{"id":363,"date":"2018-07-05T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/learning\/?p=363"},"modified":"2018-11-01T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T10:05:31","slug":"card-counting-challenge-on-the-learning-sphere-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/learning\/2018\/07\/05\/card-counting-challenge-on-the-learning-sphere-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Card Counting Challenge on the Learning Sphere Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome everyone in this announcement about the Card Counting Challenge!<\/span><\/p>\n

Last september<\/a>, I announced the creation of the Card Counting Challenge Project. The article also included the 4 first scenarios our team crafted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nine months later, it is time to give updates on where we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Scenarios<\/b><\/h2>\n

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First, 5 more scenarios are available. We have some evolution of the challenge, with the monitorless versions. Scenarios 3 and 6 can be completed without the help of a second person to answer your questions: all the available information about each card are directly freely provided. Also, even though our imagination is quite creative (see Money Counting and Approach of the 7th card), we built scenarios from actual situations that happened on tournaments.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of the 9 current scenarios, with small introduction:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. AER standard<\/a>: A player does not remember if they drew for the turn. It is a good scenario to unravel to people in seminars, as it gots a lot of interactions to notice.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. AKH sealed<\/a>: A twisted scenario were taking into consideration every element is necessary to know if an extra draw occured.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Modern Life Problem<\/a>: On turn 3, all the life totals are lost, you need to figure out what were they. A Monitorless<\/a>\u00a0version is also available (the monitorless version is easier).<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. HOU sealed<\/a>: another Amonkhet block sealed, another drawing extra card suspicion. This scenario is easier than the AKH sealed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Money Counting Challenge – XLN Sealed<\/a>: The goal will be to count the number of treasures of a player. To do so, some counting cards will be involved.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. IMA Sealed – Monitorless<\/a>: As the previous monitorless scenario, life totals are missing. Being given all the information, you need to recreate the game. This is a good puzzle to solve individually.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Approach of the 7th Card – XLN Standard<\/a>: A player is not sure about where should be their opponent\u2019s Approach of the Second Sun. It is a challenging twist in the countings, as it is not possible to track down everything from the beginning of the game.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Modern Tron vs Jeska\u00ef<\/a>: A scenario that happened at GP London 2018. Tron player put back lands in their hand, and cannot remember how many of those should be on the battlefield.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. DAR Sealed<\/a>: This situation happened in a Dominaria Pre-release. A spectator believes that a player has more lands than possible on the battlefield.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Common Draws<\/a> – Pauper: A scenario created thanks to a situation brought by\u00a0Juha Ihonen<\/a><\/span><\/span>. Active Player shuffled with their Ponder, and the players disagree on whether AP drew a card after that or not.\n

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    Counting situation that happened in GP London 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The authors of those scenarios include Kevin Desprez<\/a><\/span><\/span>, James Edwards<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Florian Horn<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Tomas Ornowski<\/a><\/span><\/span> and myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

    All the current and future scenarios are available on this google drive<\/a>. We will try to give updates about new scenarios on the Learning Sphere Bog.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    As you can see, we have been prolific. A Pauper scenario that was brought by Juha Ihonen<\/a><\/span><\/span> should arrive in July. If you handle a Counting situation that was interesting, feel free to contact us with all the information you can remember, and we will do our best to recreate it. You can even take a picture of the board state.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Translation and GP Challenges<\/b><\/h2>\n

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    On the translation side, some of the challenges have been translated. You can find all the translations in the google drive folder given earlier. Here are the leads for some languages:<\/span><\/p>\n