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Europe, Middle East & Africa Continentals 2023 Roundup

Congratulations to Sokka234, our 2023 Europe Middle East and Africa Continental Champion! Sokka managed to come from the losers’ side of the bracket to meet Bridgeman in the finals. In a dramatic first game, he showed just how important exploiting poorly defended centrals is in this The Automata Initiative Standard format, managing to take a very short 13 minute, 5 turn game through some early R&D runs, and then snatching an Agenda out of HQ. The grand final went at a much slower pace, taking more than twice as long both in real time and in number of turns. Eventually Sokka234 secured a very decisive 8-0 victory with a chunky 3 ice, 3 upgrade remote server.

Congratulations also to our final set of qualifiers for the Intercontinental Championships: Sokka234, Bridgeman, Watzlav, and RotomAppliance. Thank you to the 145 players who joined us online for our final and largest stop on the Continentals tour, and to all the people who followed along via stream.

The Automata Initiative has really been put through its paces this Continentals season, with a turbo charged run through the ringer at three major events in as many weeks. We’re taking next weekend off, but on the 2nd of September we’ll be back with the invitation-only Intercontinental Championship, where the top four finishers from each of the Continental Championships will battle it out in a Single Sided Triple Elimination format to be crowned your 2023 Null Signal Games Intercontinental Champion. The winner earns the privilege to work with our art and OP teams to have their likeness put on a brand new promo card of their choice – like the promos of Daily Quest and Urban Renewal that this weekend’s two EMEA Continental Finalists have appeared on!

Thank you again to everybody who has made this Continentals season one of my personal favourites so far. The evolution of decks between each stage of the tournament, each just one week apart, was extremely exciting, and we have tons of interesting strategies to sink our teeth into between now and Worlds. In the end it looks like Hoshiko has managed to maintain her dominance on the format, but only just, as people found interesting ways to build around identities old and new. A personal highlight for me was Niichan’s Girl’s 11th place Freedom deck, sporting Audreyv2, Yusuf, and absolutely no Killers or Decoders!

You can find the streams for all three of these events, as well as the upcoming Intercontinental and World Championships, on our Twitch and YouTube channels. Join us in two weeks time to see the world’s best play at the Intercontinental Championships!


Europe, Middle East & Africa Continentals 2023 Top 16 Decklists

Haas-Bioroid: Precision Design

Agenda (10)
3 Architect Deployment Test
2 Élivágar Bifurcation
1 Luminal Transubstantiation
3 Offworld Office
1 Project Vitruvius

Asset (5)
3 Rashida Jaheem
2 Spin Doctor ●●

Ice (13)
1 Ablative Barrier
2 Ansel 1.0
2 Drafter
3 Gatekeeper
1 Hagen
1 M.I.C.
2 Magnet
1 Tyr

Operation (6)
3 Hedge Fund
3 Seamless Launch

Upgrade (10)
3 Ganked! ●●●●●●
1 Manegarm Skunkworks
1 Mavirus ●
3 Tranquility Home Grid
2 Tucana ●●●●●●

Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist

Event (15)
2 Bahia Bands ●●
3 Dirty Laundry
1 Moshing
3 Raindrops Cut Stone
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (5)
2 Gachapon
1 Hermes ●●●
2 Hippo

Program (8)
2 Carmen ●●●●
2 Cleaver
2 Fermenter
2 Unity ●●●●

Resource (17)
3 Daily Casts
2 DreamNet
1 Fencer Fueno
1 Hannah Wheels Pilintra
1 Liberated Account
1 Light the Fire!
1 Miss Bones ●●
2 Paladin Poemu
2 The Twinning
1 Trickster Taka
2 Tsakhia Bankhar Gantulga

Haas-Bioroid: Precision Design

Agenda (8)
2 Ikawah Project
1 Luminal Transubstantiation
3 Offworld Office
2 Project Vitruvius

