236: The Prelims are Here

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This coming weekend will conclude the massive 2022 Patreon Tournament Qualifiers. 480 players have competed in 80 games and now those winners will match up against our 136 players who received a bye into the Prelims. So how will those Prelim games differ from the Qualifiers? And more important, how is one expected to WIN one of those confounded games? Well we got answers to BOTH questions today, so lucky you!! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com To learn more about our Discord, Twitter, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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0:00.0	This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.
0:11.4	Episode 236, The Prelims are Here.
0:16.3	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson. Boy, okay. All right. So, Hunter, what was the, what was the, the, the, the final total of people in this tournament was 616?
0:52.3	616 players. Yeah. But boy, howdy, let me tell you,. 616 people.
0:55.2	Yeah. But boy, howdy, let me tell you the number of people I have interacted with
1:00.0	has far exceeded that in terms of...
1:05.0	All right, so here's how it's worked.
1:06.2	We've got...
1:06.6	This coming weekend is the end of the qualifiers.
1:09.6	There are three games remaining.
1:11.3	78, 79, and game 80 are this weekend, which means that we're 480 qualifying players.
1:17.8	Yeah.
1:18.8	There is a not insignificant number of those players that never responded to any.
1:27.4	They signed up and disappeared from the face of the earth.
1:31.7	This is not shade towards those players, but hey, if you sign up for the tournament and you're
1:34.9	listening to this episode and you're like, oh yeah, wait, did I sign up for that tournament?
1:39.1	I'm curious to pick your brain of what happened. Anyways, so a lot of other, the wait list, we kind of like
1:45.7	fully exhausted in terms of waitlisted. It happens every year. It does. I mean, we get through a lot,
1:51.2	but I don't even have like a final, I've got to like get my bookkeeping together because here's
1:56.0	the thing. I was being really diligent about like getting stuff in order throughout the tournament.
2:00.5	And the last two weeks
2:02.0	has been pure chaos in terms of like i'll take who you you can play right now get in there come
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