The primary rule of headline writing is that if you may make a rhyme then you need to run with it. So right here we’re in week 4 the place had not only one rating, however three titles with scores, setting the season in movement.
Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Soccer, however for Video Video games
We have been off to the races on Monday when sufficient evaluations had already are available for the primary title of the season.
- Mio: Recollections in Orbit
- [Picked by Anthania Interactive (Ula)]
- Now has a rating of 79.2
That really led to a message from Ula asking about dropping video games which have a rating already. I suppose she wasn’t thrilled with kicking off with a rating beneath 80.
Mio: Recollections in Orbit
Nonetheless, whereas I may arrange a league the place you can drop titles with scores… the foundations have a whole lot of choices and you may make a league that could be a lot totally different than we’ve got now… that’s not an choice for us. Within the TAGN league as soon as it has a rating it’s yours to maintain.
And that wasn’t an terrible rating. The common rating for final yr was simply shy of 82.
So the sport launched when the day rolled over to Tuesday and the primary massive shuffle of the rankings hit.
- Writer Rating Updates
- Anthania Interactive (Ula)
- Rating has gone UP from 0 to 9.6
- Moved from twelfth place to 1st place
- Anthania Interactive (Ula)
The Discord bot really riffled via your complete listing, however since everyone else nonetheless had no factors, I made a decision that was a whole lot of noise for a really particular piece of data.
After {that a} host of further evaluations got here wherein pushed the rating for Mio up some.
- Mio: Recollections in Orbit
- [Picked by Anthania Interactive (Ula)]
- Rating has gone UP from 80.0 to 81.1
- Mio: Recollections in Orbit
- [Picked by Anthania Interactive (Ula)]
- Rating has gone UP from 80.4 to 81.6
- Mio: Recollections in Orbit
- [Picked by Anthania Interactive (Ula)]
- Rating has gone UP from 81.9 to 83.0
That pushed Ula as much as a rating of 13 earlier than one other title launched.
Nonetheless, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than we bought a second rating as evaluations have been already beginning to are available for Arknights: Endfield.
Arknights: Endfield
That additionally began out as a reasonably “mid” rating.
- Arknights: Endfield
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Now has a rating of 80
Once more, type of within the mid zone the place scores land when there isn’t a reviewer consensus on a title. That too bought some updates as we approached the discharge date.
- Arknights: Endfield
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Rating has gone UP from 80.0 to 81.2
- Arknights: Endfield
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Rating has gone DOWN from 81.2 to 79.6
Come Thursday morning we had two extra titles hit their launch date,
- Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven has launched!
- Arknights: Endfield has launched!
That gave us one other replace to the scoreboard, pushing Nimgimli into second place.
- Writer Rating Updates
- Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli)
- Rating has gone UP from 0 to 9.6
- Moved from tenth place to 2nd place
- Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli)
Nonetheless, the second title, Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven, had no rating but.
Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven
There was not even a evaluate listed, making me surprise if it was going to succumb to the sheep curse. Final yr, the one title that shipped however didn’t get a rating… and nonetheless doesn’t have sufficient evaluations for a rating… was Final Sheep Raccoon. Wool. Sheep. It’s all coming collectively!
However Woolhaven launched on each console in addition to PC, so evaluations finally began to indicate up. There was no curse, and in reality it kicked off very effectively.
- Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven
- [Picked by Play Forever Mwahahaha (Shintar)]
- Now has a rating of 89.3
That, after all, stirred up the rankings, such that they’re at this level within the yr.
- Writer Rating Updates
- Play Endlessly Mwahahaha (Shintar)
- Rating has gone UP from 0 to 19.3
- Moved from ninth place to 1st place
- Anthania Interactive (Ula)
- Moved from 1st place to 2nd place
- Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli)
- Moved from 2nd place to third place
- Play Endlessly Mwahahaha (Shintar)
Nonetheless, whereas that rating is fairly good… it’s primarily based on simply FOUR evaluations as of my penning this. I anticipate that we’ll see fluctuation in that rating subsequent week.
All of which left us with this scoreboard on the finish of week 4.
