CATAN U.S. National Championship 2021 Final
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2021
- Welcome to the full replay of the CATAN U.S. National Championship 2021 Final between Bo Peng, Mari Storch, Katie Alex, and Caleb Sommer. All of them have won their respective local tournaments, passed a 3 round preliminary, and won their semi-final games. Enjoy the game as some of the very best CATAN players in the U.S. face each other in the final game of the national championship.
Former U.S. Champion Chris Broderick and his brother Tim Broderick provide the commentary for this exciting final game.
📝 Player records heading into the final:
Bo Peng: W - W - W (30 points) 👑 (blue)
Mari Storch: W - L - L (26 points) 👑 (white)
Katie Alex: W - L - W (26 points) 👑 (red)
Caleb Sommer: W - W - L (27 points) 👑 (orange)
🎲 How do you play? Here is a quick overview:
- In CATAN each player must accumulate a total of 10 victory points to win.
- Players must build settlements, cities, or development cards to win victory points.
- Players need resources to build, which resources you get are determined by rolling the dice and looking for the result in the board. Each settlement near that result earns 1 of that resource (cities earn 2).
- Players are allowed to trade with one another, but resources and development cards are otherwise hidden.
For any other questions, please visit the Q&A links below.
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Hmm, there is much less yelling here than when my family plays Catan.
The only game that’s make me angry on a completely irrational level.
Honestly, this was one of the more cringe matches I've watched in terms of tonality at the table between players at times. With a few exceptions here and there, the Colonist and King of Catan communities are quite civil in their play. At times this was just painful to watch in all honesty.
@@MACMAMI agreed. pretty tense...
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@@randallharville1733 Not monopoly?
I’m a year late to this, but wanted to share. I played Bo in a Catan group in NYC pre-pandemic. He hosted our group in the Empire State Building. He trashed all of us, with the very same table talk, controlling trades. He even got my friend to place his starting position on a bare resource because of the harbor. He’s very manipulative in the game, and knows it very well. But he used those games to better our skills. He was a great guy to learn from, and was generous in expediting our tour of the Empire State Building roof area. Cool dude to meet. My take away lesson - “ore is score”. I always make sure I build on ore. Thanks for the ass-kicking Bo, you’re a legend!
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Bo hustled the two like a boss. They should not have been that suggestible.
It's always rough to stonewall someone, but when they lead the plan against someone else then there will always be some way you're getting hustled.
It baffles me how people play late game when it comes to trading. so manipulable
In future coverage, it would be much easier to follow if the player HUD was static, even when switching shots, and if there is a counter on the player HUD for how many resource cards each player currently has in their hand.
Also give players a lanyard in the color that they're playing
their was a card count
at minimum show the cards being dispersed after each roll, trade, and when cashing in resources
These casters are amazing
Bo was shaking so much when he pulled it off, good for him :) Excitement is hard to contain
Halfway through and I can already tell Bo has this game because he has table control of Caleb and Katie.
Like a fiddle
Yeah Mari plays a clean game. But you gotta know how to hustle and influence!
Absolute rookie players haha If u are in a final table you have to be anle to look through that haha
@@isakasproth9730 I was a bit shocked how passive they played. No one was being as ruthless as I would have expected. Maybe they were unable to read each other with the masks on.
Would you please develop "table control over Caleb and Katie", please?
As someone who has not followed the professional Catan scene, I’m quite impressed by the quality of playing ability from the production team of this tournament. Both people casting are current top players it seems (one player reaching last year’s finals and the other reaching this year’s semifinals) and the judge was last year’s winner. Offers incredible insights compared to a lot of smaller games/esports where the tournament casters tend to be people who are like diamond players in their respective game.
Being an analyst is a bit different but yea.
i love in sports/video games when analysts are former or competing players and are like "yeah i fucking hate it when bill does that shit I think he's in one of those moods" because they've played against the people competing and have first hand experience with their tactics.
What a crazy game, the trades Bo was able to pull off were ridiculous
Bo proves the importance of social manipulation skills. So good at getting the trades he wants and riling people up, always able to shift the view to a false truth. never watched Bo play before but when the game was just starting and he was already making crazy trades i knew he would win.
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I am so shook by the reality of this!
@@lbigotti11Damn, read this spoiler.... Oh well !
I honestly hate this style of play, but more often than not i find myself doing the same thing 😅
@@fitnessguy4637 dont ignore the truth
😆 This is classic Catan. The OWS player framing the longest road as the biggest threat... because most players can't read the board and don't understand pacing. When Bo tried to convince Caleb to block himself, I laughed out loud.
