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You're journey is amazing thanks for sharing

Whats the diff between americas champ and nationals champ? New to this

Congrats Josh! Your run in the event was amazing! To reach the finals in probably the hardest catan tournament ever makes your skill undeniable. I think even more amazing than that is the courage you showed in sharing your feelings. As someone who has sometimes struggled with similar things, I know how hard it can be to do that. I'll also admit that it made me a bit emotional. I hope one day I can reach your catan skill and your emotional maturity! P.S. Hope the grammar is fine, english is not my 1st language.

Thank you for the insight. P.s The facial hair suits you buddy. Hope you're well and I look forward to catching up with you very soon.

Thanks for sharing! I'm sending a virtual hug! If you come back to Ithaca to qualify for next year please give me a heads up! It would be great to see you again AND I'll plan to attend other tournaments to try to qualify, since I'd have no chance of beating you in Ithaca! LOL But on a serious note...like I said during our game in Ithaca when you were offering an 8 for 2 trade to help another player build to take longest road from me.....NORMALLY (playing with family) that would lead to arguing/bad feelings/long term grudges....but because you were so nice/pleasant earlier in the game I didn't take it personally...I even respected the hustle! My point being that your study/usage of the social aspect/strategy of Catan is really remarkable and is something to be admired/respected!

Shades, Shanks here. I’m really happy that you’ve reached the top of Catan in your country, making it to the final. You deserve it because of your skill and everything you've done for the competitive scene. You’ve shown great knowledge and wisdom both in the game and outside of it, with your words in this video and also in the Reddit thread. Take care, my friend.

Awesome video, thank you for sharing this. The Catan scene needs more people like you.

Watched you in both the semi and the final. From my pov, you held your own and deserved to be there. That semi was close. Was it the same sonny you met again in the final? That must have been interesting. Please do share your thoughts on both the semi and the final. Peace

Gg Josh! You had a great run. We had a great final game in Ithaca and happy at least 1 of us won. Stung for me pretty bad, but I will get my chance soon! You had an amazing run at nationals and seems like you have grown a lot as a player through out the whole experience. Very happy for you and GL in your future Catan endeavors!

Josh, thank you for sharing this. Knowing you over the last 2+ years in the scene, the arc of your story and personality has been nothing short of phenomenal and respectable. You showed up at USA Nationals and impressed a lot of people with your maturity of play and attitude. We are all looking forward to seeing your journey unfold as you continue to hone your groove. Stay with it friend and know we support you every step of the way!

Did you know that the up graded large straight on barbarian does 20 dmg while his ultimate does 15

Hey thanks for the Dice Throne video. There aren't many DT creators on youtube so it's always great to see someone talking about the game. I've now played every character and the only one I don't quite get is Tactician. He kind of feels like he was specifically made for team games with his targeted status and Carpet Bomb hitting two opponents. One thing I love about DT is it's simple enough that I can play it with my 11yr old nephew and 9yr old niece but there is enough expression in the different characters that everyone has a favorite. My nephew prefers the slower characters like Loki, Paladin, and Seraph, but I love to just hit hard with Pyro, Barbarian, Captain Marvel, and Santa. Both me and my nephew think that Tactician sucks, but you love the character. It's so cool that they took a simple concept like yahtzee and gave it extra flavor so we can all find our own way to play.

Man I live In a city of 40k people and we have tournament of 64 player's each year. So 14 people in NY is crazy

13:55 I would have tried a wheat for wood trade for a potential 3:1 wood for ore trade for the city.

Great analysis as always. Thanks for the vid

Automatic captions are hilarious, they pick up every um in the video. Gotta watch this with captions and no sound since I'm in a public place without headphones on rn

Congrats on the win but damn if 3 2 12 11 on one row isn’t a wacky set up!

I've been waiting for you to post about your visit to Ithaca! It was really a pleasure to meet you (and beat you in round 3!). Congrats on qualifying! It is good you came to Ithaca as tournament the following weekend at Arnot Mall in Horseheads didn't end up having enough people! Did you end up watching Deadpool & Wolverine in NYC?

