Polania had the most success with the agricultural mat, but the sample size of that pairing was quite small. The nordic mechanical combination could possibly be the best, and the nordic industrial mat was played an impressive 10 times in the tournament (winning only once). While Crimea did well with everything, the patriotic and industrial mats seemed to be particularly strong in conjunction with the yellow menace. That being said, certain faction-mat combinations were strongest for those nations. There did not seem to be a strong trend of preference for player mats based on pick order. The lowest were the agricultural and engineering mats (17%), which both do not pay dividends for mech building. Mechanical took the top spot with 31% of wins, but the other mats hovered around a 20% win rate. The player mats were much more equally spread out in viability. The other factions were spread out roughly equally in picks and while Polania and Saxony sported 13% win rates, the poor Nords only won two games in the entire tournament for a pitiful 6% win rate. Rusviet was a clear second favorite in picks, appropriately so as they came away with 26% of the wins. Crimea won more games than any other faction with 46% of game wins. Crimea’s flexibility in using cards as resources in addition to being a faction that quickly can jump to 5 workers means that the Crimean economic machine was hard to compete with.
The clear favorite faction of the tournament was Crimea, getting picked first in 65% of games. I would also take this data with a grain of salt as I suspect that experienced players had a stronger feeling for what kinds of faction combinations they wanted to play. The highest bid of the tournament was 10 in a semifinal (which resulted in victory), but the average winning bid was only 4. You may want to avoid late picks to increase your odds of winning in the future, but the eventual tournament winner won the final with a last pick choice. Second pickers won 26% of games, followed by 10% for third pickers, 19% for fourth pickers, and 7% of last pickers. A whopping 39% of first pickers were able to win their games. Pick order was clearly a big factor in winning games. While the story of the game appeared to be large point differentials, there were several stories of players being able to win if they had been able to end it on their own instead, suggesting that a final territory grab is highly impactful. Those were the only two games of the tournament where bidding points differentiated between the winner of the game and a game without scoring.
Of those four games, two of them crowned winners that won as a result of the differential in points due to bidding (including yours truly). The closest games saw first and second being decided by 4 points. The average game win was decided by a 16 point difference between 1st and 2nd place, dropping to a 13 point difference in the semifinal and final games. The scoring in Scythe makes data crunching interesting. Three players coming straight from the demo managed to win their first heat. People were clearly interested in “the new hotness” as the demo was well attended.
There were a large number of repeat players across the two heats, but only 1 repeat winner. Scythe’s breakout year was met with great success as players competed for control of the Factory.
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