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Title: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: danisthirty on October 04, 2016, 04:31:36 PM
Welcome to the group stage of the 2016 World Cup of Carcassonne Central! This thread is primarily for members of Group B 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_GroupB.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)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: aenima on October 04, 2016, 05:48:45 PM
helloooo!!!
ok, normally I'm free to play every days from 21:00 to 23:00 and Monday Wednesday and Friday from 10:00 to 12:00.
I could have some problem for the work but, if I can play, if there is no a planned match, I can stay in the chatroom watching sometimes if someone arrive to play... in this case is better to send me a private message to wake me up!
good luck to all! ;)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 04, 2016, 06:09:57 PM
Hi!

I'm travelling right now, I was supposed to be back already but had to stay abroad one more week. Earliest I can play is Saturday. Will be available next week, everyday after 21:30.

Skane: I'd like to play our game in Essen if that's ok with you, on Saturday maybe?
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 04, 2016, 06:55:13 PM
Hello there,

I will be in the chatroom every evening from 20:00 until open end this week and waiting for you to play our games.

Due to a currently instable connection, it would be good of there is always a host around.

Thanks for organizing, Dan.

:)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Skane on October 04, 2016, 07:58:59 PM
Finished my game with Adrornalin

There was all in this game, big points power at the beginning, problems with server, awesome comeback, hope and dramatic ending.
Adrornalin started well, but then I successfully minimized chances to finish bottom city and road and blocked 2 meeples till the end,
then got possibility to get power and finish top city (54 points) + bunch of resources. After that we thought that there is quite small chances for me to lose.
But then some problems with server acquired and we spent some long time to get back into game, thanks danisthirty who helped us by hosting saved game.
After that Adrornalin started performing awesome comeback, he started trying to win big farmers field and finish big city on top right corner
+ there has been chance to finish bottom city and road till the 13 tile, when it finally came to me, also he had chance to share farmers field,
but final rrff tile came to me eather. So Adrornalin did great job, but lucky was on my side. For me game ending was nervous and I started counting base game tiles.
Thank you Adrornalin for awesome game and good luck  :violet-meeple:

 :violet-meeple: Skane (194) :  :yellow-meeple: Adrornalin (124)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 04, 2016, 08:35:17 PM
Not the best start in the World Cup for me. Skane drew the tiles for my unfinished 50 pts city, unfinished 30 pts cathedral city and unfinished 18 pts inn road. And he managed to close a 54 pts cathedral city himself. But in the end the effort counting bg tiles shall pay off, so I only can congratulate you on your win :) Looking forward to next games! :yellow-meeple:
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Skane on October 04, 2016, 08:46:55 PM
Skane: I'd like to play our game in Essen if that's ok with you, on Saturday maybe?

I think we can manage to do that.  :(y) :violet-meeple:
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on October 05, 2016, 07:32:21 AM
Skane: I'd like to play our game in Essen if that's ok with you, on Saturday maybe?

Will you have all needed expansions with you? ;)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 05, 2016, 08:44:26 AM
Skane: I'd like to play our game in Essen if that's ok with you, on Saturday maybe?

Will you have all needed expansions with you? ;)

Yes, I will bring. :)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 05, 2016, 09:09:14 AM
I should be available tomorrow evening for a game or 2!

Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Skane on October 05, 2016, 08:45:05 PM
Finished my game with aenima.

Mixed filings about this game, I have played this game aggressively and a lot of time spent to build traps around that huge bottom city
and aenima has not tried too much to get safe, he continued building it up and giving me more possibilities to ruin it, instead of closing it and waiting for one needed tile to fit it and finish it, as I did with top right city, I closed it and then waited for cfcf tile to finish it.
In this game I have finished a lot of cities and they were fully filled with resources, as You can see 120 point for cities + 30 points for resources, total 150/220 only for cities building. Also I got lucky, to fit in two tiles in the middle right, on first one I placed farmer, on second I placed pig and with phantom I finished 2 point road instead of 4 point city xD (don't know why)
At  the end aenima started pushing all his workers into all available farmers fields, but there was no chance to catch me without closing one big city.
Thank You aenima and good luck in next rounds.  :violet-meeple:

 :violet-meeple: Skane (220):   :black1-meeple: aenima (155)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on October 06, 2016, 10:55:23 AM
Here is my first statistical report:
2 games played, 13 left.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 06, 2016, 02:21:12 PM
I should be available tomorrow evening for a game or 2!

