The Road to Worlds 2013, Week 14 (part II)

by James Hoskin, Director of Organized Play

4th July 2013

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The Road to Worlds 2013, Week 14 began in part I.

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First Edition Deck Statistics

With two results outstanding, the total players at 21 (last year:23) First Edition Regional Championships was 140 (last year:141) - an average of 6.7 (last year:6.1) players per tournament.

The most popular First Edition affiliations were:
1.	Federation	Used by 32 (23%) players	4 Regional wins
2.	Ferengi	Used by 18 (13%) players	6 Regional wins
3.	Klingon	Used by 17 (12%) players	4 Regional wins
4.	Romulan	Used by 15 (11%) players	1 Regional win
5.	Borg	Used by 12 (9%) players	1 Regional win
6.	Vidiian	Used by 9 (6%) players	1 Regional win
7.	Hirogen	Used by 8 (6%) players
8.	Dual Affiliations	Used by 6 (4%) players
9.	Non-Aligned	Used by 5 (4%) players
9.	Bajoran	Used by 5 (4%) players	3 Regional wins
9.	Cardassian	Used by 5 (4%) players	1 Regional win
12.	Unknown?	Used by 3 (2%) players
13.	Dominion	Used by 2 (1%) players
14.	Starfleet	Used by 1 (1%) player
14.	Kazon	Used by 1 (1%) player
14.	Klingon/Cardassian Alliance	Used by 1 (1%) player

Note: These affiliations were manually tracked by looking through all the results.

The best performing First Edition affiliations were:
1.	Vidiian	Averaging 11.6 victory points, up from 9.0 last year
2.	Bajoran	Averaging 11.3 victory points, up from 9.8 last year
3.	Ferengi	Averaging 9.9 victory points, up from 9.0 last year
4.	Klingon	Averaging 9.2 victory points, up from 8.8 last year
5.	Cardassian	Averaging 9.0 victory points, up from 8.2 last year
6.	Borg	Averaging 8.9 victory points, up from 7.2 last year
7.	Federation	Averaging 8.8 victory points, up from 8.5 last year
8.	Romulan	Averaging 8.7 victory points, up from 8.6 last year
9.	Non-Aligned	Averaging 8.4 victory points, up from 7.2 last year
10.	Dominion	Averaging 8.0 victory points, not played last year
11.	Hirogen	Averaging 7.6 victory points, down from 10.0 last year
12.	Kazon	Averaging 7.0 victory points, not played last year
12.	Klingon/Cardassian Alliance	Averaging 7.0 victory points, no change from last year
14.	Starfleet	Averaging 6.0 victory points, down from 9.8 last year

Note: These affiliations were auto-tracked by the deck builder, so there are slight discrepancies to the "most popular" table above.
Multi-affiliation decks count towards both affiliations in this table.

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Second Edition Deck Statistics

With all results entered, the total players at 35 (last year:35) Second Edition Regional Championships was 274 (last year:270) - an average of 7.8 (last year:7.7) players per tournament.

The most popular Second Edition affiliations
1.	Next Generation	Used by 33 (12%) players	2 Regional wins
2.	Klingon	Used by 30 (11%) players	9 Regional wins
3.	Starfleet	Used by 22 (8%) players	4 Regional wins
4.	Borg	Used by 21 (8%) players	5 Regional wins
5.	Original Series	Used by 19 (7%) players
5.	Relativity	Used by 19 (7%) players	1 Regional win
7.	Dominion	Used by 18 (7%) players	3 Regional wins
8.	Unknown?	Used by 16 (6%) players
9.	Cardassian	Used by 13 (5%) players	1 Regional win
10.	Deep Space 9	Used by 12 (4%) players	3 Regional wins
10.	Voyager/Equinox	Used by 12 (4%) players
12.	Earth Space 9	Used by 9 (3%) players	1 Regional win
12.	Romulan	Used by 9 (3%) players	1 Regional win
12.	Terok Nor	Used by 9 (3%) players
15.	Bajoran	Used by 7 (3%) players	1 Regional win
15.	Maquis	Used by 7 (3%) players	2 Regional wins
17.	Non-Aligned	Used by 6 (2%) players	1 Regional win
18.	Dual Affiliations	Used by 5 (2%) players
19.	Ferengi	Used by 4 (2%) players	1 Regional win
20.	Triple Affiliations	Used by 1 (1%) player

Note: These affiliations were manually tracked by looking through all the results.