Thank you for posting this. A small suggestion. There's too much switching screens between the players and the game board and even worse the board on the bottom of the screen often unnecessaryly goes between left and right. Maybe just to show the players headshot at the four corners of the screen and the big board in the center so there's no need to switch screens.
And a corner window pop up of which ever players are currently participating in a deal.
I agree, this was the first youtube video I thought I needed a vomit bag
Congratulations to the National Champion and good luck at the national championship! I think this game does a good job at demonstrating the skill in Catan and was a fun game to watch. Thank you to Tim and Chris Broderick for casting again and always providing insightful commentary.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think in this game it's ok to have double standard, it's ok to be manipulative. It's your job as a player to think by yourself and not fall for that. It's a competitive game, you should do anything possible to increase your chance to win, as long as it's legal.
In contrast, the most unsporting behavior is to act not in optimization for your benefit, like going after one specific player just for vengance regardless of consequence for yourself, or pushing for someone's victory in favor of another one while you gain no benefit doing so.
Of course this only applies to tournaments. Home games with friends can be different, totally depending on what your group likes it to be.
Vengeance is also a strategy because of other players see you have beef with one other person, they are likely to think you’ll just hinder each other and they won’t focus on you plus it’s a deterrent when you know someone plays like that
Bo was so confident that he called game before rolling a possible 7, he must’ve had a settlement in hand and 8+ cards. This was my thought as to how he’d be able to call game with that road build dev card he was holding onto.
But instead builds a City with that wheat he produced on the 4 roll.
EPIC!
Thanks! You're spot on. Before I rolled, I counted 11 cards in my hand, which means I keep 6 cards with a 7 roll. This means I can keep 1 wood 1 wheat 4 sheep. With an unplayed road building card, this is a perfect settlement by using my 3:1 port.
@@bopeng3402 I'll trade you 1 wheat for 2 sheep.
I wish they would leave each player's name in just one corner throughout the match instead of constantly moving them around. Much harder to follow that way.
They should hire Retired Hero or someone like him to co-host and provide accompanying production of the board in real-time. It's much harder following this sort of stream along.
Great commentary btw guys! You two should do every nationals!!
I can't believe this is a thing but I'm all for it! 😄 Longest road all the way!!
I wish people wouldn’t give the power in the game over to players like Bo. He’s controlling the whole flow of the game, very impressive, but other players allow him to do it
He showed that with good negotiation skills you get far. Three WP, and risk of another player winning, you do whatever it takes to stop them :)
These were my thoughts in playing this table. I had a really hard time convincing Katie that bo was sitting in an incredible spot.
@@calebsommer Bro, well played. You really got sscrewed by those dice
@@calebsommer I know this is two months late, but just wanted to say I appreciated your take the most. In the longest turn in Catan history, when Bo tried to basically force you to 2:1 with Kate for no reason, having never seen you play before I did not know if you would go along with it. I was very happy to see you call him out on just screwing you over there even if it meant no trade was done. I think too often in this game, people are afraid to speak up against someone, especially if it impacts a third party in a deal. Was glad to see you do so, even if in the end the game didn’t end in your favor. I think that was much more due to rolls than misplays personally.
Good to see even the best of the best build things with their spare pieces.
I've played Catan a handful of times on PC and this is the first time I've come across this channel. Still don't 100% understand what's going on but this is pretty entertaining to watch. Excellent play by Bo
I’m shocked that everyone was SO willing to trade Bo so often so early.
The lucky rolls from Mari shook them but yes they all made terrible trades with Bo
Is Bo a hypnotist? Caleb Sommer with 8 points total at 1:10:57, because Bo's bamboozle game is so high even the organizers thought he wasn't in the game
Thank you! Congrats with those VPs
Up to the long negotiations on the 2:1/3:1 trades to stop Mari, Bo had control of the table. Afterwards though, he lost Katie and Caleb's willingness to trade with him, but that's also how they lost their shot at winning; they had too similar resources to make good trades with each other and had to pass too often. In the end, the game was cut short, because Bo just had good devs. I'm curious to know who would've won otherwise, but I guess we'll never know!
Bo deserved to win this imo, but he'd be so annoying to play with lol
Great casting!
super intense finals!
bruh that massive trade play was so funny. he was pushing it so hard. Mari be dying waiting for this to happen.
what a nice board!!
Wow! That was exciting.
I always forget how important luck is in this game
The layout is really distracting the way it changes each shot. I'd probably have the players shot as just a picture-in-picture and leave the board visible and the overlay consistent the whole time. It's really confusing when everything keeps jumping around.