Wont be able to make tonight. Should be able tomorrow.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: aenima on October 06, 2016, 03:11:30 PM
I should be available tomorrow evening for a game or 2!

Wont be able to make tonight. Should be able tomorrow.

ia! ia! cthulhu fhtagn!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: danisthirty on October 06, 2016, 03:53:13 PM
I should be available tomorrow evening for a game or 2!

Wont be able to make tonight. Should be able tomorrow.

ia! ia! cthulhu fhtagn!

That's what they all say!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 07, 2016, 05:45:32 PM
I am online now, if someone wants to play.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 07, 2016, 06:44:54 PM
First match. If this is the precedent for the entire cup, I might quit now.

Skane  :violet-meeple: 204
Valheru  :green-meeple: 120

Outplayed and outlucked. 4 meeples or so blocked, sigh

Good game Skane and congrats.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: ny1050220 on October 07, 2016, 06:55:04 PM
Valheru you might wanna check my game with jma03 in group A, if that'll make you feel better.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Skane on October 07, 2016, 07:02:25 PM
Finished my game with Valheru

Very good game for me, there was a lot of luck and good moves for me to do.
From the beginning I successfully blocked 4 Valheru's workers at the middle of the map + Builder.
Then Valheru ruined my top city and blocked my worker with Builder, BUT my city was able to grow any way, so I used it to get extra moves with Builder
when I didn't know what to do with city tile and was hoping for more usable tile) several times it helped)
Then there was awesome lucky move for me when I received monastery with the road and placed it right in the middle of the map
and got 9 point for it + 7 point for road with Phantom)
Valheru tried to do something, but he was out of workers, so there was no good possibilities, he almost got that bottom farmers field,
but at the very end I received two tiles and connected two farmers at the bottom.
As I said earlier, this was really good game for me. Sorry Valheru, I just "Killed" you,  good luck at next rounds :violet-meeple:

 :violet-meeple: Skane (204) :  :green-meeple: Valheru (120)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 07, 2016, 09:17:10 PM
Apparently Skane is on a winning strike. Someone has to stop him by breaking his tie with the tile dealer! C:-)

I'm available whole Saturday from 10am - 8pm. Please PM me or join the chat, I'll respond quickly, hope so.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 08, 2016, 02:38:48 PM
Not a very good start for me. Just lost against Adrornalin. Even though I was leading in the points I attempted a risky move that didn't work... Bah! I will come back stronger. Well played Adrornalin!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 08, 2016, 02:39:59 PM
Played my game vs Jéré. Final score: Jéré 185 - 189 Adrornalin. This was a game with the most ups and downs ever.

Sometimes I think everyone has the feeling, that things are not working out well, and exactly this was my feeling from the beginning of the game. Jéré played very good because he made points and set me under 'trapping pressure' with one tile at the same time. I couldnt do much but react and rescue my options. I managed to win some small cities with few tokens, Jéré won some big (both cathedral) cities with his builder and with lots of tokens and I was only able to watch him placing fitting tiles one after the other. Further he occupied two out of three big farms. With my farm, I refused to connect my farmer to his farmer to share it (although my farm had lower points and had no chance to grow), because Jéré tried to step on the shared farm again, in north-west area. At that point, he was round about 90 points in front, 30 tiles were to go and I didnt gave a penny on my win anymore. Luckily then I draw the cfrr-tile he needed (to win big farm + long inn road + getting two meeples back), and which helped me to finish the city south-east with my builder. Even though Jéré was out of meeples, I never expected to come back, but I tried and finally I could manage to win the city in the west thanks to my doublemeeple with the second to last tile. With these 24 pts and with 1 more corn token, I was now 1 point in front and thanks to the builder the last tile was also mine.

