Author Topic: World Record Attempt 2016 (Read 86423 times)

Paul · « **Reply #180 on:** March 27, 2016, 04:23:29 AM »

Quote from: kettlefish on March 27, 2016, 04:04:30 AM

Hi Paul,
did you get some sleep last night ?

How is this Sunday running - and are you playing Carcassonne ?

I just finished the scoring and I'll post more when I get home. We'll be here until 5pm to talk to visitors and such. Stay tuned!

(Later tonight I'll have some info posted at least)

Paul · « **Reply #181 on:** March 27, 2016, 03:57:29 PM »

It's almost 1 am so I should go to bed.

But, here is at least the final scoring in game turn order:

Blue (Robert): 10696
Yellow (me): 11886
Black (my sister): 9402

Some more info:

With large scale games, co-op games can help a lot to fill in the gaps making a beautiful world not taking up too much space. Even though I gave away 50 points sometimes to opponents, I still won with over 1000 points marginal.
On an actual game with 72 tiles, this is of course much more difficult to pull off. I think most of my points came from small cities and thus having at least 1 free meeple continuously while my opponents were fixed on cloisters not grasping (at first) the idea of having the option to use them to close a road or an ongoing cloister.

Biggest city shared by all 3 players (if not already mentioned in an earlier post) was 855 points.

Biggest road (by me alone) was 35 points.

We managed to fill in every gap making a 108 x 92 rectangle with the remainder of the tiles in the corner, where the camera failed to catch during the live event (sorry about that!)

A total of 10007 tiles where used, including the rivers but not the WoF starter.

Actual game play was a little over 25 hours, starting on Thursday evening ending on the dot at Midnight on Saturday.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you guys for all the support and am most certain this forum community was the spark for this 10k idea. *hugs all around*

Going away from this, I made many new friends and even got support and participants, should I do a 100k game some day.

Paul

JoeSesquipedalian · « **Reply #182 on:** March 27, 2016, 08:53:55 PM »

Congratulations!!! Great stats Paul!! I really enjoyed watching all of your progress over the past months! Absolutely incredible!! I'd love to be part of the 100k game.

kettlefish · « **Reply #183 on:** March 28, 2016, 01:53:57 AM »

Hi Paul,
rhanks for your report.

But I have the feeling that you and your game partners were playing around 48-50 hours.

Paul · « **Reply #184 on:** March 28, 2016, 02:27:12 AM »

Quote from: kettlefish on March 28, 2016, 01:53:57 AM

Hi Paul,
rhanks for your report.

But I have the feeling that you and your game partners were playing around 48-50 hours.

We started on Thursday evening and ended on Saturday at Midnight. But we also took a few breaks.
I started and stopped the timer for each game session, which will be posted in the diary for this event that I'll post here next week or so.

Chooselife · « **Reply #185 on:** March 29, 2016, 05:11:53 AM »

Awesome.
Big Congrats

Paul · « **Reply #186 on:** March 29, 2016, 05:15:04 AM »

Quote from: Chooselife on March 29, 2016, 05:11:53 AM

Awesome.
Big Congrats

Thank you!

kettlefish · « **Reply #187 on:** March 29, 2016, 08:34:40 AM »

Hi Paul,
are there any photos from the reporter?
Is there a newsletter published with the final few tiles?

Paul · « **Reply #188 on:** March 29, 2016, 08:39:27 AM »

Quote from: kettlefish on March 29, 2016, 08:34:40 AM

Hi Paul,
are there any photos from the reporter?
Is there a newsletter published with the final few tiles?

I haven't seen any articles. National television failed to show up. I've mailed one of the photographer who said if I mail him he'd mail me images back, so we'll keep a lookout for those!
Meanwhile, I got ton of data and images to rifle through. Each day was a new folder during the convention so that's a big help right there.

kettlefish · « **Reply #189 on:** March 29, 2016, 10:13:32 AM »

Paul - could you make a photo from one of the score lists?
I like to see such list.

How many lists did you use (all of you)?
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How many cloisters have been finished?

Paul · « **Reply #190 on:** March 29, 2016, 10:39:04 AM »

Quote from: kettlefish on March 29, 2016, 10:13:32 AM

Paul - could you make a photo from one of the score lists?
I like to see such list.

How many lists did you use (all of you)?
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How many cloisters have been finished?

I printed out 7 copies of the score list for each and everyone of us. Me and Robert used up 6 of these and my sister 5.

S = Stad (City)
V = Väg (Road)
K = Kloster (Cloister)
(Swedish)

I haven't counted how many of each feature we completed yet, that will come later. But to sum up the total score didn't take long using Excel and the numeric keypad. I reckon 1 hour or so, including double checking all 17 pages.

dirk2112 · « **Reply #191 on:** March 29, 2016, 11:01:45 AM »

I was curious if there was ever an unplayable tile. I can't imagine there would ever be a time a CCCC tile couldn't find a home except really early on.

Decar · « **Reply #192 on:** March 29, 2016, 11:02:49 AM »

That's the most likely time a CCCC tile gets discarded though - right at the start!

Paul · « **Reply #193 on:** March 29, 2016, 11:06:31 AM »

Quote from: dirk2112 on March 29, 2016, 11:01:45 AM

I was curious if there was ever an unplayable tile. I can't imagine there would ever be a time a CCCC tile couldn't find a home except really early on.

Not a single tiles was unplaceable, though we did come close mid-game, can you believe that?

We had finished off so many cities and was trying to fill in gaps. I think closest we came was having 3 places in the area after 5000 tiles to place a base game CCCC tile.