People saying Bo was all that good, not that amazing tbh
Played the development card strategy which we all know is the easiest way to control the game, fly under the radar and win Catan
It's literally all he *ever* does. A one-trick-pony. They know it and let him get away with it. Repeatedly.
Thanks for putting this up! It's a bit annoying that one of the announcers is mostly in the left ear. Better to do mono audio for the commentary I think!
Bo Peng. Never forget.
I feel like Bo participated in 90% of all trades in the game.
Nice video made about BO
@@leonbruno6089 Thank you, did it lead you to watch the full match?
@@KenPlaysCatan Yes ofcourse! Wanted to sharp my mind to play on such tournament one day in future
I don't even play Catan.... but I clicked on this and all of a sudden saw the Stone Arch Bridge and was like "Wait... this was in MN?" (I live here) Small world.
I don’t know if I should be impressed with Bo or disappointed in the others.
He would just tell out right lies and they’d nod along like ‘yeah sounds about right’
I didn't watch it all admittedly, but to be completely honest after playing a few rounds of catan with family/friends I come to realize development cards are pretty overpowered. Because regardless if you get knight, road build, or VP points they're all useful and going to progress your game. It's very interesting to see that they aren't scared to hold a lot of cards even though a 7 might force them to dispose half their cards and 7 being the highest probable number on a 2 dice (1/6 ,2/5 ,3/4). Development cards are also fairly easy to obtain. As long as you can get the resources you can get largest army and a fair amount of VP just by raiding the development deck which at max could give you 7VP with largest army & VP, you start off at 2 which puts you at 9. I don't discredit Bo at all, I see the comments on how he made his trade deals and that definitely boosted his game.
Would be nice to see their cards (someone could card count and just add them virtually in each corner)
Absolutely stomped them mentally. Do not give this man more power or he will control us all.
Good editing. Think the 3 minute is a little short for every turn, don't see the need to rush national finals. Don't see why just because one turn took forever every turn should be rushed. Think the arbitrator should set a 2 minute timer when turns are taking too long(i.e that 15 minute turn should have been stopped earlier).
Very interesting game
love that they shot this video but geez the board is like impossible to see with the glare. Not much thought went in to filming this. Resource cards and counts for players would be useful. Suggestion would be to make it look more like an online version of the game for us watching to better understand.
It’s a good game, Bo played a low key dirty game but he is the national champ. Banners hang forever, can’t hate on him for it
I feel so embarrassed for Caleb and Katie
Imagine making the final and just being told how to play to let someone else win.
How do they figure out the board placement? The spiral method or just randomly place the board pieces?
Bo is the man
I actually liked 4th position but think red made a mistake. I haven't watched the game yet so I may be wrong but in my opinion, placing on the 8-3-10 and 9-5-12 is much better as it locks up a lot of space on the board. It also causes every other player to either be lacking in wood or brick. Seemed like there were quite a few mistakes in terms of picking order as well as road placements
I agree! I was also thinking that the 8-3-10 and 9-5-12 were the best option for 4th. It would have also brought her settlements close enough to connect and take the longest road.
I totally agree with you! You also have a greater spread of type of resource.
Agreed, I had the same choice when looking at the board
9-8 double brick as a great expansion spot on top, being able to pull off some great trades with it
I agree, how the hell did she get to the final table with placements like that!! Clearly a better strategy to choose was out there, most of us saw it
It's so nice that Steve-O has decided to narrate professional Catan as a side hobby.
Im calling out that Katie should've been on the 9/12/5, seeing as nobody at that point would've wanted the 8/9 brick spot. However, going on the 8/9/12 at the start leads to the free road for someone. Katie would have even better road production aswell, towards the 8/9 spot and then as a fourth settlement; the Brick Port. Also just more efficient production in general.
I also thought the same thing bc it's just stronger road building as a road player and could have gotten on the brick port anyway.
Production recommendation: Have scoreboard remain static between camera switching.
Good game, so the roads can go past a settlement ? If so how long till the best settlement. ?
I wish you showed a graph like in catan online showing the amount each number has been rolled so far
Are there any special rules or particular expansions used by these championships? Or is base game only?
base only
How does one find a local Catan Tournament? I know there is a way to search for them somewhere, but I am new to the hobby.
I am not certain if the Catan website has this information (it might), but as a start I'd suggest calling your nearest board-game store and asking if they have any information on local catan games / tournaments.
38:40 Bo clearly looking at Mari's cards
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How are the numbers distributed in the these games? it is not Random right?
Is it allowed to build before you roll, or did I see it wrong?
