Slime Salad Dominion tournament

Aeth · Post by **Aeth** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:15 pm

JSH and I have recently discovered Dominion and have been playing it a lot. So we've decided to host a SS Dominion tournament.

The rules are pretty simple - we will play a set number of rounds of four-player games. The number of rounds depends on how many people enter. The winner of a game gets 3 points, second place gets 2 points, third place gets one point, and fourth place gets no points.

After we've played all of the rounds, the four people with the best scores will play four games against each other, using the same scoring system. The person with the most points after those four games wins the whole thing.

In addition to being fun, hopefully this will also bring out any other Dominion players that might be on SS.

Oh, and if you haven't played Dominion, you should learn! It's a really fun game. Go look up the rules, and then you can play a free browser version at http://dominion.isotropic.org.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:18 pm

I'm in and, aside:

Anyone who wants to try the game, I am down for a match most any time. I advise coming in to the Slimesalad chatroom to ask people just to make things easier to organize.

Also, the isotropic client has some of the rules in its info section, but it's way faster to learn by playing.

Aeth · Post by **Aeth** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:29 pm

Obviously I'm in too...

Oh, and I'm also usually up for a game or two if I'm around.

Post by **Mogri** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:07 am

I'm in, and I'mma let you finish, but Thunderstone is the best deckbuilding game of all time.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:10 am

A CHALLENGER APPROACHES!

SDHawk · Post by **SDHawk** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:54 am

You already knew I was in, but now I'm making the thread look bigger.

Post by **Mogri** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:34 pm

So basically #jsh plus me

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:35 pm

Known OHR dominion players:
JSH
Hawk
Hachi
Giz
Cody Watts
Asok
Mogri
Charbile
mistah_j
Aeth

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:00 pm

Oh, I'll play.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:08 pm

Is this played at a slow pace, like where we can each play one or two turns per day? or is this played where all participants need to be online at the same time for a fast paced game?

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:13 pm

Everyone has to be on at once. Games seem to average 15-20 minutes, but can extend if the deck is particularly wicked.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:24 pm

One quick thing I forgot:
We typically ban Secret Chambers in isotropic, and probably should during the tourney. They aren't broken, but they have the ability to extend a 10 minute game in to an hour.

charbile · Post by **charbile** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:30 pm

Secret Chambers:

Code: Select all

Cost&#58;  2 

Discard any number of cards. + 1 Treasure per card discarded.

When another player plays an Attack card, you may reveal this from your hand. If you do, +2 Cards from your hand on top of your deck.

How does this extend games?! Seems like it would speed it up. More money / block attacks.

Also. When's this happening?

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:42 pm

The problem is that everyone tends to buy secret chambers, and spends several seconds deciding what to stuff back up on their decks. If say, I use a Torturer on everyone, it goes like this:

JSH uses a Torturer.

Hawk reveals a secret chamber
Hawk decides what cards to put back on his deck
Hawk decides if he wants to take the curse or discard 2 cards from the Torturer
Hawk decides what two cards to delete.

rinse/repeat for all opponents. This can take sometimes a full minute due to all the decision making involved. It's a nightmare when it comes up.

Add in the fact that some people are multitasking isotropic in the first place.

Post by **Mogri** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:55 pm

Which expansions are included?