401: Road to the Finals 2025

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Another year, Another SCPT Twilight Imperium Finals! In this episode Matt and Hunter split up to interview the finalists right ahead of the big game. This is a great crop of players for our final game of the POK tournament era. Special thanks to our finalists dzhiriki Bannerspear tang catoftheyear and El Blasto! Please come watch the game LIVE over on twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles on May the 4th starting at 14:00 UTC! It's gonna be a fun one! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/ To learn more about our Discord, 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 Flight's Twilight Imperium.
0:13.0	Episode 401, The Road to the Finals.
0:17.1	2025.
0:18.3	With music by Ben Prunty.
0:20.3	Art by Sun Sanders. Produced by Sheltonunty. Art by Sun Sanders.
0:22.1	Produced by Shelton Brister.
0:24.2	Co-hosted by Matt and Hunter. It's weird to have a momentous occasion right after a momentous occasion, don't you think?
0:51.0	Isn't it crazy to like just go one and then one and then and then next week's
0:54.7	episode will be like after the finals? It'll also kind of feel like a momentous occasion. Like this is just too busy of a month. May, April into May is crazy. It's Space Cats Peacertles golden week over here. All right. Every day's a holiday. Every day's a festival. Okay. For a little while. And then we're going to get through with the finals, which give me the date on the finals. Give me the time of the finals. May 4th at 1400. UTC. That's 9 a.m. Central Daylight time. That's 7 a.m. for our western most competitor, Tang, and that is 14 plus, is 14 to 17 minus 12.
1:34.8	It's 5. 5 p.m. for our easternly most players in the finals. So that's the range we're always playing with in the finals here.
1:44.4	It's always the worst during the finals because there's no room, there's no wiggle room,
1:49.0	which is why basically the games always are on a Saturday or Sunday at 9 or 10 a.m. our time,
1:53.8	because that's when it works.
1:55.7	It would be a lot better for everybody if Europe got less good at the game.
2:03.9	And then we could just have just a regular everybody wake up get out of bed have you know bacon and egg honestly if if the californians could be
2:11.2	less good at the game it would help too you know what i mean like if it was just central and eastern
2:15.8	time like that we could make even that work.
2:18.7	Yeah.
2:19.1	Yeah.
2:19.7	I mean, I think it'd be cool if it was just people that live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2:27.3	Oh, yeah, yeah.
2:27.7	Yeah, yeah.
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