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Carc Central Community => Online Games and Competitions => World Cup of Carcassonne Central => Topic started by: danisthirty on October 04, 2016, 04:31:40 PM
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Welcome to the group stage of the 2016 World Cup of Carcassonne Central! This thread is primarily for members of Group C to arrange matches between themselves and post scores, screenshots and the obligatory smack-talk as the group progresses. The top 2 players from this group once everyone in the group has played all 5 of their matches will advance through to the knockout stage.
Here is a list of the group members (including location):
(http://www.dan.tehill.net/WC2016_GroupC.jpg)
If you haven’t read them already, please ensure that you are familiar with the tournament rules/ general information (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2907.msg43390#msg43390) and our Code of Conduct (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2700). You may also find the JCloisterZone FAQ (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=778) interesting/ useful if you have any unanswered questions about how JCloisterZone works (or you can just email/ PM me).
Finally, some helpful reminders:
Links
JCloisterZone 3.4.2 can be downloaded here: http://jcloisterzone.com/builds/JCloisterZone-3.4.2.zip (http://jcloisterzone.com/builds/JCloisterZone-3.4.2.zip).
Chat room: http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html (http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html).
Group stage expansions
All games at the group stage should include the following expansions:
- Inns & Cathedrals
- Traders & Builders
- The River (1)
- The Phantom
(these can be selected on the pre-game screen where you choose a colour and enter your name)
Go get em! :) :(y)
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I should be available Friday late afternoon and evening (US EDT = UTC -4) and most of the day Saturday and Sunday. Let me know if you have a specific time this weekend that would work for you.
Gracias,
Joe :green-meeple:
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So, I'm happy to compete with you in the World Cup! I should be available all (european) afternoon, and for the two guys abroad, I hope to be available on the week-end. Just drop me a PM, or write here. :(y)
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I'll try to be available Friday evening too.
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1st match played in the group.
:yellow-meeple: Halfling 299
:blue-meeple: Chuck 244
I took an early lead and held it throughout, grabbing as many trade tokens as I could.
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:blue-meeple: Chuck 195 - :green-meeple: JoeSesquipedalian 170
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JoeSesquipedalian :green-meeple: 239
MrNumbers :red-meeple: 223
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Hi Andrew,
What time difference to we have between New Zealand and UK? Maybe we can work out the best time to play each other?
regards Halfling
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Sorry. Had a hectic weekend. I am UTC+13 I believe.
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Monday morning already then. Ugh!
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3 games played, 12 left
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Hi guys. Sorry, had a hectic weekend. Anyone up for a game Friday night your time or Saturday morning my time? Otherwise Sunday morning your time should be good.
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No worries! ;)
Without knowing the exact scheduling for the weekend, I say that I may be up on Friday and/or Saturday. If I may be available, I'll pop up in the chatroom.
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I can do Friday evening.
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I got wiped out on the trade goods but I managed to trap enough meeples and share the larger farm with my meeple to eek out the victory. It was an intense game and very fun. Thank you Halfling! Well played!
JoeSesquipedalian :green-meeple: 248
Halfling :yellow-meeple: 219
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Yep, congrats on a good win. I must learn how to complete my cities!
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I must learn how to complete cities!
You already know how to complete them, you completed most of mine for the trade goods!! :o
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AndrewtheAmbo 264 : Chuck 181
First game down, and it all came down to a big city that Chuck regrets not closing off. I needed a CFRX tile to close it for probably half the game, and eventually got it, with a huge swag of city poits, and also trade goods.
Aftre completing it, Chuck did mention he had thought of enclosing that tile to limit my options. Chuck, I would have, as it was quite easy to do.
Other than that, we had a good battle for farms, although I did make a mistake that did allow Chuck to draw on the main farm.
Good game, thanks Chuck.
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Game 2
AndrewtheAmbo 249 : Halfling 208
We both felt we were behind in this game, although by midway, I was starting to think it was pretty even.
Halfling was aggresive with his trapping, and I was trying to gloom into his cities. I felt whenever I would start to do a trap, he would get the next tile to prevent it.
Looked like the game would come down to a big city with lots of good. I got the tile to close it, but with less than 30 odd tiles to go, thought I would forsake the goods as it trapped his meeples and only one of mine. I thought it was the last CCCR, but he got one 10 tiles later.
Meanwhile, with my mepple numbers, I was starting to concentrate of farms, and using my city/builder down the bottom to reduce the tiles he got. It worked, and I managed to neutralise his big farm and win the game.
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After being outmanned in the cathedral city I was running to catch up for the rest of the game. Closing a city to get points and tokens gave me hope but I was ultimately out farmed. 2 similar score losses on one night was hard to take.
