I am delighted to confirm that we indeed propose to organise Worlds 2019 in Lille from Friday, 11th of October to Sunday, 13th.
Lille is a great location for the Worlds for a number of reasons:
- Accessibility by car for French, Benelux and quite a few German players: 3 hours to Köln or Amsterdam, less than 2 hours to Paris
- proximity to 3 low cost airports (Lille, Brussels, Charleroi). In particular, Ryanair flies to 25 countries from Charleroi and there is usually a cheap Ryanair bus between Lille and the airport (a number of German cars are also likely to drive by the airport).
- proximity to several major Airports (London, Paris, Brussels) for our non-European friends who can organise a holiday in London and/or Paris combined with the Worlds
- much cheaper accomodation that in Paris
- Northern France is renowned for its beers and food
- Lille is a beautiful city and also offers great shopping opportunities if you plan to come with your partner (sorry for the stereotype
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Edit 20/08/19: it looks like the venue has been secured. We will play in a medieval cellar in the historical centre of Lille (« le vieux lille ») called « la cave des celestines ». A nice one to follow last year’s castle.
https://www.lille.fr/Nos-equipements/Ca ... celestines
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I would also like to highlight that the event will really be beginner-friendly. quite a few people would probably like to come to the Worlds but do not feel like building competitive decks. So we will run quite a few events including more casual ones in parallel ot the main tourney. 10 French players have already confirmed their attendance and it will be the first Worlds for most of them. So if you have never attended Meccg Worlds, this is a great opportunity.
The only thing that we really need from you at this stage is that you let us know asap whether you plan to attend as we have several possible venues in mind with different capacity. The sooner we get a rough estimate of the numbers, the better (and the cheaper the Ryanair flights for you
). So please post on this thread if you plan to attend.Edit 24/09/19: here is the near-final list of attendees
37 registered (from 11 countries):
Heiner
Patric
Mark A.
Sebastian K.(Glorfindel 2)
Karsten
Pawel
Eric (Thorsten)
Nicolai
Wolgang
Mario
Christian and his son Henrik
Stevie
Leon
Ernst (Friday, Saturday)
Dominique
Vincent
Ludovic
Maxime
Roman
Clement
Stephane P.
Stephane H. (sunday)
Stavros
Denis
Hervé
Benoit
Franck
Yannick
Langloude
Francesco
Joce
Sylvain G
Domenico
Kodi
Oscar
Nicolas D (big red) (Saturday)
4 interested but waiting for their work schedule or other elements before they can confirm:
Steffen L (Dain II)
Jérome Q.
Roland B.
Michel S.
Cannot make it:
Wiet
Christoph
Luigi
Stefan F
Florian
Fabian and the Hamburg group
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Proposed schedule for main tournaments
Friday afternoon: venue will officially open at 2pm (but we will be available to welcome people earlier in the day if they plan to arrive earlier e.g. with a Ryanair flight). Tourney start times will be announced once travel plans have been received (ideally 3pm and no later than 4pm in any case)
A: Hero 1-deck
B: classic DC (i.e. only ICE-released cards + the 3 released DC extensions FB, DF, NE can be used. Balrog decks are not allowed - DC challenge decks will be made available if you do not have your own deck)
Saturday :
A: world championship (qualifiers for the finals)
B: scenario tournament
Saturday evening: left open for the following activities:
Casual play
Board games
Drinking game tourney
Guided walk with Denis and I around Lille to discover this beautiful city and / or pub crawl
Sunday :
A: worlds finals (top 4)
B: DC scenario (A crossover between DC and scenario that can be played with most normal DC decks, Dominique will post rules)
C: challenge decks
D: sealed / others depending on demand
E: DC challenge decks
Depending on demand, the following games/tourney will be available on Friday pm and if you are not interested in the main options A. Please post in this thread if you are interested:
Arda
Challenge Decks tourney
Sealed tourney
Solo scenarios from Various ICE publications (I can bring rules and decks)
Thank you.
Hervé
Just kidding of course. Count me in for sure! Thats gonna be a cool event!!
