Episode 7 - The Gaia Project International Tournament

Did you know that the Gaia Project International Tournament just took place? Since the chance was too good not to catch, we invited the organizer, Marco/ZeroCool, to talk with us about how the tournament went, and where his next big tournaments are going; our chat resulted in a very relaxed and special episode, which we hope you’ll enjoy as well. Oh, and we also had to opportunity to ask something to the winner of the tournament… (Sorry for the lack of errata, they will return in the next episode) 02:40 - TOURNAMENT DURATION, PARTICIPANTS, AND TIMING ISSUES 09:14 - TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE: NUMBER OF GAMES, TABLE FORMATION, AND SCORING RATIONALE 13:02 - TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE: GAMES AND FACTION PICKING MECHANISM 14:25 - PROS AND CONS OF AUCTIONS IN TOURNAMENTS (AND NOT) 26:14 - IMPRESSIONS ABOUT FACTION PICKS 31:10 - REPORT FROM THE WINNER OF THE TOURNAMENT 38:45 - INTERESTING DYNAMICS WHICH SHOWED UP IN THIS COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT 45:00 - FUTURE PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE TOURNAMENTS 52:42 - A SHOUTOUT TO A FRIEND IN POLAND Matteo's terrible Itars game (and Marco's super good Taklons one): https://www.boardgamers.space/game/GPIT-Round10-Table1 Matteo's really nice Lantids game (the 3vp/mine adv tile actually gave him "just" 24 points): https://www.boardgamers.space/game/GPIT-TURN4-TABLE1 While you wait for the next episode, come play with us (Molfo and El Temblo) on BGS: https://www.boardgamers.space. Feedback and contact: [email protected] Gaia "Fight Club" Discord server: https://discord.gg/TsNX9epNUp Theme song by Paranoixx: https://www.beatstars.com/titoc06/feed