WTCOC Curiosities by Mingo, szigfrid, JinaJina, and manarori
Curiosities of WTCOC 2024
The Curiosities listed below are only a small fraction of the final WTCOC ’24 Curiosities.
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Match, Duel, and Game Counts
- Number of matches played:
- 106
- 89 in the group stage (90 scheduled, but one week 5 match wasn’t played)
- 16 in the playoffs
- Total number of duels played:
- 520 duels
- 440 in the group stage (450 scheduled, but one match and 5 other duels weren’t played)
- 80 in the playoffs
- Number of duels with 2 games played
- 288
- (576 games)
- Number of duels with 3 games played
- 232
- (696 games)
- Total number of games played:
- 1272 (games with BGA gamelogs)
- (includes draws, games lost by time, games conceded, etc., but does not include 20 ‘no-shows’ that were scored but not played)
Player and Team Performance
- Number of players who played at least one game
- 327
- Number of teams
- 36
- Number of teams where every registered player participated in at least one of their matches:
- 22
- Number of teams that fielded (no pun intended) 10 different players!
- 15
- Number of players who played in every match possible:
- 38
- Players who won all 5 of their group stage duels: (5 players):
- Alexey_LV (Lat) *
- Loku_elo (Esp) *
- HotlyHotly (Twn)
- Pechitoz (Col)
- Claudio Jorquera (Chl)
- * Players with an asterisk after their name also won all playoff duels, if played.
- Players who played in only 4 group stage matches, but won every duel (5 players)
- Medusahope (Ger) *
- pollo_verde (Ita) *
- Kithara (Jap) *
- Sunny369 (HK) *
- Mars15 (Rom) *
- * Players with an asterisk after their name also won all of their playoff duels, if played.
- Number of players who played in at least 4 matches this year and won all of their duels (including playoff rounds):
- 15 (including the 7 players listed above with * after their names
- chengfengtsai (Twn)
- Salva3xz (Col)
- 71st (RCP)
- should (Jap)
- Arus0307 (Jap)
- DoNotWasteMyTime (RCP)
- Moya88 (Cze)
- Nko Jouannet (Chl)
- Most duels won (7 duels)
- should (Jap) won all 7 duels
- Most matches/duels played (9 duels, the maximum possible)
- Szigfrid (Hun)
- Played in 8 duels, however…both would have played in all 9 matches if their opponents had been able to participate in the 5th group stage match)
- viv- (Fra)
- squallus (Fra)
- Number of players winning 100% of their games:
- 18
- 15 of those players only played one duel this year
- Chengfengtsai (Twn) played and won 4 duels (8 games)
- VisitorQ (Cat) and Arop (USA) both played and won 2 duels (4 games)
- Number of players that were registered for WTCOC but didn’t play:
- 20
- Top 3 Highest scores by player:
- 144: JMargarido (Por)
- 142: bignacho610 (Arg)
- 141: 1-3 (Fra)
- Highest combined points scored within a game:
- 269: JMargarido (Por, 144) vs KajaaninOlli (Fin, 125)
- Lowest winning score by player:
- 57: TanyaU (Ukr)
- Lowest individual score:
- 43
- Total number of games ending in a draw:
- 28 (2.2% of games played)
- Number of draws played by any player:
- 3: TerranPL (Pol) (won all tiebreakers)
- 2: LazyBore (UK) (won both tiebreakers)
- 1: 23 players
- Highest number of draws by team:
- 5: Poland (won all 5)
- 5: Taiwan (won 3, lost 2)
- 4: Tutejšyja (won 1, lost 3)
- 3: United Kingdom (won 3)
- 3: Ukraine (won 1, lost 2)
- 3: Italy (won 1, lost 2)
- 10 teams had exactly 2 games end in a draw
- 13 teams had exactly 1 game end in a draw
- 7 teams had no draws
- Highest draw score:
- 120 – 120: Eyeba11 (Twn) and Gladki_Alex (Tut)
- That is the same highest draw score as last year 🙂
- Lowest draw score:
- 67 – 67: Marka (Fra) and Medusahope (Ger)
- Number of games where a player exceeded the time limit:
- 14 (10 fewer than last year!)
- Number of players who conceded the game after running of time:
- 4 (and two others ran out of time at the end of their game).
