Author Topic: Abbey & Mayor League - Group A (Read 21826 times)

ny1050220 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 20, 2015, 06:55:49 AM »

Hi!
I'm usually free after 7pm EDT (5 hours behind the UK) and whenever I'm in the chat room.

danisthirty · « **Reply #16 on:** May 20, 2015, 07:31:04 AM »

Quote from: ny1050220 on May 20, 2015, 06:55:49 AM

Hi!
I'm usually free after 7pm EDT (5 hours behind the UK) and whenever I'm in the chat room.

Hi Yi. I can probably do midnight tonight my time if you're available at 7pm your time?

jma03 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 20, 2015, 09:51:58 AM »

it is possible for me too .

danisthirty · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2015, 03:57:51 PM »

I played ny1050220 this evening.

The scores were: 184 - 155 to ny.

In short, my review of the game is that I was completely outplayed.

I will post photos tomorrow...

ny1050220 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 20, 2015, 04:57:11 PM »

I got the screenshot. Don't worry, Dan!
I think it probably went this way: I placed a farmer right after Dan placed his barn. Dan blocked the only way between his barn and my farmer, so I could only place my barn somewhere else. My barn ended up bigger for I got quite a few 2-or-3-tile cities.

berchio · « **Reply #20 on:** May 20, 2015, 05:31:31 PM »

ny1050220 182 - 167 berchio

what a finale! As you can see in the screenshot ny got the piece that closed that huge inattacable castle as the last piece in the game. What a game changer!

danisthirty · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2015, 12:50:18 AM »

Quote from: ny1050220 on May 20, 2015, 04:57:11 PM

I think it probably went this way: I placed a farmer right after Dan placed his barn. Dan blocked the only way between his barn and my farmer, so I could only place my barn somewhere else. My barn ended up bigger for I got quite a few 2-or-3-tile cities.

There was a way round but I spent the whole game trying to make it and came up 2 tiles short in the end. If you look in the top-right of your screenshot and imagine if I'd closed my 1-point city with a crfr tile (there was one left but you drew it) and then put a rrxx tile immediately above it the barn farms would have joined. This wouldn't have won me the game though, as I'd focussed so much on trying to achieve this that I didn't do enough to stop any of your countless efforts to join isolated farmers back to your barn farm; something you did amazingly well and generated a lot of points from. Well, I did once but you drew the exact tile you needed immediately afterwards so I punched myself in the face and gave up!

Well done also on your win against berchio. Apparently Abbey & Mayor is a favourite of yours ny!

MrNumbers · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2015, 12:49:13 PM »

MrNumbers vs. jma03

I failed to join barn fields and lost the game.

jma03 · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2015, 04:22:35 PM »

Quote from: MrNumbers on May 21, 2015, 12:49:13 PM

MrNumbers vs. jma03

I failed to join barn fields and lost the game.

fields and my barn was the key.
a hard game

kettlefish · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2015, 10:54:43 PM »

I miss the screenshot about the game with jma03 and danisthirty.

danisthirty · « **Reply #25 on:** May 21, 2015, 11:17:35 PM »

Crikey. Another loss for me.

This one came as a bit of a surprise as I thought I'd played quite well and had a beautiful bit of luck when jma tried to block me from placing my barn and I drew the exact tile I needed to do so immediately afterwards. I felt like I had a good advantage for the rest of the game after this as my barn farm was a lot bigger than jma's (it looked like his was going to be stuck at 4 cities but he did very well to extend it beyond this).

Although I didn't add all of the points up, it looked to me based on what was on the board that I was ahead (albeit only slightly) right up to the end of the game, even after jma won overall control of a 9-point farm that we had been sharing. I thought it would be close, but a draw seemed like the worst case scenario and I was surprised to see I'd lost by 15 points. Sometimes that's just the way it goes though I suppose.

Anyway, jma played consistently well throughout and definitely made the most of the tiles he drew. Congratulations!

Not feeling too optimistic about my chances now that I've lost 3 of 4 games. Oh well, there's always the next one...

kettlefish · « **Reply #26 on:** May 21, 2015, 11:58:59 PM »

Here comes the x-score list - AM-League - Group A - 22 05 2015-1

jma03 185 : berichio 178
ny1050220 184 : danisthirty 155
ny1050220 182 : berichio 167
jma03 169 : MrNumbers 148
jma03 229 : danisthirty 214
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5 players in Group A have played at least 2-4 games.

danisthirty has played 4 games.
berichio and jma03 have played 3 games.
MrNumbers and ny1050220 have played 2 games.

Carcking and rfielder didn't play a game yet.

Please make appointments for game play.

There have been played 7 games total.