Author Topic: National Championship Carcassonne- Latvia - 14.09.2014 (Read 16880 times)

kettlefish · « **Reply #15 on:** September 15, 2014, 05:55:34 AM »

Hi MrNumbers,
nice report.

Gerry · « **Reply #16 on:** September 15, 2014, 07:08:06 AM »

it does look as through it would have been very enjoyable to have been there, a nice low key event.

kettlefish · « **Reply #17 on:** September 16, 2014, 02:18:43 AM »

BrainGames (license partner from HiG) did the organizion of this tournament. It was the 8th Carcassonne Championship in Latvia.

Udo Schmitz (Carcassonne-on-Tour) called with BrainGames and he put some surprisings in his luggage for the participants and also the new t-shirts for the team.

danisthirty · « **Reply #18 on:** September 16, 2014, 03:20:33 AM »

Do you think there's any chance that Udo Schmitz could contact Halesowen Boardgamers (halesowen.bg@gmail.com) about their running of next year's UK Carcassonne championship?

For one thing it would be nice if they had enough copies of the base game that they didn't have to ask people to bring their own copies (and consequently lose bits -

). If they could also be persuaded that a competition based on 2-player games rather than 4-player games would be more appropriate then that would definitely be for the best as well.

If nothing else I think it would be good for him to help build Carcassonne's image in the UK as it's a relatively well-known game but there doesn't appear to be a lot of publicity for it.

MrNumbers · « **Reply #19 on:** September 16, 2014, 03:33:50 AM »

I don't understand, why national championship's format could differ from World championship's format.
Here in Latvia the format is maximally close to the Worlds. 4-player format is something exceptional.

kettlefish · « **Reply #20 on:** September 16, 2014, 03:53:05 AM »

We have here in Germany two different tournament modes for qualifikations tournaments.

one tournament mode is with 4 players.

The winners of these qualifikations tournaments then comes to Spiel in Essen for the German championship and then the winner is a day later one of the participants in the world championship.

this tournament mode is with 2 players.

danisthirty · « **Reply #21 on:** September 16, 2014, 03:56:26 AM »

So it sounds as though the 4-player competition is just a qualifier for the 2-player national competition?

kettlefish · « **Reply #22 on:** September 16, 2014, 04:32:58 AM »

This year we have 12 qualifikations tournaments.

tournament mode 1 is with 4 players.
tournament mode 2 is with 2 players.

The organizer provides the games. The Organizer chooses one of the two tournament modes.

Herner Spielezentrum is the organizer of our tournament rules and for the German championship and for the world championship
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We also have the ranking tournament here in Germany.

There are also two different tournament modes possible.
The participants need their own games.

kettlefish · « **Reply #23 on:** September 17, 2014, 02:24:59 AM »

I've called with Udo Schmitz today.
He told me that he gave MrNumbers a special surprising.

danisthirty · « **Reply #24 on:** September 17, 2014, 02:47:58 AM »

Did he creep up behind him during his semi-final and then jump out and shout "Boo!" in his face? That would be quite special. And very surprising.

MrNumbers · « **Reply #25 on:** September 17, 2014, 03:54:56 AM »

Quote from: kettlefish on September 17, 2014, 02:24:59 AM

I've called with Udo Schmitz today.
He told me that he gave MrNumbers a special surprising.

Yes, Udo gave me some special surprisings!

Amongst them - "Carcassonne: Mayflower"! I didn't have it till the moment, now I do

Didn't have a chance to try it yet, but rules are quite exciting!
Also Udo gave me a special sign (some kind of "breastplate", don't know how to describe/translate it right), it's a little red follower, that can't be bought, it is fixed on the clothes and symbolizes that the holder is a true/faithful fan of Carcassonne (I hope I understood Udo right)

Quote from: danisthirty on September 17, 2014, 02:47:58 AM

Did he creep up behind him during his semi-final and then jump out and shout "Boo!" in his face? That would be quite special. And very surprising.

Udo had watched my semi-final game and saw that key moment of connect. If he would do "Boo" to my opponent before that moment, this would also be quite special and quite surprising

)

danisthirty · « **Reply #26 on:** September 17, 2014, 03:59:23 AM »

Quote from: MrNumbers on September 17, 2014, 03:54:56 AM

Quote from: kettlefish on September 17, 2014, 02:24:59 AM
I've called with Udo Schmitz today.
He told me that he gave MrNumbers a special surprising.

Yes, Udo gave me some special surprisings! Amongst them - "Carcassonne: Mayflower"! I didn't have it till the moment, now I do Didn't have a chance to try it yet, but rules are quite exciting!
Also Udo gave me a special sign (some kind of "breastplate", don't know how to describe/translate it right), it's a little red follower, that can't be bought, it is fixed on the clothes and symbolizes that the holder is a true/faithful fan of Carcassonne (I hope I understood Udo right)

Wow - that is awesome!

And very well deserved too. I wonder how many people have these?

kettlefish · « **Reply #27 on:** September 17, 2014, 06:02:50 AM »

Quote from: danisthirty on September 17, 2014, 03:59:23 AM

Quote from: MrNumbers on September 17, 2014, 03:54:56 AM
Quote from: kettlefish on September 17, 2014, 02:24:59 AM
I've called with Udo Schmitz today.
He told me that he gave MrNumbers a special surprising.

Yes, Udo gave me some special surprisings! Amongst them - "Carcassonne: Mayflower"! I didn't have it till the moment, now I do Didn't have a chance to try it yet, but rules are quite exciting!
Also Udo gave me a special sign (some kind of "breastplate", don't know how to describe/translate it right), it's a little red follower, that can't be bought, it is fixed on the clothes and symbolizes that the holder is a true/faithful fan of Carcassonne (I hope I understood Udo right)

Wow - that is awesome! And very well deserved too. I wonder how many people have these?

I don't have such a meeple. MrNumbers, you are a very lucky to have such special meeple.
Perhaps you can make a photo from it?

I gave Udo the tip to look at the profile of MrNumbers and Udo has found something.
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Quote from: danisthirty on September 16, 2014, 03:20:33 AM

Do you think there's any chance that Udo Schmitz could contact Halesowen Boardgamers (halesowen.bg@gmail.com) about their running of next year's UK Carcassonne championship?
...

I've called with Udo today (it's his birthday) and I've shown him yours posting here at CarcC.
Yes, he is in generel interested to travel (around the world) and why not to come to the UK?

Carcking · « **Reply #28 on:** September 17, 2014, 07:09:03 AM »

Quote from: danisthirty on September 17, 2014, 02:47:58 AM

Did he creep up behind him during his semi-final and then jump out and shout "Boo!" in his face? That would be quite special. And very surprising.

Very nice for Halloween theme

Gerry · « **Reply #29 on:** September 17, 2014, 07:17:57 AM »

Quote from: MrNumbers on September 17, 2014, 03:54:56 AM

Yes, Udo gave me some special surprisings
Also Udo gave me a special sign (some kind of "breastplate", don't know how to describe/translate it right), it's a little red follower, that can't be bought, it is fixed on the clothes and symbolizes that the holder is a true/faithful fan of Carcassonne (I hope I understood Udo right)

I am guessing that the correct word would be TABARD a concept familiar to World of Warcraft