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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Announcing Matches/Streams
« on: January 15, 2018, 10:20:26 pm »
Will be playing ehunt this Wednesday at 8:30 PM US Eastern time (1:30 UTC 18 January).
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The more I read the worse I get?
« on: January 08, 2018, 05:08:26 am »
This is going to be three short, sort of unrelated things from this thread all pushed together into one post, and I'm doing a card list for you all, so you can get used to hearing from me for 10 days or so.
This is my first post here outside of tournaments in over 6 months, while in the past 6 months I have posted over 1700 times in the strategy focused sections of the Dominion discord. Somehow the discord seems both more serious and more friendly, and it is probably mostly because of the attitudes here as O mentioned. Also in the strategy sections of discord and here, in the last 3 days discord has had more unique posters (and more posts, but that is format driven) - I am not alone.
The main reason discussions here are so unproductive and repetitive is that people don't give reasons or examples as evidence. Preaching bores people and they don't take anything away from it so they repeat a similar question and get preached at again. The forum should embrace what discord can't do, and that is well thought out longer posts. Getting rid of the upvote system which rewards low effort posts that people outside this forum likely get put off by would be a small step in that direction I think, and a little bit of self-moderation by posters would be the much larger one. Or going all out make a word minimum of at least 20, but really a little bit of self-moderation should be enough.
As for the original topic of this thread, articles are quite bad at teaching you how to play good Dominion. What a good article does is it establishes the author's framework for thinking about Dominion to the reader and makes some mentions of little things that might be helpful (Titandrake is quite good at this). In a huge number of low stress games (bots are kind of useful here), the reader needs to develop their own framework that isn't just "do what the articles say," otherwise they will get worse because they are going to have a bunch of conflicting messages from different authors because the authors think differently. Incorporating the little things into something they already have and is familiar to them is much easier than needing to think about each little thing independently.
This is my first post here outside of tournaments in over 6 months, while in the past 6 months I have posted over 1700 times in the strategy focused sections of the Dominion discord. Somehow the discord seems both more serious and more friendly, and it is probably mostly because of the attitudes here as O mentioned. Also in the strategy sections of discord and here, in the last 3 days discord has had more unique posters (and more posts, but that is format driven) - I am not alone.
The main reason discussions here are so unproductive and repetitive is that people don't give reasons or examples as evidence. Preaching bores people and they don't take anything away from it so they repeat a similar question and get preached at again. The forum should embrace what discord can't do, and that is well thought out longer posts. Getting rid of the upvote system which rewards low effort posts that people outside this forum likely get put off by would be a small step in that direction I think, and a little bit of self-moderation by posters would be the much larger one. Or going all out make a word minimum of at least 20, but really a little bit of self-moderation should be enough.
As for the original topic of this thread, articles are quite bad at teaching you how to play good Dominion. What a good article does is it establishes the author's framework for thinking about Dominion to the reader and makes some mentions of little things that might be helpful (Titandrake is quite good at this). In a huge number of low stress games (bots are kind of useful here), the reader needs to develop their own framework that isn't just "do what the articles say," otherwise they will get worse because they are going to have a bunch of conflicting messages from different authors because the authors think differently. Incorporating the little things into something they already have and is familiar to them is much easier than needing to think about each little thing independently.
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Announcing Matches/Streams
« on: January 07, 2018, 03:36:05 pm »
I will be playing my match against E.Honda this upcoming Tuesday at 20 UTC.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: January 05, 2018, 04:22:46 pm »
Congratulations to tufftaeh who defeated SamE 3.5 - 2.5 in the championship match.
Recording of match (by Sicomatic) with commentary by Sicomatic and Sums:
Recording of match (by Sicomatic) with commentary by Sicomatic and Sums:
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Results
« on: January 03, 2018, 06:25:25 pm »
B1:
tracer 3.5 - 2.5 Gazbag
tracer 3.5 - 2.5 Gazbag
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Announcing Matches/Streams
« on: January 02, 2018, 05:42:18 pm »
I will be playing Gazbag tomorrow (3 January) at 22 UTC.
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Results
« on: December 22, 2017, 01:35:02 am »
B1
tracer 3 - 3 PerryGreen
tracer 3 - 3 PerryGreen
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 21, 2017, 06:50:07 pm »
And that brings us to the finals.
First Place: SamE v. tufftaeh
Upper: aku chi v. Seprix
Lower: amoffett11 v. xyrix
With the holidays coming up in the next week, I am fine with these finishing in early January, but sooner is also fine.
First Place: SamE v. tufftaeh
Upper: aku chi v. Seprix
Lower: amoffett11 v. xyrix
With the holidays coming up in the next week, I am fine with these finishing in early January, but sooner is also fine.
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Announcing Matches/Streams
« on: December 19, 2017, 11:58:12 pm »
I will be playing PerryGreen this upcoming Thursday at 9 PM US Pacific time (5 UTC 22 December).
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 17, 2017, 12:49:33 am »But buttt where are the Streams, must watch.. Need to know how it ends.....
I don't know about recordings - this is a casual tournament so I'm not putting anything together - but all but one or two of the matches for this tournament have been announced on discord (as linked in the opening post) to watch live, and the finals (all of them) certainly will be as well.
