Welcome to a special stats article about the London single person event Mutant Weekender: The Hunt for Weapon M. Event and Across the Bifrost co-host Dr. Norbert asked me for this and who could ever say no to that man? (I know the updates came today and there's definitely going to be an article on those soon but I need a little more time to digest those).
The Weekenders have a special format where there's a big swiss tournament on Saturday and based on your performance in that you get into an 8 person pod on Sunday. Where you can completely change your roster if you'd like.
Since that makes it a bit hard to get the full overview about every game played I'm going to focus on the Saturday and the Top 8 pod.
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Asgard is far from dead and here almost has double the players than the three next most popular in Servants of the Apocalypse, Avengers and Web Warriors (none of those three are a surprise).
Four players each for Brotherhood (surprise), Defenders, Inhumans and Wakanda which were mono affiliated lists. Criminal Syndicate and Spider-Foes also have been able to be used by four players each but didn't play the possible 16 games.
Two players for straight Black Order was not expected while only two players for X-Men, especially here in Europe, is very unexpectedly low.
Two players took Cabal and played every game with them while all of Guardians (my current #1 affiliation), Winter Guard and Hydra had two players where not every game was played with them.
Norberts co-host for both, the running of events such as this and the Across the Bifrost Podcast, Jaime took Weapon X for this weekender.
And there's a lot of other one player affiliations, which shockingly includes Midnight Sons who are the most popular affiliation worldwide at the moment. Also not understandable for me is playing any game unaffiliated these days and one player did that for four games straight.
No Convocation and even more surprising no A-Force players in the Swiss event either. No Legion of the Lost and especially no New Mutants and Sentinels are less of a surprise.
With London being the biggest and strongest local community on the planet and the event being there it's obviously no surprise that a third of the attending players are from there.
Toad was in every third person's list while both Bill and Shang beat our Zemo. And with Thor 2 being brought back into line the real star of last years Asgard pack, Jane Foster, really shines in and out of affiliation.There's few surprises otherwise here. Quicksilver is pretty high and Valkyrie seems to have made her way back into most Asgard lists.
With neither Thor 1 nor Loki 2 reaching nine lists it is clear that not all Asgard players chose to go the triple leadership route. (The two not bringing Thor 1 are just objectively wrong in m opinion but I'm sure they had their reasons). With only one Midnight Sons player seven iHulks are definitely a surprise as I personally feel regular Hulk does more for less investment. iHulk sure is good though and it's cool when people find good alternative homes for him (he also looks much nicer than classic Hulk.
Five Angela's is unexpected. Five Thor 2s is maybe a bit too low with the amount of Asgard players.
Patch up being the #1 restricted outside of Brace might be down to the amount of Asgard who often get more use out of it than other affiliations. Otherwise is pretty expected.
M'Kraan being the most taken crisis card is interesting. I think it's down to a "everybody thinks their good on it" situation and not that it's actually as neutral as it seems to be. Pretty healthy spread of crisis cards overall.
Low numbers for Infinity Formular and Madman and very low for Cubes and Alien Ship. Terrigen Canisters is the coolest design but sadly not many teams actually want to bring it.
Spider-Foes had a fantastic showing at the event, while both the X-Force and Midnight Sons players had good runs of 3:1.
Winter Guard showed they do have some game in the new crisis rotation while Cabal had an overall good success rate mostly based on Rapid Fire Podcast co-host Angus going 4:0 with them.
Wakanda also had big numbers in games and wins, all under the factions main leaders M'Baku.
With no less than 32 games played Asgard showed they are far from dead, with Loki seeing by far the most success.
Inhumans and Webs did well as you'd expect them to do.
50/50 overall for Apoc but Pat went 4:0.
Defenders missed the 50% mark.
Four games of Hulkbuster leadership at a competitive event is cool to see though it sadly didn't work especially well.
Magneto and very unexpectedly Kingpin had pretty bad showings.
This is how the top 8 looked at the end of day 1. And the players who qualified themselves for the Weapon M bracket on Sunday.
In that Pat Dunfort led his Servants of the Apatcolypse to another 3:0 run which gained him the title of Weapon M.
That's it for today.
I hope to be back tomorrow with the evaluation of the updates already but it might take a little more time. If you'd like me to spent even more time writing you could support me at patreon.com/sgprotocol
Until then Cheers from Germany
No problem! 500£ please 😋
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