Worlds 2019 Informations #4 - Four days of Trek insanity INCLUDING DETAILS

by Julius Melhardt, European OP Coordinator

15th May 2019

Hello to everyone!

Today I would like to give you a more detailed schedule for the upcoming big event in Vienna this August, also known as Worlds 2019. Please not that we haven’t changed anything with the schedule itself (https://www.trekcc.org/articles/index.php?viewArticle=2476), this topic should inform you about the format played.

Thursday, August 8^th 2019

• 10:30 am: “Best of Both Worlds”: as mentioned before this tournament will force you to play a game of 1E and 2E Constructed against the same opponent. There will be 3 of this “double-rounds” (so a total of 6 rounds). 1E will be an OTF Constructed, 2E a Constructed Standard. After pairings are made the TD will decide which game has to be played first for each pairing separately by making a coin flip. Then you’ll have 2 ½ hours to play BOTH games. You won’t get any extra time for cleaning the table after your first game. The defeated player of the first game can choose who goes first in the second game. Victory points are accumulated in the normal way. There won’t be a BYE.
• 10:30 am: 1E Open Sealed: 3 rounds Swiss, a standard Sealed event with boosters we have at hand, no Errata. Fixed cards (pre-constructed starters, Starter Deck II fixed cards, OTSD fixed cards,…) will be provided by the TD (and must be returned after the tournament). Please bring your own sleeves along to use them. Depending on the used Boosters an additional fee might be possible. Could be played as a draft – attendee’s decision.
• 10:30 am: 2E Infinite Diversity Draft: 3 rounds Swiss, material will be provided by the TD completely.
• 02:30 pm: 2E “Hall of Fame” Constructed: 4 rounds Swiss, standard rules for Hall of Fame events including the current Ban list.
• 04:00 pm: 1E Virtual OTF Constructed: 3 rounds Swiss, standard rule for 1E Virtual OTF.
• 08:30 pm: 2E Biermeister: 3 rounds Constructed Standard Swiss, for each Victory point you score you’ll have to drink a small beer (0.3 litres) or another drink with similar alcohol percentage (what drinks are legal will be decided by the TD before the tournament starts). Already drunken beverages before this event do not count toward winning. After the last round you’ll have 30 more minutes to finish all the required liquids, all players who did not finish all of them by then will be disqualified. You can drink whenever you want to, each consumed drink will be noted on your scorecard.

Friday, August 9^th 2019

• 10:00 am: 1E OTF Constructed – Worlds 2019 Day 1: 5 rounds Swiss, standard OTF rules, Deck-list required.
• 10:00 am: 2E WCT Champions League Tournament: Single elimination, you need a minimum of 50 lifetime WCT league points to attend. Players will be seeded according to their lifetime WCT league points – winner will receive a Round Two Bye for 2E Worlds Day 1.
• 01:30 pm: 2E Random Deck Constructed: 4 rounds Swiss, the Austrian way of playing deck lottery. In rounds 1 and 3 you’ll play with your own deck, in rounds 2 and 4 each players will receive a randomly chosen deck from another player (you cannot get the same deck twice). Before rounds 2 and 4 all players will get 15 minutes to get used to the new deck. Afterwards the decks have to be returned to their owner and should be checked by the owner. Deck-list required.
• 06:30 pm: Tribbles Constructed Standard – Worlds 2019: 2 rounds standard, Deck-list required.
• 09:00 pm: 1E Biermeister: 3 rounds Swiss, drinking will be included to this game not using Victory Points like in the 2E Biermeister, there will be a special card designed by the European OP coordinator just for this events giving you great stuff with drinking as a cost. There will be a list of “legal” beverages as well.

Saturday, August 10^th 2019

• 10:00 am: 2E Constructed Standard – Worlds 2019 Day 1: 7 rounds Swiss, Deck-list required
• 10:00 am: 1E Reflections Sealed Open: Starter Deck II fixed cards will be provided by the TD. Each participant will get one Display (30 Boosters) of Reflections and then have two hours to unpack them and build a deck. Please use your own sleeves for this event. No Errata, cards can do what they are printed to do. If you have any sealed Reflection Displays at home, please bring them along. If you come from a country far, far away, declare them as “gift” at customs if necessary. There will be an additional fee. (Note: If someone manages to build a useful Borg deck, that person will be my personal hero for the rest of the weekend)
• 04:00 pm: 1E “Aberdeen Anarchy”: “The Sound of Sexecution”
• 08:30 pm: 2E Excelsior Constructed: 3 rounds Swiss, standard Excelsior rules and restrictions.
• 08:30 pm: 1E OTF Constructed – Worlds 2019 Day 2: Depending on number of players on Day 1 we will have a top 4 or a top 8 single elimination bracket, Deck-list required

Sunday, August 11^th 2019

• 09:00 am: 2E Constructed Standard – Worlds 2019 Day 2: Double Elimination bracket. Top 8 of Day 1. Short summary for the bracket: You play as long as you haven’t lost 2 games, everyone is out after losing their second game. This continues until only one player remains to be the newest World Champion of STCCG, Deck-list required
• 09:00 am: 1E Pre-Release or Release Sealed: 3 rounds Swiss, depends on a new expansion…
• 10:00 am: 2E Race to the Alpha Quadrant Constructed: 3 rounds Swiss, following the current rules for this fun format
• 01:30 pm: 2E No Such Thing As Luck Constructed: 2x2 rounds Swiss, following the rules for this fun format.
• 02:00 pm: 1E “Cool” OTF Constructed: 3 rounds Swiss, could anyone beat the World Record in killing Wesley Crushers?
• 06:30 pm: 2E Infinite Diversity Draft: 3 rounds Swiss, material will be provided by the TD completely.
• 06:30 pm: 1E Sealed: 3 rounds Swiss, with whatever material still left…
• Alternate Universe: if you have enough of STCCG after this schedule we will gladly have vome learning groups for the terrific board game “Terraforming Mars” or “Star Trek: Ascendancy” or some other stuff I’ll bring along…

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