{"id":10413,"date":"2025-08-13T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=10413"},"modified":"2025-10-07T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:03:27","slug":"cascadia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/index.php\/gaming\/tournament\/cascadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cascadia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10412 alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cascadia-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cascadia-150x150.jpeg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cascadia.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Designers:<\/strong> Randy Flynn<br \/>\n<strong>Publishers:\u00a0<\/strong>Flatout Games, AEG<br \/>\n<strong>Boardgamegeek Info:\u00a0 <\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/295947\/cascadia\">https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/295947\/cascadia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5>GAMEMASTER<\/h5>\n<p><strong>GM: <\/strong>Chad Martin<\/p>\n<h5>SCHEDULE<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Demo:<\/strong> Wed, 2PM<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"\/index.php\/schedule\/\">schedule<\/a> for Heat times<\/p>\n<h5>PLAQUES<\/h5>\n<p>The top two finishers in the final will receive a plaque.<\/p>\n<h4>Event Description<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cascadia<\/strong> is a challenging tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. It was the Spiel des Jahres winner in 2022 and players build their terrain and populate it with wildlife. Points are awarded for the largest area of each type of habitat as well as for meeting randomly drawn wildlife goals.<\/p>\n<h5>SETUP<\/h5>\n<p>Remove the Hawk Network \u201cC\u201d card. Then randomly draw one card from each type of Wildlife. Each player chooses a random starting tile.<\/p>\n<h5>PRELIMINARY ROUNDS<\/h5>\n<p>Three 90-minute heats will be played.\u00a0 Preference will be for 4-player games but we will use 3-player games as necessary.\u00a0 Standard rules as in the box and no expansions or promos will be used.<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear=\"none\" \/>Please bring your copy of the game.<\/p>\n<h5 id=\"yiv9916902656yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507907228619_9417\" dir=\"ltr\">ELIMINATION ROUNDS<\/h5>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><strong style=\"font-size: inherit;\">If there are at least 32 total players:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The Top 16 players advance to the semi-finals, as determined by the standard Euro Quest tiebreakers.\u00a0These players will play four 4-player games, the winner of each advancing to the finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If there are less than 32 total players:<\/strong><br \/>\nWith 4 or fewer unique winners, we will skip directly to a final with those winners.\u00a0 If necessary, the next top ranked player(s) without a win will advance to fill the table to 4.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 4 unique winners, we will advance either 8 or 12 (depending on the number of unique winners) to a semi-final.\u00a0 The next top ranked players without a win may be included to fill out the tables.\u00a0 Advancement of non-winners in the semifinal will be determined by placement in the semifinal game and then highest percentage of the semifinal winner&#8217;s score.\u00a0 The top 4 players from the semi-final will advance to the final table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 id=\"yiv9916902656yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507907228619_9418\" dir=\"ltr\">TIEBREAKERS<\/h5>\n<p>The following tie breakers will be used in all rounds.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">1. Most Nature tokens<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">2. Most bonus points for largest habitat types<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">3. Highest points earned from a single wildlife type<br clear=\"none\" \/>4. Reverse turn order from starting player<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<h5 dir=\"ltr\">Previous winners<\/h5>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Cascadia is new for 2025<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designers: Randy Flynn Publishers:\u00a0Flatout Games, AEG Boardgamegeek Info:\u00a0 https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/295947\/cascadia GAMEMASTER GM: Chad Martin SCHEDULE Demo: Wed, 2PM See schedule for Heat times PLAQUES The top two finishers in the final will receive a plaque. Event Description Cascadia is a challenging tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. It was &hellip; <a href=\"\/index.php\/gaming\/tournament\/cascadia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cascadia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1230,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10413"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10558,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10413\/revisions\/10558"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}