Meta Check – Paris Grand Kotei
The Paris Grand Kotei is in progress as we speak. Updates are being posted on the Facebook L5R group and on Discord. There are also streams running in both French and English. We’ve provided a summary below.
Day 1A – Friday
135 players for day 1.
French stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ketal
English re-stream: https://www.twitch.tv/tenerim
Alex Watkins is keeping the listings and pairings up on a google doc.
Current reports say the following qualified for day 2 with another 7 (1 for each clan) of challengers.
| Rank | First name | Last name | Total points | Faction | |
| 1 | Vincent | Lafarge | 70 | Dragon | Hatamoto |
| 2 | Filippo | Mengoli | 62 | Dragon | |
| 3 | Remi | Carbonne | 61 | Crane | Hatamoto |
| 4 | Joris | Masson | 61 | Dragon | |
| 5 | Jean | Cochard | 61 | Lion | Hatamoto |
| 6 | Tarek | Alatrach | 61 | Phoenix | Hatamoto |
| 7 | Alessandro | Aplicella | 61 | Crane | |
| 8 | Miguel Diaz | Sequedo | 61 | Crane | |
| 9 | Julien | Georget | 56 | Crane | |
| 10 | *Phoenix Hatamoto* JB | Laroche | 52 | Phoenix | Challenger |
| 11 | Min Tam | Thai | 52 | Scorpion | Hatamoto & Challenger |
| 13 | Inaki | Izarra | 52 | Crane | Challenger |
| 15 | Maxime | Dubosc | 52 | Lion | Challenger |
| 18 | Orian | Gissler | 52 | Crab | Hatamoto & Challenger |
| 29 | Cyril | Rols | 48 | Dragon | Challenger |
| 39 | Andre | Rinn | 43 | Unicorn | Hatamoto & Challenger |
Some notable points. The top 4 has 3 Dragon, but the 4th Dragon was in 29th place. Why the big drop?
The top Scorpion was in 11th place getting in as the challenger.
Crane did remarkably well!
Day 1B – Saturday
French stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ketal
English re-stream: https://www.twitch.tv/mindsdesiree (one of my favorite streamers). Check it out after the fact on YouTube L5R Paris Grand Kotei English Stream
243 players for today’s qualifiers, that brings the tournament to a total of 378.
Alex Watkin’s is keeping a google doc updated again.
Results are totally different to Fridays and the Scorpion powerhouse is once again evident.
| Rank | First name | Last name | Total points | Faction | |
| 1 | Jakub | Irzyk | 70 | Scorpion | Hatamoto |
| 2 | Simon | Pietri | 66 | Crane | Hatamoto |
| 3 | Robert | Haustein | 61 | Crab | Hatamoto |
| 4 | Erik | Baalhuis | 61 | Crane | |
| 5 | Marcos | Yerga | 61 | Scorpion | |
| 6 | Tamas | Szabo | 61 | Scorpion | |
| 7 | Philipp | Rover | 61 | Scorpion | |
| 8 | Nicolas | Vaurette | 61 | Phoenix | Hatamoto |
| 9 | Francisco | Javier Benitez Somolinos | 61 | Scorpion | |
| 10 | Pierre | *Hatamoto* Le Masson | 61 | Crab | |
| 11 | Owen | Nicholson | 61 | Scorpion | |
| 12 | Josselin | *Dragon Hatamoto* De Carvalho | 61 | Dragon |
DOUBLE Hatamoto
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| 13 | Tassos | Pap | 61 | Dragon | |
| 14 | Brian | Mulcahy | 60 | Scorpion | |
| 15 | Paul | Flament | 57 | Crab | |
| 16 | Constantine | Christakis | 52 | Scorpion | Challenger |
| 17 | Alain | Laugier | 52 | Crane | Challenger |
| 19 | Milosz | Slepowronski | 52 | Crab | Challenger |
| 21 | Daniel | Knauss | 52 | Dragon | Challenger |
| 22 | Alexandre | Baylot | 52 | Phoenix | Challenger |
| 36 | Sebastien | Francomme | 52 | Lion |
Hatamoto & Challenger
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| 44 | Romain | Verdier | 52 | Unicorn |
Hatamoto & Challenger
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Alex, that hero that he is, has already posted the pairings for tomorrow. We can expect these to be updated as the games go on.
Adding up both days and adding in the challengers, this is what the start of day 2 is going to look like.
Scorpion look like they’re in a strong position with Crane and Dragon at their heels. As day 1 has shown us anything could happen, so Sunday will make for some exciting games.
Day 2 – Sunday
The bracket continues to be updated. So check out the pairings as the games go on.
