Role: Mentor
Time Zone: GMC -8 (Pacific Time)
Voice Chat: Yes: Skype, Google Hangout.
Specialty: Teaching when to rush/build. Teaching matchup specific strategies. Awareness of what ice you need to predict before even starting a match. Teaching the timing structure of a run inside and out. Teaching priority. Deckbuilding and analysis (do you have the tools you need?). Can teach Jinteki.net or OCTGN.
Corp:Experienced with FA in many forms, NEH, SYNC, HB. Experienced with Glacier HB and RP.
Role: Mentee
Time Zone: Eastern (US)
Able to use Voice Chat: Yes
Areas where you think you need to improve: I like running Whiz and Noise , need to make smarter runs, always seeming to be low on cash and letting the corp have too much. For corp looking to work on HB / NBN, fast advance and butcher shop.
Role: Mentee Timezone: Central Europe (GMT+1) Voicechat: Sure but preferably not Skype Platform: Jinteki highly preferred, never used OCTGN and donāt have it set up Area where you think you need to improve: Iām an inexperienced player in general, but I think my biggest problem is a bad habit of not thinking my turns through properly (aka doing stupid shit and regretting it immediately after), which any sort of mentoring should help simply because Iāll be forced to take a step back and voice out my thought process. But Iāll gladly absorb any knowledge you have to offer, be it tournament archetype mastery on subtle insights on scoring windows!
Role: Student Time zone: EST (GMT - 5:00), free in the evenings/late at night. Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes. Preferably Jinteki, I donāt have OCTGN set up
Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise: Iām a decent player, Iāve been playing for a few months and can do alright against most other players, usually by making decks so janky they donāt know how to play against it.
Iād like help with the fundamentals, like reading the board state and knowing when to run where. And when to mulligan. Learning to recognize scoring windows. I also need help with deck building, specifically how to put together a good corp deck. Iād also like to learn more standard deck archetypes, and how to play and play against them, like NEH FA/Butchershop, or DLR Val. Ideally, at some point, Iād like to try playing competitively.
I visit the website regularly and this thread gave me the final push to register. It would be really fun to be part of this program.
Role: Student Time Zone: GMT+1, in general Im pretty flexible with my time. Voice Chat: Yes Areas To Improve: I would like to focus on my runner game (as I find it behind my corp one). Usually I play good stuff Val, but I am very eager to learn piloting PPVP Kate. This might be the perfect opportunity for it. Im constantly trying to pinpoint the weaker ares of my game, so here are the first couple of them, which come to my mind:
Checkin remotes vs not checking remotes against a) HB (asset/agenda?) b) Kill decks (Mushin-ed cards or Weyland Scorche w/o having Plascrete) c) Horizontal decks,
When to face check (in case of Val),
Clotting startegy (in case of Kate),
Deciding about which cards to discard,
Playing against trap decks,
Identifying more areas to improve. Platform: I prefer Jinteki.net. Note: I started playing around 2-3 months ago spending a lot of time on the game. On Jinteki.net my results seems to be good but havent yet tried out myself on the competitive level.
Role: Mentee Time zone: Atlantic Canada, UTC-4 Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes, but not all the time. Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise: Overall - I havenāt been playing for long and would like to get better. I play online against friends but rarely get to test myself against Tier 1 decks. More specifically, Iād like to branch out from Shaper (mainly CT and some Hayley) and learn some of the finer points of Glacier style Corp play. My FLGS should be getting in a Winter Tournament Kit and Iād like to make a good showing for myself. Platform: OCTGN or Jinteki.net
Just sticking a note here: if anyone in the local Madison, WI area is looking for assistance/mentoring/tips/etc and prefer in person to online, let me know.
Role: Any Time zone: US central, but Iām a huge night owl. Able to use Voice Chat?: Yeahhhhh Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise:
As a Mentor -
I placed second at a 2015 regionals in a field of ~60 players and Iāve won a handful of store tournaments, but Iāve scrubbed out of far more over a 2 year Netrunner career. I have tournament wins with Andromeda, Noise, Valencia, Kit, Kate, Personal Evolution, and almost anything NBN. My strength is making long term strategic game plans and approaching my games and matchups from a macro point of view.
