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It looks like I'll be hosting IRL Dominion tournaments every three months or so, and alternating between 2P and 3P tournaments. This is the third tournament in my series; attendance at the tournament has been steadily growing, feedback has been mostly positive. Let's keep this thing going!

Join us on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at Game Swap in Mason, OH for an RGG-sanctioned Dominion tournament. This Swiss tournament will consist of mostly 3-player games from all expansions of Dominion. The tournament will start at 1PM, every player is guaranteed at least 4 games in the tournament, with the last match concluding by 7PM.

1065 Reading Rd. / Mason, OH 45040

People who enter the tournament will be given a Dominion Promo card EDIT: I got the promo cards in, I have Walled Villages and Summons. The winner of the tournament will be pre-qualified for the Dominion World National Tournament at GenCon in 2016.

The entry fee will be $5. For each entry into the tournament, $4 will be put into the prize pool. All prizes will be given in store credit. The top three or four players will be given portions of the prize pool (depending on how many people enter the tournament).

If you're planning to attend, contact the tournament moderator Adam Horton (me) at adam@adamhorton.com -- this is not required but can guarantee you a spot in the tournament and it will assist with planning. Feel free to send any questions there as well. You can also just reply to this thread, I'll be following it  :)

If you want to hang out afterwards, there will be the normal game night for the local boardgaming group I'm an admin of. I hope to see lots of you there.
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2015, 01:31:00 pm »
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Incredibly likely I could be there. Huzzah!
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2015, 06:48:40 pm »
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Always on Saturdays with you people!
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2015, 08:33:02 pm »
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Why couldn't you have done these 4 years ago when I lived in Ohio!

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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2015, 10:30:31 am »
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Last tournament was a blast. I highly recommend going. I hope to make it again this time, but we'll see

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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2015, 12:20:28 pm »
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I'll be back  8)

EDIT: I feel the need to point out that I am bringing company (my awesome mom, as usual). But, if it's snowing too badly, we won't be able to make it.
My mom was reading this over my shoulder and made me write that she is 'awesome.' She considers herself a cool mom since she always take me to Dominion tournaments.
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2015, 11:23:03 am »
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I should be able to make it this time.
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2015, 01:01:28 pm »
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I'm considering taking some time off work and driving the ~10 hours from the PA/NJ border to play this thing (just an excuse to do something. If anyone in the general PA/NJ border, or on the way from there to the tournament, and is interested perhaps in carpooling, just let me know (preferably in time to make plans).
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2015, 04:21:20 pm »
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I'm in Canton, OH, which is kinda on the way

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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2015, 07:29:52 pm »
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My brother (and possibly his girlfriend) are coming too!
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2015, 10:20:57 pm »
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Alright, got my vacation from work scheduled and booked my hotel. Definitely (barring cataclysmic events, etc) coming to this tournament.
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2015, 03:27:25 am »
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Saturday :-(

I missed one because of Kings Island too...
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2016, 01:41:11 pm »
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Hotel booked.  Pretty excited :)

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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2016, 10:59:41 am »
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My plan is to drive out on Friday during the day. Is anyone available Friday evening for games; going to eat, the bar, Star Wars, etc? I should be able to be in the area by 7-8pm at the latest if I get out of bed at a reasonable time and leave promptly in the morning. I'm also available Saturday night for whatever; I'm leaving Sunday sometime (presumably related to the checkout time of my hotel).
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2016, 12:18:14 pm »
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Our local gaming group's normal game night will be happening as the tournament closes (it officially starts at 3PM, most people show up around 5PM when the first eliminations happen from the tournament, there is still time after the tournament ends at 7PM to play games) -- I'll be sticking around to play some games and hopefully hang out with F.DS people. I usually want to play Dominion because I've been watching it all day and I don't get to play, and nobody wants to play with me because they've been playing all day. It's awesome :P

The store officially closes at 9PM but usually stays open later (and there are some people that host games at their house afterward if they do close at 9PM).