The best performing Second Edition affiliations were:
1.	Relativity	Averaging 12.6 victory points, not played last year
2.	Klingon	Averaging 11.9 victory points, up from 11.2 last year
2.	Maquis	Averaging 11.9 victory points, up from 10.0 last year
4.	Bajoran	Averaging 11.6 victory points, down from 12.6 last year
4.	Borg	Averaging 11.6 victory points, down from 11.7 last year
4.	Starfleet	Averaging 11.6 victory points, up from 10.3 last year
7.	Dominion	Averaging 10.9 victory points, up from 9.8 last year
8.	Original Series	Averaging 10.8 victory points, down from 11.2 last year
9.	Deep Space 9	Averaging 10.7 victory points, up from 10.0 last year
9.	Earth Space 9	Averaging 10.7 victory points, down from 12.2 last year
9.	Romulan	Averaging 10.7 victory points, down from 11.1 last year
12.	Next Generation	Averaging 10.6 victory points, down from 10.8 last year
13.	Cardassian	Averaging 9.7 victory points, down from 11.1 last year
14.	Ferengi	Averaging 9.4 victory points, down from 10.8 last year
15.	Non-Aligned	Averaging 9.3 victory points, up from 8.7 last year
16.	Voyager/Equinox	Averaging 9.2 victory points, down from 12.2 last year
17.	Terok Nor	Averaging 8.7 victory points, down from 10.5 last year

Note: These affiliations were auto-tracked by the deck builder, so there are slight discrepancies to the "most popular" table above.
Multi-affiliation decks count towards both affiliations in this table.

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Tribbles Deck Statistics

With all results entered, the total players at 22 (last year:22) Tribbles Regional Championships was 146 (last year:143) - an average of 6.6 (last year:6.5) players per tournament. Excluding preliminary heats, a total of 44,968,185 (last year:41,020,147) Tribbles have been scored - an average of 2,044,008 (last year:1,864,552) Tribbles per tournament or an average of 308,001 (last year:286,854) Tribbles per player.

The most popular Tribbles powers in each deck are:
1.	Unknown?	Used by 36 (25%) players	5 Regional wins
2.	Go	Used by 27 (19%) players	5 Regional wins
3.	IDIC	Used by 9 (6%) players
4.	Clone	Used by 8 (6%) players
4.	Discard	Used by 8 (6%) players	2 Regional wins
4.	Poison	Used by 8 (6%) players	2 Regional wins
7.	Bonus	Used by 7 (5%) players	3 Regional wins
8.	Battle	Used by 5 (3%) players
8.	Utilize	Used by 5 (3%) players
10.	Rescue	Used by 4 (3%) players
11.	Freeze	Used by 2 (1%) players	1 Regional win
11.	Replay	Used by 2 (1%) players
11.	Battle/Score	Used by 2 (1%) players
11.	Assimilate/Poison/Score	Used by 2 (1%) players
15.	Copy	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Draw	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Recycle	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Replicate	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Scan	Used by 1 (1%) player	1 Regional win
15.	Skip	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Toxin	Used by 1 (1%) player	1 Regional win
15.	BaH!/Qapla'	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Battle/Go	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Clone/Go	Used by 1 (1%) player	1 Regional win
15.	Clone/Replay	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Discard/Go	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Discard/Rescue	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Go/Masaka	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Go/Rescue	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Go/Scan	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Poison/Rescue	Used by 1 (1%) player	1 Regional win
15.	Reverse/Skip	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Scan/Utilize	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Toxin/Utilize	Used by 1 (1%) player
15.	Bonus/Reverse/Skip	Used by 1 (1%) player

Note: These affiliations were manually tracked by looking through all the results.

