Did you know that the Gaia Project International Tournament just took place?

Since the chance was too good not to catch, we invited the organizer, Marco/ZeroCool, to talk with us about how the tournament went, and where his next big tournaments are going; our chat resulted in a very relaxed and special episode, which we hope you’ll enjoy as well.

Oh, and we also had to opportunity to ask something to the winner of the tournament…

(Sorry for the lack of errata, they will return in the next episode)

02:40 - TOURNAMENT DURATION, PARTICIPANTS, AND TIMING ISSUES

09:14 - TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE: NUMBER OF GAMES, TABLE FORMATION, AND SCORING RATIONALE

13:02 - TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE: GAMES AND FACTION PICKING MECHANISM

14:25 - PROS AND CONS OF AUCTIONS IN TOURNAMENTS (AND NOT)

26:14 - IMPRESSIONS ABOUT FACTION PICKS

31:10 - REPORT FROM THE WINNER OF THE TOURNAMENT

38:45 - INTERESTING DYNAMICS WHICH SHOWED UP IN THIS COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT

45:00 - FUTURE PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE TOURNAMENTS

52:42 - A SHOUTOUT TO A FRIEND IN POLAND

Matteo's terrible Itars game (and Marco's super good Taklons one): https://www.boardgamers.space/game/GPIT-Round10-Table1

Matteo's really nice Lantids game (the 3vp/mine adv tile actually gave him "just" 24 points): https://www.boardgamers.space/game/GPIT-TURN4-TABLE1

While you wait for the next episode, come play with us (Molfo and El Temblo) on BGS: https://www.boardgamers.space.

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