It’s just a rock show. No seats. I’m buying tix at the door.
I meant “seats” with you to come / to take me
I’m happy to join you then 
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I am slipping in maintaining this. Sorry, peoples. I have finally added the ONR thing @ff0x is doing and BetRunner info. I plan on adding the new FAQ really soon (no access to FFG site at work).
So, are we getting any scoops this year?
Also are there any standings available for the plebs who aren’t on stimslack?
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Abram Jopp first after Swiss Day 1 on CtM and Val.
Lots of Shaper and Anarch. Huge number of CI with lots of Jinteki as well. Rumors that a couple of Apex decks were in contention for Day 2.
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Does anyone have the top 16 elim bracket? Quickly scrolled through the FFG stream and didn’t see it once
Looking forward to the after action analysis when people get back home. I have the impression that this worlds was also much more international. FFG’s commentators were ok, but appeared neither emotional nor insightful as a @botounami or @amavric would have been.
@spags was not off the rails. CI won. But he was also wrong, in the streams I think I did not see a Maw doing some serious work. And the new world champions flag has the UK flag within
What will happen now? Any updated MWL soon? Any rumors from Worlds?
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Speaking for the casual room:
Thank you for losing on purpose with either IT department and Whampoa PU: it’s appreciated.
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I told Boggs to ban CI, then I had him sign it
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One, I predicted CI and Hayley on the Dead Channel podcast, so I was completely right. I didn’t say what Runner in my article, as I didn’t want to tip off what I was leaning towards (PRAISE LADY HAYLEY).
Two, I just noted I like Maw. I didn’t say it was going to be in the cut, nor did I run it.
Nice! My personal predictions were CTM and Smoke, but I’m only a T2 player.
I like Maw too and I expected to see it more often. What do you think why it did not see so much play? Is that card too balanced?
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I think anything that costs 6 that doesn’t also get you into CI’s servers and get accesses is probably too slow to make much headway against a field that’s primarily CI. Against CI, a lot of people don’t bother to install any console at all, unless it’s early and that console is Astrolabe, and it’s going to get you a couple free draws (or if it’s a kill CI and that console’s name is Hearbeat =P).
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I’m awarding Worlds 2017 with the “spiciest meta” superlative; never would I think to see so many varied decks or Heartbeat Hayley anywhere close to t16.
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Agreed! the game seemed to be in a really good place. Seemed like there were more choices than normal what players could choose to build to have a shot at winning.
I’ve said it many times, but Netrunner is probably one of the most difficult games to balance correctly. Not only do you have to balance power levels of different factions (corp v. corp and runner v. runner), it’s also a balancing act of corp. v. runner. You don’t have to just balance one Rock-Paper-Scissor “wheel” but two. And then you have to attach those two “wheels” together.
To see as much diversity as we did in the highest level of competitions is so cool. My brain kind of implodes when I try to think about what it would take to have “total diversity” where there would be all factions with a highly competitive build.
Anyway, that’s an odd tangent I got on. Worlds 2017 was awesome. Loved the meta we got to see.
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Does anyone have the UK Ag list? It looked like a really cool deck (my favourite for the win) and it’d be cool to have a look at.
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I think it’s pretty cool there were so many non-US competitors/champions this worlds, makes it feel like more of an international competition.
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Agreed, great to see not only the (expected) Brits in the top cut but Australia and Europe represented as well.