Round 2 of the Risk World Championships! S03-2023 

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Everybody had a set on 4 but Pete, brutal. That said, if Pete didn’t get fed, it seemed like there was a very good chance he had another turn. Very unfortunate end to that one

Hey Pete! I was Blue this game. Sorry about your luck, but hitting that 3 was my best path to vision in Europe while maintaining my other positions. Also thought it wouldn’t hurt to weaken your position overall with you going right after me in the turn order, since I could potentially kill you later (if I got to Europe), or cleanup a failed kill if someone missed your Madagascar position that only Black & I knew about. Knew it was a risk, still not sure if the right move, but hopefully not full-on noobery. Good luck the rest of the tournament!

I played black here. I really wanted to take the chance to get your bounty on my turn, but I knew orange and red were kill-guarding your final position. It would have been super close on numbers, but if there wasn't a guard, I knew I had to try if I wanted a chance for anything other than tied for 2nd.

So much debate in these comments of what might have been the right plays but all I can think of is how no set on four is just fatal. Especially in a tournament where kills are worth points, people just can’t resist the urge to cross their fingers and click buttons attacking someone on five cards and hoping it works out.

Yeah every single person except Pete having a set on 4 was absolutely terrible luck. Between that, getting a 3 stack hit early, and being in the first seat I don't really think you could have had worse luck. GG Pete the game had it out for you as much as your opponents on this one.

I wonder if skipping your T4 attack (The turn after blue knocked out your 3 stack) would've played out differently?

Hey Pete, I was red in this game! The second I saw you sit on 5 I started getting so nervous. Earlier, I saw blue aggro'ing you so I figured you were weakened, but I've had no visibility in Africa all game. Black not going for you made that 5 in Madagascar nearly invincible and because the rest of us noobs were all frantic, we accidentally worked together to give Blue the steamroll. I don't think anyone expected you to get so unlucky with the trades; it became very hectic fast. Regardless, GGs and thanks for the game!

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This really makes me feel that these tournaments aren't *nearly* stringent enough about who qualifies. If there was an actual qualifying standard for something as prestigious as a World Championship tournament, this would eliminate the less capable people who try for a blind-luck kill in the early game despite only seeing a tiny fraction of a players troops. Real masters of a game don't make mistakes like that. You maximise your winning potential by minimising the luck factor. Purple sees 3 of Pete's positions, and decides he'll just roll the dice on whether Pete's troops are kill-guarded somewhere he can't see. That's not a world champion. And if the problem is a lack of competent players, there's nothing stopping the World Championships being a Round Robin-style tournament amongst a group of 20 or so players, or even a single multi-round series with the same 6 players. I think the prestige and skill level of such an event would still draw eyes, much like the Candidates or World Championship games in chess. But keep the noobs out. The fact that no-one besides Pete was even ranked GM in this game is an absolute sham. Edit: I would also like to point out the possibility that players like purple were not taking the game as seriously as a World Championship game should be taken, as if they were simply dismissing it as "inherently luck based, and therefore not worth stacking your hopes on". Again, that's not a World Championship mentality, and should be kept from these tournaments.

These settings are too complicated for R2 of an open tournament in my opinion. With better players I think they would be fine, but with players of all different caliber the likelihood for kill feeds is too high.

Tough luck here and so we'll just have to have some serious run good in the next round.... Lfg Pete you can do it!!!!!

Unlucky Pete! Best to go into next round with a completely fresh mindset, wipe the slate clean, keep your head up!

These videos are not only informative about playing Risk but very relaxing.

Hey Pete, tough break, but I guess that's how trying to dominate the world goes some times. In one of your videos can you talk about this league and how people can get involved in these or other tournaments. Interested in joining tournaments like this once I get better at the game. Thank you for the videos!

Spoilers in my message below Unfortunate game for you no trade on 4 is a real bummer, although losing positions early on and the noob slams didn't help much either. I didn't do much better, although I had a trade on 3 I decided to not use it in the 5th position and ended up getting eliminated before my next turn. Ended up having 1 player kill someone and fail to run the 70, followed by another player also failing to run the 70. Ended up getting killed 2nd and that player also then failed to run the 70. Partially regretting not taking my trade on 3 so that I would survive at the end of the game for a few more points, but it's all a learning process. At least I qualify for the next round, alongside you... but we need a blooming good zombies round!

