Author Topic: National Carcassonne Championships in 2015 (Read 45083 times)

MrNumbers · « **Reply #60 on:** May 10, 2015, 06:52:12 AM »

The start was good for me. My QF game was against 11-years old kid, who, however, has won his group B. We started to fight for a huge city, which was growing more and more. When we had 4 followers each in that city, my opponent tried to connect another (circle on the image), but there was only one tile remaining in the bag, which I successfully drew afterwards (red arrow). He was out of meeples and I continued to gain some points. I won with almost 30 points gap.

In semifinal I have played against my QF opponent's older brother (and national champion in 2012). It was a big fight for the huge farm, but I managed to block one of his connects (circle), as no tiles left with such configuration. The last tile was cloister with road (circle), which connected both of our farmers. As a result - almost +20 points win for me.

Meantime, 2013 and 2014 years champion was going up through his games: he won QF by 2 points and SF - by 3 points. So, big final again! He has a good start and quickly went ahead in points, so I was trying to chase him throughout all game. As a result, we had 18-points farm, and 2 tiles were left in the bag (arrows), and I needed one of them to win the game by connecting third farmer (circle). And... I drew the wrong one...

Third year in a row Aleksejs Pegushevs became Latvian champion and I stayed just 2nd. His winning streak is 25 matches by now.

Well, there is always next year

P.S. Now I know how Leonardo DiCaprio feels

danisthirty · « **Reply #61 on:** May 10, 2015, 06:57:39 AM »

Great report! Sorry you didn't win again this year, but it looks like you had a 50% chance of becoming the champion with 2 tiles to go and were unlucky...

Better luck next year!

kettlefish · « **Reply #62 on:** May 10, 2015, 01:41:06 PM »

poor MrNumbers - again only the 2nd and again you have lost against Aleksejs.

But we see us on Thursday at Spiel 2015 in Essen.

Carcking · « **Reply #63 on:** May 10, 2015, 07:40:57 PM »

Wow! Three years in a row and this one on a lucky 50/50 draw. There is luck for you. You can never know. But still, a 25 game win streak, and close ones of 2 and 3 point wins. He must be doing something right.

Great effort Mr. Numbers! Nice pictures and naration too.

jungleboy · « **Reply #64 on:** May 19, 2015, 12:01:29 AM »

This is the trophy for the winner of the Spanish National Championship, to be held in Madrid on June 20 and 21. More information on the Facebook page of Devir Iberia.

Safari · « **Reply #65 on:** May 20, 2015, 04:05:44 PM »

Oh, wow the trophy is amazing (and also the Catan-Trophy you cut of is great!) I'd love to own both of them.

jungleboy · « **Reply #66 on:** May 26, 2015, 08:57:00 AM »

Quote from: jungleboy on April 27, 2015, 03:50:16 AM

Meanwhile I am still trying to find out information about the Swiss championships. This page here regarding the world championships gives a link to the Suisse Toy fair in late September / early October in Bern. So I think this could be it (it's very shortly before Essen).

I just received a reply from the Suisse Toy organisers who say they there won't be a Carcassonne tournament at their event this year. So I'm not sure if that means that there won't be a Swiss national championship this year at all or not.

danisthirty · « **Reply #67 on:** May 26, 2015, 09:17:07 AM »

Quote from: jungleboy on May 26, 2015, 08:57:00 AM

Quote from: jungleboy on April 27, 2015, 03:50:16 AM
Meanwhile I am still trying to find out information about the Swiss championships. This page here regarding the world championships gives a link to the Suisse Toy fair in late September / early October in Bern. So I think this could be it (it's very shortly before Essen).

I just received a reply from the Suisse Toy organisers who say they there won't be a Carcassonne tournament at their event this year. So I'm not sure if that means that there won't be a Swiss national championship this year at all or not.

I would take this as an invitation to organise one yourself!

Jéré · « **Reply #68 on:** June 10, 2015, 01:22:07 PM »

Quote from: SRBO on April 30, 2015, 12:48:35 AM

For all our dutch members:

The NK Carcassonne is going to start to qualify someone for the world championships in Essen. There are only 64 places. and there is a goodie bag for the first 50 attendents.

any of our dutch members planning to go?

http://www.999games.nl/pages/posts/nk-carcassonne-2015-281.php

Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend. I'm sending an email to cancel my registration.

kettlefish · « **Reply #69 on:** June 23, 2015, 08:02:54 AM »

Spain - national Carcassonne Championship

last weekend was the 11. national championship - Carcassonne in Madrid

There were 116 participants. All the participants got the mini expansion "Halb so wild".

The winner of the Spanish Carcassonne Championship is: Oscar Miras

http://www.devir.es/david-y-oscar-flamantes-ganadores-de-las-finales-de-catan-y-carcassonne/

Chooselife · « **Reply #70 on:** July 06, 2015, 05:17:50 AM »

So the date for the Portuguese Championships are here:

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Campeonato Nacional de Carcassonne, Domingo, 26 de Julho, 14 horas, organização Devir:
1º Lugar:
• Troféu personalizado de Campeão Nacional, oferta do GBG Setúbal;
• T-Shirt personalizada de Campeão Nacional, oferta do GBG Setúbal;
• Viagem a Essen (voo Dusseldorf), com entrada permanente na Essen Internationale Spielage 2015 e qualificação para o Campeonato do Mundo de Carcassonne.
• Jogo Devir Carcassonne com que se jogar a Final Nacional, autografado por todos os participantes.
2º Lugar:
• Jogo Devir Carcassonne: Edição Mares do Sul
• Jogo Devir Carcassonne: Edição Inverno;
3º Lugar:
• Jogo Devir Carcassonne: Edição Mares do Sul
4º Lugar:
• Jogo Devir Carcassonne: Edição Inverno
Todos os participantes irão receber diploma classificativo. A Devir sorteará alguns brindes entre os participantes.
A Câmara Municipal de Setúbal assegura águas durante o evento.

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National Carcassonne Championship, Sunday, July 26, 14 hours, organization by DEVIR:
1st Place:
• Custom National Champion Trophy, offer by Setúbal Boardgame Group;
• Custom National Champion T-Shirt, offer by Setúbal Boardgame Group;
• Trip to Essen (Dusseldorf flight), permanent entry in Essen Internationale Spielage 2015 and qualification for the World Championship of Carcassonne.
• Carcassonne which with the National Final will be played, signed by all participants.
2nd Place:
• Carcassonne: South Seas
• Carcassonne: Winter Edition;
3rd Place:
• Carcassonne: South Seas Edition
4th Place:
• Carcassonne: Winter Edition
All participants will receive classificatory diploma. DEVIR will draw some gifts among the participants.
The Municipality of Setúbal ensures water during the event.