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REGIONALS!
The Space Coast (Florida) Regional Championships go online this year with a new twist on a Second Edition format: an Infinite Diversity Winston Draft.
This is a LIVE online event, with the draft and all tournament rounds taking place on the same day - Saturday, October 17th, with the draft beginning at 11 am Eastern.
As this is an online event, Skype and Lackey are required to play.
What's a Winston Draft?
You may be wondering what a Winston Draft is. It's an alternate draft format that's often played in Magic: the Gathering, in which all players draft from the same group of cards rather than passing around individual packs. Google it for a better idea. Here's roughly how it'll play out for the Infinite Diversity experience (with paraphrasing from MTG Wiki):
First, each player will receive the 21-card Infinite Diversity set as well as four headquarters. Then, each player will receive a nine-card mission pack with nine random missions that will not be drafted.
Next, a pre-generated cardpool with 54 random cards for each drafter (216 in a four-player pod) will be placed as a stack called the main stack. The top three cards of this stack are placed separately on the table face down to form three one-card piles.
One player is randomly chosen to be the starting player, and players take turns. On a player's turn, they look at all of the cards in the first pile, and they may take the pile. If they do, they add all of the cards in the pile to their draft collection and place the top card of the main stack (without looking at it) to form the new first card in the pile. If they don't, they add the top card of the main stack to the pile (again without looking at it), and move on to the second pile and repeat this process. If they do not take the second pile, they move on to the third pile and repeat the process again. If the player does not take the third pile, they must take the top card of the main stack. Players take turns in this process until all cards have been drafted. Players then use the cards they've drafted as their cardpool to assemble their deck.
If more than four players register for this event, there may be multiple draft pods.
I'm going to try to make the actual draft possible in Lackey, but it's more likely the stack itself will be on my physical desktop with a camera pointed at it. Either way, it's likely all cards will end up being drafted face-up, so players will know what cards other players drafted.
Infinite Diversity Gameplay Rules
As a refresher, here are the rules for Infinite Diversity games:
Deck Limits
Deck Size: Minimum 25 Maximum NONE
Dilemma Pile: Minimum 10 Maximum NONE
Missions: Exactly 5
The “rule of three” is suspended while players are constructing their draft decks. This means you can include as many copies of any card you draft!
No Quadrants
All quadrant rules are suspended; every mission is considered to be in every quadrant. (You do not need to add 2 to the Range required to move between missions.)
Reinforcement
If you have a headquarters mission, you may play any personnel and/or ships that couldn’t normally report to that headquarters at cost +1.
First Turn Download
During the Play and Draw Cards segment of your first turn (and only your first turn), you may spend 3 counters to download a ship.
Discard Pile Recycling
The first time each game your deck is empty, you may immediately shuffle your discard pile into a new deck.
Victory Conditions
A player wins the game when he or she has:
scored 70 points (or more);
completed at least one planet mission; and
completed at least one space mission.
I'm not from Cardassia Region. Can I play?
Anyone can play!
Prizes?
Of course there are prizes! This is a Regional after all. I'll have Regional foils and buttons on hand for up to eight players, as well as additional tournament foils and packs to give away after the event. (In the unlikely event of more than eight registered players, priority will go to players that live in the Cardassia Region.)
Entry Fee?
As this is an online event, I am waiving my usual entry fee for Regional Championships. However, as ordering tournament kits plus shipping prizes is a bit pricey, donations are encouraged (but not required) to help offset the cost. You can donate to doggah@gmail.com on PayPal.
Finally...
If you plan on playing, please be pre-registered at least 24 hours before the start of the event so I have enough time to generate and prepare the cardpools.
More notes included here as I think of them.
Any questions, please ask.
The Space Coast (Florida) Regional Championships go online this year with a new twist on a Second Edition format: an Infinite Diversity Winston Draft.
This is a LIVE online event, with the draft and all tournament rounds taking place on the same day - Saturday, October 17th, with the draft beginning at 11 am Eastern.
As this is an online event, Skype and Lackey are required to play.
What's a Winston Draft?
You may be wondering what a Winston Draft is. It's an alternate draft format that's often played in Magic: the Gathering, in which all players draft from the same group of cards rather than passing around individual packs. Google it for a better idea. Here's roughly how it'll play out for the Infinite Diversity experience (with paraphrasing from MTG Wiki):
First, each player will receive the 21-card Infinite Diversity set as well as four headquarters. Then, each player will receive a nine-card mission pack with nine random missions that will not be drafted.
Next, a pre-generated cardpool with 54 random cards for each drafter (216 in a four-player pod) will be placed as a stack called the main stack. The top three cards of this stack are placed separately on the table face down to form three one-card piles.
One player is randomly chosen to be the starting player, and players take turns. On a player's turn, they look at all of the cards in the first pile, and they may take the pile. If they do, they add all of the cards in the pile to their draft collection and place the top card of the main stack (without looking at it) to form the new first card in the pile. If they don't, they add the top card of the main stack to the pile (again without looking at it), and move on to the second pile and repeat this process. If they do not take the second pile, they move on to the third pile and repeat the process again. If the player does not take the third pile, they must take the top card of the main stack. Players take turns in this process until all cards have been drafted. Players then use the cards they've drafted as their cardpool to assemble their deck.
If more than four players register for this event, there may be multiple draft pods.
I'm going to try to make the actual draft possible in Lackey, but it's more likely the stack itself will be on my physical desktop with a camera pointed at it. Either way, it's likely all cards will end up being drafted face-up, so players will know what cards other players drafted.
Infinite Diversity Gameplay Rules
As a refresher, here are the rules for Infinite Diversity games:
Deck Limits
Deck Size: Minimum 25 Maximum NONE
Dilemma Pile: Minimum 10 Maximum NONE
Missions: Exactly 5
The “rule of three” is suspended while players are constructing their draft decks. This means you can include as many copies of any card you draft!
No Quadrants
All quadrant rules are suspended; every mission is considered to be in every quadrant. (You do not need to add 2 to the Range required to move between missions.)
Reinforcement
If you have a headquarters mission, you may play any personnel and/or ships that couldn’t normally report to that headquarters at cost +1.
First Turn Download
During the Play and Draw Cards segment of your first turn (and only your first turn), you may spend 3 counters to download a ship.
Discard Pile Recycling
The first time each game your deck is empty, you may immediately shuffle your discard pile into a new deck.
Victory Conditions
A player wins the game when he or she has:
scored 70 points (or more);
completed at least one planet mission; and
completed at least one space mission.
I'm not from Cardassia Region. Can I play?
Anyone can play!
Prizes?
Of course there are prizes! This is a Regional after all. I'll have Regional foils and buttons on hand for up to eight players, as well as additional tournament foils and packs to give away after the event. (In the unlikely event of more than eight registered players, priority will go to players that live in the Cardassia Region.)
Entry Fee?
As this is an online event, I am waiving my usual entry fee for Regional Championships. However, as ordering tournament kits plus shipping prizes is a bit pricey, donations are encouraged (but not required) to help offset the cost. You can donate to doggah@gmail.com on PayPal.
Finally...
If you plan on playing, please be pre-registered at least 24 hours before the start of the event so I have enough time to generate and prepare the cardpools.
More notes included here as I think of them.
Any questions, please ask.
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