General MODO draft my Cube - Saturday the 14th Nov, noon PST

[Kirblinx]

The ultimate goal (in my eyes) would be that every single person has a recording of their draft. The amount of content and perspectives you can get from just one draft would be amazing. Sure there might be a little overlap, and some people will be more entertaining than others, but the whole point of this was to get it published somewhere for people to take note and get interested in cube.

I mean, the amount of people that watched and liked a ~5 hour conspiracy draft from the LRR guys is quite astounding.

Why not go as far as we can?

 

[Jason Waddell]

The ultimate goal (in my eyes) would be that every single person has a recording of their draft. The amount of content and perspectives you can get from just one draft would be amazing. Sure there might be a little overlap, and some people will be more entertaining than others, but the whole point of this was to get it published somewhere for people to take note and get interested in cube.

I mean, the amount of people that watched and liked a ~5 hour conspiracy draft from the LRR guys is quite astounding.

Why not go as far as we can?

Yeah, first step will be upping our quality. I don't want to ship a substandard product, so I really need to step up my streaming game first.
Going to put some work into my grid-drafting code sometime today.

Question: I would like to do some grid drafting (or sealed, whatever), during the week. Are there any people who could do it during the evening EU hours?

 

[Aston]

I'll make some time if you like.

 

[Aoret]

Yeah, first step will be upping our quality. I don't want to ship a substandard product, so I really need to step up my streaming game first.
Going to put some work into my grid-drafting code sometime today.

Jason, a couple quick things:

1. Totally agree we gotta up our game. I'm looking to improve my stream as well
2. Do we need to do grid draft / sealed only for non-internal content due to potential legal issues with draft.wtf, or is that type of coverage usable as well?
3. Is the grid-draft code public and/or can you make it public?

Depending on his answers, I'd be interested to do some type of drafting in the evenings PST. One idea I had was that we don't actually need to do a full 8-man tournament all in one go if all we care about is practice. Even for coverage down the road, if time is a constraint we can do the draft together as 8 and then let people do their matches as time allows. I think a handful of folks have account access, so it'd be pretty feasible. If nothing else, I'd like to get some practice either grid drafted (or 8 manning, pending Jason's answer to point 2 above) even if I don't play matches. Anybody down to do this during evenings PST?

 

[Jason Waddell]

I don't know if there are legal issues with drafts.wtf. I assume it's usable.

The grid draft code is public. It's in the other thread (the new one for today's grid). The code uses R (a free, open source programming language), but requires an xlsx file with the list and color codes (I can send it to anyone who needs).

code in question:

Spoiler

library(xlsx)
 
nPacks <- 16
 
fileName <- list.files(".", pattern = ".xlsx")
cubeDf <- read.xlsx(fileName, sheetIndex = 1)
colorIds <- as.vector(cubeDf[, 2])
cube <- as.vector(cubeDf[, 1])
 
 
# select colors
colorToOmit <- "R"  # sample(c("W", "U", "R", "B", "G"), 1)
 
colorList <- strsplit(colorIds, split = NULL)
rowsToKeep <- rep(1, length(cube))
for(i in 1:length(cube))
    if(colorToOmit %in% colorList[[i]])
        rowsToKeep[i] <- 0
 
cube <- cube[which(rowsToKeep == 1)]
 
# seed in shocklands
shocklands <- c("Blood Crypt", "Godless Shrine", "Overgrown Tomb",
        "Sacred Foundry", "Stomping Ground", "Temple Garden", "Breeding Pool",
        "Hallowed Fountain", "Watery Grave", "Steam Vents")
shockIds <- which(cube %in% shocklands)
 
gridPile <- cube[shockIds]
cube <- cube[-shockIds]
 
gridPile <- c(gridPile, sample(cube, size=9*nPacks - length(shockIds)))
gridPile <- sample(gridPile)
pack <- gridPile[1:9]
 
printPack <- function(pack, i) {
    cat("Pack", i, "\n", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("[spoiler][ci=small]", pack[1], "\n", pack[2], "\n", pack[3],
            "[/ci]", "\n", sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("[ci=small]", pack[4], "\n", pack[5], "\n", pack[6],
            "[/ci]", "\n", sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("[ci=small]", pack[7], "\n", pack[8], "\n", pack[9], "[/ci]", "\n",
            "\n", sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
 
    cat("Row 1:\n1 ", pack[1], "\n1 ", pack[2], "\n1 ", pack[3], "\n \n",
            sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("Row 2:\n1 ", pack[4], "\n1 ", pack[5], "\n1 ", pack[6], "\n \n",
            sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("Row 3:\n1 ", pack[7], "\n1 ", pack[8], "\n1 ", pack[9], "\n \n",
            sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("Column 1:\n1 ", pack[1], "\n1 ", pack[4], "\n1 ", pack[7], "\n \n",
            sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("Column 2:\n1 ", pack[2], "\n1 ", pack[5], "\n1 ", pack[8], "\n \n",
            sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
    cat("Column 3:\n1 ", pack[3], "\n1 ", pack[6], "\n1 ", pack[9],
            "\n[/spoiler]\n \n",
            sep="", file="gridDraft.txt", append=TRUE)
}
 
 
cat("Grid Drafting!", "\n", "\n", file="gridDraft.txt")
for(i in 1:nPacks) {
    pack <- gridPile[1:9 + (i-1)*9]
    printPack(pack, i)
}

Follow up: should we have multiple people streaming from the RiptideLab account, or would you all prefer to use your own streams?

Also, if anyone needs me to set up threads for them to draft in, I can.

 

[Aoret]

I'm happy to stream as either riptidelab or myself. We'll certainly need multiple twitch accounts if we have multiple folks streaming. Kinda kicking myself now for using a different moniker here than I use everywhere else :/

 

[safra]

Anybody down to do this during evenings PST?

I'd be down to draft evenings PST with a little heads-up, or maybe even just jam some Sealed (which I suck at!). Also if you guys want I can mock up some kind of overlay down the line to make it look a little sharper.

 

[Jason Waddell]

We are missing from Saturday night a Birthing Pod. Can everyone please recheck their collections?