We thank you for your patience in finalizing the 2023 Belgian National Championship for Android: Netrunner and we’ll be hosting the event in beautiful Antwerp! This year we have something special planned: instead of a game store, we've sorted out a private spacious room behind one of Antwerp's most well-known pubs, but more info about the venue below. We'll be playing a minimum of 5 rounds of swiss on Saturday, with a top 8 cut on Sunday along with a Startup tournament that will have a prizing table.
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Dates: Friday the 23rd to Sunday the 25th of September
Location: Café De Zure, Dageraadplaats 4, 2018 Antwerpen
Entry Fee: €15
TO: Thomas “Cluster Fox” Van der Cruysse
Marshall: Ruben "rubenpieters" Pieters (member of the NSG Rules team)
Judge: Floris "Slowriffs" Sommen
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PRIZES
Participation: 3x alt art Anoetic Void (by Cat Shen)
Top 16: 3x alt art Engolo (by Adam S. Doyle)
Top 4: Hush playmat (By Scott Umiga)
Winner: Belgian National Champion plaque (by Jakuza) + invitation to the Circuit Breaker All-Star tournament

Also, the highest placing player of each faction will receive an enamel pin to represent they were the best player, so represent!
(This also includes Neutral.. wink wink nudge nudge.)

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FRIDAY
We're not going to go too crazy, but for out-of-towners or locals who want to hang out, I'll be at the venue at around 19:30 to have a quiet beer, hang out, bring some social games like Skull, Maffia de Cuba, Trial by Trolley,.. anyone is free to come hang out, it's a great pub with nice drinks, plenty of food options and feel free to bring your own games!

SATURDAY
10:30 – Registration
11:00 – Start Round 1
12:15 – Lunch Break
13:00 – Start Round 2
14:15 – Start Round 3
15:30 – Start Round 4
16:45 – Start Round 5
18:00 – Start Round 6 depending on attendance, or announcing top 8 + prizing
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SATURDAY EVENING
I have reserved two Escape Rooms for Saturday evening! Playing will cost an additional €19pp, they're a bit more in the city center but I will guide you there and they're at 20:15 so ample time to get food and head there before it starts. You can sign up using this link:
https://forms.gle/kn2GKQnJKvQBmNdr8
Additionally, we can still all hang at the venue and on the square, there's no pressure to join, if we don't have enough people I can always cancel.
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SUNDAY
12:00 – Registration Startup
12:30 – Startup start
13:00 – Start top 8
18:00 – Estimated end of the event + prizing
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We’ll start a bit later on Sunday so people don’t have to rush, but there won’t be a lunch break so make sure you’ve gotten something to eat before we start! There will of course be separate prizing for the Startup Tournament, which will consist of 4 rounds of swiss. It is also possible to only play in the Startup side-event, for which we’re charging €5, but it would be a shame to miss out on the main shindig!

TOURNAMENT
As this is a Competitive-level event, the format will be Standard, so from Red Sands cycle through to The Automata Initiative. An overview and the Standard Ban List can be found here: https://nisei.net/players/supported-formats/#standard. The Standard Ban List will be enforced, and for all intents and purposes WE WILL BE USING THE NEW UPDATED BAN LIST. This means Keeling and DreamNet are banned, while Laamb is legal. Decklists are mandatory. All cards must be in opaque sleeves. Proxies for any legal card are perfectly fine, but they must be of decent quality and immediately recognizable as the card they represent. You can find print & play versions of the cards on the product page: https://nisei.net/products/ of the Nisei website.

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VENUE
De Zure has a rich history of being one of the preeminent pubs in the city of Antwerp. It's a retro-style cozy place with a wide range of premium Belgian beers and or course other spirits and non-alcoholic beverages. They also serve decent food! De Zure is situated on a lovely square that's spanned over by a net dotted with lights, so every night looks like a starlit canopy. There are tons of places to eat in the immediate area, from asian to mexican to fusion french, to the humble Belgian "frituur", with plenty of vegan options. There are also plenty of bars in the area that do live music, as well as the LGBTQ+ flagship place called "Den Draak" which is just around the corner.
For our event, we're using the the space behind the pub and it has a side entrance, it's to the right of the terrace and you'll notice it by the Netrunner banner stood just inside. We have our own space with tables, beamers for the timers, a DJ booth to do announcements and play some latent synthwave during rounds, our own private toilets, and of course access to the pub itself with it's sunny terrace. We will also have our own bar inside the venue stocked with coffee, tea, softdrinks and select beers which we will be bartending ourselves.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Unfortunately the city has just been reorganising the tram line that runs from the central station to the venue. If AT ALL POSSIBLE, get off at Antwerpen Berchem station, it's walking distance from there. From the central station you'll need to cross the Astrid Plein to get to the 9, the 20, or the 32 and get off at halt Zurenborg. A little further down is a tunnel under the railway and if you keep going straight you'll get to the venue.
As for overnighting there are plenty of hotels in the area:
https://tulip-inn-antwerpen.goldentulip.com/
http://www.arasshotel.be/
https://www.adagio-city.com/
If you're willing to go have a bit longer of a walk / figure out public transport everyday, there's a great hostel in the city as well as a Holliday Inn:
https://www.jeugdherbergen.be/en/antwerp
https://www.ihg.com/.../gb/en/antwerp/anrcc/hoteldetail...
Always AirBnB's in the area aswell, which leads in to the last section of this post (finally)..

JACK IN
Stay connected and be on top of any updates we post! Meet up with fellow travellers to Antwerp, find lodgings, meet up for games!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/178068878984403
Stimhack Slack: channel #belgian-nationals
Discord: https://discord.gg/WHp4g5ZWuR

Hope to see you all soon, and always be running my friends.