Great game Jéré, thank you! If you would have drawn the cfrr, you had won by 150 pts I guess. Next games you will succeed! :yellow-meeple:
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Leven on October 08, 2016, 11:10:30 PM
Apparently Skane is on a winning strike. Someone has to stop him by breaking his tie with the tile dealer! C:-)

Well, this time the tile dealer seemed to be on my side:

:green-meeple: Skane vs :yellow-meeple: Leven 172:177

Very tense and long game (it took more than two and a half hours) where both of us had to get used to playing with an other colour than purple. :)
I had some really lucky moments, especially at surviving Skane's attempt to take majority in that 4-city farm at the bottom left. He needed one of the two remaining CFRR tiles to join his second meeple there, but luckily I drew both. 

Looking at the detailed final result it's quite strange to see that only 1 out of 9 cloisters had been occupied during the game. I think that's quite unusual.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 09, 2016, 11:15:20 AM
Very short notice, but if someone happens to read this, I'd be available in about 1 hour.
Title: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 09, 2016, 12:33:31 PM
Available for next 2 - 3 hours. Also tonight as well as Mon-Wed after 21:30. Send me a PM.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on October 09, 2016, 06:46:18 PM
5 games played, 10 left.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 11, 2016, 09:39:09 PM
Jéré  217  -  Leven  199

Quite exhausted right now so will try to give more detail tomorrow. Quite an epic game that took almost 2 hours to finish.

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161011/091d922178eeacca8cf6db9ae3c6dae0.png)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: danisthirty on October 11, 2016, 10:41:45 PM
I don't suppose either of you happened to record this game did you? This is one I would have paid for a ticket to watch!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 12, 2016, 07:15:07 AM
Should be available for a game this evening!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 12, 2016, 09:25:05 AM
I don't suppose either of you happened to record this game did you? This is one I would have paid for a ticket to watch!

I don't think Leven would have liked to have this game recorded... ;) I will let him explain what happened with his last tile... :-/
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 12, 2016, 09:25:59 AM
Should be available for a game this evening!

Would 21:30 be ok for you? Let me know, thanks!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Leven on October 12, 2016, 02:26:04 PM
I don't suppose either of you happened to record this game did you? This is one I would have paid for a ticket to watch!

I don't think Leven would have liked to have this game recorded... ;) I will let him explain what happened with his last tile... :-/

Actually, it wouldn't bother me. That video could be a good tutorial about the importance of keeping focused to the very last tile. Even if you think you've already lost the game. Like I did think yesterday.  ???

Approaching the end of the game it became obvious that the largest farm of the game (with 10 cities) were to be decisive: if Jéré would get majority there then he would win the game. With a well-placed RFFF cloister tile he was able to take the lead there by 5:4. My purple farmer on the left side (on the RFRF tile with an inn) was my last promising attempt to equalize. I've put it there cca. 10 tiles to the end (when the RFRF tile two tiles above it wasn't there yet) and I knew there were still some proper tiles left (containing a turn). My next two tiles wasn't appropriate, and meanwhile Jéré started defending, and finally (4 or 5 tiles to the end) he placed that RFRF tile which meant that I could not join that meeple to the farm with an average turn tile any more. It made me think it's all over. Which generally is the case but not when playing with I&C which includes an RRRR tile with two turns. I completely forgot about this tile and I gave up every hope about winning the game (at this moment I wrote "good game" in the chat window but could have written "congrats" as well). During post-game chat Jéré told me that he was also confident of his victory then.