Asset (5)
3 Rashida Jaheem
2 Spin Doctor ●●

Ice (13)
1 Ansel 1.0
2 Brân 1.0
2 Drafter
3 Gatekeeper
2 Hagen
1 M.I.C.
2 Magnet

Operation (10)
2 Greasing the Palm
3 Hedge Fund
3 Seamless Launch
2 Your Digital Life ●●●●

Upgrade (8)
2 Anoetic Void ●●●●●●●●
2 Manegarm Skunkworks
1 Mavirus ●
3 Tranquility Home Grid

Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist

Event (20)
2 Bravado ●●●●●●
3 Dirty Laundry
3 Moshing
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Strike Fund
3 Sure Gamble
3 The Price

Hardware (4)
2 Hippo
2 Maw

Program (10)
2 Carmen ●●●●
2 Cleaver
2 Fermenter
2 Stargate
2 Unity ●●●●

Resource (11)
3 Daily Casts
1 DJ Fenris ●
2 DreamNet
1 Hannah Wheels Pilintra
1 Ice Carver
1 Liberated Account
1 Mystic Maemi
1 Paladin Poemu

Azmari EdTech: Shaping the Future

Agenda (6)
3 Bellona
3 Send a Message

Asset (16)
3 Daily Quest
2 Echo Chamber
3 NGO Front
3 Rashida Jaheem
2 Regolith Mining License
3 Spin Doctor

Ice (17)
3 Border Control ●●●●●●●●●
2 F2P
3 Hydra
3 Magnet ●●●
1 Pop-up Window
1 Surveyor ●●
1 Tithe
3 Tollbooth

Operation (4)
1 Attitude Adjustment
3 Hedge Fund

Upgrade (1)
1 Mavirus ●

Nyusha “Sable” Sintashta: Symphonic Prodigy

Event (20)
1 Bahia Bands ●
3 Bravado
2 Carpe Diem
2 Diesel ●●●●
3 Dirty Laundry
3 Diversion of Funds
1 Falsified Credentials
1 Mutual Favor
1 Pinhole Threading
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (6)
2 Boomerang
1 Flip Switch
2 Hermes
1 WAKE Implant v2A-JRJ

Program (9)
2 Aumakua
2 Bankroll
1 Carmen
1 Cezve
1 Curupira
1 Leech ●
1 Shibboleth

Resource (12)
2 Dr. Nuka Vrolyck ●●●●
1 DreamNet
1 Info Bounty
2 Miss Bones
1 Mystic Maemi ●●
2 No Free Lunch
2 The Class Act
1 The Twinning ●●●

Haas-Bioroid: Precision Design

Agenda (8)
2 Ikawah Project
1 Luminal Transubstantiation
3 Offworld Office
2 Project Vitruvius

Asset (6)
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor ●●●

Ice (14)
2 Ablative Barrier
1 Ansel 1.0
2 Border Control ●●●●●●
2 Brân 1.0
2 Drafter
2 Gatekeeper
1 M.I.C.
2 Magnet

Operation (7)
1 Biotic Labor
3 Hedge Fund
3 Seamless Launch

Upgrade (9)
1 Anoetic Void ●●●●
2 Manegarm Skunkworks
2 Mavirus ●●
3 Tranquility Home Grid
1 Vovo Ozetti

Lat: Ethical Freelancer

Event (23)
3 Bahia Bands ●●●
3 Creative Commission
2 Deep Dive
3 Diesel
3 Dirty Laundry
2 Into the Depths
2 Jailbreak
2 Overclock
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (7)
2 Aniccam
3 Prepaid VoicePAD
2 Simulchip

Program (10)
1 Cleaver ●●
1 Clot ●●
1 Echelon
1 Imp ●●●
1 K2CP Turbine
1 Pichacao
3 Self-modifying Code
1 Unity

Resource (5)
3 Daily Casts
1 Hannah Wheels Pilintra ●●
1 The Twinning ●●●

Asa Group: Security Through Vigilance

Agenda (9)
2 Ikawah Project
1 Luminal Transubstantiation
3 Offworld Office
3 Project Vitruvius