Are there special tournament rules?
The ruling regarding the trade at around 1 hour and 10 minutes is wrong. You can perform the trades Bo Peng was suggesting as per the actual rule book. The tournament director just made that rule up and it is not an actual rule within the game. DyLighted also has a UA-cam video discussing this rule more in-depth and explaining why it is, in fact, allowed.
I thought that was really weird, too. Like, the app doesn't prevent you from making those trades, it's impossible. They are following the restrictions, you can't put intention-based rules in the game, that's just stupid
Katie’s hand was 2 wood, 2 brick, 1 wheat, 1 sheep, and needed one more road to cut Mari off. Caleb’s hand was 1 ore, 1 brick. Bo’s hand was 3 sheep, 1 wood, 1 ore.
The simplest trade sequence would have been:
1. Katie trades 1 sheep to Caleb, and Katie receives 1 ore, 1 brick
2. Katie trades 1 ore to Bo, and Katie receives 1 wood, 1 sheep. Now Katie can build two roads and a settlement.
@@bopeng3402 Yes, that's true, but if Caleb wanted to keep his ore, the following needed to occur:
Katie trades 1 sheep to Caleb, and Katie receives 1 ore and 1 brick. Katie trades 1 ore to Caleb and receives 1 sheep. Katie trades 1 sheep to Bo for a lumber and an ore. Katie trades 1 ore to Bo for a sheep.
Now Katie has been given a lumber and a brick by the two players, which is exactly what the desired outcome of the deal was. Of course, Caleb correctly concluded that the deal was unfavorable for him, and would not have ultimately accepted. Regardless, it is legal and should be allowed in national-level tournaments. However, I've already seen plenty of questionable judgements by the tournament officials in various tournaments, so I am unsurprised by it.
just because it is allowed online Doesn't mean it is allowed at irl tourneys. This one was run "you can't gift cards" and the proposed trade effectively gifted cards in a round about way = illegal.
@@AlexH274 The rules are what the rules say in the rule book. The rule book says that this is allowed. End of story. If you would like to point out the section of the rules that disallows the practice, be my guest. Until you are able to do so, I will conclude that the tournament official ruled poorly.
Studying 🚫
Watching a 1h45 video on a Catan game 👍
I just root for my favorite color. Blue
Cards and more info in the HUD would be great
Blue played so well
Can you use your own set of pieces (settlements,roads, cities) in tournaments?
38:39 look at Bo's wandering eyes.....
and then he steals from her next turn so he has an idea what he's getting...
Cheater god
Crazy comeback from Bo
IDK if id call that a comeback. He wasnt ahead in VP but he seemed pretty in control the entire game. He played his opponents so well through trades that despite his low board presence he always felt like in control.
Yeah I just see it as quite good pacing. He did let her pull for the win, so it was risky -- I think if he could have helped someone take road earlier or plow her to the 9-5 that might have been safer, but he was balancing his risk of permanently losing army as well. In any event, an excellent final.
I have only ever played online and this is my first time watching in person play. All of this negotiating is so weird to me. I almost never trade.
That's how online is. The 2 ports, esp, wheat port is everything. It's a much more competitive game that way honestly, less feeding and kingmaking.
When I saw who the commentators are I knew this was going to be hilarious
If you are Katie and Caleb you have to be so upset you let Bo play you like that. You two didn't have much of a chance of winning, you honestly should have thought, do you want Bo to come back and win or just let Mari keep road and win. Not hand her the game, just don't bring her down. King make whatever. But you knew and yet what happened.
I knew bo was the threat the whole game but Mari jumping out to that massive lead really jacked it all up. We had to target her to preserve the game but meanwhile I knew bo was creepin up. I tried to get Katie to gang up on bo but she wouldn’t bite and honestly I think mentally she was just frustrated that she wasn’t getting roles. So my options were trade with Mari and quickly lose or trade with bo to keep game alive.
It was a good game but it started off badly for both Katie and I. I ended up getting some great cards at the end and had bo not got that last role I most likely would have won the next turn or two.
should i make a reaction video? with my catan friends?
@21:48 BO is looking at Mari’s cards
He does it throughout the game but also Mari doesn´t do a good job hiding her cards. IMO he should avoid that, but its the finals so idk...
I think Bo was aided by Mari's obvious attempts to warn the table that Bo was manipulating them. Mari did so in a manner that made her unlikable, like on the 1:06:45 mark for instance. It came across as fake just like the over apologetic mannerism and discrediting Katie's ability to make decisions
But she was right.
Bo war playing them like Muppets.