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Predictions

James	Kris	Interviewees
26/77 (33.8%)	26/77* (33.8%)	26/77 (33.8%)

2013 Prediction Accuracy

A dramatic final week saw me claw back the advantage Kris and the Interviewees had over me. Last week's interviewee, Matthew Ting (Wedge772), got two of his seven predictions correct, as did Kris. I managed four correct predictions though, so we all ended up with the same final score. As we need a tiebreaker in these situations, I'm going to use the unsanctioned Second Edition Regional in Dessau, Germany as the tiebreaker. Kris correctly predicted the winner that week, while neither I nor the interviewee could. Kris gets the asterisk, and the win. Congratulations Kris!

Past Interviewee Prediction Accuracy
2012, Week 10	Sean O'Reilly (Jono)	7/7 (100%)
2013, Week 6	Matthew Frid (bandana8472)	1/1 (100%)
2012, Week 12	Matthew Frid (bandana8472)	1/1 (100%)
2012, Week 13	Tobias Rausmann (garetjax)	2/3 (66.7%)
2012, Week 6 (b)	Tyler Fultz (DJstormtrooper)	7/12 (58.3%)
2013, Week 2	Nat Kirton (Nate Jeezy)	3/6 (50.0%)
2013, Week 7	Johnny Holeva (jjh)	4/9 (44.4%)
2013, Week 1	Sean O'Reilly (Jono)	4/9 (44.4%)
2012, Week 7	Matthew Hayes (karonofborg13)	3/7 (42.9%)
2012, Week 3	Ben Hosp (bhosp)	2/5 (40.0%)
2013, Week 3	Matt Kirk (CaptMDKirk)	3/8 (37.5%)
2013, Week 11	Cristoffer Wiker (Smiley)	1/3 (33.3%)
2013, Week 9	Steve Hartmann (chompers)	2/7 (28.6%)
2013, Week 13	Matthew Ting (Wedge772)	2/7 (28.6%)
2013, Week 12	Rem Boon (Boon of Bolian)	1/4 (25.0%)
2013, Week 5	Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser)	1/4 (25.0%)
2013, Week 8	Chris Lobban (Maelwys)	2/9 (22.2%)
2013, Week 10	Jon Carter (pfti)	1/5 (20.0%)
2013, Week 4	Soren Ramme Nielsen (s_ramme)	1/5 (20.0%)
2012, Week 5	Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot)	3/16 (18.8%)
2012, Week 6 (a)	Jim Sharp (jss_hobbie)	2/11 (18.2%)
2012, Week 4	Shane Brierley (Shanebrier)	1/8 (12.5%)
2012, Week 1	Will Hoskin (Gumbo)	0/3 (0%)
2012, Week 2	Kenneth Tufts (Worf Son of Mogh)	0/4 (0%)
2012, Week 9	Al Schaefer (ltkettch17)	0/6 (0%)
2012, Week 11	Mike Nugent (Iron Mike)	0/7 (0%)

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2013 Regional Championship Awards

Now that Regional Championship season is over for another year, it is time to highlight some individual stories that you may have missed over the last three months. They take the form of awards...

The "Mark of Gideon" award for highest Regional attendance
18 players participated in the Second Edition Regional in Roseville, Minnesota organized by Jeremy Benedict (flrazor). 15 players took part in the Tribbles Regional in Glen Ellyn, Illinois organized by Michael Moskop (Comicbookhero). The two largest First Edition Regionals both attracted ten players: Glen Ellyn, Illinois organized by Corbin Johnson (Corbinq27); and London, United Kingdom, organized by James Hoskin (RedDwarf).

The "Breeder" award for most Tribbles scored
Chris Volk (volkerii) wins this award for scoring 1,300,534 Tribbles at the Regional in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Chris also won two more Tribbles Regionals this year with the exact same deck.

The "Achievement Whore" award for most Achievements earned
Kris Sonsteby (LORE) wins this award for earning no fewer than 13 achievements from a First Edition Regional in Woodbury, Minnesota. The highest total number of achievements earned was 46 at the Second Edition Regional in Roseville, Minnesota. As a group, the five players at the First Edition Regional in Dessau, Germany averaged 5.6 achievements each - the highest of any Regional this year.