Asset (9)
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor ●●●
3 Wage Workers

Ice (14)
2 Border Control ●●●●●●
2 Drafter
3 Gatekeeper
2 Hagen
3 M.I.C.
2 Stavka ●●●●

Operation (10)
1 Biotic Labor
3 Fully Operational
3 Hedge Fund
3 Seamless Launch

Upgrade (7)
1 Manegarm Skunkworks
2 Mavirus ●●
3 Tranquility Home Grid
1 Vovo Ozetti

Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist

Event (15)
3 Bahia Bands ●●●
3 Creative Commission
3 Diesel
3 Dirty Laundry
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (9)
3 Gachapon ●●●●●●
3 LilyPAD
3 Simulchip

Program (15)
1 Buzzsaw ●
1 Clot ●●
1 Conduit
1 Echelon
1 Gauss
2 Hush ●●
1 K2CP Turbine
3 Kyuban
1 Self-modifying Code
2 Slap Vandal
1 Pichacao

Resource (7)
3 Daily Casts
1 DJ Fenris ●
3 Urban Art Vernissage

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Agenda (11)
1 Above the Law
1 Azef Protocol
2 Hostile Takeover
3 Oaktown Renovation
1 Offworld Office
3 Project Atlas

Asset (7)
3 Rashida Jaheem
1 Regolith Mining License
3 Spin Doctor ●●●

Ice (16)
3 Border Control
3 Envelopment
1 Hafrun ●●
1 Hortum
2 Magnet ●●
2 Sandstone
2 Stavka
1 Tithe
1 Whitespace

Operation (8)
2 Audacity
3 Extract
3 Hedge Fund

Upgrade (7)
1 Manegarm Skunkworks ●●●
3 Mavirus ●●●
2 Tucana
1 Vovo Ozetti ●●

Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist

Event (10)
1 Moshing
3 Raindrops Cut Stone
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (7)
3 Hermes ●●●●●●●●●
3 Hippo
1 WAKE Implant v2A-JRJ ●●●

Program (14)
3 Aumakua ●●●
2 Botulus
2 Buzzsaw
1 Cleaver
3 Fermenter
2 Leech
1 Num

Resource (14)
3 Daily Casts
2 DreamNet
3 Liberated Account
2 Paladin Poemu
1 The Twinning
3 Tsakhia Bankhar Gantulga

NBN: Reality Plus

Agenda (8)
3 Artificial Cryptocrash
3 Bellona
1 Oracle Thinktank
1 Tomorrow’s Headline

Asset (6)
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor

Ice (13)
1 Funhouse
2 Magnet ●●
3 Ping
2 Starlit Knight
3 Virtual Service Agent
2 Wraparound

Operation (16)
2 Economic Warfare ●●●●
3 Hedge Fund
3 Oppo Research
2 Retribution ●●
3 Seamless Launch ●●●●●●
1 Shipment from Vladisibirsk
2 Your Digital Life

Upgrade (1)
1 Mavirus ●

Nyusha “Sable” Sintashta: Symphonic Prodigy

Event (21)
3 Bahia Bands ●●●
3 Bravado
1 Carpe Diem
2 Deep Dive ●●●●●●●●●●
3 Dirty Laundry
2 Diversion of Funds
1 Inside Job
1 Mutual Favor
2 Pinhole Threading
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (5)
2 Boomerang
1 Docklands Pass
2 Hermes

Program (7)
2 Aumakua
1 Carmen
1 Curupira
2 Leech ●●
1 Shibboleth

Resource (12)
3 Daily Casts
2 Earthrise Hotel
1 Info Bounty
1 Miss Bones
2 No Free Lunch
3 The Class Act

Haas-Bioroid: Architects of Tomorrow

Agenda (9)
2 CFC Excavation Contract
2 Ikawah Project
1 Luminal Transubstantiation
3 Offworld Office
1 Project Vitruvius

