Ep 056: Tournament Drafting

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It’s Election Day! Which means it’s time to discuss the best way to elect a faction in Twilight Imperium. This episode is focused on our Draft method for the upcoming Patreon Tournament. We outline the system in detail, and discuss the pros and cons to using it. Then it’s a breakdown of how the system works and analyzing the types of decision making we expect players to make when using it. Enjoy! Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com

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0:00.0	This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flight's Twilight Imperium.
0:12.5	Episode 56, Tournament Drafting.
0:16.3	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson.
0:20.4	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson. Um, Hunter. Hunter, it's officially closed.
0:43.6	The submissions for the tournament are over.
0:47.3	Right.
0:48.1	We are sending out messages this week to people to sign up for the tournament
0:52.4	officially based on if you have submitted,
0:54.8	you know, to the Patreon, Patreon, whatever.
0:57.7	Right, yeah, the polls are closed.
1:00.0	The polls are closed, baby.
1:01.3	The polls are closed.
1:03.0	So, yeah, you should have got your vote in today.
1:06.8	We have a lot of work ahead of us, but the first step of that process is really just finalizing how many people are in this tournament and building a structure for the tournament based on that number, right?
1:20.7	I mean, it's kind of hard to say what this is going to look like because this whole time has been dependent on how many people are actually around.
1:30.3	Yeah, that math is going to be fun. Have fun doing that, Matt. That's going to be...
1:33.9	I'm going to probably just make a big point to, like, outsource that to some smarter math people
1:38.6	on the Discord or something because, yeah, I certainly am not equipped to do that on my own but I don't know we
1:45.6	we don't know what it's going to look like yet we're kind of playing that part by ear but there
1:49.1	are parts that we we definitely do know how they're going to work right we're like we've
1:52.9	set a lot of rules and stone even already like through the podcast as we've talked these past few weeks
1:57.5	right right right we've been kind of nailing down different rulings and different, I don't know,
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