I think having good people skills and manipulation helped a lot in this game. There were times she could have pretended to help the losing players and pointed out how much Dev cards Bo had but her aggressive mood and being too straightforward ultimately made her lose the game.
"There's real intricacies to summoning a seven."
Can someone explain me how is 8 in the middle of the board, when im playing online or in real life its always 11
I wonder what was Caleb's reasoning when he citied up the 8-9-4 instead of the 8-10-3, since to me it's a pretty obvious mistake. He citied up the 8 brick while he doesn't have wood to pair with, and the two wheat spots while he already has way too much wheat. Also, the 4 wheat and 9 wheat would be constantly blocked because those are the key spots for blue and white players, making its effective city production much less than it looked like. Ore and sheep are more valuable resources to him, he should have upgraded that one.
Exactly what i thought. Also, he should really have tried much harder to go for dev cards (which would have been much easier with the 8-10-3 city) to get the army as this was his only way to win i think. In consequence help Katie with longest road so that Marie doesnt win either
I wish the overlay listed hand size.
We need a digital board
What was the money list?
Bo just starting at Mari's hand all game lol
How can someone get in this top cut
What are the board setup rules/requirements? Why is 8 in the middle?
You can set up the board however you like as long it abides by the rulebook: www.catan.com/sites/prod/files/2021-06/catan_base_rules_2020_200707.pdf. However, the most common set up is with 11 in the middle if you follow the alphabet system.
8 is in the middle here because the Catan team constructed a custom board for this game.
The website doesn't do a great job of telling you when/where tournaments are. I've been trying to find them in the Philadelphia area with no success. Poker and chess? Easy. Catan? Less so.
Why is there so little card counting? Even I did a little in online catan back in the day. People are missing so much. Covid must have really crushed the quality of player for this final.
im surprised at how polite the game is... my friends and i do not play like that lol
How do they set the numbers? In my game, the number 11 is always in the centre of the gameboard.
perfectly random maybe?
They're using random setup.
Actualy i think they are using premade setups that are specificaly tested to make difficult boards to make interesting games. If it would be completely random, it could make the game much less balanced.
@@martinmevald8766 there 100% random, they used to just "pull them out a hat" and just placing them in the next spot, same with the numbers, nowadays they just use a computer tool to do it for them. also "easier boards" don't actually means the games is less balanced at all since most the game is mind games.
Bo dominated that game
I am confused, when a you draw a 7, can you still trade and/or buy improvements (road, settlement or card)?
Yes
What's the prize money for winning the championship?
The 3-way semi-illegal trade that Bo tries to pull at like 1:11:00 to get Katie to take longest road was incredible table talk by Bo but was a big blunder on Mari for not speaking up! And telling them how ridiculous it was since she was only at 5 roads! it wasn't game-defining! Bo is a great table talker. He kinda won this game starting at that point getting in thier heads. Caleb really should not have engaged in that trade at all.
Where is the us 2022 champs? Only see a Canada vid
What is the prize for these events?
at 9:20 check out Bo's blue settlement.
I checked it, what about it?
@@Rustie_za you can see it move lol
Lmao how did you find this
@@Earthpuram I was on alot of caffeine and randomly noticed it lol
@@corrupt5554 LOL that's because they edited the video sometimes fast forward, and sometimes backwards. Good observation though.
So basically, Bo is the Boston Rob of Catan.
Mari was having none of Bo's antics
pro tip if someone talks alot at table don't listen to them
Dylighted is that you? Congratz Bo, amazing Catan play!
Dylighted is not Bo Peng. Unshockingly, Dylighted's first name is Dylan. Dylighted has talked about how much he respects Bo many times on stream and probably in his UA-cam videos.
Dylighted’s skill level is like 3 tiers below Bo lmao
Lol! I see what you did
Does anyone here also think that one of the announcers sounds like Andrew Callaghan from channel 5?
Needs to be better time limits per turn, it shouldn't take a year to finish a turn.
Okay I've got to say, like everyone else is saying, that Bo had the win through control of the other losing players and manipulation/'negotiation' skills. However. I've been in similar situations and when someone is buying that many dev cards, don't you assume at least a couple are VP's? I couldn't see his dev cards on the aerial shot but if I was sitting at the table, I do feel like I would've tried a bit harder to resist his manipulation due to the consistently large hands and number of dev cards. On the flip side, it could definitely have meant the win for Mari, but my thinking is always, if it's not me winning, it really doesn't matter who it is. I would've focused more on personally blocking and stealing from her, buying dev cards to shift the knight, and/or my own building/advancement, rather than teaming up with others to set her back. Thoughts??
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