Asset (10)
1 NGO Front
2 Nico Campaign
3 Rashida Jaheem
2 Regolith Mining License
2 Spin Doctor ●●

Ice (16)
3 Ansel 1.0
3 Border Control ●●●●●●●●●
3 Brân 1.0
2 Eli 1.0
2 Magnet
3 Ravana 1.0
1 Tyr

Operation (8)
3 Hedge Fund
3 Seamless Launch
2 Sprint

Upgrade (5)
3 Jinja City Grid
1 Manegarm Skunkworks
1 Mavirus ●

Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist

Event (24)
3 Bahia Bands ●●●
2 Bravado ●●●●●●
2 Mad Dash
3 Moshing
2 Pinhole Threading ●●
3 Raindrops Cut Stone
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Sure Gamble
3 The Price

Hardware (7)
2 Boomerang ●●●●
2 Hippo
3 Maw

Program (14)
3 Botulus
3 Buzzsaw
3 Cleaver
1 Leech
3 Num
1 Stargate

Resource (17)
3 Daily Casts
2 DreamNet
3 Liberated Account
2 Mystic Maemi
2 Paladin Poemu
2 The Twinning
3 Tsakhia Bankhar Gantulga

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Agenda (11)
1 Above the Law
2 Azef Protocol
2 Hostile Takeover
3 Oaktown Renovation
3 Project Atlas

Asset (7)
3 Rashida Jaheem
1 Regolith Mining License
3 Spin Doctor ●●●

Ice (16)
1 Afshar
3 Border Control
3 Envelopment
1 Hafrun ●●
1 Hortum
2 Magnet ●●
1 Sandstone
2 Stavka
1 Tithe
1 Whitespace

Operation (8)
2 Audacity
3 Extract
3 Hedge Fund

Upgrade (7)
1 Manegarm Skunkworks ●●●
3 Mavirus ●●●
2 Tucana
1 Vovo Ozetti ●●

419: Amoral Scammer

Event (17)
3 Bravado
2 Falsified Credentials
3 Diversion of Funds
1 Inside Job
1 Mutual Favor
1 Networking
2 Pinhole Threading
3 Sure Gamble
1 The Maker’s Eye ●●

Hardware (7)
2 Boomerang
1 Docklands Pass
3 Hermes
1 WAKE Implant v2A-JRJ

Program (7)
3 Aumakua
1 Carmen
1 Curupira
1 Leech ●
1 Shibboleth

Resource (14)
3 Daily Casts
3 Dr. Nuka Vrolyck ●●●●●●
1 Hannah Wheels Pilintra ●●
2 Liberated Account ●●●●
2 Miss Bones
1 No Free Lunch
2 The Class Act

Azmari EdTech: Shaping the Future

Agenda (8)
3 Artificial Cryptocrash
3 Bellona
1 Oracle Thinktank
1 Tomorrow’s Headline

Asset (7)
1 NGO Front
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor

Ice (12)
1 Endless EULA
2 F2P
2 Magnet ●●
2 Ping
2 Starlit Knight
3 Virtual Service Agent

Operation (16)
3 Economic Warfare ●●●●●●
3 Hedge Fund
3 Oppo Research
2 Predictive Planogram
3 Seamless Launch ●●●●●●
2 Shipment from Vladisibirsk

Upgrade (1)
1 Mavirus ●

Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist

Event (25)
2 Bahia Bands ●●
3 Dirty Laundry
3 Moshing
2 Pinhole Threading ●●
3 Raindrops Cut Stone
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Strike Fund
3 Sure Gamble
3 The Price

Hardware (7)
2 Boomerang ●●●●
2 Hermes ●●●●●●
3 Hippo

Program (12)
2 Botulus
2 Buzzsaw
2 Cleaver
3 Fermenter
1 Leech
2 Odore

Resource (11)
1 DJ Fenris ●
3 DreamNet
1 Liberated Account
1 Mystic Maemi
1 Paladin Poemu
1 The Twinning
3 Tsakhia Bankhar Gantulga

