I think he could have gained 6 points by a two-tile city with pennant in the upper left as well.
Yes, it's the tile that I meant. That was the perfect tile for his need. And as you point out, it was doubly lucky
What is really interesting in this game that neither of you did use the Abbey tile. That is quite rare, I don't think I have seen that happen in this league.
This was interesting but I think what happened is it got late in to the game and neither of us wanted to give the other an easy 8 points by creating a hole. We were guarding ourselves against it. I think he tried to create a hole in the upper right to try to block my Mayor. I had to play a tile to block, but I didn't end up drawing the necessary ccxr that I needed to glom in anyway. That was the closest we got to playing an Abbey.