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The Card Olympics Game #7!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:24 am
by 9003
I can't believe this is the 7th games I have hosted its amazing the fun we have each month!
Hello one and all today we are gathered to start yet again the games for the greatest of the greatest card collectors.

First the boring stuff like rules and sign up

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[b]Main Nation: [nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 1:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 2:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 3:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 4:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 5:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 6:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 7:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 8:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 9:[nation][/nation][/b]
[b]Puppet 10:[nation][/nation][/b]

[b]What is your favorite word?[/b]


The rules!
1. No outside influence from nations you own/control is allowed to impact your olympic puppets
This means you can not gift in to them (you can gift out if you would like)
This means no buying or selling from nations you control
This means no hosting pull events with your main for your puppets (you CAN hold a pull event with ONLY the cards on your olympic puppets bank/cards)
This means you can not "block" bids, with a non-olympic nation, you are more then welcome to bid on everything that another player has bid on with ONLY your olympic puppets.
This means no bank transfers in.
This list is not fully inclusive but rather a list of some examples of what is against the rules.

2. No asks for more than 30 bank.
The logic behind this rule is to limit the amount of luck involved in winning and rather be testing players skills at using non standard ways to make more bank, such as flipping cards, finding the best market, and getting more creative then just opening packs and junking cards.
If a card is being sold at 30 and someone up bids it past 30 that is okay but remember you can not use outside nations to up the price. (you can use your own puppets however if they have the bank but you can not set an ask above 30)
If you get a really good legendary card that you do not want to sell because it is way above 30 hold on to it till after the games or gift it out.

3. Good sportsmanship
This is key, in the past we have had some issues with certain players being less than friendly. If a player has a long streak of bad sportsmanship I will issue stronger and stronger punishment ending with being permanently banned from the games. If you are going to protest the games that is okay but I ask that you only do so in 1 post so that others do not have to scroll by pages and pages of rants.

4. Players can only win 1 category
Last games ended up being dominated by a team, as such I feel the need to make it so that players can only win one category but can compete for all!
If someone does win more than one they will win the lower rarity first then the wildcard. ( Uncommon, UR, Epic, Wildcard)



Prizes and what are we collecting today!
Categories are:
Common,
Uncommon,
Rares
Wild Card: cards with the tyranny_by_majority classifications on them (In case you need links to all of them S2 (Courtesy of The Northern Light)

And of course what are the games without prizes!
Keeping it simple this week and going for 1 legendary per win!

With that the games are on good luck and happy farming

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:40 am
by The Cosmic Mainframe
Main Nation: The Cosmic Mainframe
Puppet 1:Ellie Arroway
Puppet 2:Ted Arroway
Puppet 3:Palmer Joss
Puppet 4:David Drumlin
Puppet 5:Sol Hadden
Puppet 6:Michael Kitz
Puppet 7:Very Large Array
Puppet 8:The American Machine
Puppet 9:The Hokkaido Machine
Puppet 10:The Message from Vega

What is your favorite word? Antidisestablishmentarianism

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:41 am
by Fauzjhia
Main Nation: [nation][/nation]
Puppet 1:Aloy
Puppet 2:aloyium
Puppet 3:aloyzia
Puppet 4:arlhauzria
Puppet 5:Eslhaizliaunha
Puppet 6:Eslheizliaunha
Puppet 7:Eslhauzliaunha
Puppet 8:Metroidom
Puppet 9:Nhaizlhruuabh
Puppet 10:Celzlhi

What is your favorite word? communism

oufff, aloyium has such a strong opposition to pizza, I'll need to check my play style if i want that easter egg.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:12 am
by All Wild Things
Fauzjhia wrote:oufff, aloyium has such a strong opposition to pizza, I'll need to check my play style if i want that easter egg.

Good luck with that!

