@lowercase - you are taking Kingmorgan's slot in the bracket, and he and I are battling each other for my spot. (It got complicated but will work out.) He and I are probably playing on Thursday @10AM EST. Any chance you can play the winner at around 11am immediately afterwards? Otherwise, we can pick a time after the winner is determined.

a couple notes after watching the first match:

- Virtual Reality is now +50%

- You can now unclaim a tile if you misclick. As long as you don't FINISH a building on that tile, you can unclaim it, which might have made a big different to GalacticWino in Game 3.

Oh my god, my bracket prediction turned out correct, but there was so much behavior out of my expectations, that I'm feeling so much less confident in my predictions than before.

Great commentating pb, you were spot-on in almost every instance.

Which 1 is yours? if I may ask

I'm the guy who has never played a single multiplayer match.

@Soren_Johnson I am not available at 11 am EST tomorrow.

@lowercase, ok, we'll set a time after the match is over.

Well if you never played then why do you keep talking about it?

@Lowercase, please see my reply in the scheduling thread.

There is a new next_version up with a few minor but notable changes:

- Players in 1v1 start with 2 shares of stock.

- Buildings auctions now happen next to the colony (so, for example, a brand new Patent Lab might be auctions next to a bunch of Lab Modules)

- Power Surges, Circuit Overloads, etc. will not hit Goon Squads until they have no other option.

Will not hit visible Goon Squads, or all Goon Squads?

What happened with pb's Energy Vault auction in his game 1 vs DT? Zultar moused over the power display and the +1 from Energy Vault didn't show.

All Goon Squads

PB was getting this energy but the UI wasn't telling him. Will be fixed soon.

They will continue to reveal goons when they do finally hit?

Yes

Good thing finals were best of 5 instead of best of 3!