The "Mag-Lev" award for biggest ratings gain
Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) wins this award for picking up 80 ratings points at the Second Edition Regional in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Charlie Plaine (MidnightLich) and Eric Bieche (biecheer) were nominated for earning 78 ratings points. They get to sit in the audience and smile as Michael takes the award.

The "Tsunkatse" award for toughest competition
Based on the highest average rating among all participants, the Second Edition Regional in Abingdon, Maryland was statistically the hardest Regional to win. The participants there had an average rating of 1761. The hardest First Edition Regional to win was in Dessau, Germany, where the players had an average rating of 1582.

The "I like to break the page formatting" award for longest deck title
Mike Nugent (Iron Mike) wins this award with a deck title comprising 135 characters: "This is a dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged China, and who, we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged Osman's Sporting Goods.". Given that he had the three longest deck titles last year, it may surprise you to learn that Matthew Hayes (karonofborg13) only had the sixth longest deck title. As with last year, the average length of a deck title was 27 characters.

The "Brevity" award for shortest deck title
Avery Matteson (averybean) wins this award with a Tribbles deck title consisting of just three characters: "LOL". Avery sneaked in for this award in the final week of the Regional season. Otherwise the award would have been split between four players, each with a four character deck title. The most common length of a deck title was 15 characters, used for 23 decks.

The "Quark's Treasure" award for playing in the most Regionals
Matthew Hayes (karonofborg13) wins this award for playing in no fewer than twelve Regionals this year. That comprises five Second Edition Regionals, four Tribbles Regionals and three First Edition Regionals. Honorable mentions go to Justin Kaufman (CrimsonRavage), who played in nine Regionals; and Matt Kirk (CaptMDKirk), Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) and Chris Volk (volkerii), who each attended eight Regionals.

The "Jake Sisko" award for best Blog
Kevin Jaeger (Hoss-Drone) wins this award for the second year running for his "2013 Regionals Meta Shakedown" series. In-between tales about the weather and home improvement, Kevin analysed the top Second Edition decks played throughout the whole Regional season, and initiated discussion among players on the hot topic of the week.

The "A-Team" award for winning a tournament with a deck built from other decks
Danny Nuttall (nuttersuclan) wins this award for turning up to the First Edition London, United Kingdom Regional with a deck that was missing a large percentage of seed cards. Fortunately, he had eight other decks with him and was able to cannibalise them. He then went on to win the tournament. I bet he loves it when a good plan comes together!

And the final award...
The "Will Riker" award for best all-round performance
Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) wins this award, as he is the only player to have won a First Edition, Second Edition and Tribbles Regional this year. He truly is Number One.

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to everyone who has contributed to these articles. To anyone who entered a deck list and/or a tournament report, otherwise reporting the results would be much tougher. To anyone who uploaded photos, who helped add a touch of color to the articles. To all the interviewees, for helping me pad the article with text I didn't have to write. To anyone who pointed out errors, who helped keep the articles accurate. To anyone who sent me hate mail regarding one of my predictions, for keeping my inner-fire burning. To anyone who thought about sending me fan mail but didn't, because that would just embarrass me. To Kris Sonsteby, for contributing predictions and keeping me sane for the past three months. Thank you all.

Lastly, I'd like to thank every one of you who read these articles. I'm glad I can help keep you up-to-date with what's going on during Regional season. I'm also happy to provide you with some reading material to help you skive off work!

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All Good Things...

It is with regret that I announce that I will not be writing The Road to Worlds series next year. The number of Regionals sanctioned by the Continuing Committee has grown substantially in the last few years. While that is a good thing in many ways, it has increased the size and complexity of these articles so much so that they are taking over my life. When I started this series four years ago, each article only took me a couple of hours to write. This year, each article has taken me the best part of a day to write. Many took longer, and some took close to two full days to write.

The Road to Worlds may return next year. Albeit with another writer, or a team of writers, or in a different format. If you're interested in writing for the Continuing Committee website I encourage you to contact the writing team manager J (The Mad Vulcan).

One final statistic to leave you with: this year's Road to Worlds article series comprised over 92,000 words in total. That is the equivalent of a novel.

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