Main Nation: All Wild Things
Puppet 1:Muppet Beauregard
Puppet 2:Muppet George the Janitor
Puppet 3:Muppet Hilda
Puppet 4:Muppet Lew Zealand
Puppet 5:Muppet Mildred Huxtetter
Puppet 6:Muppet Nigel
Puppet 7:Muppet Pepe the King Prawn
Puppet 8:Muppet Sweetums
Puppet 9:Muppet Uncle Deadly
Puppet 10:Muppet Wayne and Wanda

What is your favorite word? Tough question! that's like asking my favourite colour. It's the way the different words and colours work together that make them amazing. I think I'm going to have to pick "Totoro", because it represents all the cool stuff about the movie - beautiful scenery, abundant nature, the magic of childhood and exploration...

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:47 am
by Bawkie
Main Nation: Bawkie
Puppet 1:DRB 1
Puppet 2:DRB 2
Puppet 3:DRB 3
Puppet 4:DRB 4
Puppet 5:DRB 5
Puppet 6:DRB 6
Puppet 7:DRB 7
Puppet 8:DRB 8
Puppet 9:DRB 9
Puppet 10:DRB 10

What is your favorite word? Banana

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:33 pm
by Riemstagrad
Main Nation: Riemstagrad
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 021
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 022
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 023
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 024
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 025
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 026
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 027
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 028
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 029
Puppet 1: CartAgRiem 030



Favorite word: Up

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:33 pm
by Free Las Pinas
Main Nation: Free Las Pinas
Puppet 1: XYZ A001
Puppet 2: XYZ A002
Puppet 3: XYZ A003
Puppet 4: XYZ A004
Puppet 5: XYZ A005
Puppet 6: XYZ A006
Puppet 7: XYZ A007
Puppet 8: XYZ A008
Puppet 9: XYZ A009
Puppet 10: XYZ A010

What is your favorite word? bait

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:37 pm
by The Cosmic Mainframe
Free Las Pinas wrote:Main Nation: Free Las Pinas
Puppet 1: XYZ A001
Puppet 2: XYZ A002
Puppet 3: XYZ A003
Puppet 4: XYZ A004
Puppet 5: XYZ A005
Puppet 6: XYZ A006
Puppet 7: XYZ A007
Puppet 8: XYZ A008
Puppet 9: XYZ A009
Puppet 10: XYZ A010

What is your favorite word? bait

Those flags look like the ones I would use on my puppets.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:20 pm
by Free Las Pinas
The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:Those flags look like the ones I would use on my puppets.

The difference is that yours look way cooler than mine!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:22 pm
by The Cosmic Mainframe
Free Las Pinas wrote:
The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:Those flags look like the ones I would use on my puppets.

The difference is that yours look way cooler than mine!

Thanks for the compliment!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:57 pm
by Giovanniland
Main Nation: Giovanniland
Puppet 1:Linear Function
Puppet 2:Logarithmic Function
Puppet 3:Reciprocal Function
Puppet 4:Square Root Function
Puppet 5:Floor Function
Puppet 6:Absolute Value Function
Puppet 7:Square Function
Puppet 8:Ceiling Function
Puppet 9:Exponential Function
Puppet 10:Cube Function

What is your favorite word? Mathematics

PostPosted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:53 pm
by Portsville
Main Nation: Portsville
Puppet 1:Portsville 51
Puppet 2:Portsville 52
Puppet 3:Portsville 53
Puppet 4:Portsville 54
Puppet 5:Portsville 55
Puppet 6:Portsville 56
Puppet 7:Portsville 57
Puppet 8:Portsville 58
Puppet 9:Portsville 59
Puppet 10:Portsville 60

What is your favorite word? gibberish

PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 3:45 pm
by All Wild Things
I'm finding it really weird, to play without Racoda's regularly updated dispatch. I'm realising how much I checked it in the last two games to see what was going on. I feel like I'm working blind just now. I'm tempted to code up an equivalent, so I can see for myself what everyone else is doing. But I suspect my brain would melt trying!

Racoda, your efforts were very much appreciated!

PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:07 pm
by The Cosmic Mainframe
All Wild Things wrote:I'm finding it really weird, to play without Racoda's regularly updated dispatch. I'm realising how much I checked it in the last two games to see what was going on. I feel like I'm working blind just now. I'm tempted to code up an equivalent, so I can see for myself what everyone else is doing. But I suspect my brain would melt trying!

