Author Topic: Inns & Cathedrals League: Group C (Read 51756 times)

jungleboy · « **Reply #15 on:** March 06, 2015, 10:42:21 PM »

Quote from: rfielder on March 06, 2015, 07:20:07 PM

I will be available on Sunday at 0930hrs EST. Unfortunately, monwil needs to leave earlier than expected, so she will not be available.

OK, 9:30 it is! I think that will be 2:30pm here after you go into DST but I'll make sure to check again tomorrow.

danisthirty · « **Reply #16 on:** March 06, 2015, 10:43:15 PM »

Quote from: rfielder on March 06, 2015, 07:20:07 PM

Quote from: jungleboy on March 06, 2015, 03:53:15 AM
Per a post upthread monwil is available until 10:30 EST, so maybe I could play her first at about 9:30 EST and then play against you at 10:30am EST if that suits everyone?
I will be available on Sunday at 0930hrs EST. Unfortunately, monwil needs to leave earlier than expected, so she will not be available.

If your clocks will have gone forward on Sunday and you're normally 6 hours behind Switzerland does this mean that your 9:30 game will be 14:30 for jungleboy?

EDIT: looks like JB beat me to it!

Leven · « **Reply #17 on:** March 07, 2015, 05:50:48 AM »

Hi everyone in group C.

I will be available for a game or two this evening after 20:30 CET. The same applies to the days from Monday to Friday next week.
I'm looking forward to playing in this group, I think I've never played against any of you before.

kettlefish · « **Reply #18 on:** March 07, 2015, 12:15:55 PM »

Leven is in the chatroom. He likes to play a game for the league group C
Is there someone else from the group C who likes to play a game?

jungleboy · « **Reply #19 on:** March 07, 2015, 11:48:22 PM »

Leven, sorry you didn't have any opponents last night. It seems that even board game geeks sometimes go out on Saturday night

I am available to play throughout the day today starting now. I have my game with rfielder at 2:30pm CET and hopefully a game with Carcking after that. I can also play this morning, but not tonight. PM me or reply to this thread if you want to play.

kettlefish · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2015, 12:29:17 AM »

Leven is in the chatroom and waiting for a league game.

Jungleboy have you time to play a game with Leven?

jungleboy · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2015, 12:53:15 AM »

Quote from: kettlefish on March 08, 2015, 12:29:17 AM

Jungleboy have you time to play a game with Leven?

We are playing tomorrow night instead.

kettlefish · « **Reply #22 on:** March 08, 2015, 01:37:54 AM »

jungleboy is in the chatroom.

SRBO, can you play a game this morning?

rfielder · « **Reply #23 on:** March 08, 2015, 07:22:29 AM »

rfielder and jungleboy just finished a game. Usually winner.

Anyone else online and looking to play?

jungleboy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 08, 2015, 07:27:43 AM »

Group C is finally off and racing!

I just played rfielder with the final score: jungleboy 140, rfielder 127.

This was a very close and hard-fought game throughout. rfielder led for most of the game, while I had dedicated most of my meeples to a city with two cathedrals, and farms. With 15 tiles left, he led by about 20 points and was looking good. Then I drew the CCCF tile I needed to complete the cathedral city for 48 points. This gave me a large lead and I thought I was fairly safe but rfielder came back by blocking me out of another city and completing it for himself and taking control of the second largest farm with his large follower. I secured control of the main farm but even so, he grabbed a smaller farm and an eight-point cloister that almost won it for him. I closed a 12-point city with the last tile of the game and won by 13 points. Looking at the final scoreboard, he destroyed me on roads and really it was only the cathedral city that saved me. Apart from that I was mostly outplayed.

rfielder · « **Reply #25 on:** March 08, 2015, 06:58:57 PM »

Quote from: Leven on March 07, 2015, 05:50:48 AM

I will be available for a game or two this evening after 20:30 CET. The same applies to the days from Monday to Friday next week.

I assume that would be after 3:30PM EST? For how long afterwards?

I can be home from work by 4:00PM to 4:30PM EST, anything earlier is chancy.

jungleboy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 08, 2015, 11:25:45 PM »

Quote from: rfielder on March 08, 2015, 06:58:57 PM

Quote from: Leven on March 07, 2015, 05:50:48 AM
I will be available for a game or two this evening after 20:30 CET. The same applies to the days from Monday to Friday next week.
I assume that would be after 3:30PM EST? For how long afterwards?

I can be home from work by 4:00PM to 4:30PM EST, anything earlier is chancy.

Yes, it's 3:30pm your time. I have a game scheduled with Leven for 8:30/3:30, so maybe you could play him after that when you get home.

Leven · « **Reply #27 on:** March 09, 2015, 04:21:19 AM »

Quote from: rfielder on March 08, 2015, 06:58:57 PM

Quote from: Leven on March 07, 2015, 05:50:48 AM
I will be available for a game or two this evening after 20:30 CET. The same applies to the days from Monday to Friday next week.
I assume that would be after 3:30PM EST? For how long afterwards?

Let's say if we can finish the game until midnight (7:00 p.m. EST) then it's OK. At 8:30 p.m. (3:30 EST) I will play vs jungleboy, afterwards I'm ready to play another league match.

rfielder · « **Reply #28 on:** March 09, 2015, 10:07:33 AM »

Quote from: Leven on March 09, 2015, 04:21:19 AM

Quote from: rfielder on March 08, 2015, 06:58:57 PM
Quote from: Leven on March 07, 2015, 05:50:48 AM
I will be available for a game or two this evening after 20:30 CET. The same applies to the days from Monday to Friday next week.
I assume that would be after 3:30PM EST? For how long afterwards?

Kind of hard to respond, nobody is including a date!

Are your referring to today? If so, that won't work for me. Tuesday or Wednesday may.

Let's say if we can finish the game until midnight (7:00 p.m. EST) then it's OK. At 8:30 p.m. (3:30 EST) I will play vs jungleboy, afterwards I'm ready to play another league match.

Leven · « **Reply #29 on:** March 09, 2015, 01:30:19 PM »

The second game of the league has just been finished. The result is:

Leven vs jungleboy 176:133

As usual, I made a video recording of the game, you can watch it .

Quite early in the game with a lucky draw I was able to trap jungleboy's big follower (jungleboy could have escaped with his next tile), which gave me a big advantage in the final phase. I had much luck with the tiles during the game, gained lots of points with inns, and I was able to get into jungleboy's cathedral city. Towards the end jungleboy took some risk by beginning to build another cathedral city but I could successfully make it incompletable. I could even prevent him from finishing a long road with inn, and I had quite a comfortable lead but then jungleboy managed to take the majority in the most valuable farm making the score close again. But with 15 tiles to go he had no more followers in his supply while I still had 4, and I could even join one of them into that farm with my last tile. Lucky start of the tournament for me.