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  Today's topic is going to be more theoretical and philosophical but bare with me (or don't I'm not your mum).  Something I constantly do at my day job is setting SMART goals for me, the team and the company. I also teach the others how to write SMART goals.  (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely) When you've set those goals it's also important to define the actual steps you'll take towards this goal.  What has this to do with MCP? A lot if you want to and nothing if you don't.  When you want to play this game more competitively than strictly for fun (which is totally fine) you should think about what your actual goal is and there are a lot of possible goals here. Some are easier to realize; some will take loads and loads of work.  Let's start with an easier one:  Getting a Longshanks Badge for 10 games with a single Affiliation.  Now you set yourself a time limit: for example two months.  The goal now reads:  In two ...

  In the wake of the big changes brought to us by Ministravaganza 25 AMG in person of mostly Will Shick, but sometimes also Dallas Kemp, Will Pagani and Ben Ransom have engaged with the community directly a lot. Shick did some AMAs on the unofficial Discord Fan Server and they did Podcast interview with:  Fury's Finest, The Danger Room, Move Move Throw and most recently the Gamers Guild  In the last one Will Shick stated that he and them felt this was a more organic way to have reactions and explanations for their decisions out than doing a roundtable with the Devs during the stream itself and I can only agree.  Having taken part in the AMA myself and having listened to all the podcasts here's what we've learned (I can only highly recommend listening to all of them yourself!):  Core Rules: Why does the original priority winner get to choose the board edge now? Having to deploy first without the knowledge of who goes first is viewed as a big disadvantage. So havi...

  Welcome to the November stats article. Having had Ministravaganza and all the changes it brought with it right in the middle of the month means we basically combine two different meta states here and some trends may prove themselves true or false in December.  As always All Events (AE) first and Rated Singles Events (RSE) further down.  Inhumans had an extra good month with all three leaders posting top tier numbers. It's going to be interesting if the changes will affect them or not in the long run but in the various post Ministravaganza podcast interviews AMG clearly said there looking at Terrigenesis and if it might get rotated soon.  October: 3. +2 Convocation enjoy the reduction of throw damage very much and are very flexible in their roster build so the new crisis selection process serves them well, too. And the numbers show it. Also Wiccan is very very likely going to be a new member for the Affiliation soon. October: 4. +2 So far nothing has stopped Apocaly...

  Yesterday I ran the second installment of the Steel Wars tournament in Duisburg.  With a bunch of people dropping close to the event sadly we had an attendance of 10 players which is honestly fine for Germany. And we had Nicky and Tim from Belgium come over which was especially great 😃  For me personally it was gonna be a farewell for now tournament for the Guardians of the Galaxy, which would guarantee me the 30 games badge on Longshanks. I had already decided beforehand that Nova, Star-Lord and the gang would get a well deserved shelf rest until the release of Adam Warlock, Phyla-Vell and Moondragon.  The event taking place exactly one week after the big Ministravaganza shake ups meant that we all didn't have a lot of time to practice the impact of those changes to our rosters. I actually hadn't played a single Guardians game during the week.  Round one I got paired against Groschak who is our German Apocalypse main and we also got the Apocalypse table that...