Carcassonne World Championship 2021 (16/10/21)

Maciej Polak vs Melvin Quaresma
Recorded by Marian Curcan, member of Carcassonne Romania

[@Ben-pf9wx]

The guy bringing in a new table at 22:55 is the most Carcassonne thing ever

[@antiussentiment]

Where did this fabulous tile set come from? Is it an official thing or custom?

[@rangerbadger7304]

I'd like one of these sets.

[@indanekwaffles7074]

no

[@Twisted_Individual]

Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. During a game of Carcassonne, players are faced with decisions like: "Is it really worth putting my last meeple there?" or "Should I use this tile to expand my city, or should I place it near my opponent instead, giving him a hard time to complete their project and score points?" Since players place only one tile and have the option to place one meeple on it, turns proceed quickly even if it is a game full of options and possibilities.

[@lcpeterbilt379]

thank you.. for those of us that didnt know, that was a huge help.

[@youropionmattersnot]

You win the internet today.

[@jpay]

20:23 what was the advantage of yellow playing there over (viewers right) of the screen?

[@dogbert32]

Yellow only has 1 free meeple. If he played on the right to split the two cities. He couldn't comfortably claim either city, and there likely aren't that many tiles left that slot into where he did end up playing. So playing there did surrender the large city, but it allowed yellow to recover a meeple to be free to claim something bigger. Also, that completed city is a part of yellow's farm, earning additional points. The completed city he created was worth the same amount of points for the city he gave up as long as it remained unfinished. So that move effectively scores him 3 points.

[@stevenfriars631]

A view from overhead, even just 1/4 of the screen would have been helpful. Difficult to see what is really happening here!

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

So when losers give up on life they buy this game?

[@natphil8377]

​@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307are you stupid

[@TheodorAndersen]

not a single comment.. very cool board!

[@user-so4tt6ww2i]

Ничего не понятно, но олчень интересно! ))))

[@kione]

Why don't they view the whole game from the top view?

[@Piggy991]

Commentator: "He did it! He places the tile. Oh wow what a game ladies and gentlemen!"

[@Irish2050]

should have a commentator

[@Piggy991]

"He did it! He places the tile. Oh wow what a game ladies and gentlemen!"

[@eliasmochan]

I did comment on twitch (complixvandh, sometimes it's in Spanish)

[@giovanny1850]

Assistindo aqui na moral e percebi só dps que o mano é BR, caralho... brabo dms

[@jpalmeida104]

Que jogo é esse? Não entendi nada.

[@krz702]

Hello friends, who won this game? Many thanks.

[@Aflacist]

your mom

[@devo076]

@@Aflacist our mom

[@waynejohnson1075]

Stupid question Are the Carcassonne World Championships held in Carcassonne?

[@antiussentiment]

Obvious question... ~laughs~

[@sergodobro2569]

Без дополнений!

[@devo076]

I have no idea what is going on.

[@steffenbryde7957]

Extremely simple rules, - I looked them up - takes 2 mins to learn.

[@devo076]

@@steffenbryde7957well enjoy being grand champion of whatever that is.

[@steffenbryde7957]

@@devo076 Found the game at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago and played it with 3 of my friends - really is a great game!

[@indanekwaffles7074]

Cargo pants AND a fanny pack. Savage.

[@ClintonChelak]

One can never carry too much below the waste.

[@indanekwaffles7074]

@@ClintonChelak LoL. Your entendre is wonderfully droll.

[@kevingt3431]

No entendi en que momento se arman los pinchess chingadasoss? .v

[@larosquilla6926]

X2

[@pokejuice1495]

Are we playing Carcassonne or billiards?

[@Matt..S]

Carcassonne

[@radscorpion8]

Billiards

[@dragoon9airsoft560]

Carcallards

[@chrisdedavid1860]

Would be nice to know the rules being played. What scorring... eg. a 2 piece castle scores how many points? Do incomplete castles score points at the end?

[@eliasmochan]

Closed cities give 2 points per tile and 2 points per shield, even if they only have two tiles (2nd edition rules).

[@eliasmochan]

Incomplete cities score 1 point per tile and 1 point per shield. Every Incomplete feature scores at the end.

[@kobatrader7375]

где купить эту версию игры или дополнение Охотники и Собиратели...

[@perasperaadastraandback]

На авито

[@brettwyman81]

I watched all 35 minutes... The hell is this?!

[@VeganKebabDoRuky]

It's in the title. Board game Carcassonne, but this is slightly different form what you would normally buy.

[@0921DarKo]

para que sirve tomar el tiempo??

[@mykelengieza7057]

No one here knows who won...except for my Mom of course

[@fhdcbdfkdjnisdnoi]

Why is there no river tiles ?

