The fact that this is an outlier does not mean the results are meaningless. 
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Still compiling stats and data, but in the meantime… Colorado Regional Top 16:
^^^ Worth noting, 20 of 39 players played Shaper at last year’s Regional, including 12 Kates. Blue and orange got some payback this year… Highest Shaper finish was a Hayley at 17th place.
Also, if needed @PaxCecilia: FFG OP Event Report Form
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Holy crap does Colorado love Crim! No wonder Jon did so well with IG. That’s insane.
Not really, at least historically. 20/39 players on Shaper last year. Going even further back, we were one of the only Plugged-In events to vote massively in favor of Collective over Fisk. Just a weird snapshot of the current meta here.
We actually had 3-4 people that I personally know who were testing IG over the past couple of months and ultimately decided against bringing it, one of the reasons being the prominence of Criminal leading up to Regionals. We all watched Andromeda w/Desperado, 3x Security Testing, and Feedback Filter just wreck IG in the final match of a GNK tournament the week before Regionals and it left an impression with some folks.
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OK, the most teched out Andromedas have a good shot against IG, but surely not all of those Crims were teched against IG? Whereas at a normal 2016 regionals, Whizzard would have been more common than Crim, and IG would have had a much harder time winning it all. I love Crim and played it at all my regionals, but that’s a crazy top 16.
Certainly, most of those Criminals were not specifically teched for IG. And that is absolutely a crazy Top 16, that’s why I posted it. My follow-up comment was more just pointing out that this sea of blue isn’t normal for us either. 
I personally love Criminal, but it’s been the least played faction here for 2+ years.
More complete Canberra results:
1 - Tobias Fielitz - Noise/SYNC
2 - Gareth Jamieson - Whizzard/Palana
3 - Ben O’Neill - Quetzal/SYNC
4 - Stephen Corfield - Apex/GRINDL
5/6 - Ryan Thomas - Whizzard/NEH
5/6 - Daniel Statford - ???/NEH [Will confirm tonight]
7/8 - Ben Stanley - Nasir/EtF
7/8 - Adam Brzezinski - Leela/Argus
The rest of the field was a pretty good mix but I’m only really confident about what was played in the bottom half and a handful of friends because I had a pretty terrible day.
I handled the recordings and we’re hoping to get the videos out over the next few weeks, starting with the Swiss rounds. The bad news is that I played on camera for the last two rounds of Swiss because we gave people the option to not be filmed and the top tables either IDed or asked to not be recorded.
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Excellent, I’ll hold off on updating the stats report until you get confirmation.
Confirmed with the TO, Dan Statford was on Whizzard/NEH.
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Holy crap, five!!? There’s no way the smaller ones get more than 15 players. That’s more Regionals than we had Store Champs in Finland this year!
Yeah, the one up north had 4 people, but they scheduled it on the same day as the one at lincon otherwise at least a couple of more people would have traveled probably.
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Entrance fee 100€? 
Which is not even allowed, illegal tournament 
I tried to get that for you, but the data is gone. I guess we could ask around and piece it together from memory…?
Regionals this weekend:
- North America
- Vancouver, BC, Canada (Stream)
- Europe
- London, UK (Stream) - Swiss June 18th, Top 8 June 19th
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Eindhoven, Netherlands (tourney 1 of 2)
- Ulm, Germany
- Varberg, Sweden
- Australia
- Hobart, Australia
Anything helps!
Winner of Valencia regional was playing Valencia and ETF. Runner up was Noise and Neh iirc. The top 8 was 7 anarchs and a Hailey. Corps I think 1 HB, 2 jinteki (one of them palana for sure) and the rest were NBN iirc. The TO should post the tourney data soon. If they don’t report it here, I will so you can have more data.
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Just arrived home from Brno. 19 players, 5 rounds Swiss + top 4. I finished Swiss as 4th, went to cut as 3rd seed (one guy dropped after Swiss) and won the cut.
My decks were @Matuszczak’s Haarp Kill (-1 Lily Lockwell, +1 Consulting Visit) and @bblum’s HyperKate (-3 Indexing, +2 TME, +1 RDI, -1 Lady, -1 Turning Wheel, +1 Inti, +1 Legwork).
Top 4
Full results should be on Acoo soon. 2nd place MN deck was something absolutely amazing, using Restructured Datapool and Aryabhata Tech to steal the runner’s credits and stop them from making meaningful runs. I got utterly destroyed by it in first game of finals.
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Nice performance, but at this point it can hardly be named after me anymore. 
Indexing is my trademark card!
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indent preformatted text by 4 spaces@bluebird503 takes Vancouver B.C. regionals with Hot tubs and Bblum Kate.
Final Standings:
1: Kyle James (@bluebird503) Kate/Gag
2: Dave Cheng (@Bilitherubin) Whizz/Palana
3: Peter Harris NEH/Kate
4: Raj Giri (@grogboxer) Whizz/Palana
5/6: Noah Podolske (Me!) (@Podoboyz99) Whizz/Gag
5/6: Phillip Douglas Whizz/SYNC
7/8: Thung Tran Val/Haarp
7:8: Ryan Berg
Can’t seem to break the 5/6 slot, third regional I’ve finished there. It was tons of fun, thanks for the TO and the stream crew. As @ossa once eloquently said:
“The bluebird strikes again! Cawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww”
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