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6 games played so far.
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Yeah, again I made too much mistakes. And letting Andrew trap my builder didn't help me any further....
I hope to gain a victory against either Mr. Numbers or zone 2.
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Good game between AndrewtheAmbo and I. I managed to draw the tiles I need to prevent AndrewtheAmbo from sabotaging the big cathedral city, ensuring my victory. Using my megameeple to equalize the large farm at the end just added padding to the win.
Thanks for the great game AndrewtheAmbo, and thanks for hosting!!!!
JoeSesquipedalian :green-meeple: 295
AndrewtheAmbo :red-meeple: 228
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This always felt like a game I was going to loose. It was just how much by. At one stage near the end I had ownership of the main farm, but then Joe suck back in again.
3 down, 2 to go.
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I will be online tonight if someone from our group will be free to play.
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I hope to be online in an hour or so.
Depending on how Junior is willing to fall asleep...
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MrNumbers vs. Chuck
258:181
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8 games played, 7 left.
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So, I'm officially out of the championship... the last game against zone2 has no chance of getting me further.
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I managed a win in a very close game. Last tile confirmed it for me.
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lucky, last move 36 point!
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I knew that a 50% chance I would get that tile when I laid the tile before and placed the mega meeple.
Overall it was a strange game to win as I had 2 meeples trapped early in the crook of the river and I assumed from this point on that I'd had it and that was it for the competition. A Cathedral city (nice cheese!) allowed me to hope and somehow I kept ahead in the scoring until only a couple of tiles from the end. I think we were level before the final tile and that was the one from the base game that I believed remained and I snuck the win.
Zone2 tried to make it difficult for me to complete cities on many occasions and I was fortunate to constant draw the tile that allowed the cities to be completed or continued and extended.
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9 games played - 6 to go.
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MrNumbers vs. AndrewTheAmbo
299:187
A lot of trapping and some lucky draws (60-points cathedral city) made this game in my favor.
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10 games played, 5 left.
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MrNumbers vs. Halfing
234:221
Quite fast and enjoyable game, we were pretty even throughout the game, only near the end, thanks to Halfling's blocked big guy+builder (meantime, my builder was working hard) and lack of yellow followers I was able to win this game.
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11 games played, 4 left, all involving zone2.
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A good fun loss to MrNumbers as expected. Well happy to have still been in with a shout right up to the last half dozen tiles.
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:blue-meeple: Zone2 vs. AndrewtheAmbo :red-meeple:
318:124
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:blue-meeple: Zone2 vs. Chuck :black1-meeple:
262:229
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So, World Cup's over for me. Thank you all and good luck for the oncoming games! :(y)
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13 games played, 2 left.
Everything can still happen in our group. It all depends on zone2's results in outstanding games.
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:blue-meeple: Zone2 vs. JoeSesquipedalian :green-meeple:
191:201
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14 games played, 1 left.
If nothing goes wrong, the last game is scheduled to this evening. JoeSesquipedalian already qualified to the QF, but we with zone2 should play for another spot. Zone2 must win, but I must not to lose by more than 5 points.
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MrNumbers vs. zone2
233:260
The most interesting game for me in this World Cup. Game started quickly and soon our builders became stuck: mine - forever, zone2 needed crrf tile. Zone2 quickly overtook leadership and I was forced to try to catch up. In the middle of the game the huge city became to grow, with my big and normal followers vs. zone2's two normal followers. I understood that this is my only chance to win, and I started to finish it. Zone2 tried to prolong it's building at every opportunity and in one moment even created a crff hole. With about 16 tiles left in the bag I needed 4 tiles to close the city. Then 3 tiles came one by one - ccff (splitter), cfff and crff! So I needed only cxxx tile to close it! Next tile drawn by zone2 was cccf (splitter). After 2 minutes of thinking zone2 decided to close my city! I received 90 (!) points and zone2 guaranteed all trade goods. The funniest thing in all this - cxxx tile never came to me till the rest of the game!
Before last tile came to zone2, he just was one point ahead of me (if we count all trade goods and fields), and if any tile, other than he actually received, came to him, it would be very difficult to find a spot with at least 5 points that he needed to overtake me. But last tile was all-game-waited crrf (with blue number 1 on it). So zone2 completed his city and additionally took 8-points road. As a result, zone2 qualified to knock-out stage, but I am finished 3rd and didn't qualify to QF second year straight.
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Final standings of Group C.
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Good luck to Joe and zone2 in the QF!
It's good to see, that everynody got at least one victory! And that I'm the only one who wom over our group winner! ;-)