4p international Agricola tournament in Oslo – September 22-24, 2023 – EIKWmFrG4567 draft 9
22-24 September there will be an international Agricola tournament in Oslo city centre. Anyone can register to participate in the tournament. All players will play 7 games in the tournament, with 2 games Friday night (from 17.00) , 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday (the tournament will be finished latest Sunday 16.00). The tournament will be using the original game and decks (not revised version) The format will be draft 9 with decks EIK+Wm+France +G4567 decks from playagricola.com, with some cards banned. In 2019, 24 participants of which one half from outside Norway, participated. We hope for more participants from outside Norway in 2020. Every Agricola enthusiast is very welcome!
The first edition of Agricola Oslo Open was held in 2019 and was won by Lumin Sperling. A report from the event can be read here.
To encourage players from outside Norway to travel to Oslo, the organizers may assist finding low-budget housing.
Tournament setup and rules
Registration
Location
Several options are available. The final choice of location will be made when we know approximately how many participants there will be.
About us
The tournament is arranged by a group of Agricola enthusiasts who live in Oslo. We are part of the board game club Ares, who has hosted weekly board game nights in Oslo since 1983, as well as the group «Agricola Norway» that (together with Ares) arrange Agricola tournaments in Oslo several times each year. The players who are mainly responsible for hosting this particular tournament are Rune Halvorsen (runeho), BA Kildalen (donba32) and Bernt Ivar Nødland (Turambar), the names in parentheses are our usernames on Agricola websites Play-Agricola.com and Boiteajeux.
Contact us
For logistics and organisation (accomodation, travel advice and general questions):
Turambar: Bernt Ivar Nødland (binoedland at hotmail.com)
For tournament rules and setup:
runeho: Rune Halvorsen (rune.halvorsen@nhm.uio.no)
Travelling to Oslo
If you are flying to Oslo the closest airport is Oslo Airport Gardermoen, from which there is a 20 minute train ride to the city centre (two different options: NSB trains or airport express train, the latter is more expensive, but the former usually more crowded).