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[Tornado]

No, I was setting the over under for next year.
Which I think may need to go to 33.

[Arkham]

Originally Posted by Tornado

No, I was setting the over under for next year.
Which I think may need to go to 33.

For me, I can guarantee you it'll be under 30.

[Tornado]

30 it is.
Or do you have a specific number you are shooting for?

[Arkham]

Still just hoping to get to 100. No plans beyond that. But one's speed in designing/how many they can get done in a year is dependent upon more than just themselves, so shooting to top a specific number isn't really doable.

[IAmBatman]

I would be shocked if we beat this year's production next year. I think the pandemic and increased at home time for folks is juicing this year's numbers. COVID sucks, but for C3G it's been a performance enhancing drug.

[tcglkn]

C3G 2020 Year In Review

There's no denying that 2020 was a rough year for a lot of us in many ways, but a lot of the things that troubled us in real life drove us back to C3G. In that regard, 2020 was the best year C3G has ever had! We couldn't have done it without support from everyone involved from the fans all the way up to the Heroes. Here's some fun stats as we wrap up this year and move into 2021.

We released 146 designs to the public in 3 Waves, 19 Super Secret Exclusives and 7 Public Exclusives.

We finalized 225 designs, 135 of which are still sitting in our On Deck holding area waiting for their appropriate release in 2021!

Over 800 playtests were completed! Our top 5 playtesters of the year were:
1. Arch-vile (113!)
2. IAmBatman (91)
3. tcglkn (75)
4. Arkham (73)
5. MrNobody (61)

We also had a bunch of new allies and fans join us this year! These are the members that turned in their first playtest in 2020:
Zakizzryn (29)
Dr. Jekyll (18 )
AlexH12 (9)
Splash (7)
Captain Redbeard (6)
CzarChasm (3)
SIEGE (3)
Supergoblin64 (2)

We held our first C3G Con earlier this year with just Heroes and Legends and it was a resounding success with IAmBatman winning our first C3G Con annual tournament. We hope to be able to open this up to more people in the future when it is safer to do so.

We finally published our C3G Poker Cards thanks to tons of effort from japes and Sporx! Being able to hold a professionally printed piece of a game I have poured my energy into for years was surreal. Cannot wait to order the next deck!

This is really a banner year for C3G! We smashed the previous record number of designs completed in one year by over 50! Something many of us had thought would never happen. We added many great new Allies who are really helping us make all of this possible when we though we were at a point in the project where the Heroes and Legends were going to have to do all the testing to keep things moving. We are more excited than ever for the future of C3G and cannot wait for everything that 2021 holds for us.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Stats are taken directly from the On Deck version of the Sortable Index and only count 1 playtest per person per design and does not count playtests for Glyphs, DOs, Rules or Spells. This is just a quick fun look at how exciting our 2020 was and could be more accurate and in depth.

[IAmBatman]

Awesome post! Banner year for sure. Plus, how many Venoms??

[Yodaking]

Well, when you put it like that 2020 sounds pretty great.

[quozl]

Don't fight against 2020 because 2021.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Wow!! That is great guys. Congratulations on another great year. Let's try and top that in 2021

[Arch-vile]

It's been a great year for C3G, and a lot of fun being part of it.

[IAmBatman]

Some end of the year favorites from me:

Spoiler Alert!

Unique Hero of the Year: Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson) (II). Maybe my favorite figure to play right now. I love the way he affects the game and the clever ways you can build around him. One for y’all to look out for in 2021.

Event Hero of the Year: Godzilla! I love how this big, stompy guy plays, and I love the community engagement we got during his design.

Uncommon Hero of the Year: I’m biased, but I love the new dimension of gameplay the Psyche and Psychic Projection add (another to watch for!). Honorable Mention to the Green Lantern uncommon.

Common Hero of the Year: N’Garai. I love what these little buggers add to Trigon’s utility. Honorable mention to the Orange Construct Controllers giving Orange Lantern builds more viability. Always love seeing more constructs!

Unique Squad of the Year: Blackhawk Squadron. I will leave these shrouded in mystery other than to say that working on these created a path for one of my all-time favorite C3G personalities to spin some quality time with us! Honorable mention to the Duploids for being nasty and the Court of Owls for pushing boundaries.

Common Squad of the Year: Dead Onez and Cybermen. Slim pickings this year, and I haven’t played either of the candidates, but they both seem like cool designs that were overdue.

Personal LD of the Year: Riddler (II). I love how this guy feels like a mini scenario with puzzle he brings into the game.

Glyph of the Year: Glyph of Weather: Sharknado. I love the weather glyphs in general (I considered them for my innovation of the year) and the Sharknado takes what’s an awesome concept and throws a level of zany fun on top while still being completely viable in gameplay.

Spell of the Year: I won’t spoil it for you, but Tarot: The Magician is probably my favorite. I’m really excited with where the Tarot spells are going in general.

Destructible Object of the Year: I know it’s crazy for me not to choose the Batmobile here, but I’m going with the Elevator Car VDO, mostly because I think it’s hilarious that we were able to use the vehicle rules to make the elevator function so smoothly.

Mechanical Innovation of the year: In a year with crossover symbols, Weather Glyphs, the Astral Plane, Skyscrapers, Event Cards, and so much else, I have to give this to the flip card mechanic.

Rules Innovation of the year: The decision to use flying to shorten the text on swinging and leaping powers. This change will likely make a lot of innovation possible, especially within the Spiderverse.

Group Innovation of the year: Lots of great changes behind the scenes this year (too many to list really) but I have to give this to Table Top Simulator. Not only has it allowed me to play games with many of you all that have been a ton of fun, I know it’s also increased our testing efficiency (and mine in particular) by crazy amounts. Big shout out to Arkham for being a shepherd for C3G on TTS. Big honorable mention to the role that C3G Discord has played in our best year ever.

Release of the Year: I have to go with Festival of Lights here. Arkham and Archie went all in on this early and galvanized the group behind them and I think it resulted in nine really fun weeks of releases that expanded all of our Lantern factions.

Public Design of the Year: In a bit of a cheat, I’m going with the Royal Flush Gang as a whole. What a great accomplishment by fret_gurglo to manage this faction’s worth of units in the public. Shout out to Tickle for all the work he did in a support role.

Faction of the Year: With apologies to the many other wonderful candidates, from Symbiotes to Misfits to Proteges to Antagonists to Aristocratic Criminals to Incredibles to Mutant Rebels to Superman family to my runner-up Rogues, it’s easily Champions (Justice League) for me. The expansion to this faction this year has been incredible and I can’t wait to continue to build onto it and to share with the public all we’ve accomplished in this design space this year.

Moment of the Year: C3G Con was a blast! There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said in the thread for the Con, but I consider it to have been a rousing success, and can’t wait for next year.

Art Accomplishment of the Year: There were so many amazingly cool card designs done this year that had my jaw dropping, from Tickle's Bombastic Bagman to Arkham's Plastic Man (II) to just about everything Soundwarp did, but this has got to go to japes' work on C3G Poker Cards. Special shout out to Tornado for all he's done to help the Terrain Group as a budding artist!

Helper of the Year: sporx. Poker cards wouldn't have happened without his tireless efforts as an editor.

Public Contribution of the Year: I've really been enjoying the C3G Strategy/Competitive Discussion run by FreshFoods. Thanks, FF!

Surprise of the year: How our public membership has swelled all of the sudden! I thought we were probably in a post-Ally era, but y’all have come on strong as testers and participants. I’m hoping 2021 will be a year that sees a lot of you grow as prolific designers. The future is strong!

That's my list! I'd love to see yours!