As for Friday, I can't help much there, I'll be spending that evening making final preparations for the tournament which you guys aren't allowed to see. If you're looking for a location I can put feelers out and see what comes up, and worst-case you can always meet at Game Swap. There are a ton of people there for Friday Night Magic but there is so much table space that you should still have a place to play.
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2016, 12:20:00 pm »
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I'd play more Dominion with Adam. If we get two others we can play four player Base Dominion, so I'll keep my fingers crossed!
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2016, 03:33:47 pm »
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Oh yeah, I re-read the OP and it said I hadn't confirmed Promo cards. I have the promo cards now, I have Walled Villages and Summons.

Edit: oh yeah, and here's some stuff for reference:

3P format and rules

2P format and rules (for other tournaments)
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2016, 12:41:39 pm »
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Another update: I can expand the capacity of the tournament to up to 35 people if needed. This takes pretty much all of the fear of being over capacity away. Looks like F.DS will be reasonably well-represented as well, I know of seven people from F.DS that plan on coming.
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2016, 02:43:13 pm »
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One thing not mentioned explicitly in the rules: round length. Is there a round clock, and if so, what happens when it runs out?

Your local Dominion scene can put up ~25 players? Man, must be nice.
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2016, 02:53:04 pm »
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Another update: I can expand the capacity of the tournament to up to 35 people if needed. This takes pretty much all of the fear of being over capacity away. Looks like F.DS will be reasonably well-represented as well, I know of seven people from F.DS that plan on coming.

Don't you think 36 players might be better?
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2016, 03:13:09 pm »
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One thing not mentioned explicitly in the rules: round length. Is there a round clock, and if so, what happens when it runs out?

Your local Dominion scene can put up ~25 players? Man, must be nice.

I usually do a cap of 45 minutes on each game -- if the game isn't over by that time, we play until everybody has had the same number of turns and then end the game there (unless the game ends naturally first). I should say that I haven't had this happen yet -- at one point I was about to call time and the game ended anyways. The idea is to have the Swiss rounds last until 5PM, then everyone who doesn't advance is dismissed at around the same time as people are coming in for the regular board game night (and at that point I'm not taking up so many tables).

This venue can comfortably hold 100 people, it's really nice to have this place around, since all of the other people I've talked to who have put IRL tournaments together tell me their biggest constraint is table space. It's nice to have different problems than them :P Usually half of the store is taken up by MtG events anyways.

Another update: I can expand the capacity of the tournament to up to 35 people if needed. This takes pretty much all of the fear of being over capacity away. Looks like F.DS will be reasonably well-represented as well, I know of seven people from F.DS that plan on coming.

Don't you think 36 players might be better?

Of course this would be better, but the thing constraining how big the tournament can be at this point is the number of supply card sets I have access to (Province, Duchy, Estate, Curse, Copper, Silver, Gold). I have 11 of these sets available (9 games of 3 players and 2 games of 4 players, that's where the number 35 comes from), this is the most I can do within the format. My guess is we'll have 20-30 people there, and I'd be really surprised if we went above 35 so I'm not planning for any more than that to show up.

If the tournaments got bigger, of course I could buy more sets of the Base cards. They're not prohibitively expensive, but I don't have a need to do that at this point. I can't wait for the day where the competitive Dominion scene has grown so much that I need more base card sets, I hope that's my next tournament (it's a 2P tournament, which requires more base card sets for the same number of people).
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2016, 01:51:32 pm »
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Hmm, are there still openings for this?
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Re: 3P tournament. Cincinnati, OH, Sat. Jan. 30, 2016, 1PM. All expansions.
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2016, 02:02:12 pm »
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Hmm, are there still openings for this?

Yeah! I'm still prepared to take more people. Do you think you can make it?
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« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2016, 05:25:34 pm »
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Workin on it! I should know by tomorrow.
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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2016, 06:39:56 pm »
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I will be there!  Reading the match reports of the U-Con tourney got me excited to play some live tournament Dominion.  And if I'm going to get crushed by superior players, I might as well make a trip out of it. ;D
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