Another banger from Shades! GG

Great video man! It is so cool to see tier list of heroes made by someone with real experience! For the Thor tho, in my country Marvel sets came out later than original version (a half of the year before from now) and they included updated leaflets for Spiderman and Thor so I played a ton of "balanced" Thor against all heroes and I have to say - he is still an S character but not as powerfull as Pirate or Thief. While Thor was literally obliterating the whole cast of characters now he is just really strong hero. Still S in my opinion but definitelly bottom of it because of his weaker card draw. And then, Pirat and Thief are two heroes that feel like cheating while piloting them against 95% of the characters so thats not a surprise that now they have much easier time with him! Waiting for more vids!!

Always tough starting a new season in the trenches of lower level skill opponents. Thanks for the vid

Well played man. I didn’t see a path to victory but you stayed in it. Keep it up

PS are you considering doing hero deep dives? I'd watch them all!

Thanks for this vid. I've been looking for good current dt content!

How did you not go with 5/6/9 best brick on a high wood board?

Well played. A trade masterclass.

Enjoyed this video a lot man! Challenges me to try harder to make it back to the top 10. I haven't been around competitive play a lot recently, so my opinion isn't worth as much, but based on talking within the community this seems to be a list many will agree upon with you. But I'm sure I'm not aware of most players' accomplishments. My vote goes to either Rayman, DandyDrew, Bo Peng or Kaytwenty. While doing research for past videos I also learned about Thijs Metz, the 4-time champion of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is rated 3rd behind Germany and USA on the all-time Catan leaderboard and considering there's only one tournament per year with 200+ participants I find that an insane feat.

Hey, this is Shanks. I'm here, three days away from my next national competition, rewatching this video and having some memmories back. Great job, Shades. Excellent reading and interpretation of my text. Send my regards to your editor, and thank you again

How do you study Settlers from Catan?

I would argue for more honorable mentions in the form of Trissie, Phantom, Awesome aggron to name a few. I guess there aren't here because they don't play base as much?

Hey Shades, Shanks here. I feel honored to be on this list. Considering how difficult it is to define a top 10, your list is VERY solid, and I agree with most of the names on it. Amazing job, both yours and your editor's!!

I knew who's going to be first but a great rest of the list. This content is amazing and brings something that was missing in catan

Curious where you would rank swheatchick, bucksas, davbav, and Boromir?

Nice list! Looking forward to playing against Shanks in the Brazilian Nationals next week!

great list! rodawg, jdawg, and aja99 (the sun) deserve spots in honorable mention for the online scene. They could easily make it into a list like this.

Awesome video!!

Awesome Video man! Happy my name made a few cameos in this vid. Maybe 1 day I will break into the top 10 :)

Are you high? It is clear that the top Catan players are: CTS Ohrami hexbreak3r Ohrami2 Christian Van Meter If you don't pin this you are a communist

Wait you forgot WheatKingz?

Awesome list Shades!

Amazing list Shades - All these players are crushers without a doubt! Thanks for the mention and great content you've been sharing lately. Excited to see more growth and insights from you. 💪

Thanks for the honorable mention shades. Pleasantly surprised

Dylan should def be a top 5 player on anyone’s list I feel like.. he’s a monster catan player and has been at the top of the scene for a long time. Cool vid!

Rodawg #1 in my heart

Solid list man! Only thing that I saw off the bat is Bo at 4 is crazy. Otherwise great work, all solid players.

😢😅I really want to watch this but I am 100% sure that you'll have Drew and Dylighted, and both are so arrogant that I can't even stomach it.

I must of been 11th for Shure. Gold player 😂 Im up there

Greens first pick was not “strong”

"I need 7 wood " lol. Great table talk. Nice group of chaps

If ever a win was earned this is the one. You put some real elbow grease into this one. Well played! Im always baffled by players who refuse to help try and extend the game when someone is about to win