Asa Group: Security Through Vigilance

Agenda (9)
2 Ikawah Project
1 Luminal Transubstantiation
3 Offworld Office
3 Project Vitruvius

Asset (12)
3 Nico Campaign
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor ●●●
3 Wage Workers

Ice (15)
2 Ablative Barrier
1 Ansel 1.0
1 Brân 1.0
3 Drafter
2 Gatekeeper
2 Hagen
3 Magnet
1 Tatu-Bola ●●

Operation (7)
1 Biotic Labor
3 Fully Operational
3 Hedge Fund

Upgrade (6)
2 Anoetic Void ●●●●●●●●
2 Manegarm Skunkworks
2 Mavirus ●●

Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist

Event (14)
3 Dirty Laundry
2 Moshing
3 Raindrops Cut Stone
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (5)
2 Gachapon
1 Hermes ●●●
2 Hippo

Program (8)
2 Carmen ●●●●
2 Cleaver
2 Fermenter
2 Unity ●●●●

Resource (18)
3 Daily Casts
2 DreamNet
1 Earthrise Hotel
1 Hannah Wheels Pilintra
2 Liberated Account
2 Miss Bones ●●●●
2 Paladin Poemu
2 The Twinning
1 Trickster Taka
2 Tsakhia Bankhar Gantulga

Asa Group: Security Through Vigilance

Agenda (9)
2 Ikawah Project
1 Luminal Transubstantiation
3 Offworld Office
3 Project Vitruvius

Asset (10)
1 Nico Campaign
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor ●●●
3 Wage Workers

Ice (15)
2 Ablative Barrier
1 Ansel 1.0
1 Border Control ●●●
2 Brân 1.0
2 Drafter
2 Gatekeeper
3 Magnet
2 Tatu-Bola ●●●●

Operation (7)
1 Biotic Labor
3 Fully Operational
3 Seamless Launch

Upgrade (8)
1 Anoetic Void ●●●●
3 Manegarm Skunkworks
1 Mavirus ●
3 Tranquility Home Grid

Lat: Ethical Freelancer

Event (18)
3 Creative Commission
1 Deep Dive
3 Diesel
3 Dirty Laundry
1 Legwork ●●
3 Overclock
1 Pinhole Threading ●
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (6)
3 Aniccam
3 Simulchip

Program (14)
1 Buzzsaw ●
1 Cleaver ●●
1 Clot ●●
1 Conduit
1 Echelon
1 Engolo
3 Fermenter ●●●●●●
1 K2CP Turbine
1 Paricia
3 Self-modifying Code

Resource (7)
3 Daily Casts
1 DJ Fenris ●
1 Dr. Nuka Vrolyck
2 Telework Contract

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Agenda (11)
1 Above the Law
3 Azef Protocol
2 Hostile Takeover
3 Project Atlas
2 Slash and Burn Agriculture

Asset (7)
3 Rashida Jaheem
1 Regolith Mining License
3 Spin Doctor ●●●

Ice (15)
1 Afshar
3 Border Control
1 Hafrun ●●
3 Ice Wall
1 Magnet ●
3 Sandstone
1 Stavka
1 Whitespace
1 Winchester

Operation (9)
3 Audacity
3 Extract
3 Hedge Fund

Upgrade (7)
2 Calibration Testing ●●●●●●
3 Mavirus ●●●
2 Tucana

Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist

Event (14)
2 Career Fair ●●
3 Creative Commission
2 Deep Dive
1 Legwork ●●
3 Overclock
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (6)
1 DZMZ Optimizer
2 Hermes ●●●●●●
3 Simulchip

Program (12)
1 Clot ●●
1 Engolo
1 Gauss
1 Ika
1 Paricia
2 Pelangi
2 Pichacao
3 Self-modifying Code

Resource (13)
3 Daily Casts
3 Dr. Nuka Vrolyck
3 Earthrise Hotel
3 Environmental Testing
1 Paladin Poemu ●●●