Fun footnote, I pride myself on being a gifted/masochistic Power Shutdown + Accelerated Diagnostics combo player if thatās your jam.
As a Mentee -
I donāt play enough games, and I donāt have experience playing as even half of the archetypes that keep popping up. If you can teach me about a strong deck Iāve never played, I would be happy. In general, I enjoy constructive criticism and dissecting individual plays, and would appreciate working with a similarly minded player of any skill level.
Role: Mentee
Time zone: Mountain Standard Time. Night owl.
Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes
Doing pretty well at the store championship level but would like to take the next step and take home a regional. Need help managing econ and evaluating when itās time to build vs when itās time to pressure. Also need help learning how to play @d1enās Val.
Role: Mentee
Time zone: Pacific (US)
Able to use Voice Chat?: Usually
Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise:
General advice in order to advance to higher level
Role: Student
Time Zone: Mountain Standard Time
Able to Use Voice Chat: Yes
I do well with non-standard decks. I need to focus more on the proven consistent decks.
Role: mentee
Time zone: GMT+9
Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes
Area where you think you need to improve: really trying to improve my runner side of the game. I can pretty consistently top 10 in GNKās (the only kind of tournament available here) but havenāt placed better than 2nd. Currently working on L4J Wizz after I bombed out with Noise this past weekend.
Role: Mentor
Time Zone: US Central
Voice Chat: Yes, Skype
Focus: Running with purpose, playing proactively and aggressively as Corp, Noise (although I may not be great at explaining it ), Deck-building.
I play on OCTGN, but would happily coach someone who uses Jinteki.
(Donāt pair me with @gh0st_b1rd, I give him enough lectures as it isā¦)
Role: Mentee / Mentor (willing to teach, but also willing to learn more Time zone: CST (-6 GMT) Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise: I can teach any intermediate-level strategies and deck building. Can teach advanced criminal and some advanced anarch play and deck building, With Shaper am good with odd runners like Nasir. Pretty good with Sunny.
For learning, just trying to cut down on my mistakes and increase consistency. I donāt like the feeling of having āleft over clicksā (meaning I didnāt plan the turn out well enough).
Role: Student Time zone: NZDT (GMT +13) - University is over so Iām on pretty much all day.
Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes! Numerous years of WoW mean I have pretty much every kind of voice chat set up on my computer.
**Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise:**Iām an intermediate level player who started back in early August.
I need to improve my corp game in general, particularly playing more standard kinds of decks (the only deck I really play is Cambridge style PE as I just donāt really understand normal corp decks). I like glacier but I donāt feel like Iām very good at it - I have trouble recognising scoring windows and the like. Iām mostly a Jinteki player, but Iām interested in trying out other factions for sure, I havenāt really found a corp deck Iāve fallen in love with yet. I do enjoy murder though - Iāve been playing harpsichord butchershop online and really enjoy it (no d&d in my country yet sadly)
Runner side itās Noise. Iād consider my Noise game decent, but Iād really love to improve even more with him. Corp side Iām looking to learn more over-arching strategy and general things, but with Noise I really want to get deep down in the gritty and learn as much as possible about everything I can about him.
Iāve only ever used Jinteki.net but Iām willing to download and learn OCTGN if needed.
Role: Mentee Time zone: UTC -6:00. Work every weekday but available in afternoon on weekdays and weekend.
Able to use Voice Chat?: Yes. I have Skype and would be able to dl other programs if needed.
Area where you think you need to improve or area where you think you have some particular expertise:
Platform: would prefer jinteki.net as I have not tried octgn before
I started in the middle of August and played a bit at the local game store. I have one friend with similar experience who I play often on jinteki. I am currently very interested in playing a glacier style of corp and have settled with foodcoats archetype for now though I think what Iāve been playing is a bit different. Iād like some HB focused help so I can improve my gameplay with slower corp dekcs.
On the runner side Iāve been devoted to Adam since he came out but in general I feel like my runner is much weaker and I could use a lot of advice in this area. I like Adam definitely but I am not set on which runner archetypes I like to play. I like being aggressive but have trouble against kill decks. Just general runner tips would be super useful.
Thanks for setting this up as I feel like it is a great idea! I made my login on stimhack just to sign up for this when I saw it on reddit.
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