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Carc Central Community => Online Games and Competitions => Leagues (including expansion leagues) => Topic started by: danisthirty on March 03, 2015, 10:33:58 PM
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Inns & Cathedrals League: Group C
(http://www.dan.tehill.net/IandC_GroupC.jpg)
Please use this thread (or Private Messages) to arrange matches between players and to post scores/ match reports afterwards.
Good luck everyone!
PS - Anyone wishing to take part in a game should follow the link below in order to meet with others in the "pre-game chat":
http://sydby.com/carcassonne/irc/index.html
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This weekend will be my last weekend at home for the next month (although I usually take my laptop with me while I'm away). So it would be great to organise matches with the North American players - Carcking, rfielder and monwil - this weekend if they're available. I can always play the European-based players during the week because we're all in the same timezone.
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Good luck all!
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SRBO, I am looking for revenge against you after your victory in that strange game in the T&B league :)
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This weekend will be my last weekend at home for the next month (although I usually take my laptop with me while I'm away). So it would be great to organise matches with the North American players - Carcking, rfielder and monwil - this weekend if they're available. I can always play the European-based players during the week because we're all in the same timezone.
jungleboy - monwil and I can be available tonight or Friday evening. I can be available on Sunday, and monwil on Sunday afternoon/evening.
What is good for you?
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jungleboy - monwil and I can be available tonight or Friday evening. I can be available on Sunday, and monwil on Sunday afternoon/evening.
What is good for you?
Thanks for replying! It might have to be Sunday, because your evening is very late at night for me. So the best chance is probably afternoon for you or monwil / evening for me. Or even Sunday morning for you / afternoon for me.
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Thanks for replying! It might have to be Sunday, because your evening is very late at night for me. So the best chance is probably afternoon for you or monwil / evening for me. Or even Sunday morning for you / afternoon for me.
I can do Sunday morning or afternoon.
Will check with monwil. She may be able to do Sunday morning, as long as the game ends by 1030hrs EST.
From what I have read, it seems that using the Online option with JCZ 3.1.0 can be problematical. Do you have a server? Last time I tried to use mine, nobody could link in.
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I may be able to host for you if you let me know what time you settle on. But it may be worth trying again on your server rfielder as I'm sure it has been workable in the past. Is it running the right version of JCZ (i.e. 3.1.0)?
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I may be able to host for you if you let me know what time you settle on. But it may be worth trying again on your server rfielder as I'm sure it has been workable in the past. Is it running the right version of JCZ (i.e. 3.1.0)?
I will do some more testing.
Running 3.1.1 at this time.
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Do the countries in CET change their time this weekend? Hungary, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands....
We are going onto Daylight Savings Time, which moves our clocks one hour ahead. If everyone does this, then no problem. If CET countries do not, it may have some impact on our efforts to link up and play.....
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Yes I think most (if not all, haven't checked) of us do: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2015.html
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Do the countries in CET change their time this weekend? Hungary, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands....
We are going onto Daylight Savings Time, which moves our clocks one hour ahead. If everyone does this, then no problem. If CET countries do not, it may have some impact on our efforts to link up and play.....
Good point, thanks for bringing it up! Canada and the US change their clocks this weekend but in Europe it doesn't happen for three more weeks (29 March). So if I have this right, from this Sunday you guys will be 5 hours behind us rather than 6 hours.
Link (http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2015.html).
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I am available to play on Sunday morning. Does that fit anyone's schedule?
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I am available to play on Sunday morning. Does that fit anyone's schedule?
Yes, it fits mine! I might have a game with monwil as well around that time but I can certainly play back-to-back games as long as we arrange the times beforehand to avoid clashing.
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?
Meanwhile, I should be available for a game tonight (at say 9 or 10 CET) if anyone would like to play.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Leven is in the chatroom and waiting for a league game.
Jungleboy have you time to play a game with Leven?
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Jungleboy have you time to play a game with Leven?
