Gen Con 2022 Tournament Statistics

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DCC Open 2022 Return to the Starless Sea Tournament Results

At Gen Con 2022, Goodman Games returned in person to run our largest DCC RPG team tournament to date, Return to the Starless Sea. This year’s tournament saw a record 198 players across 47 teams compete in the team funnel tournament format – where five player teams consisted of multiple 0-level PCs controlled by each player. Over the course of three days and two hard-fought rounds, over a thousand gongfarmers fell to the deadly traps, chaotic combat, and multiple paths that made up this year’s adventure, and a number of teams were wiped out in TPKs before team I Haven’t Had Enough Coffee for This! emerged as the champions.

We now present the official tournament stats, including all the judges, rooms and authors that contributed to this year’s amazing event.

Round 1 Results¹

Unlike previous years, this year’s adventure was designed such that teams in each flight during Round 1 had a slightly different path through the adventure to reach the center of the restored chaos keep. There are up to five alternative paths that can be taken, making it less likely that teams in Round 1 would experience the same content. Each path includes a different unique encounter in area 1-3, and teams could even choose to ignore the ghostly apparitions guiding them towards the most direct path to the center of the keep to wander off and encounter alternative areas – many to their own peril!

Each path into the keep is roughly mathematically equivalent and therefore fair in a tournament environment. Even so, at Gen Con, teams were competing only with other teams in the same flight for the top spot to guarantee advancement, ensuring that results were not being compared across flight. Below are the final Round 1 results broken out by team by flight.

Round 1, Flight 1 Results (Route 1-3A)

* Games that had at least one TPK

Round 1, Flight 2 Results (Route 1-3B*)

* First time this encounter was used in a formal tournament event

** Games that had at least one TPK

Round 1, Flight 3 Results (Route 1-3C)

Round 1, Flight 4 Results (Route 1-3D)

* Games that had at least one TPK

Round 1, Flight 5 Results (Route 1-3E*)

* First time this encounter was used in a formal tournament event

** Games that had at least one TPK

Round 2 Results*

* While the top three teams made it to the final encounter, only one team managed to finish Round 2, the winning team, I Haven’t Had Enough Coffee for This!

** Games that ended in a TPK.

*** Designates players from one of the first round alternate teams that joined an advancing team in the finals.

Deadliest Round

* “Total PC Fatalities” includes both the total number of times a PC reached 0 hp and the number of PCs that bled out. For 0-level PCs, a death is counted as both reaching 0 hp and bleeding out to allow for direct comparison to previous tournaments.

TPKs by Round and Judge

Deadliest Rooms by Round

Deadliest Judges

* New tournament judges this year.

** Judge Aaron did all the work of a tournament judge to get ready for Gen Con 2022, but did not run games.

Deadliest Tournament Modules

Updated for DCC Open 2022 – the Count Dante Tournament Rating System! Because tournament modules are played at conventions over a large sample of tables and judges, we are able to quantify their danger level. Based on this quantification we have a rating system to use as a guide when selecting your next adventure to run.

Here are the ratings for this year’s tournament Return to the Starless Sea, along with our previous tournament adventures, and The Black Heart of Thakulon the Undying (2017), Riders of the Phlogiston (2018), and The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar (2019, 2020), Return to the Starless Sea (2020, 2022), and Save XCrawl! (2021). Future tournament modules will also use this rating system once they are put through their paces at large gaming events!

*Based on the ratio of killed PCs (eliminated) for every PC that entered the dungeon across all rounds:

Type I – 0.0 to 0.2:1

Type II – 0.2 to 0.4:1

Type III – 0.4 to 0.6:1

Type IV – 0.6 to 0.8:1

Type V – 0.8 to 0.99:1

Type VI – 1:1, or 100% lethal!

Funnel Stats (2022)

Deadliest Flight

Deadliest Flight-Specific Encounter

Most Luck Burned by Flight

Teams that Replenished the Most 0-Levels Between Encounters:

1. The Lone Wolves (34)
2. Tie – Reasonably Fettered (30)
3. Tie – Peter Better than Daniel (30)

Teams that Rescued the Most PCs:

1. Tie – Holy Water Kegstand (11)
2. Tie – We Are the Cannon Fodder (11)
3. The Dungbeetles (8)

Teams that Burned the Most Luck:

1. The Dungbeetles (127)
2. Four Halflings in a Trenchcoat (119)
3. Vice Squad (116)

Complete Stats by Room

Round 1

Round 2

* Room that only two teams reached during the tournament at Gen Con 2022

All-Time Stats for Judges

1 At Gen Con 2022, 39 out of the 47 teams managed to finish the entire round in the full four hours, a great finish! Even more amazing, 15 teams managed to finish in under 3 hours, with one team, Take Off Every Ziggurat, finishing in a record-setting 2 hours and 5 minutes!