It was here: http://challonge.com/anr_worlds_top16
Looking forward to the after action analysis when people get back home. I have the impression that this worlds was also much more international. FFGās 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: itās 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 didnāt say what Runner in my article, as I didnāt want to tip off what I was leaning towards (PRAISE LADY HAYLEY).
Two, I just noted I like Maw. I didnāt say it was going to be in the cut, nor did I run it.
Nice! My personal predictions were CTM and Smoke, but Iām 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 doesnāt also get you into CIās servers and get accesses is probably too slow to make much headway against a field thatās primarily CI. Against CI, a lot of people donāt bother to install any console at all, unless itās early and that console is Astrolabe, and itās going to get you a couple free draws (or if itās a kill CI and that consoleās name is Hearbeat =P).
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Iām awarding Worlds 2017 with the āspiciest metaā 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.
Iāve 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), itās also a balancing act of corp. v. runner. You donāt have to just balance one Rock-Paper-Scissor āwheelā but two. And then you have to attach those two āwheelsā 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 ātotal diversityā where there would be all factions with a highly competitive build.
Anyway, thatās 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 itād be cool to have a look at.
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I think itās 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.
I faced 10 opponents. 3 were American.
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Why no preemptive? Deck feels vulnerable to having ITD randomly sniped, and for a deck that wants to go long shuffling 3x econ back in is really good.
Itās not a bad shout, just slots are super tough to find.
We also discussed playing two ITD over the Blacklist, but it was creating too many lock outs against people who donāt see it coming.
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