We are playing tomorrow night instead.
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jungleboy is in the chatroom.
SRBO, can you play a game this morning?
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rfielder and jungleboy just finished a game. Usually winner.
Anyone else online and looking to play?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 here (http://youtu.be/hj6pjFtpQL0).
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.
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Here comes the x-score list IC League group C.
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Leven and SRBO - can you play your IC-league game for group C?
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Are your referring to today? If so, that won't work for me. Tuesday or Wednesday may.
Both are OK for me.
Leven and SRBO - can you play your IC-league game for group C?
I'm sorry but I cannot play now. Maybe tomorrow if it's suitable for SRBO.
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I am available quite a lot on Wednesday, from 8am-2pm CET (3am!-9am EST) and again from 8pm-11pm CET (3pm-5pm EST). SRBO, b1nder, monwil or Carcking - let me know if this suits you.
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This Thursday I will be available after 7 pm! Hope to do some matches by then.
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Leven is in the chatroom and is waiting for a league game.
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I have checked in the chatroom from time to time, but not had any luck finding someone to play a competition game. Can't commit to anything ahead of time, since my schedule is all over the place for the rest of this week.
Most likely, I hope to be able to play on this Sunday. Will anyone else be around?
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SRBO vs Leven 94:114
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Most likely, I hope to be able to play on this Sunday. Will anyone else be around?
Yes, I will. I can play on Sunday any time after 4 pm CET (until 11), presumably.
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SRBO vs Leven 94:114
This was a game that was really painful.. at some point Leven made me connect my two cities., trying to trap me every time. at the end he trap both cities, with any possibility to complete them both. sadly Leven then got the two cloisters with road and put me behind him.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 12 03 2015:
4 players in Group C have played at least 1-2 games.
B1nder, Carcking, monwil haven't played a game till now.
There have been played 3 games total.
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Yes, I will. I can play on Sunday any time after 4 pm CET (until 11), presumably.
These time zones and Daylight Savings are always a challenge...that means any time after 11AM EST, right?
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Yes, I will. I can play on Sunday any time after 4 pm CET (until 11), presumably.
These time zones and Daylight Savings are always a challenge...that means any time after 11AM EST, right?
As far as I know EST is 5 hours earlier than CET. So yes, after 11AM EST. But it may be better if we agree on a specified time. Can you suggest any?
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Hi Leven, rfielder was short online in the chatroom. Perhaps you can contact him by PM if you like to play a league game?
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Leven, rfielder, jungleboy and SRBO were online today - but no one is playing.
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I am away for the weekend without my computer so I cannot play until Sunday night at the earliest.
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As far as I know EST is 5 hours earlier than CET. So yes, after 11AM EST. But it may be better if we agree on a specified time. Can you suggest any?
Leven - 11AM EST Sunday sounds good. Is that OK for you?
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Leven, rfielder, jungleboy and SRBO were online today - but no one is playing.
I have been checking in from work, and stealing some time when possible, but no luck finding someone. I will keep trying.
Next week, our personal schedules ease a bit, so I may be able to get some games for monwil and myself lined up.
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Members of IC League group C.
Please make some appointments for game play with your opponents.
Leven and rfielder - I hope your game will take place tomorrow - sunday.
SRBO - do you have time to play a game this weekend?
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Did someone of you contact Carcking or B1nder?
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As far as I know EST is 5 hours earlier than CET. So yes, after 11AM EST. But it may be better if we agree on a specified time. Can you suggest any?
Leven - 11AM EST Sunday sounds good. Is that OK for you?
Yes, it's fine, we can play then.
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Anyone in C available for play today (Sunday Mar 15)?
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If I'm not mistaken, then this is the first draw of this year's leagues (I don't know if there was any during the competitions last year).
rfielder vs Leven 129:129
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Ahh that is a great game Leven and rfielder.
The first tie this year.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 15 03 2015:
4 players in Group C have played at least 1-2 games.
B1nder, Carcking, monwil haven't played a game till now.