- Number of tiles remaining “on the deck” when each player lost due to time (indicates where in the game time was exceeded)
- 41, 34, 26, 13, 10, 10, 8, 6, 5, 3, 1, 1, 0, 0
- (for example, one player ran out of time when there were 41 tiles remaining, and so on…)
- Number of matches ending with a 5-0 score:
- 12
- Number of teams that won two matches scoring 5-0:
- 3: Japan, France, China
- Teams that won all their group stage matches:
- 4: China, Czech Republic, RCP, Taiwan,
- Most duels won by a team (group stage):
- 20 (RCP)
- Most games won by a team (group stage):
- 73 Japan
- Least games lost by a team (group stage):
- 24 China
- Most matches won by NON-qualified teams:
- 3 matches won: Argentina, Catalonia, Germany, and Hong Kong (matching three qualified teams)
- Most duels won by NON-qualified teams:
- 13 duels won: Hong Kong, Argentina and Spain (matching two qualified teams)
- Most games won by NON-qualified teams:
- 32 games (50%) by Romania and Spain (matching one qualified team)
- Teams that played most games during the group stage:
- 65: Chile and Netherlands
- Teams that played the most games during the entire tournament:
- 112 Japan and Hungary
Curiosities
- Number of discarded tiles during WTCOC ‘24
- 53 (total)
- 42 (4-sided city tile)
- 5 (monastery without a road)
- 6 (crossroad)
- Number of players who discarded more than one tile during WTCOC ‘24
- 6: Adanlasheras (Chl), Sparklehorsee- (Per), statmatt (UK), beliwan (Ned), Loose-Goose (Ned), and kepalaslt (Lit)
- Kepalaslt (Lit) is the only player to discard two tiles in the same game
- Number of games with 2 discarded tiles:
- 2 (tables #501308013 and #507682001
- Most meeples placed during a game
- 24 (4 players)
- BBKosta (RCP)
- easttung (HK)
- statmatt (UK)
- Setsugentou (Jap)
- 23 (5 players)
- Nko Jouannet (Chl)
- mihnea27 (Rom)
- Glovir (Por)
- CraftyRaf (Bel)
- Alexey_LV (Lat)
- 24 (4 players)
- Number of games where the winner scored fewer points than their opponent:
- 3 (two were games lost due to a player running out of time, and the third game was conceded without running out of time)
- Number of games conceded, but not lost due to time:
- 6
- Number of games played with incorrect time settings:
- 11
- Number of ‘close calls’ (games where a player had less than 3 seconds remaining at the end of at least one turn during the game)
- 22
- Number of games where the player who lost due to time used LESS thinking time during that game than their opponent
- 2
- Number of games lost due to time where the player had used less than 15 minutes of thinking time
- 8 / 14 (57%)
- Number of games where players used more than 15 minutes of thinking time (without running out of time)
- 356 / 1265 (28%) – (both players used more than 15 minutes of thinking time in 39 of those games)
- Fewest and most endcap tiles drawn in a game (table #510670254)
- Claudio Jorquera 4 / 22 (19%)
- Leykos 18 / 22 (81%)
- Fewest and most city tiles with shields drawn in a game (table #508881530):
- 0 (0%) dremkad (Col)
- 10 (100%) Simaster 1991 (Cze)
- Most time spent playing
- szigfrid (Hun) officially logged 7 hours, 51 minutes and 12 seconds of thinking time playing WTCOC games this year.
- Statmatt (UK) is the only other player to come close to szigfrid, logging 5 hours, 42 minutes and 26 seconds of thinking time
- LaHache (Fra) and squallus (Fra) are the only other players to log more than 4 hours of thinking time (4:32:09 and 4:24:24 hr:min:sec, respectively)
Elo Curiosities
- Lower Elo players won 500 / 1223 games (40.9% chance of winning)
- Higher Elo players won 723 / 1223 games (59.1% chance of winning)
- (excluding draws, binomial test, p < 0.000001)
- A more robust evaluation of how Elo influences the outcome of a game can be revealed using linear regression analysis. The differences in points scored by two players during a game is significantly and positively correlated with their Elo differences. The score difference between two opponents is the same, but positive for the winner and negative for the loser. Similarly, the Elo difference is also the same but positive for the higher Elo player and negative for the lower Elo player. Because the differences between two opponents always have the same magnitude but opposite signs, it would be redundant to include two points per game. Therefore one point per game was randomly chosen to be included in the linear regression analysis illustrated in the plot below. (Some general information about linear regression analysis can be found in the “Luck of the draw” section below.)
- (slope = 0.044, R-squared = 0.34, p < 0.000001)
The above curiosities are just an overview of the full edition available here: