SG Protocol

  The biggest MCP team event of the year happened last weekend so let's see how the affiliations did and who won (you can find the pre event stats here ):  The most taken affiliations got the most games, so far so expected. How did they do in those games?  The one Hydra player (who had a dual with which he played one of the 5 games) did pretty well with 3:1 in his Hydra games.  Founder of the popular Invaders double bubble SHIELD list Jim Gradwell went 4:1 with Namor collecting the majority of the wins for SHIELD here.  And then we have the first Affiliation with a really meaningful amount of games and a 63% win rate for the Servants of the Apocalypse is a bad sign. As much as we all love the overall design of the faction I feel something has to be done here.  Redcathal of the excellent Rapid Fire Podcast brought New Mutants to the event and won 3 of 5. Considering it's a tiny Affiliation with not the very best characters on their short list that's quite an...

  Seeing as going back to WTC was absolutely not an option for me this year I was at least lucky enough to grab one of the final tickets for the biggest board game convention in the world: Essen Spiel (attendance over the four days was 220.000 people, so yeah it's really really big). Importantly there are no tournaments for any tabletop games at Spiel. The only competition is Games Workshops Golden Deamon Painting Contest. The convention center is just a 25 minute drive from my door. Which in the end was the first problem. Being extremely naive I thought, well I just use the other parking lot and should manage being there at 10 a.m. when gates open. Famous (and honestly idiotic) last words. Over an hour later I finally got a parking spot. 7 km away from the entrance with about 2000 other people... Luckily outfitted with Shuttlebusses and after a casual 30 min more of waiting I got to sit in one for the 15 min ride back to the convention center. Should I be back there next year I...