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Results
« on: December 17, 2017, 12:41:02 am »
B1
tracer 6 - 0 SSLY
tracer 6 - 0 SSLY
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 13, 2017, 12:22:06 am »
The quarterfinal round is complete. Semifinal matches are posted below.
First Place
SamE v. Anders
tufftaeh v. Awaclus
Upper
Chris is me v. aku chi
Seprix v. vsiewnar
Lower
amoffett v. Lekkit
xyrix v. jakey
Please have these matches completed by the end of Wednesday, December 20.
First Place
SamE v. Anders
tufftaeh v. Awaclus
Upper
Chris is me v. aku chi
Seprix v. vsiewnar
Lower
amoffett v. Lekkit
xyrix v. jakey
Please have these matches completed by the end of Wednesday, December 20.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 13, 2017, 12:19:19 am »
drsteelhammer has forfeited to tufftaeh
CookieLord has been unable to be reached for scheduling, so I am advancing xyrix to the next round.
CookieLord has been unable to be reached for scheduling, so I am advancing xyrix to the next round.
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Announcing Matches/Streams
« on: December 10, 2017, 07:13:16 pm »
I will be playing SSLY next Saturday at 11 PM US Eastern time (4 UTC 17 December).
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 05, 2017, 08:04:08 pm »
Anders 4 - 2 tracer
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 05, 2017, 05:07:43 pm »
Matches to be played for the elimination stage quarterfinals (full brackets are linked here and in the second post):
First Place
markus v. SamE
Anders v. tracer
drsteelhammer v. tufftaeh
RTT v. Awaclus
Upper
markusin v. Chris is me
Gazbag v. aku chi
Seprix v. gloures
vsiewnar v. mglagrla
Lower
amoffet11 has a bye
Lekkit v. CPiGuy
CookieLord v. xyrix
jakey v. wharf_rat
You are free to play these matches. Please have them done by the end of Wednesday, December 13.
As always, have fun.
First Place
markus v. SamE
Anders v. tracer
drsteelhammer v. tufftaeh
RTT v. Awaclus
Upper
markusin v. Chris is me
Gazbag v. aku chi
Seprix v. gloures
vsiewnar v. mglagrla
Lower
amoffet11 has a bye
Lekkit v. CPiGuy
CookieLord v. xyrix
jakey v. wharf_rat
You are free to play these matches. Please have them done by the end of Wednesday, December 13.
As always, have fun.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 05, 2017, 04:58:33 pm »
Huevos Locos has not responded to scheduling requests from their opponents and it is within 24 hours of a reasonable time to start sleeping for one such opponent before the deadline, so I will disqualify Huevos Locos.
This completes the group stage of the tournament.
This completes the group stage of the tournament.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: December 01, 2017, 05:38:00 pm »
drsteelhammer 3 - 3 gloures with drsteelhammer winning tiebreaking game happened during the forum outage and was reported on discord.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: November 29, 2017, 09:29:42 pm »
tracer 6 - 0 CPiGuy
9185027 Dark Ages
9185524 Base
9185820 Corn/Guilds
9186201 Prosperity
9186480 Adventures
9186774 Seaside
9185027 Dark Ages
9185524 Base
9185820 Corn/Guilds
9186201 Prosperity
9186480 Adventures
9186774 Seaside
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: November 28, 2017, 06:48:59 pm »
tracer 4 -2 Gazbag
9148618 Hinterlands t
9149136 Adventures t
9149585 Prosperity t
9150164 Empires t
9150728 Corn/Guilds G
9151234 Base G
9148618 Hinterlands t
9149136 Adventures t
9149585 Prosperity t
9150164 Empires t
9150728 Corn/Guilds G
9151234 Base G
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Dominion League / Re: Season 25 - Signups
« on: November 26, 2017, 05:59:06 pm »
Returning. Let's see if I can mess up your B division counts.
tracer
America/Los_Angeles
Season 21 - 5th in A
tracer
America/Los_Angeles
Season 21 - 5th in A
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: November 26, 2017, 04:52:06 pm »You wrote in the OP that the second player chooses the expansion, other than Nocturne, from which cards are selected. But we have to pick the Kingdom cards first, start the game, and then the client decides who's going first at random. So how does this work?
I believe the advanced settings on the client allow you to choose player order.
Indeed, this is the case. However, I forgot to specify what to do about the first game, so have added a piece on that.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: November 25, 2017, 11:57:35 pm »
Second post has been updated with the groups.
Be sure to schedule and play matches against both of the other players in your group by the end of Wednesday, December 6th.
In that post I have made each player's Shuffle iT username link to the form for sending them a private message on this forum to schedule if that is the desired method for you.
Have fun!
Be sure to schedule and play matches against both of the other players in your group by the end of Wednesday, December 6th.
In that post I have made each player's Shuffle iT username link to the form for sending them a private message on this forum to schedule if that is the desired method for you.
Have fun!
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: November 22, 2017, 12:59:04 am »
Okay so I have 21 guaranteed spots - it would be really nice to get 3 more by Saturday to make it 24, so I will try to get that to happen.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: Noctournament (Dualset)
« on: November 19, 2017, 02:26:24 pm »
Oh I guess I should do a formal sign up