{"id":2540,"date":"2020-05-22T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ragingbullseries.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2020-05-22T18:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:55:13","slug":"the-corona-cup-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragingbullseries.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/the-corona-cup-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corona Cup Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s March 15, Corona has spread through the Netherlands and the government decided to close bars, restaurants, hairdressers, gyms etc. and advise everybody to work and stay home. This is it for the Dutch tournament scene which was just about to start. We normally have a very active community with a lot of great people who are organising tournaments for the community. Just look at the calendar and you will see we can basically play a tournament every month and because of the size of our small country you never really have to travel more than 1 – 2 hour, extend this to include the Belgium and German tournaments and you\u2019re basically set to play even more, just look at our <\/span>event calendar<\/span><\/a> to get an idea.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of the short travel required and the active community (over more than 70 active players) we always have about 35 – 50 people joining our tournaments, including some ruglar foreigners like Florian and Jason and the first edition of Raging Bull even attracted Mitja, Alban and the Italian Fish Liver crew. Just too bad the 2nd edition will now be online because we had a lot more communities signed up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyways, back to March, with all the tournament cancellations coming in and everybody stuck at home I felt I wanted to do something with an idea which was already in my head for months\u2026. I always thought about setting up a sort of online league\/series similar to the NEOS monthlies and DFB\u2019s derbies. I really would like to join the NEOS series but scheduling the games with the US time zones is just really hard next to 3 children and a full-time job.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So with everybody stuck at home and no tournaments I decided I would set up an online derby for the community, just a short tournament so we could play some games.The name was simple of course this would be the Corona Cup, now get the setup in place so I messaged our old school philanthropist DFB and asked him about his derby and he was friendly enough to supply me with the software specifically made by our web and software wizard SlanFan, thanks for that both! I later found out, while listening to the <\/span>ATC episode<\/span><\/a>, that I wasn\u2019t the only one. \ud83d\ude09\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So I built a google sheet, tested the software and asked the community who wanted to join. Wow, I ended up with 30 people from the Netherlands, Belgium and our German friend Florian. This meant we would do 1 batch of 4 matches and a Top-8. Everybody liked the setup, we had a lot of fun and people were done with their matches in a matter of days. I believe we went through the whole thing in under 10 days. The feedback was so positive that I decided to do more series, after all the government extended the \u201clock-down\u201d, so we would have more time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought about the setup and decided to do 4 Corona Cups, each consisting of 10 days (excluding T-8) and the finalists would be put in a special 5th round, the Champions League. So I created a poster and a <\/span>Trailer<\/span><\/a> and posted it in our whatsapp and <\/span>Facebook<\/span><\/a> group. Everybody could sign up for the remaining 3 cups and within 3 days I had between 34 and 40 participants per cup.<\/span><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s have a brief look at the cups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cup 1<\/b><\/h2>\n

So this was the first one as a test and it was great, after explaining everything in an online document we kicked it off and people started playing. I created a whatsapp group and quickly people were spamming, bragging and most of all having fun. We also had a newcomer to the cup, Leon. Leon has a beautiful collection of Beta cards and built a deck to play with us. You can see all the decks in the gallery below.\u00a0 After about 7 days everybody finished their games and the standings looked like this (note Bjorn\u2019s stainless record):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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4 people who went 4-0 and 5 who went 3-1, it\u2019s inevitable in this setup but still annoying to have one person on 3-1 not going into T-8 (sorry Ron), this was now defined as \u201cde pech pot\u201d (unlucky match) and it wouldn\u2019t be the last\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end the final was between Leon and Peter, so we had our first 2 Champions League contenders and in the end Leon won the whole thing with his Nethervoid list including word of command! I expect a spike coming \ud83d\ude09\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Top 8:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Quarter Finals<\/b><\/td>\nWinner<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jorgo Vanhees<\/span><\/td>\nVS<\/span><\/td>\nPeter Bonthuis<\/span><\/td>\nPeter Bonthuis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bjorn S<\/span><\/td>\nVS<\/span><\/td>\nFlorian von Bedrow<\/span><\/td>\nFlorian<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leon<\/span><\/td>\nVS<\/span><\/td>\nLouis de Nijs<\/span><\/td>\nLeon<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joep Meddens<\/span><\/td>\nVS<\/span><\/td>\nArjen Oord<\/span><\/td>\nJoep<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Semi Finals<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Bonthuis<\/span><\/td>\nVS<\/span><\/td>\nJoep<\/span><\/td>\nPeter Bonthuis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Florian<\/span><\/td>\nVS<\/span><\/td>\nLeon<\/span><\/td>\nLeon<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Finals<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Bonthuis<\/span><\/td>\nVS<\/span><\/td>\nLeon<\/span><\/td>\nLeon<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Decks<\/h3>\n

For me the deck of this cup was Steven\u2019s deck, he was a new player (for me?) and his deck is the true spirit of OS, he built the deck he played when he was young, you can see the icy\/Royal combo and the Timmy\/Queen, haven\u2019t we all built that back in the 90\u2019s?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Deck Gallery:<\/strong><\/p>\n