But then at my last turn I drew this particular RRRR tile. And I placed it somewhere in the bottom area just to collect some points with another farm. Jéré asked me: "But why?" At first I didn't understand it. What why? Why good game or what? Then he wrote I could win the game with that tile. You can imagine how I felt then. ("OMG YOU'RE RIGHT!") What a stupid mistake.  :-[

Still, it was indeed a good game with lots of ups and downs, and a memorable endgame. And a good lesson for me that one should never give up.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 12, 2016, 03:12:40 PM
Amazing endgame. Jére lost against me very close with last tile, Leven lost against Jéré very close with last tile... I guess I have to be very concentrated in the game against Leven, so that fate wont await me.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 12, 2016, 05:50:44 PM
Jere, you contacted my via pm and also here. Unfortunately, I wont make today due to work. I know many of you are going to Spiel but I'll be here the coming days.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 12, 2016, 05:52:03 PM
Can we play our game tomorrow evening, Valheru? 6pm or 10pm?
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 12, 2016, 07:24:09 PM
Jere, you contacted my via pm and also here. Unfortunately, I wont make today due to work. I know many of you are going to Spiel but I'll be here the coming days.

Ok no worries.

We can try again tomorrow same time, otherwise next week.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 13, 2016, 05:09:47 PM
I would be ready to play from now until open end today, idling in the irc channel @ Valheru, Leven, aenima, just FYI.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 13, 2016, 07:15:46 PM
Second game in this Worldcup. I'll be the North-Korea of a regular worldcup if this keeps going haha ;)

Adrornalin  :yellow-meeple: 277
Valheru  :green-meeple: 226

Last possible tile (the cccc with the silk at the top) finished the gamechanger in favor of Adrornalin. Tense battle for the city, and it was close until that with hardly a point difference between us. Can't blame me being unlucky or doing something wrong. It was a throw of the dice, I thought. Maybe Adrornalin might add something?
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 13, 2016, 07:27:17 PM
Thanks for posting, Valheru. Yep, it was a cool and fast game. Everyone made the best out of his opportunities I think. No big farm battles, everyone found his spot. I would have closed the big city sooner even when we were tie, but no proper tile came, and so I build on and on that city with my builder until I luckily had the chance to bring a third meeple into position. I hoped there were more CCxx tiles left, thats also why I thought you will try to prevent me from joining. So I was glad you didnt place tiles next to mine to block or to join in as well. If you had drawn the CCCC with split, maybe you had won because of the goods. Thanks for the game and good luck in the ongoing tournament!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Halfling on October 14, 2016, 11:06:25 AM
7 games played
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 15, 2016, 10:45:07 PM
My game in person against Skane. It was a pleasure to meet him in Essen!

Unfortunately, I gave him hard time when he tried to connect to the main field (52 pts)... ;)

Final score:


(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161016/353c8b4fce54ed4b8f826e6edc7bc533.jpg)

And the landscape:

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161016/aea90d8a6fd20c563295688e77eab0b2.jpg)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Halfling on October 16, 2016, 01:51:26 AM
8 games played.  Merit to Skane for being the first to complete all his group matches.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Leven on October 16, 2016, 02:33:52 PM
:violet-meeple: Leven vs  :yellow-meeple: Adrornalin 228:220

Another thriller game decided by the final few tiles.  :o
Both of us had some lucky moments especially at finishing our cathedral cities (one each) with the proper tile.
As the point difference is less than 10 points it was definitely the crucial moment when near the end I drew the CCCC tile with four city segments and with that tile I could finish Adrornalin's small city containing a cloth (it the upper right corner) which secured my majority in that trade good.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 16, 2016, 03:30:07 PM
Amazing endgame. Jére lost against me very close with last tile, Leven lost against Jéré very close with last tile... I guess I have to be very concentrated in the game against Leven, so that fate wont await me.

