CoachCrono wins the Origins TCG Crimson Cup: three Italians among the four finalists

CoachCrono is the Crimson Cup champion

Congratulations, Coach. On Sunday 25 October CoachCrono won the Crimson Cup, the tournament Koin Games closed the Steam Next Fest week with. apix of Koin Games announced it on the official Discord ("Congrats to @CoachCrono for winning our Origins Crimson Cup") and the official Origins TCG post on X sums it up: he came from the lower bracket, "going 9-3 today".

The prize is the one on the official winner graphic: the 1/1 Dracula promo card, two booster box cases and $1,500. CoachCrono is also a Creator on OriginsMeta: his channels and decks are on his profile.

Three Italians among the four finalists

Four players made it to the finals and three of them are Italian: CoachCrono, SouL and Felixnxx. The fourth is OrdinaryHarry. In a tournament open to everyone, with qualifiers in the Americas, Europe and Asia, it is a huge result for the Italian Origins TCG scene.

The final standings, from the playoff bracket on Tourney Bot and Koin's announcement:

1. CoachCrono
2. SouL
3. Felixnxx
4. OrdinaryHarry

How he got there

The playoffs on Saturday 24 October were double elimination, best of three: lose once and you drop to the losers bracket, lose twice and you are out. CoachCrono won his first six matches in the winners bracket, one of them against agraveinstream, another OriginsMeta creator, and stopped in the semi-final against SouL, 0-2. From there he did not lose again: 2-1 against eotboltyou to get into the last four, then at the finals 2-0 against OrdinaryHarry, 2-0 against Felixnxx and the grand final won against SouL, who had not lost a match until then.

On the other side, SouL went through the winners bracket unbeaten, with a 2-1 against Felixnxx in the winners final. Felixnxx had beaten OrdinaryHarry 2-1 in the other semi-final. The whole run, match by match, is in our playoff bracket.

The decks of the finals

Koin published the four finalists' lists on finals day: from the top 4 the decklists become public, as the rules say. CoachCrono's winning line-up:

• Three Not So Little Pigs: Bullseye, Glinda, Golden Egg, Guy of Gisborne, Mind Palace, Mummy, Obliterate, Reinforcements, Sandman, Stroke of Midnight, Three Blind Mice, Trash for Treasure;
• Van Helsing: Ali Baba, Baby Bear, Bridge Troll, Dark Omen, First Aid, Forbidden Knowledge, Phuong Hoang, Puck, Searing Light, Shahrazad, Spellbook, Tin Woodman;
• Legion of the Dead: Asanbosam, Baby Bear, Boogeyman, Bridge Troll, Dark Omen, En Passant, Golden Egg, Morgiana, Mummy, Obliterate, Paul Bunyan, Trash for Treasure.

The other line-ups: SouL brought Merlin, Mulan and Three Not So Little Pigs; Felixnxx Van Helsing, Legion of the Dead and Three Not So Little Pigs; OrdinaryHarry Mulan, Van Helsing and Three Not So Little Pigs.

A few numbers from the 12 lists. Three Not So Little Pigs is in all four line-ups, Van Helsing in three, Legion of the Dead and Mulan in two, Merlin in one: the other six Legendaries did not reach the finals. Baby Bear is the most common card (7 decks out of 12), followed by Golden Egg, Mind Palace, Obliterate and Tin Woodman (6). The full lists, with the game code and the link to the deck builder, are on our Crimson Cup page.

The tournament in short

The Crimson Cup was Koin Games' biggest tournament ever, as apix called it: five qualifiers open to everyone between 19 and 22 October (AMER #1, EMEA #1, AMER #2, APAC and EMEA #2), 32 players through from each plus 96 wild cards, a 256-spot playoff on 24 October and the finals on 25 October, all live. The format was Conquest: three decks with at least 8 different unique cards between each pair, a ban phase and decklists hidden until the top 4. Prizes worth $10,000 in total. The rules in detail are in our Crimson Cup rules.

In the four qualifiers with official tables from Koin, Van Helsing was always the most banned Legendary (from 44.4% in AMER #1 to 55.1% in EMEA #2), Three Not So Little Pigs the most brought and Baby Bear the most played card. The finals showed the same meta: Pigs in every line-up, Van Helsing in three, Baby Bear in seven decks out of twelve. All the qualifier numbers are on our Crimson Cup page.

What we don't know yet

• The grand final score: on Tourney Bot it has no result and Koin has not written it; the official post only gives the 9-3 of the day.
• The playoff and finals tables (bans, decks brought, most played cards): Koin published them on the official Discord after the qualifiers, not yet for the playoffs and the finals. When they arrive, they go on our Crimson Cup page.