The last game was the first one with a tie this year.
There have been played 4 games total.
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Actually I feel it was rather losing one point than winning one. In the first part of the game I successfully trapped several followers of rfielder (including his big follower in an incompletable cathedral city), although this strategy required a lots of rounds where I could not receive any points (because I was focusing on blocking something instead of building). As a result of this, rfielder built a lead of 20-30 points at the middle of the game but I thought it was a manageable gap and I will be able to catch him up mainly if I can get majority on the main farm. My first big mistake was that I did not use my big follower to get that majority which meant that I used one more follower unnecessarily. My second mistake was a clear overlooking of a situation when I thought that one of rfielder's cities is also blocked although it wasn't, and he soon drew a tile which finished that city. Therefore for the last few tiles when the score was very close we both had 1 follower in the supply. It may have been a bad decision from me when I placed that single follower to a city having 6 tiles left (so I had no follower in supply for the last 3 rounds) but then Robert also made a mistake not building and scoring a two-tile city (where he could receive 4 points without losing a follower). Then with his last tile he deployed the follower to a 6 point farm, getting a lead of 3 points. Fortunately my last tile made me possible to expand one of my farms and so to equal the score.
All in all, the draw is a fair result I think. Thanks rfielder for this great game.
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I bet your ELO will suffer from this... :-/
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I can play tonight from about 20:30-23:00 CET (3:30pm-6pm EST) if anyone is available.
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jungleboy - not sure that monwil will be back by then. If she is, I will let you know.
OK thanks. I should add that 11pm/6pm is really the end time for me, so I'd like to start at 10pm/5pm at the latest. So it doesn't sound like we'll be able to make it work tonight then.
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Leven and I have a game scheduled for Thursday at 6:00pm Eastern.
Is anyone available to play Tuesday (tomorrow) at 6:00pm Eastern?
Carcking
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Is anyone available to play Tuesday (tomorrow) at 6:00pm Eastern?
Tuesday is not the best night for me but how about Wednesday at 6pm Eastern? Or even tonight?
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The only nights I have free this week are Tuesday and Thursday. Sorry jb. Maybe this weekend?
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Is anyone available to play Tuesday (tomorrow) at 6:00pm Eastern?
Carcking - I will be available at 6PM EST on Tuesday.
How much time do you have? Might you be able to fit in two games, if Monwil is available?
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Hi rfielder! Yes, I would try to get in two games back to back.
Version 3.1.0?
Can you host?
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Version 3.1.0?
3.1.1 now!
Can you host?
You can play online via the dedicated server, or rfielder can host I believe.
Hope you guys have a great game!
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Hi rfielder! Yes, I would try to get in two games back to back.
Version 3.1.0?
Can you host?
Carcking - we have 3.1.1 install. I can try hosting, but so far nobody outside my area can see my server!
I have played a few games using the Onilne, and it has worked OK. Just upgraded to the latest Java, which may help as well.
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ok, 6pm Eastern tomorrow then.
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ok, 6pm Eastern tomorrow then.
Apparently 6pm your time is 10pm my time (for now). I will aim to get into the chat room 5 – 10 minutes before your game so that I can host for you if required, but hopefully it won’t be.
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Carcing vs rfielder - in a very atypical result, rfielder wins 131 to 121.
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Monwil vs Carcking - Carcking is the winner, 177 to 169.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 18 03 2015:
6 players in Group C have played at least 1-2 games.
B1nder hasn't played a game till now.
The last game was the first one with a tie this year.
There have been played 6 games total.
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There was a small team of observer-commentators watching the Carcking/ rfielder and Carcking/ monwil clashes last night which was great fun. Both games were quite excellent to watch!
My favourite thing was this little arrangement of cities which looked a bit like a slightly tipsy man with a moustache:
(http://www.dan.tehill.net/citymoustacheface.jpg)
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im available now
ill be online on chat
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Another game played. Final score: jungleboy 154, SRBO 120.