[@shurpie8232]

That's actually an expansion. The base game comes with 1 piece that the back is a different color. That's the starting piece

[@alejosanchez9406]

Ломовейшее зрелище, почти так же интересно как теннис (любой).

[@enragedninja]

Is this Cones of Dunshire?

[@Gregg29407]

"I'll play as the Maverick!"

[@Lolita18]

Would've enjoyed watching this if not for the unskippable 15 sec ads every goddamn minutes smh

[@bigfatcheeser]

Think the ‘shot clock’ should have been reduced.

[@elilakey9416]

I love Carcassonne, but this is rather funny to me. What is stopping an average player from competing in the World Championship? It strikes me as a normal game of Carcassonne.

[@Matt..S]

What stops an average driver from competing in Nascar? It's just a big roundabout.

[@elilakey9416]

@@Matt..S What I mean is, what qualifies one for participation in this world championship?

[@Haldered]

I thought this too, so many strategic mistakes being made! (And I'm not even the best Carcassonne player in my family!)

[@elilakey9416]

@@Haldered Exactly, for example the first farm played is rather weak. It was pretty early in game and was already clearly trapped.

[@melvinquaresma4269]

We play nationals in our countries and then the champion goes to the world finals. In some countries, like Brazil, we even have regional qualifiers to take a place in the nationals. It's a long way to be there playing, really... I respect your point of view but I disagree about the mistakes. Of a course there are some games that have some mistakes but it's not the case of this game in my opinion. 💫 And about the early farmer, it's pretty common in competitive 1x1 Carcassonne to antecipate farmers to start 7 pts (4+3) small constructions. But of a course we try to build the game in this direction. Not saying it was the best choice in that moment, but justifying why me and other players would not consider that a mistake.

[@cbdgallery]

What’s the prize money 😄

[@A-Name304]

Why does the young kid need to show his tile to the opponent, but the opponent never does it to the kid?

[@Peiro95]

First time blue place a meaple in the field, is it legal? Is not the same field as the yellow one? Or does the cities split the field? 7:39

[@samiamagainagain]

It's illegal! Makes me feel like I can become a world champion!

[@alexdog6878]

The two cities pinched like that do make them seperate fields, so it's a legal play. but yea I mean the first guy who scored on the road seemed to confuse everyone there, even though that's like the simplest play a beginner would figure out by the end of their first game

[@GaminGuy_]

why are the tiles so big

[@Headbangerr-en2cc]

Imagine, that people around wanna see something

[@dongalletti7862]

C'est quoi ce jeux bizarre, quelqu'un pourrait me dire svp merci beaucoup

[@FinnMcRiangabra]

The move at 4:40 looks, to a neophyte like me to be a wrong move. why not make it harder for blue to complete his city by placing 3 spaces "north east" of the monastery? It would not have helped with the actual tiles played, but blue was looking at big points from that city/knight.

[@eliasmochan]

Since blocking attempts at the beginning of the game often go wrong, Melvin poetically wanted a la valuable tile to try to block (like a straight line).

[@chrisdedavid1860]

No River expansion!?? 😖😖

[@dalesorenson5743]

Why only two players?

[@Austistatistic]

Adding a 3rd definitely complicates things as no longer does the best player win. It is already too luck oriented. To add a 3rd player just brings chaos to that. I would, however, like to see that ELO from 3 player carcasonne.

[@TheHighway420n]

what is the goal?

[@VeganKebabDoRuky]

To collect the most points. The way you score points is by claiming roads, cities, monasteries, etc.. The way you claim these is by having the most workers there. There's rules around that however, you can only place workers on the tile you just placed (some special pieces in expansions may create opportunities to circumvent this). Also, if you place a tile that connects to an existing road that your opponent has a worker on, you can't place your worker there. You can however place tile that has a road nearby (so you start a new road), place your worker there, then connect it to an existing road with an opponent occupying it. The player who claims a road or a city is the one with the most workers there and it has to be a finished. If you look at the video, city and road pieces can be finished or unfinished. If you finish a city, aka fully enclose it, and have control over it, you get points for each tile multiplied by two. There's more ways to score points too. If each opponent has an even number of works claiming the same thing, they split the points. Maybe there a re different game versions with different rules, or the tournament has different rules (for example we start the game the normal way(or so I believe) when we first build a river). There are also some more pieces you have aside from works that do certain things for you, and even more things to modify gameplay with expansions. I think the game is fun to play tbh.

[@heitorpereira9792]

o Cara fala português ?

[@johnpitelzinho2208]

O de branco é brasileiro

[@jonnyb6700]

Not sure of the rules of this game. Curious how high the skill ceiling is compared to say a game like chess. Like do these guys consistently get to world title contention due to their skill or is it more luck based on getting a good tile.

