457: Prelims Tournament Statistical Analysis

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Hunter Donaldson

Hobbies, Leisure:games, Leisure, Games

4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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This week we've got Elspeth on the show to dig deep into the details on the 36 Prelims tournament games that we played this year. There's a lot of tasty morsels to learn about and I hope you are ready for the Semi-Finals which begin this weekend! Come the Kansas City Tournament (June 5-7): SCPT Intergalactical Kansas City Come to our Live Comedy Show at Gen Con SCPT @ Helium Indianapolis July 30th at 8PM 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/ Art by Sun Sanders To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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0:00.0	This is Spacecats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.
0:12.5	Episode 457, the 2026 prelim Stats overview.
0:18.2	With music by Ben Prunty, art by son Sanders, produced by Shelton Brister, hosted by Hunter
0:23.4	Donaldson, and featuring Elspeth. then what I'm going to do is I'm going to send you a probably incomprehensible image.
0:51.5	Yes, and you are correct. I do find it incomprehensible. Well, I mean,
0:57.9	no, not all of it. Some of it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, there's just a lot of stuff. But it's cool.
1:03.4	I have the data to talk about like the health of the draft format even. It's going to be great.
1:08.2	Yes. Okay. This is exciting. what's something we could talk about before
1:12.0	we get like into business like how is Seattle uh Seattle's great it's uh finally out of rainy season
1:19.0	uh it is currently pollen season so it looks like it's snowing if you look out my window but it's not
1:23.9	I promise it's just pollen I miss that I you know Portland similar weather situation. And yeah, that was the first time I'd ever seen, like, pollen come down like that, to that extent. Very, very ridiculous. It's actually, like, really kind of rainy and overcast here. I'm wondering if Seattle is that way today today because that's what y'all are famous for.
1:44.7	Nope. It's sunny and beautiful. Miserable. Misery. Well, I would like to say at the top of the show,
1:51.8	before we even really get into anything, that I'm still looking for a place to live in New York City.
1:55.8	And last week, I said that on the show. And somebody actually hit me up to be like, hey, I may have a
2:02.3	spot for you, which sort of felt like the most like, yeah, you're right. Actually, this show does
2:09.1	owe me a place to stay in New York. So I'm actually changing my entire attitude now to if you
2:15.0	listen to this show and you live in New York City and you know about a place
2:18.7	that I could live, you have to hit me up right now. There are a few people that have already
2:23.7	hit me up. So I am in the process of finding out, you know, if certain things are going to work out.
2:28.4	But I am moving to New York City in less than 30 days, supposedly, supposedly I will be moving back to New York in less than 30 days. And I will be moving back to new york in less than 30 days
2:36.8	and uh and i need help i don't know if you know anything about new york city but if you want to do
2:41.9	anything in new york it is a pain in the butt doing anything there is hard and the city does not
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