As I had predicted, it was a tough and close game. The tile distribution was very fair. I couldnt block his cathedral city and he draw the last crfr. He couldnt block my cathedral city and I draw one out of three remaining cccc split possibilities. Very soon I occupied the main farm until the end with only one farmer and blocked his farmer from joining. Therefore he had majority in the trade goods - also in the trade good "cloth", even before closing my mini city. So it wasnt necessary because there was no tile left for me to close, but it gave you more farm points of course. My only fault maybe was that I concentrated more than usually on trapping, that is why I had most of my meeples left in the supply during the game and also in the end, although with about 30 tiles to go I started placing a meeple whenever possible. But I couldnt catch up the 8 pts margin. Congrats to Leven, well done, and thanks for an amazing game!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 19, 2016, 03:30:06 PM
I'm offline from Sunday evening till Friday evening, that's why I want to complete my last game now. I wrote a message to aenima and he told me that he cant continue the tournament. If there will be a new participant taking his place, I try to schedule a game quickly. If not, my group stage is finished and the world cup in general is probably over for me because I'm afraid I wont reach second place anymore.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on October 22, 2016, 03:53:15 AM
Just sent you a PM Adrornalin and will send the rest of group B a message shortly.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Adrornalin on October 23, 2016, 02:41:35 AM
Rich and I played our game. Final result: Rich_The_Fish 195 - 245 Adrornalin

It was always even, until I draw the needed tile to complete the big cathedral city (69pts). But victory still was not mine because Rich draw a cloister with road to win the farm in the middle (21pts) with his double meeple he placed very soon and he enlarged the farm in the north-east to the biggest farm (32pts). But I could manage to hold the lead with some roads with inns and with some small cities.

There were two hard decisions I had to make. The first was that I decided to connect my big part of cathedral city (with my builder) to his small part of normal city (with his builder). Normally not a wise decision, but I feared he could block my city part with cathedral and I knew I will have more meeple left in the ongoing game. In the end it worked out. Second hard decision didnt work out. As I was 2 to 1 in front on the farm in the middle and his double meeple still was not connected, I blocked another one of his meeple from joining the farm. I hoped he wouldnt draw the second cloister with road, but in the end with this blocking I closed the farm and destroyed my own chance to get onto it myself. Additionally I didnt expect that Rich can enlarge the farm with this blocked meeple that much, so I didnt care enough about that.

Exciting game, thank you Rich. Good luck for your other games!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on October 23, 2016, 12:09:15 PM
10 games played, 5 left.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Leven on October 23, 2016, 01:38:06 PM
10 games played, 5 left.
There is a mistake: in the latest game Adrornalin was the winner not Rich_The_Fish.

Tapatalkkal küldve az én Redmi 3 eszközömről

Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on October 23, 2016, 02:20:12 PM
10 games played, 5 left.
There is a mistake: in the latest game Adrornalin was the winner not Rich_The_Fish.
Sorry! Fixed! I used to the format when first listed player won :)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Leven on October 26, 2016, 02:56:18 PM
:green-meeple: Rich_The_Fish vs :violet-meeple: Leven 182 : 227

The game was decided a few tiles before the end when it became obvious that Rich could not finish his cathedral city any more. (To be exact, he could have finished it but only by joining my meeple too.)
I had more luck with my own cathedral city, and I was especially lucky in terms of the trade goods (all my collected goods were situated within my own cities, so I didn't have to finish any of my opponent's cities to collect them; that is quite fortunate).
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 27, 2016, 01:32:01 AM
 :yellow-meeple:   My last 2 games are scheduled:   :yellow-meeple:

Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 27, 2016, 01:23:09 PM
Jéré  245  -   Valheru  145

Got 2 times the tile he needed to untrap his builder. That was lucky.

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161027/b8eea9dc0e1e637d1b34e3d3814c07c2.png)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 27, 2016, 01:24:46 PM
Sorry for being such a sore loser Jere, but this was a bit too much. Congrats on your win and good luck!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 27, 2016, 01:32:25 PM
Sorry for being such a sore loser Jere, but this was a bit too much. Congrats on your win and good luck!

No worries, I understand. That was a really tough one for you and I don't feel triumphant at all right now... Better luck next time, sincerely!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 27, 2016, 01:34:18 PM
Sorry for being such a sore loser Jere, but this was a bit too much. Congrats on your win and good luck!

No worries, I understand. That was a really tough one for you and I don't feel triumphant at all right now... Better luck next time, sincerely!
That's the thing. You did win deservingly, but I wanted to give you a proper game. This was a walkover. And thank you.