Racoda, your efforts were very much appreciated!

Once in a while I've been trying to figure out what categories the other players are going for by looking at their puppets' decks. It's a lot more tedious without a leaderboard, though.

I feel like I'm losing the Olympics right now simply because I am not getting very good pulls - my best so far has been Farrakhan, which got me 6.00 bank. But my luck could turn around.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:02 pm
by Free Las Pinas
The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:I feel like I'm losing the Olympics right now simply because I am not getting very good pulls - my best so far has been Farrakhan, which got me 6.00 bank. But my luck could turn around.

My first pull was a semi-cheap legendary (Pencil Sharpeners 2), which sort of helped me. What sucked was that the other person planning to go for UCs was even luckier, so I decided to go for something else.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:20 am
by Sunhizria
i,m fine with no ranking board.

that way, people are unaware of what rarety I'm collecting. and how much bank i have unless they look as my deck.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:34 pm
by Riemstagrad
A quick, manual count, full of errors, not including bank:

RARES
--------
TCM: 221
FLP: 135
GIO: 112
FAU: 57

UNCOMMONS
---------------
RIE: 959
POR:32

COMMON
-----------
POR: 231

BONUS
--------
AWT: many

PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 12:13 am
by Free Las Pinas
Riemstagrad wrote:A quick, manual count, full of errors, not including bank:

RARES
--------
TCM: 221
FLP: 135
GIO: 112
FAU: 57

UNCOMMONS
---------------
RIE: 959
POR:32

COMMON
-----------
POR: 231

BONUS
--------
AWT: many

Cool, thanks! It helps me rethink what I should be collecting!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 6:27 am
by The Cosmic Mainframe
Riemstagrad wrote:A quick, manual count, full of errors, not including bank:

RARES
--------
TCM: 221
FLP: 135
GIO: 112
FAU: 57

I was about to say this seems obviously inaccurate, but it appears that Gio junked most of his rares. He was in the lead in that category when I counted, so that move doesn't make much sense to me...

I wonder what category he will try for next. Still, I'm glad I'm in the lead again.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:57 pm
by Fauzjhia
Jumping in rares.
might even buy them at 0.12,

at this price, I have potential for 500 cards on 2 nations.

edit : I report the ownership of 355 rares


Edit ; I noted I was attacked by gio, when I was off-site, I got penny-bidded on multiple .10 rare bids. he has to be in the rares.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:40 am
by The Cosmic Mainframe
Definitely going to lose this one.

Fauzjhia has a commanding lead in rares, Riemstagrad in uncommons, Bawkie will soon have one in commons, and AWT in Tyranny by Majority.

Farrakhan S2 is still the best pull I have had in the entire competition.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:46 pm
by Free Las Pinas
The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:Definitely going to lose this one.

Fauzjhia has a commanding lead in rares, Riemstagrad in uncommons, Bawkie will soon have one in commons, and AWT in Tyranny by Majority.

Farrakhan S2 is still the best pull I have had in the entire competition.

That's what I was thinking! I might want to pull out of this one...

PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:16 pm
by The Cosmic Mainframe
Free Las Pinas wrote:
The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:Definitely going to lose this one.

Fauzjhia has a commanding lead in rares, Riemstagrad in uncommons, Bawkie will soon have one in commons, and AWT in Tyranny by Majority.

Farrakhan S2 is still the best pull I have had in the entire competition.

That's what I was thinking! I might want to pull out of this one...

Well I figure since I'm just farming normally, except for selling valuable cards from the puppets and buying rares, I might as well stay in. Lest I pull a really good legendary.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:24 pm
by Fauzjhia
might I suggest you to jump in commons.

if you want to beat me in rares, you'Ll need to have to 60 bank.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:57 pm
by The Cosmic Mainframe
Fauzjhia wrote:might I suggest you to jump in commons.

if you want to beat me in rares, you'Ll need to have to 60 bank.

Bawkie's already bought hundreds. I could beat them if I junked my rares but I don't think I'd like the number of bids I have to place (or the difficulty of finding JV asks).