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Championship in Thailand
« on: May 11, 2014, 09:26:54 AM »
Yesterday I competed in the National Catan Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.
It was great fun with 32 contestants taking part. I made it to the semi-finals, but never really expected to even do that well.
Finally a very skilled Thai guy won the championship and a free flight / accommodation to compete in Germany. 

Here are some pics. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.631946163552350.1073741843.460665910680377&type=1

The organizer of this championship and I are now dreaming about running a Carcassonne championship some time. It would be great to have some official backing on board. Hopefully he can connect with someone at Essen this year to help make it happen.



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Re: Championship in Thailand
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2014, 10:46:39 AM »
Nice pictures...

With the Carcassonne championship, I will ask HiG...

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Re: Championship in Thailand
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2014, 05:17:59 AM »
Well done on reaching the semi-finals! I've played a little bit of Settlers of Catan in the past but I wasn't very good at it and found it very frustrating when everyone else seemed to be getting lots of resources and building things everywhere whereas I always seemed to be left behind. A game of Carcassonne would have to be going very badly indeed for me to get as stuck as I typically did when playing Catan!

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Re: Championship in Thailand
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2014, 11:31:04 PM »
Nice pictures...

With the Carcassonne championship, I will ask HiG...

Great I look forward to hearing more =)


Well done on reaching the semi-finals! I've played a little bit of Settlers of Catan in the past but I wasn't very good at it and found it very frustrating when everyone else seemed to be getting lots of resources and building things everywhere whereas I always seemed to be left behind. A game of Carcassonne would have to be going very badly indeed for me to get as stuck as I typically did when playing Catan!

Yes I agree. I only really just started to enjoy Catan myself, but if you mess up your initial placements (or someone else messes them up for you) then the game can be pretty much lost from the outset

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Re: Championship in Thailand
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2014, 08:10:59 AM »
I've only played Catan once and I had high expectations since it is often labelled together with Carcassonne as an ideal 'gateway' game to European games. But I felt that Catan had none of the things that I love about Carcassonne and it seemed so much more artificial and less natural than Carcassonne. So, basically, I didn't like it :)


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