Week 4 Scores
Not solely did Shintar pop up into first place, however the power of her one stay choose was sufficient for the league to resolve that she is destined for first place.
Then there have been bids. We had extra bids this week.
Week 4 Bids
When all the pieces was resolved final evening, these have been the outcomes.
- Drops in TAGN League
- TAGN HQ (Wilhelm): Highguard (Drop Profitable)
I really seemed up Highguard final week and… the previews weren’t nice. I’m type of shocked no one counter picked it. However I put it on the drop listing and away it went. It launches this week, so I’ll quickly know if that was a mistake or not.
- Bids in TAGN League
- Mariachi Legends
Gained by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm) with a bid of $1 - Enter the Gungeon 2
- Gained by Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli) with a bid of $1
- Unannounced Witcher 3 DLC
- Gained by Anthania Interactive (Ula) with a bid of $11
- Esoteric Ebb
- Gained by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm) with a bid of $1
- Beast of Reincarnation
- Gained by Anthania Interactive (Ula) with a bid of $26
- Corr’s Inventive Collective (Corr)’s bid of $11 didn’t succeed: Writer was outbid.
- Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli)’s bid of $8 didn’t succeed: Writer was outbid.
- Gained by Anthania Interactive (Ula) with a bid of $26
- Excessive on Life 2
- Gained by Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli) with a bid of $1
- Planet of Lana II – Youngsters of the Leaf
- Gained by Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli) with a bid of $2
- Pokémon Era 10 (Unannounced)
- Gained by Anthania Interactive (Ula) with a bid of $1
- Unannounced Mainline Half-Life Recreation
- Gained by Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli) with a bid of $2 (🎯 Counter Decide)
- Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II
- Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli)’s bid of $2 didn’t succeed: No roster spots obtainable.
- Ananta
- Inexperienced River Gaming (Nimgimli)’s bid of $1 didn’t succeed: No roster spots obtainable.
- Mariachi Legends
Nimgimli had a complete of seven bids in play this week and received 4, bought within the counter choose in opposition to Half Life 3, which looks like a protected guess right here in January, and had two fail as there was no house left on their roster. However, you by no means know once you’re going to be out bid.
Ula was in on three bids, included the contested bid over Beast of Reincarnation, the place she threw in $26 of her finances to safe the win.
After which I bought in there with two uncontested one greenback bids.
Then, with coming titles, we bought a number of updates:
- Marathon
- [Picked by Hidalgo Trading Company (Pallais)]
- Launch date modified from ‘March 2026’ to ‘Thursday, March 05, 2026’.
- Fable
- [Picked by Hidalgo Trading Company (Pallais)]
- Estimated launch date modified from ‘2026’ to ‘Fall 2026’.
- Forza Horizon 6
- [Picked by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)]
- Launch date modified from ‘2026’ to ‘Tuesday, Could 19, 2026’.
Marathon bought a tough date, Fable bought a season (although they’ll want greater than that to persuade some), and Forza Horizon 6 confirmed on Thursday the date that leaked final week. It’s up for pre-order on Steam and XBox now.
We additionally bought one thing about Prince of Persia… that set a date as effectively… if “by no means” is a date.
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake
- [Picked by Hidalgo Trading Company (Pallais)]
- Estimated launch date modified from ‘By March 2026’ to ‘Cancelled’.
- Tags modified from Remake to Cancelled, Remake.
Ubisoft is being Ubisoft and following the business pattern of cancellations and delays as a result of they don’t wish to pay anyone to do the work.
You can not seize it as a counter choose both. Cancelled objects are out of bounds except you picked them earlier than they have been cancelled. So Pallais has a title to drop and a brand new slot on their roster to fill.
All of that left the approaching up listing wanting like this:
Coming Up for Week 5
With Highguard out of the working, that leaves us two releases subsequent week, with each Shintar and Nimgimli trying to get their second titles on the board. We must wait till week six to get anyone new with a rating on the board, however then week seven, Valentine’s week, will see seven titles launch, which ought to shake issues up a bit.
And there are nonetheless 48 weeks left to go from right here.
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