The Hub and Spoke Model
Seven weeks in. Eighty-four events. 5,523 players. Eighty-four winners. Week 7 brought us thirteen events, 1,135 players, and a 482-player Sector Qualifier in London, the...
A Long Time Ago, In a Card Shop Far, Far Away
I want to tell you something I’ve never admitted to anyone in a game store. The first time I sat down to play Star Wars...
How Solid Is The Three Column Foundation?
Six weeks in. Seventy-one events. 4,388 players. Seventy-one winners. I’ve had something on my mind this week. Not a nagging thought exactly, but after a...
A Mea Culpa on Trend Data
A commenter on Reddit made a fair point after this week’s article: the cumulative APR numbers I’ve been publishing don’t account well for a deck...
The Big Three
Five weeks in. Fifty-eight events. 3,686 players. Fifty-eight winners. Atlanta reshaped the format and week five confirmed it. The format currently has three pillars. Boba...
Atlanta Changes Everything (Or Does It?)
Four weeks in. One Sector Qualifier. Forty-three qualifying events, 2,831 players, 43 winners. The Atlanta Sector is the first real data break we’ve gotten since...
What Are We Looking At Now? LAW PQs Three Weeks In
Thirty-one Premier PQs. Seventeen hundred and eighty-four players. Thirty-one winners to analyze. Week three is now fully in the books, and we have more data...
Applying Championship Metrics to the LAW PQ Season
Back in August, I wrote a piece arguing that Conversion Rate, the go-to metric for most tournament post-mortems, was telling an incomplete story. The short...