AgInfusion: New Miracles for a New World

Agenda (7)
3 Fujii Asset Retrieval
1 Longevity Serum
3 Send a Message

Asset (11)
3 Dr. Vientiane Keeling
2 NGO Front
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor ●●●

Ice (18)
3 Anansi
3 Anemone
3 Formicary ●●●●●●
1 Magnet ●
1 Swordsman
3 Tatu-Bola
1 Thimblerig
3 Vampyronassa

Operation (7)
1 Divert Power ●
3 Hansei Review
3 Hedge Fund

Upgrade (6)
2 Anoetic Void
2 Manegarm Skunkworks ●●●●●●
2 Mavirus

Freedom Khumalo: Crypto-Anarchist

Event (15)
3 Contaminate
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Strike Fund
3 Sure Gamble
3 The Price

Hardware (10)
3 Hippo
3 Knobkierie
3 Simulchip ●●●●●●
1 Solidarity Badge

Program (16)
3 Audrey v2
3 Botulus
1 Clot
1 Consume ●●●●●
3 Fermenter
2 Imp
3 Yusuf

Resource (4)
2 Dr. Nuka Vrolyck ●●●●
2 Paladin Poemu

AgInfusion: New Miracles for a New World

Agenda (7)
3 Bacterial Programming
3 Fujii Asset Retrieval
1 Send a Message

Asset (9)
3 Dr. Vientiane Keeling
3 Rashida Jaheem
3 Spin Doctor ●●●

Ice (18)
3 Anansi
3 Anemone
3 Brân 1.0 ●●●●●●
2 Magnet ●●
1 Sadaka
3 Tatu-Bola
3 Vampyronassa

Operation (11)
3 Hansei Review
3 Hedge Fund
2 Mindscaping
1 Simulation Reset
2 Subliminal Messaging

Upgrade (4)
2 Anoetic Void
2 Cold Site Server ●●●●●●

Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist

Event (12)
1 Finality
1 Labor Rights
1 Moshing
3 Raindrops Cut Stone
3 Steelskin Scarring
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (10)
3 Gachapon
2 Hermes ●●●●●●
3 Hippo
1 Maw
1 WAKE Implant v2A-JRJ ●●●

Program (12)
3 Aumakua ●●●
2 Botulus
1 Buzzsaw
1 Cleaver
3 Fermenter
1 Leech
1 Num

Resource (12)
2 Daily Casts
2 DreamNet
2 Liberated Account
1 Miss Bones ●●
1 No Free Lunch ●
2 Paladin Poemu
2 Tsakhia Bankhar Gantulga

The Outfit: Family Owned and Operated

Agenda (12)
1 Above the Law
3 Hostile Takeover
3 Project Atlas
3 Regulatory Capture
2 Slash and Burn Agriculture

Asset (3)
3 Spin Doctor ●●●

Ice (16)
3 Border Control
1 Conundrum
2 Hortum
2 Stavka
3 Trebuchet
3 Valentao
2 Winchester

Operation (16)
2 Audacity
2 Big Deal ●●●●●●●●●●
2 Government Subsidy
3 Hedge Fund
3 Pivot
3 Too Big to Fail
1 Under the Bus

Upgrade (2)
2 Mavirus ●●

Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist

Event (12)
3 Creative Commission
3 Diesel
3 Dirty Laundry
3 Sure Gamble

Hardware (9)
1 DZMZ Optimizer
3 LilyPAD
2 Prognostic Q-Loop ●●●●●●
3 Simulchip

Program (19)
1 Clot ●●
1 Conduit
1 Echelon
3 Fermenter ●●●●●●
1 Gauss
1 Hush ●
1 Ika
1 K2CP Turbine
3 Kyuban
2 Self-modifying Code
3 Slap Vandal
1 Unity

Resource (6)
3 Environmental Testing
3 Urban Art Vernissage

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  • Tamijo

    Tamijo is Null Signal's Recruitment Team Lead, and has been a member of the EDI Team since its inception. It enjoys anarch decks, tags, and how queer this community is.