Damn yeah I essentially had the exact same round, starting position and all except I wasn’t the person who died last someone else was fed and then come one sweeper before I could trade and win the game. Gotta do well next week to survive fr

cant wait for pete to get silver youtube button

Pete : “I would be pissed if someone hit my 3” Next turn *blue hits 3* Pete seaths

Love the content and appreciate you were unlucky in this game with starting position, turn order, and arguably not being able to trade on 4. You were clearly flustered right from the opening which affected your play throughout the game and 'nothing you can do about that game' is not a good way to grow as a player. You know yourself it's all about percentage plays, so consider that your play was not objectively 100%: - you could have taken Oceania portal 1st turn which was superior to Asia and kept a stack in Irkutsk or China - you could have skipped 1st turn - you could have skipped 4th turn - With your other positions, you could have taken Southern Europe (or possibly even northern Africa as a choke point position) instead of Ukraine - in these settings, your strat seems to be to take island territories to make it difficult to find/kill you, but this blocks your troops and makes it impossible to see large chunks of the map, while still leaving you HEAVILY exposed to kill lines from multiple players who only need to see one of your territories being slammed to know you are being killed. Having one island position is good, having them all imo seems bad. - You avoid choke point positions while appreciating that they are very strong at the same time (for example not being able to enter NA) - You did not move or change strat though you knew the calibre of players in this lobby was not world champ level, you can adapt your game to be appropriate for your opponents (in this case, having 1 or 2 less positions, (for example dropping the NA/Europe island) and having larger stacks (this is especially true since you had 0 vision on NA). You knew Purple (and possibly blue) was lining up to 'noob slam' you, and while his play was obviously not optimal you simply watched him do it for 2 turns. just some food for thought, better luck next game :)

Tough break Pete!! It happens though. Lost to a full table of novices the other night because they were spam attacking everywhere. Took second, but not very satisfying… lol

I foresee Pete becoming the Risk Prophet spreading the wisdom and scripture of the No Australia No Win. Your disciples await you.

I think being in too many positions in fog of war is a bad strategy. You were in six/seven positions for most of the game, but you really should've tried to consolidate into three or four positions. Having many positions gives you a lot of information, but given that the other players are unlikely to see all of your positions, they'll underestimate your size, making you the likely first target to get slammed by whomever feels they can get the first kill. I believe this is why you got eliminated first. I believe that this risk vastly outweighs the benefits of the information gained from many positions. For next time, I'd recommend looking for more opportunities to consolidate troops into larger stacks. Anyone who sees a 10+ stack going into their turn probably isn't going to attack you, and anyone who discovers one in the process of trying to kill you will probably give up. Even if it's your last position, it would be difficult for an opportunist to steal the kill without a trade, giving you a chance to trade and come back. When four of your positions get destroyed and your last two are both small, the other players will finish the job, which again is what we saw here in this game.

Hi Pete could you make a video showing how to join tournaments for players that have never competed. Thanks 😊.

good luck next week pete

I have play this setting in other tournament and its a nightmare with fog, many times happen feed kill

I get progressive is part of the game and everything, but it feels way more luck based than fixed games are, unfortunate loss there, the no set on 4 is an absolute bummer

Nice game pete as always 👍❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥❤️

Bad luck Pete, did what you could.

I accidentally watch round 3 before this. Even though I found out what was going to happen I still wanted to see with my own eyes. You’ve had terrible luck this tournament but don’t give up. I enjoy watching these games too much haha

red and purple are allie for sure : all new red troops "+X" is in purple ! X)

Yeah these settings are unfortunate when people don't count stacks - Purple should know you were in Australia (till 21:25) and Svalbard (11:35) Purple also had a stack in Ontario, Kamchatka and Venezuela so he could see you were not in America - that leaves two more spots (Africa and Japan) which he easily could have checked and which probably gives him the kill I really love progressive, but when people don't properly count troops / remember positions feeds will happen and that's unfortunate

Bro I’m so new , but I’ve been getting 2nd place often , hard to get no.1

No Oceanía No Win!

