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Fourth Wanted Mind Sports Festival in Prague

#1 User is offline   lamford 

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Posted 2012-November-12, 08:41

Paul Lamford, Stefanie Rohan and Michael Klein (a strong US player) want to play in the two-day teams at the Prague Mind Sports Festival and need a fourth to play with Michael. Pay your own trip, but cheap flights to Prague at this time of year. Any reasonably competent player welcome, more of a social bridge event. Send PM to me here.
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Posted 2012-November-12, 09:28

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First created in France as La Conquête du Monde ("The Conquest of the World"), Risk is now one of the most popular mind sports in the world. The standard version is played by up to six players on a board depicting a political map of the Earth, divided into six continents and forty-two territories.


Since when is Risk a mind sport? LOL.
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Posted 2012-November-12, 10:05

Bridge and poker together? Does the WBF know about this?

View Postwyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

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View Postrbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2012-November-12, 11:07

View PostHanoi5, on 2012-November-12, 10:05, said:

Bridge and poker together? Does the WBF know about this?

And backgammon as well, but that has been the case for many years.
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Posted 2012-November-12, 11:22

View Postmgoetze, on 2012-November-12, 09:28, said:

Since when is Risk a mind sport? LOL.

I have a mind sports olympiad gold medal from Magic the Gathering, strange things get in at times :)
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Posted 2012-November-12, 14:24

Unfortunately I'd written off the bridge and decided not to make the trip with Hels, who is playing in the Scrabble. Now I have other commitments but if this happens again next year I would be interested.
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Posted 2012-November-16, 04:27

View PostCyberyeti, on 2012-November-12, 11:22, said:

I have a mind sports olympiad gold medal from Magic the Gathering, strange things get in at times :)

Which deck were you running; and which card series?
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Posted 2012-November-16, 16:15

View PostZelandakh, on 2012-November-16, 04:27, said:

Which deck were you running; and which card series?

Was a sealed deck tournament 1997 card set. I had a red/black deck, can remember badlands and mana flare were 2 of my rares.
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Posted 2012-November-16, 22:51

Putting sealed in a mind sports olympiad is an odd choice.
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Posted 2012-November-18, 15:31

View PostAntrax, on 2012-November-16, 22:51, said:

Putting sealed in a mind sports olympiad is an odd choice.

It was an odd tournament, was supposed to run for a few days, but few enough people turned up that they just ran it one day. Not sure if they would have done a series of sealed decks if there had been more people.
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Posted 2012-November-18, 22:31

You can fix sealed deck to make sense if you unseal the decks and publish all the deck lists before the event, then start with a bidding round where players compete with starting life total / cards in hand for decks. They did it for one of the Magic invitationals and it seems like an almost balanced game (except if there's one outstanding deck, then whoever shouts its "value" first wins)
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