever actually testing it. I wonder how close to 50% those matchups really were (and against bw fire deck ragepot rather than firebolt was a problem too), I will ofc still insist that most of that was bad rng
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Our mindgating was crazy good, it feels like each round with few exceptions we guessed 3 decks correctly, countered a 4th anyways and then lost the other (and some of the mindgates we lost too ->blame rng).
Our vault wasnt perfect, it was overloaded with weapons and shields all the time and we had 2 completely unused decktypes in our original vault (neuroscorps and rage eaters) that should have been actual discardfodder instead.
The team:My role: I largely did the intel and was usually the first one to make guesses as to what our opponents would field. I even attempted to simulate the other participants vault based on the public information, but only got done with making the tool work halfway through war, at which point we just didn't have the time to make the necessary guesswork in retrospect. Quite often I also made suggestions what decks to pick if my guess is on point and half of the time one of those was picked in the end and I took part in the discussion whether it would work or not. Occasionaly I build decks myself too.
worldwideweb: Thanks for picking me! You did an awesome job! I think you finalized most of our decks and were the most active in discussions (giving most of the valuable input too). Occasionally you just knew intuitively which deck to use and even if I disagreed you didnt let me convince you otherwise and turned out to be right! You are the main reason for Team
's best performance yet! At some points you felt more like a teammate than a leader, which may or may not be a good thing.
Odii: Working with you was really nice! It was clear that you are a true war veteran, knowing more about war matters than most. Discussion with you was nice and at each point of it I felt like we were making progress (unless it was clearly just smalltalk which is nice too). Also you occasional came up with awesome hardcounters to some opponents that worked out perfectly
I had fun with both of you
You have reached the endmajofa: Being the only one in a different timezone, as well as some early issues put you off a lot I guess, still I was expecting a bit more given your war history. You'd usually appear for about half an hour each deckbuilding phase right before deadline. I'm sorry, but I don't recall you giving any input that affected our decisions or that we should regret not having taken to heart. You didnt use the possibility of asynchronus communication of Tpad much either and often we had no idea about your whereabouts.
Naesala: Welp, nothing wrong here, she said she wouldnt be online right off the bat and so it was
. I suppose www3 wanted to include his Hotyugh, complete card collection makes things easy and he didn't want to kick her either. Congrats Nae on being part of the best Team
yet
!