Let's see if Pete goes for the Australia 😂

The noob slams are painful to take 😂

You played the best you could the whole game this is how most fog games go down. Starting to wonder if having too many positions is harmful in these settings cuz people underestimate how many stacks you have

On that last turn where you were on 5 cards staying in Ukraine or any nexus territory for that matter is suicide and indeed you died

From watching your previous matches and learning to get better at risk... would you not agree that emoting the "oops"/"Goodgame" broadcasts you were on the ropes? 1st position is rough, but giving extra info might have incited more attacks. Blue saw the Venezuela and Siberia deaths and red saw the Europe loses... so they both knew you were low. But emoting it would have given both of them the courage to go for it thinking they had your last stack.

Lmao you jumping over arco when saying good players very funny

Maybe there's a good reason for this (I haven't played RISK with compounding trade-ins in a while), but why not skip your first trade in at 5 cards? Surely you won't die from missing those 4 troops (not even mentioning the fact that all other trade-ins in that turn will have less troops as well) while those 5 cards will massively increase in value for every trade-in that other people do. Just a thought. Nice vid!

Hey Pete, I surely can’t be the first one to tell you this, but I actually think the “kill” in your name and you saying it in your videos may hamper the growth of your channel. I believe it’s proven that the RU-vid algo picks up in that word and adjust recommendations accordingly. Just some food for thought,

Seems to be a huge disadvantage to going 1st in progressive

Pete, what should we do in progressive europe when the other guys let one guy get 20+ per turn?

Do we know when Round 3 will be played?

Truthpowers!!!!

I wish I died with bad luck in my game. My game the stars were aligned until I was fed. Was 4th in turn order. Had 7 positions on board with set on 4 in 2nd trade ins. Had perfect llines on player after me in 5th position. Top grandmaster on turn before me tried to kill me but only saw 5 positions so I was fed easily. Last place….

Pete is a very intelligent player but part of the game is luck the unlucky positioning and everything seemed to be against him this game

Algorithm boost 🔥

Had the auto Aus spawn. Can’t believe you didn’t play it😂

Wheres the love for Arco?

Card skip viable in this scenario or no?

brutal, bad luck man, to be fair it shows your skill with it taking 3 different people to kill you, still smarts though

Broo your gut told you to skip a card being in the first spot and you ignored it... that would have changed the game drastically getting the 20 set the turn before. I'm so sorry brother I'm rooting for you

I got spoiler when i looked at the score spreadsheet to search up my name (im monte chinen) i got a kill in 2nd round but couldnt get the win but that kept me alive so i got 11 points which was very good for not winning. All thanks to you since ive only learnt about this game through your vids. Much luck to you for the 3rd round bc zombies can be tough luck ❤❤.

For the algo

Not a fan of that rule config.

Good game, got unlucky with no vision and 1st. Only thing I could say you could have done different was not emoting at the end when purple and red went for the kills. Maybe someone would have missed that you only had 2 positions left.

You were emoting and telling on yourself. I thought you always said NEVER do that?

First seat on that meta is the most sucky. Never seen anyone win from it, especially if you get early short stacked. Oh well! We know you're a good player. Lol

ngl, i watch for reggie

Man I get that the luck can be against you. But calling your opponents noobs feels a bit salty. Better luck next round regardless!

I’m kinda surprised. That was a horrible play my Mitch. Honestly if it was any other player he doesn’t attempt that play.

U should of took Australia instead of going for America

Your 3 stack could get killed because of any motive, like he lost 1 troop and possibly rallied into a better position. You saying Noob Slam has to be the least articulate assumption your strategy expresses. I love your content and have been supporting, but your ego is hilarious.

70% prog 👎

Hi Pete, mummmm, yes .. I just don't understand the portals, why are they on the game, noone really used them.

Purple shouldn’t be allowed in the tournament. The mental math of clearly that’s not going to get a kill was so bad. Can’t have players like that in tournaments.