The State of the Meta(game)
“Corp sucks.” I’ve heard that a lot this year. If you’ve had a conversation about the Android: Netrunner and NISEI meta with someone, you’ve probably heard something similar at some point. Over the course of…
Author Archives: Ajar
Welcome to the Losers’ Club
Editor’s Note: This article was contributed to Stimhack by kevintame. This year, I competed at Fantasy Flight’s Android: Netrunner World Championship event. According to several of the players I spoke with, it was one of…
Roving Submarine: A Worlds 2017 Report, Part 2
Submarine: verb. In a tournament using Swiss pairings, to sink to near the bottom of the standings in order to draw favourable matchups and / or avoid the best players for the rest of the…
Roving Submarine: A Worlds 2017 Report, Part 1
Submarine: verb. In a tournament using Swiss pairings, to sink to near the bottom of the standings in order to draw favourable matchups and / or avoid the best players for the rest of the…
Representing the Community: Learning from the European Championship
What Happened On The European Championship Stream? The European Championship was a huge event, and by all accounts, also a hugely successful event — at least until the final game. I’ll leave the tournament reports…
Tighten Up: A 2016 Store Championship Season Report
A top-tier pilot with above average dex usually outperforms above average pilots with top-tier dex in ANR. — spags It’s a common saying among Android: Netrunner players that your overall skill level is a…
OCTGN Matchup Analysis, Part 3
In Parts 1 and 2, I covered Netrunner OCTGN matchup data for five Runner IDs (Kate, Gabe, Andromeda, Noise, and Reina) versus the four core Corp IDs (Making News, Engineering the Future, Building a Better…
OCTGN Matchup Analysis, Part 2
In Part 1, I covered my methodology in filtering and cleaning up the latest Android: Netrunner OCTGN dataset for matchup analysis, along with reviewing the matchups for Kate. Before I dive into the rest of…
OCTGN Matchup Analysis, Part 1
Our newest author Ajar takes a deep statistical look at matchup data between the various identities.