You even had all the rrrf tiles hahahaha..
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on October 27, 2016, 02:35:44 PM
12 games played, 3 left.
You have real "group of death" here: 4 players have 6 points at the moment!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on October 28, 2016, 12:56:39 AM
12 games played, 3 left.
You have real "group of death" here: 4 players has 6 points at the moment!

Rub it in that I don't have any points  :P
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: danisthirty on October 28, 2016, 03:25:11 AM
12 games played, 3 left.
You have real "group of death" here: 4 players has 6 points at the moment!

Rub it in that I don't have any points  :P

In the UK we have a TV quiz show called "Pointless". If you were on that, 0 points would be a really good score! :)

Good luck with your next games...
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 28, 2016, 02:24:48 PM
Jéré  229  -  Rich_The_Fish  153

Good game vs. Rich!  Not as easy as the final score might indicate... it was very tight for at least the first half then he missed an occasion to trap both my builder and big meeple. Towards the end he didn't have enough guys to battle for the main field, but still he fought really well! Thanks for the game Rich!

That should be enough to qualify for the knock-out stage (maybe 1st place?)

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161028/18dfaca246cb8f773d94eacc8eddf0e7.png)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on October 28, 2016, 03:28:05 PM
13 games played, 2 left.

Yes, Jéré, you are in QF regardless of outstanding games' results. To beat you on first place Leven needs to win with more than 100 points margin, which is quite a challenge ;)
If Leven loses to Valheru, Skane goes further.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 28, 2016, 11:13:51 PM
That's not a good news for Valheru... Leven is not an easy customer and if on top of that he really needs to win by a big margin, brace for impact!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Leven on October 29, 2016, 04:18:16 AM


To beat you on first place Leven needs to win with more than 100 points margin, which is quite a challenge ;)
That is rather 212 points (Jéré's PD is +252 while mine is +40). I think that's an impossible mission. But I'd be satisfied with a one point victory, too.


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Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on October 29, 2016, 05:00:13 AM
I think that's an impossible mission.

Remember to never give up :)
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on November 01, 2016, 02:48:41 PM
So, this group has been decided and my game against Rich_The_Fish will be one for statistics.

Leven  :violet-meeple: 260
Valheru  :green-meeple: 167

I was lucky and unlucky at the same to see the two big fields not merging. Leven is a better player than me, and had the two Cathedral cities for himself. Congrats on the victory and qualifying. Sorry to disappoint you, Skane.

Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Leven on November 01, 2016, 03:23:33 PM
I was lucky and unlucky at the same to see the two big fields not merging. Leven is a better player than me, and had the two Cathedral cities for himself. Congrats on the victory and qualifying. Sorry to disappoint you, Skane.
Thanks, Valheru.
All in all, I had slightly more lucky tiles in this game which helped me especially at the completing of the cathedral cities. After the second one I think the game was pretty much decided (about 40-45 tiles before the end), for a moment it seemed that I could have a slight (ca. 1%) chance to accomplish my impossible mission (victory by 212 points to reach 1st place of the group) but Valheru kept fighting to the end (and did it very well) to avoid further increment of the point difference.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on November 01, 2016, 03:44:37 PM
14 games played, 1 left.
Congratulations to Jéré and Leven for reaching quarter-finals.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on November 02, 2016, 01:44:48 AM
Congratulations to Jéré and Leven for reaching quarter-finals.

Thanks!!  :D

Now I really hope we won' t have to wait too long for the next stage. I start to wonder if we should translate the Code of Conduct to Latvian/Russian for your fellow countryman in your group...  ::) 
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on November 03, 2016, 02:08:50 AM
Now I really hope we won' t have to wait too long for the next stage. I start to wonder if we should translate the Code of Conduct to Latvian/Russian for your fellow countryman in your group...  ::)
I have send him a PM, explaining main idea about 2 games per week. Hope he will play his games soon :D
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on November 03, 2016, 02:11:19 AM
Great! Thank you!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on November 07, 2016, 07:00:07 AM
My game with Rich is scheduled for tonight. Hopefully I can erase that 0 point-low and not hit rock bottom in this group.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Jéré on November 07, 2016, 07:08:17 AM
My game with Rich is scheduled for tonight. Hopefully I can erase that 0 point-low and not hit rock bottom in this group.

