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World Cup of Carcassonne Central / Re: 2017 World Cup - Knock-Out Stage
« on: February 09, 2018, 10:31:52 AM »
I think that bug is quite important!  Perhaps we need to postpone until the bug is fixed...

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World Cup of Carcassonne Central / Re: 2017 World Cup - Knock-Out Stage
« on: January 30, 2018, 09:54:50 AM »
Hey folks playing quarter finals, has anyone got time for a practice game this evening?

kq  :red-meeple:

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World Cup of Carcassonne Central / Re: 2017 World Cup - Group B
« on: January 02, 2018, 04:07:19 PM »
khalidqasrawi  :red-meeple: 198 : 180  :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89

Close match.  Didn't feel as if either of us were fighting hard.  I struggled with "trapped" meeples but Merlin had underperforming meeples too.  No big cities for either of us.  In the end, we fought over the farm I had it for a while but Merlin crept back on.  I reclaimed my double meeple but couldn't get it into play.  He made a last minute effort to get the farm but didn't quite own it and in the end I just kept ahead.

Thanks for the game.

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Leagues (including expansion leagues) / Re: CCL - Carcassonne Central Ladder
« on: December 30, 2017, 03:27:51 AM »
Good on you for organising it.  Looking forward to it.  I wonder if danisthirty is going to run the base game league as well.  That was good fun too.

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Leagues (including expansion leagues) / Re: CCL - Carcassonne Central Ladder
« on: December 30, 2017, 03:12:44 AM »
I joined... immediately got demoted owing to lack of activity!

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World Cup of Carcassonne Central / Re: 2017 World Cup - Group B
« on: December 11, 2017, 11:51:48 AM »
Halfing  :yellow-meeple: 222 : 242  :red-meeple:  khalidqasrawi

I played for farms so I don't really understand how the farm score was so similar!!
Halfing went all out on cloisters.  I did none.
I did score a cathedral city, one of those where your opponent "gives" you the cathedral, so that was sweet.  I set it up to need a CFRF and I was lucky enough to get one!  You could say that won me the game because I got 24 for it.
I spread my farmers around with the hope that gloming on to any farm would not be enough by itself which turned out to be the case.
Halfing actually only made it onto the south west farm on the last tile.

All the best Halfing, thanks for the game.

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World Cup of Carcassonne Central / Re: 2017 World Cup - Group B
« on: December 08, 2017, 11:19:46 AM »
khalidqasrawi  :red-meeple: 205 :  145 :yellow-meeple: WhatIf

Bad start by me.  Some moments of indecision left me unable to spoil, join or otherwise do something to the large cathedral city in the centre.  That cost me 39 points so I was down and out, almost.  I did complete the long bent sausage shaped city right of it for 18 points.  The CFRR tile was a long time coming to to allow me to complete a 8 point city and a 12 point road with an inn.

Towards the end of the mid-game, I realised my only real chance of success was to make the main farm mine.  I was liberally adding farmers then made a statement by putting the 2 man down to join the farm with 50 odd tiles to go.  WhatIf immediately countered with his 2 man on the west bit of the unfinished cathedral city.  I decided I could block it off at least, probably.  Well, seems I did.  All around the farm, WhatIf was looking for ways on, waiting for a festival tile to take the 2 man off, so he could redeploy it and that time ate into his lead.

It would have been a good game for the spectator to see if WhatIf could find a way on.  I think the crowd would have been on his side.  Too bad no one was wanting to watch.

Thanks for the game and good luck WhatIf.

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World Cup of Carcassonne Central / Re: 2017 World Cup - Group B
« on: December 06, 2017, 01:08:12 PM »
khalidqasrawi  :red-meeple: 191 : 152  :black1-meeple: Xanderx12

I played conservatively, Xander12 played expansively and in the end, I'm afraid the conservative approach worked out.  That said, it wasn't without risk.  I contributed a lot to Xander12's big city with cathedrals before I finally closed it off.  You know the crude trick of making a cathedral city unfinishable by adding every CCCC and CCC? tile that you get to it.  Too big to fail, quite the opposite, to big to succeed.  Xander12 started the main farm.  I let it happen, then I tried to get on.  He made a vain attempt to get his big man on.  I though he had no chance when I started routing 1 of the two roads northwards.  But he scored 2 FFFR cloisters in a row and "glommed on".  I got lucky to "glom" by big man on.  All in all, an unusal game.  I wasn't expecting to win with roads!

Good luck in the rest of the tournament Xander12.



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World Cup of Carcassonne Central / Re: 2017 World Cup - Group B
« on: December 06, 2017, 11:14:00 AM »
If anyone would like to play me, I'm in the old chatroom and the new chatroom.

 :red-meeple:

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News and Events / Re: World Cup of Carcassonne Central 2017
« on: December 05, 2017, 07:48:07 AM »
I'll be in the chatroom tonight at 19:00 CET if anyone wants a practice WC17 game.  Maybe after that I can play a real game.

 :red-meeple:

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Upcoming Scheduled Games / Re: PLAY ME NOW!
« on: December 04, 2017, 01:13:37 PM »
I'm in the chatroom, still looking for a practice game - free now

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Upcoming Scheduled Games / Re: PLAY ME NOW!
« on: December 01, 2017, 09:15:25 AM »
I can't play then.  Maybe Sunday...

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Upcoming Scheduled Games / Re: PLAY ME NOW!
« on: December 01, 2017, 09:10:16 AM »
World cup training game anyone?  I'm in the chatroom (irc) and on Slack waiting for you if you want to play!

kq  :red-meeple:

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News and Events / Re: World Cup of Carcassonne Central 2017
« on: December 01, 2017, 05:59:45 AM »
Hello folks.

I just did my own test.  I just wanted to clarify.  The city part of the festival CFFR tile doesn't contribute to a farm only if it is the only part of that city in contact with the farm being scored.  If another part of the same city is reachable by that farm, then it appears that the city is counted for scoring.

Therefore the algorithm for adjusting the score at the end of each match, is to locate the festival CFFR tile.  If it is part of a completed city and the farm that it should contribute to does not reach that city in any other way, only then add 3 points to each player that is on that farm.

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News and Events / Re: World Cup of Carcassonne Central 2017
« on: November 23, 2017, 02:36:49 AM »
I'm in.  I'd prefer to compete under a European flag if possible. :)

 :red-meeple:

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