Founded: Nov 2017
Members: 20 (active-ish)
Mission: NWE’re just friends
Notable Performances: winning pretty much every Team Tournament, Pinsel 2019 World Champion, QVM 2020 Inter-Continental Champion, Django 2021 European Champion, TugtetguT 2022 European Champion, pspacekitten 2023 World Championship Organizer, eternal Champion lostgeek
Very Notable Decklists: Recoco Asa (2019), Geist (2020), Hivemind Maxx (2021)
Notable Decklists: Tigerbread (2019), Trash Panda Freedom (2019), labbES (2020), PD rush (before it was cool) (2021), Tempo Gagarin (2021), Ciabhata CtM (2022), KANEHL (2023), Animal Farm Esa (2023), Calicana Ob (2023) and many more
Notable Decklists (FFG): 7Penguins (2017), German Geist (2017), Colours of Disease (2018), Circus Hayley (2018), Tap Dancer (2019)
How to get in touch: message percomis or testrunning on discord
Where to find us:
Foundation
Back in the FFG days there were very active local-ish metas on both US coasts and in the UK. These were highly competitive and would prepare specifically for worlds. While there were also highly competitive Netrunners throughout continental Europe, those that went to worlds and wanted to prepare for it found it difficult to find local people to do so with. Thus NWE was born as a testing group for non-US, non-UK netrunner prepping for worlds. Originally that stood for North-West-Europe (funnily enough, since it didn’t include UK, which is more north-west than the countries it did include), but since then people from Eastern or Southern Europe or even Australia joined. So now NWE is just an acronym without any definite meaning behind it (NBN sends its regards).
Since then the focus of NWE has shifted a lot. Nowadays it is much more just a group of friends that likes to hang out together and sometimes plays Netrunner, mostly when big Events like Worlds 2023 are at the doorstep.
“Testing” “Process”
Due to being a very international group, almost all testing happens online via discord. The NWE classic testing consists of 2 people playing a game and ~10 people sitting in voice, watching the game and commenting and critiquing every single action. Apart from that Pinsel and TugtetguT smurf on jnet casual when they have some ideas and then post some crazy decklists in the discord.
Applications
Mostly just being around and vibing with the group. Playing together at Team Tournaments was highly inductive for that in the past.
Roster
Active(-ish):
Anzekay
Havvy
HerbartKlopstock
Jakuza
JackMade
James Harrison
labbes
lostgeek
mildesorte
MrBuggles
OF15-15
paulyg
percomis
Pinsel
pspacekitten
simili
TugtetguT
Terrificy
testrunning
Xtreme
Inactive:
Django
dome_
EarlCarl
Happy
Heinzel
kephalopode
qvm
Former:
ff0x
Gejben
Joewing
Korrigan
Lime
McBeast
ProcF
Tygaros
If you are part of an existing testing group, or if you are trying to get a new testing group up and running, then The Surveyor would love to publish a profile of your team!
Send a message to kikai.noraneko on discord.
Loving the team highlight video
Ok but that introducing NWE vid is absolute goals!