Good luck! Rich has the same objective as you so that's going to be a bit cruel. Hope that both of you will enjoy the game, whatever happens! ...and I think we might be the first group to finish. Good job folks!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Valheru on November 07, 2016, 01:00:37 PM
Rich and I just finished the group and...

A lucky victory!

Valheru  :green-meeple: 237
Rich_The_Fish  :red-meeple: 211

I managed to snatch the win 4 tiles from the end with a regular rrff-tile, connecting my farmer at the bottom-left and stealing the farm. It was even until then with no more than 20 points difference during the whole game.

A few remarkable things happened during this match and I call myself really lucky to have been on the right end of those things. First of all was the battle for the farm (as described above) but it started way earlier than that. I think it was Rich's 3rd tile in the game when claiming the main farm. I joined quickly after to ensure it wouldn't be too difficult to join in later. Meanwhile, Rich was gaining an advantage in the tradegoods. I had to finish his cities with tradegoods to stay in that game. In the end, I won those 20-10. The big city in the middle was mainly built by myself but I just couldn't close it! Rich took advantage of that and gloomed right in. We shared it in the end. A tense battle for the biggest city, describing rightly how tense and close this game really was.

Second turning point, letting me stay right in the match (Rich had a solid advantage of about 20 points overal) was the roadcloisters. I drew them both, freeing a meeple on the cloister above and below and giving me 18 points 2 times! Very lucky for me indeed...

Back to the farm battle. Rich had some really smart meeple-placement to connect to the main farm. I blocked one, evened out another but still there was danger. He needed a cfff tile to claim it, but the tile never came! I got it a few turns later and finished the city on the bottom with it. Very, very lucky indeed. Snatching the farm for myself at the end would have just been a tied farmbattle (and a lost game) if that cfff-tile had come for Rich.

The cathedrals were absolutely useless. They came really late in the game and there were no more good opportunies to use them properly. Still pretty high scores in the game.

Unfortunately someone had to lose this game, and I wouldn't have felt bad if it'd been me. I felt we both gave our all in a match that didn't really matter for the World Cup anymore but was really fun and tense nonetheless. Again, thank you ever so much for this quick and lovely game, Rich_The_Fish. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Feel free to add your thoughts! It's always this easy to be positive about everything when you win but I can't stress enough how lucky I was during the game. Almost every piece of the puzzle fell right for me this time.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on November 07, 2016, 02:30:40 PM
Final ranking table for group B.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on November 08, 2016, 03:31:12 PM
Thanks for the game last night Valheru. It was enjoyable and indeed rather close throughout. I just couldn't seem to hold a majority in the main field - you were very good with your farmer placement which therefore kept forcing me to place another farmer in the hope I could get another into play. Had I managed to maintain control of the field, or you hadn't drawn those lucky clositers (which not only freed your 'trapped' meeples, but also scored an immediate 9 points) then the result may well have gone the other way. When you drew that RRRR tile (with the bridge) quite early on which you used to earn a healthy 18 points for a road with an inn, I suspected that it probably wasn't my night! However, I was quite fortunate on the odd occasion too, scoring a few reasonable roads and I managed to glom into your large city to share the reward for your hard work! Overall though, it was a very enjoyable game - thanks very much for playing.

In fact, I've enjoyed all of the World Cup games, despite losing them all! Good luck to those of you who've progressed to the next round. No doubt see some of you in the chatroom in the coming weeks for a friendly game or two. Cheers!
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: kettlefish on November 13, 2016, 02:23:03 AM
Hi MrNumbers,
please fill in column A the B1 and B2 for the 1st and 2nd place in group B, than the names of the participants land automatically into the list for the QF.
Title: Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
Post by: MrNumbers on November 13, 2016, 02:33:40 AM
Hi MrNumbers,
please fill in column A the B1 and B2 for the 1st and 2nd place in group B, than the names of the participants land automatically into the list for the QF.
Done!
Thanks, kettlefish :)