Pre-Worlds Startup Online Event Thingy
GNK / seasonal -
created by
Stwyde
2025.10.04.
Legal cardpool up to: Elevation
MWL: Standard Ban List 25.04
Format: startup
decklist is not required
Registration starts: 18:00 (local time)
Tournament starts: 18:30 (local time)
Contact: Stwyde on Discord
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Pre-Worlds Startup Online Event Thingy
Hey all, we'll be having an online event for the Startup format using the latest balance update (25.04) before Worlds! Want to get some startup games in and get some cool prizes! Now's your chance!
Aesops: https://tournaments.nullsignal.games/tournaments/4175
Time:
We will be playing in the "online-tournaments-4" channel on the Netrunner Event Hub (https://discord.gg/qV5Br5mu link expires 9/18/2025). We will have a player meeting at 18:00 UTC, with rounds hopefully starting at 18:30 UTC. This roughly corresponds to 1:00 PM and 1:30 PM CST for folks in my timezone / the Americas. (I will try to have a follow up event after worlds that is more amenable to APAC players)
Entry Cost
Anyone can play for free, I don't want one's financial situation to limit them from playing this game. However, I will ask to hep offset the cost of shipping (often internationally) and prizing, that folks purchase tickets for $10 off Eventbrite if they want to get prizing for this event. Following how NSG Organized Play does events, I'll close ticket sales prior to the event starting.
Ticket link:
Prizing
All of the prizing for this event is custom(-ish). How it works:
When you buy your ticket off Eventbrite, you'll be asked what playset you want for participation. Then you can choose another playset of prizing for each points cutoff (3, 6, 9, etc).
Alongside points based prizing, the top 4 players will get a CUSTOM JNET BACK by PiCat314
and surprise prizing related to the custom jnet back. The design is incomplete, and will most likely ship after other prizing.
Players will be able to choose the following arts as playset options for participation and/or points
Pantograph by meanlady
Biawak by meanlady
Ritual by Elessar_Ellie
Scatter Field by Elessar_Ellie
Buzzsaw by nin
Carmen by nin
All top cut participants will be able to also get their choice of a foil Biawak or Pantograph by meanlady.
Theoretically then if you win 2 games, but do not make the top cut, you will be able to have 3 playsets of cards from the list above, while if you win 6 games and place at the top, you'll get all 6 playsets listed above, a special surprise prize from PiCat314, and the custom Jnet card back.
I also over-purchased older NSG prizing in the past, so for players who do not have full art copies of Your Digital Life, Curupira, Slap Vandal, or Ablative Barrier, feel free to mention that you'd like a playset of those, and I can throw them in your prizing as well.
Prizing Distribution
If you are making it to worlds, let me know and I can give you your prizing at worlds! For everyone else, I'll be mailing prizing out after I return from Worlds. In the event that prizing is short, I'll be ordering additional prizing from MPC, which may lead to a delay, but I'll communicate that in the online-tournaments-4 channel. I may need to reach out to players individually via discord to confirm shipping information as well.
Prizes
2024
Q3 Game Night Kit
| 8 playsets: | Ablative Barrier (illustrated by Ed Mattinian) extended alt card |
| 4 playsets: | Slap Vandal (illustrated by Adam S. Doyle) extended alt card |
A 2024 Q3 Game Night Kit (GNK) contains:
24x Ablative Barrier (illustrated by Ed Mattinian)
12x Slap Vandal (illustrated by Adam S. Doyle)
Additional prizes and information
Players will be able to choose the following arts as playset options for participation and/or points
Pantograph by meanlady
Biawak by meanlady
Ritual by Elessar_Ellie
Scatter Field by Elessar_Ellie
Buzzsaw by nin
Carmen by nin
Matches
Top-cut
Swiss rounds
Photos - no photos yet
Videos - no videos yet
Results
Top cut players: 4
Top cut
| rank | player | corp | runner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | FlankingPlank |
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[Startup] Vovovoidworks LEO (1st @ Pre-Worlds Startup) |
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[Startup] Good ol' shaper Mag (1st @ Pre-Worlds Startup) | |
| #2 | anarchomushroom |
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[STARTUP]Slightly shady startup company (1st @ EMEA Startup) |
|
[STARTUP]ToW Ari (1st @ EMEA Startup) | |
| #3 | ChaoticSilo |
|
Weyland Consortium: Built to Last |
|
Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist | |
| #4 | DungeonMxter |
|
Not a Stanza Misplaced (STARTUP) 4th at Pre-Worlds Startup |
|
Nina Simone's Sinnerman (STARTUP) 4th at Pre-Worlds Startup |
Swiss rounds
| rank | player | corp | runner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | anarchomushroom |
|
[STARTUP]Slightly shady startup company (1st @ EMEA Startup) |
|
[STARTUP]ToW Ari (1st @ EMEA Startup) | |
| #2 | FlankingPlank |
|
[Startup] Vovovoidworks LEO (1st @ Pre-Worlds Startup) |
|
[Startup] Good ol' shaper Mag (1st @ Pre-Worlds Startup) | |
| #3 | ChaoticSilo |
|
Weyland Consortium: Built to Last |
|
Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist | |
| #4 | DungeonMxter |
|
Not a Stanza Misplaced (STARTUP) 4th at Pre-Worlds Startup |
|
Nina Simone's Sinnerman (STARTUP) 4th at Pre-Worlds Startup | |
| #5 | nervousnightjar |
|
[STARTUP]Slightly shady startup company (1st @ EMEA Startup) |
|
elevated birds [startup] | |
| #6 | evie |
|
Jinteki: Restoring Humanity |
|
Mercury: Chrome Libertador | |
| #7 | Sl33p3r |
|
BtL startup |
|
[Start Up] Trick Shot Zahya | |
| #8 | LLBlumire |
|
The Zwicky Group: Invisible Hands |
|
Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist | |
| #9 | metronome |
|
[Startup] Crimes |
|
[Startup] Conduit Mag | |
| #10 | Battle_fennec |
|
The Zwicky Group: Invisible Hands |
|
Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist | |
| #11 | Human_Kirby |
|
Synapse Global: Faster than Thought |
|
Sebastião Souza Pessoa: Activist Organizer | |
| #12 | KomodoCommodore |
|
A Teia: IP Recovery |
|
Mercury: Chrome Libertador | |
| #13 | stefdh |
|
Nebula Talent Management |
|
Tāo Salonga | |
| #14 | Sauc3 |
|
The Zwicky Group: Invisible Hands |
|
Sebastião Souza Pessoa: Activist Organizer | |
| #15 | EV (Mirror_Mirror) |
|
Weyland Consortium: Built to Last |
|
Magdalene Keino-Chemutai: Cryptarchitect | |
| #16 | allieflx |
|
Synapse Global: Faster than Thought |
|
Tāo Salonga: Telepresence Magician | |
| #17 | EmJayBee83 |
|
Nuvem SA: Law of the Land |
|
Mercury: Chrome Libertador | |
| #18 | SRN |
|
LEO Construction: Labor Solutions |
|
Tāo Salonga: Telepresence Magician | |
| #19 | sidi_ro |
|
Haas-Bioroid: Precision Design |
|
Zahya Sadeghi: Versatile Smuggler | |
| #20 | frontier |
|
Synapse Global: Faster than Thought |
|
Tāo Salonga: Telepresence Magician |