Aaron and Alex match up for one final time in the losers bracket finals, as they fight for the remaining seat at the 2016 Canadian Nationals finals. Alex Bradley’s Peddler-heavy Valencia begins her attack on the horizontal servers of Aaron Celovksy’s NBN: Controlling the Message, as Aaron hopes to replicate the results of their previous top eight bout.
Yearly Archives: 2016
Stimhack Chat – Worlds Review by Foilflaws
In this first Stimhack Chat I invited Scot Pags, Simon Moon, Jake Tunstall and John Treviranus to discuss the World’s results, what it means for the meta and their own experiences at Netrunner’s biggest event….
Canadian Nationals 2016: Winners Finals – Andromeda (Aaron Celovsky) vs. E.T.F. (Andrej Gomizelj) – The Métropole Grid
The two yet undefeated opponents meet in the winners bracket finals, fighting to secure a spot at the Canadian Nationals finals table. Aaron Celovsky and his draw-heavy Andromeda is looking to replicate Swiss round success against the Métropole Grid’s own Andrej Gomizelj and his very jammy ETF.
Canadian Nationals 2016: Top Eight – Game Three: Whizzard (Dien Tran) vs. C.T.M. (Alex Bradley) – The Métropole Grid
The two Canadian titans Dien Tran and Alex Bradley face-off in this high-stakes elimination round. Top seed Dien readies his good-stuff Whizzard to assault the asset-heavy servers of Alex’s Controlling the Message. No matter what, one of these top-placing Swiss players’ Nationals run will come to an end.
Scoops and Ruses: 4 Days in Netrunner – A Worlds 2016 Report by Aaron Andries (@aandries)
Warning – everything in this report is either the truth or a lie. Written for posterity, to answer questions, but mostly for laughs. Told in bullet points in honor of Josh.0’s Codenames fail (not his…
Creation and Control Retrospective – Corp – Netrunner with Willingdone
Canadian Nationals 2016 : Top Eight – Game Two: Valencia vs. C.T.M. – The Métropole Grid
Two of Ontario’s finest players meet up in game two! Ottawa’s Alex Bradley investigates the political servers of NBN’s new megacorp, Controlling the Message, managed by Toronto’s Aaron Celovsky. Can the criminal-boosted Anarch economy keep up with the unions and tags of the post 23-seconds NBN?
Canadian Nationals 2016 : Top Eight – Game One: E.T.F. vs. Kate – The Métropole Grid
A full day of Swiss rounds narrows the competitive field at the 2016 Canadian Nationals down to eight final players. Those determined eight return for a second day of high-stakes Netrunning, to duke it out for the title of Canadian National Champion.
Game one is a return to core set staples, as Michigan’s Steven Jecmen pilots a sentry-heavy Engineering The Future against Montreal’s Julien Deville and his ‘one-turn-kill’ Kate. Are 14 clicks enough for the inventive Shaper to close out a game, or will the efficiency and speed of the reliable HB power through?
Worlds 2016 Predictions – Live by the Dice, Die by the Dice
Last year, I was excited enough for Worlds 2015 that I wrote a hype piece for it. Although a few of my solid, guaranteed, Stimhack Lock of the Year <tm> predictions fell somewhat flat, the…
Escalation – Stimhack Community Reviews and Meta Predictions (Corporation)
Welcome back! If you missed the first half of this Review, check out Escalation – Stimhack Community Reviews and Meta Predictions (Runner). This is the second installment of the Stimhack review of Escalation. In this…