The streams are still active
- French stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ketal
- English re-stream: https://www.twitch.tv/mindsdesiree (one of my favorite streamers) – Recorded version on YouTube English Restream of L5R Paris Grand Kotei
We have a winner! Scorpion played by Jakub Irzyk wins the Paris Grand Kotei beating Pierre le Masson playing Crab in the final.
Winning Deck
- Jakub Irzyk – Scorpion / Dragon splash
Second place
- Pierre Le Masson – Crab / Unicorn splash
Top 4
- Philipp Röver – Scorpion / Dragon splash
- Filippo Mengoli – Dragon / Crab splash
Top 8
- Jean-Baptiste Laroche – Phoenix / Dragon splash
- Alain Laugier – Crane / Scorpion splash
- Orian Gissler – Crab / Unicorn splash
- Nicolas Vaurette – Phoenix / Lion splash
Top 16
- Tassos Papanastasiouat – Dragon / Crab splash
- Rémi Carbonne – Crane / Scorpion splash
- Alessandro Apicella – Crane / Scorpion splash
- Miguel Diaz Sequedo – Crane / Dragon splash
- Jean Cochard – Lion / Crane splash
- Marcos Yerga Gomez – Scorpion / Crab splash
- Simon Pietri – Crane / Scorpion splash
- Erik Baalhuis – Crane / Dragon splash
Top 32
- Maxime Dubosc – Lion / Dragon splash
- Josselin de Carvalho – Dragon / Crab splash
- Tamas Szabo – Scorpion / Dragon splash
- Julien Georget – Crane / Scorpion splash
- Milosz Slepowronski – Crab / Crane splash
- Francisco Javier Benitez Somolinos – Scorpion / Dragon splash
- Robert Haustein – Crab / Scorpion splash
- Joris Masson – Dragon / Crab splash
- Vincent Lafarge – Dragon / Crab splash
- Owen Nicholson – Scorpion / Crab splash
- Konstantinos Christakis – Scorpion / Dragon splash
- Paul Flament – Crab / Unicorn splash
- Sébastien Francomme – Lion / Dragon splash
- Tarek Alatrash – Phoenix / Dragon splash
- Andre Rinn – Unicorn / Lion splash
- Brian Mulcahy – Scorpion / Dragon splash
Top 38
- Alexandre Baylot – Phoenix / Dragon splash
- Romain Verdier – Unicorn / Scorpion splash
- Cyril Rols – Dragon / Crab splash
- Daniel Knauss – Dragon / Crab splash
- Inaki Izarra – Crane / Scorpion splash
- Minh Tam Thai – Scorpion / Crab splash
Thanks to Jakub for doing the legwork for the top 32 and top 38.
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17 Replies to “Meta Check – Paris Grand Kotei”
Are player limited to a single qualifier? Is it possible to be one of the 135 on Friday, and then one of the 243 on Saturday?
Each player can only be in one of the two qualifiers.
Are their clan win percentages to come?
Not currently planned. In theory, it is all there in the google docs as we can see the pairings and based on the later standings it should be possible to work out who won each match. I’m not sure how to easily do that and right now I’m not planning to do it the hard way! If anyone can think of an easy way shout!
Something did come to mind! I now have a list of most of the games which probably is accurate. I’ll work on the %s over the next few days.
Thank you a lot.
It will be very usefull.
You do a very good job in meta check and analysis.
Hi, Jean Cochard played Lion splash Crane, not Crab. Thx
Updated, thanks!
Hi,
does anyone know what the Hatamoto means in the last column? Did those guys become Hatamoto at this tournament? Because if yes, there were two unicorn guys who managed to get the wins? o.O Would be impressive.
Yeah, the last column shows players who earned Hatamoto at the tournament. The top Unicorn of each qualifier day was always guaranteed to get Hatamoto. That said, 39th and 44th place is actually really good.
Yes it is! I am supprised they ranked so high (playing uni myself). But what I ment was: don’t you Need to Play 5:0 or something to get Hatamoto? Were ther 40 5:0s in the tournament? o.O
In the gencon release tournament you got Hatamoto if you were undefeated after 5 (I think) rounds. For the Koteis and later tournaments if you are top of clan after the Swiss you get Hatamoto and if you make it to the final and did not already get Hatamoto during the tournament you get Hatamoto status. As Grand Koteis have two days of qualifiers you end up with 2 Hatamoto for each clan.
I was playing Phenix on day 1b. I am surprised we were so many : I never had a mirror match.
Thank you for the stats.
I did not go very far : the 4 games I played were my games #6-10 in total. 🙂
Its interesting how in t top any scorp crane match? would be possible stadistics about tis matchup in swiss?
As a spoiler for the next post in progress, Crane had an overall 45% win rate against Scorpion. It is notable however that the Crane that did make the final day did not lose a game against Scorpion. They only faced Scorpion once and beat it on that occasion.
Thank you so much!! ?