[@derpallardie]

Scoring is based upon completing features (cities, roads, abbeys, fields) with one or more of your meeple on it. You can only place one meeple per turn, and it must be on a feature of a tile you just placed. Each player has a limited number of meeple, and they stay on the board until their feature is complete and they are scored. There's certainly a fair bit of luck involved with the random tile draw, but plenty of strategic depth in terms of tile and meeple placement.

[@user-fu7md9db5l]

これは、どんなゲーム？

[@shurpie8232]

Imagine telling your friend - Hold on lemme get another table - when you run out of space. Is it not everyone's house rule that a piece is illegal if it hangs off your table 😅

[@DeuceGenius]

Lets see if i can figure out what this game is about by watching... Ok thats not happening today lol

[@carlosalot]

Wasn't that 2nd farmer illegal?

[@martinrohde9503]

Yes, unless there is no gap between the two already finished large cities. Hard to see

[@Justnothankyou132]

Such a simple game, I didn't know adults played it!

[@VeganKebabDoRuky]

Why wouldn't adults play it?

[@hans1783]

It's not that difficult to hang a camera on the ceiling… it's really not that hard, it's as simple as a search away from a youtube tutorial…

[@Daraix4]

Welcome to the Preschool Puzzle Championship 2021 it looks like some points have to be deducted from the players they left gaps in the puzzle.

[@JIacTuK999]

нихрена не понятно, но очень интересно )

[@ricardomorillo7922]

how exciting!!! lmao

[@popcornfps]

What in the revenge of the nerds is going on here?

[@GordonGarvey]

How are there people who get to the world championships who don't know how to play the game? It's fairly basic rules that you can only place on a tile you just put down. This happens at catan tournaments too.

[@andrew_35]

Maybe because there's a lot of chance in this game

[@melvinquaresma4269]

Hey. Probably you are talking about a mistake I made during the game, placing a meeple incorrectly hahahaha I was confused with such a big board, as I am a really short guy. And the lights were really bad in these bright tiles. I played more than 20.000 Carcassonne matches before reaching world finals, not kidding 😂. I know it was an ugly mistake, I was confused by the context, but of a course I knew the rules. Thanks for your comment btw!

[@loadeddaddy9837]

​@@melvinquaresma4269but who won the game?

[@melvinquaresma4269]

@@loadeddaddy9837 The final score was Maciej Polak 93 - 83 Melvin Quaresma!

[@sebastianfirpo1512]

​@@melvinquaresma4269 but who is who!?

[@archwayfilms4362]

Yellow played a tile and then tried to cheat by playing a farmer on a different tile…that or he’s a terrible player and why is he in the finals??

[@mikerochburns4104]

Competitive Dorfromantik?

[@krapsman882]

At 6:46, doesn't the rule states that to place a farmer the field need to somehow be linked to a city in which you have an active knight? And if the city with an active knight is the one at the bottom of the screen, then the blue placement of his farmer is wrong as the field is already controlled by yellow. So there is mistake either way

[@davidrosen3970]

where's the baguettes and cheese!

[@partymeeple5633]

You can only call it a boardgaming world championship if it's in the USA and has mainly US competitors. ~laughs~

[@pedromello0404]

WTF is that?

[@sach4324]

f

[@TonyFalcon76]

wtf is this??

[@flarps387]

2024 cringe recommendation

[@VeganKebabDoRuky]

A board game Carcassonne. Fun to play, I like it. But this seems to be modified for the tournament. Larger tiles with less tiles in play and no river start.

[@javelinchi7293]

4 година ночі а я так і не дав дупля в що вони грають

[@mariebukht1554]

Каркассон настольная игра (:

[@Shoot1ngStar]

Zzzzzzz

[@archwayfilms4362]

These guys. Everyone here are probably the worst people to play board games with, not because they may be “experts” but they seem to have zero chill.

[@juniorrdrz7660]

Wtf am i watching

[@pudetouch]

Nice to see cheating in wc games aswell!

[@99Fasol]

What do you mean?

[@Yourmomgoestocolledge]

Wtf is this

[@user-xi4np7jm6h]

что за ....йню я сейчас посмотрел?

[@jamielfc9232]

Do you have to be a virgin to play this?

[@ricardog5121]

Just dumb. Smh. Such a fool.

[@joeyvigil]

So glad we're done with those masks.

[@alexlogan202]

Boring

[@robertheagy925]

None of these people are playing this game correctly.

[@99Fasol]

What do you mean, I would like to get some info on correct playing.

[@Debbiebabe69]

Surprised both blayer didnt make far more errors - playing a game as complex as carcassone with a friggin MASK on so you are constantly struggling for air.....

[@alexreichline]

Imagine performing a surgery with one on.

[@HollySinner-og5hj]

two inexperienced players, the number of mistakes is off the charts, apparently it’s no wonder they both wear glasses!

[@99Fasol]

What mistakes?