This was close all the way and if SRBO had been able to finish the cathedral city in the north, he would have won the game. We tied the main farm and the secondary farm, and everything else was pretty even except I did quite well on cloisters (9 + 9 + 8 ).
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What is the preference for screen captures - the entire game, or individual of the scoreboard and the tiles?
I preferred two separate, so that each is larger and easier to see.
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What is the preference for screen captures - the entire game, or individual of the scoreboard and the tiles?
I preferred two separate, so that each is larger and easier to see.
I usually do the same, and I usually upload them somewhere and then link to the image rather than attaching too. But ultimately it doesn't really matter too much.
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Anyone available for a game tonight, 5:00PM EST or later?
I have not played:
B1nder
SRBO
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Anyone available for a game tonight, 5:00PM EST or later?
I have not played:
B1nder
SRBO
I will play against B1nder at 8:30 CET (=3:30 EST), maybe he will be available for another game afterwards.
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I am also available tonight after 8:15 CET until about 11 or even 12 (finishing time), so I could play against b1nder after his match with Leven and/or against monwil if she is free today around the same time as rfielder.
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Im available now/
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I will play against B1nder at 8:30 CET (=3:30 EST), maybe he will be available for another game afterwards.
Binder - I can be available from 4:00PM EST, which is 9:00PM CET, if that is not too late for you.
Hosting may be an issue - it seems my hosting is nonfunctional. I have played a few games with the online server, and it worked OK.
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SRBO and I played with the online server today with no problems (at least not at my end).
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After my game with Leven, I gonna stay in the chatroom. And I'll be happy to play more games :)
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After my game with Leven, I gonna stay in the chatroom. And I'll be happy to play more games :)
Binder - good luck! I will log into the chat room as soon as I get home.
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B1nder vs Leven 96:151
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B1nder vs rfielder - B1nder for the win! 167 to 162.
...back to horseshoes, methinks.....
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And another game! jungleboy 179, B1nder 142
Funny that I won the city with both cathedrals and yet b1nder beat me by one point on cities. And farms were basically even. So it was cloisters and roads that were the difference.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 18 03 2015-1c - evening:
all of the 7 players in Group C have played at least 1-4 games.
B1nder has played 3 games this evening.
There have been played 10 games total.
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SRBO - will you be available this Saturday afternoon EST or Sunday morning EST? Or Friday afternoon EST?
If I am not mistaken, that translates to Saturday evening CET, or Sunday mid-day CET, or Friday evening CET. If I am in error, please let me know.
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Leven, are we still on at 6:00pm Eastern?
Carcking
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One of my best games so far (and a very unlucky one for Carcking):
Carcking vs Leven 61:143
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Wow, well done Leven. Just one more win and you will win the group.
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Wow, well done Leven. Just one more win and you will win the group.
Thanks, jungleboy. I know and I am the most surprised by this fact. :o
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SRBO - will you be available this Saturday afternoon EST or Sunday morning EST? Or Friday afternoon EST?
If I am not mistaken, that translates to Saturday evening CET, or Sunday mid-day CET, or Friday evening CET. If I am in error, please let me know.
SRBO - I have not heard back. Will you be available over the next few days?
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Im gonna try to be online tommorrow!
Tried a few times to get a match but most of time either noone is online or they are already playing
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Im gonna try to be online tommorrow!
Tried a few times to get a match but most of time either noone is online or they are already playing
If you could tell us when you will be online, we can try to be available at the same time - or let you know that we will not be around.
Given the time difference between EST and CET, it would work a lot better if you could let us know when you will be available - both date and time would really help.
Thank you.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 20 03 2015:
all of the 7 players in Group C have played at least 1-4 games.
There have been played 11 games total.
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My last game in the group:
monwil vs Leven 60:146
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Congratulations Leven, you are unbeaten at this stage of the competition! Well done! :(y)
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Im gonna try to be online tommorrow!
Tried a few times to get a match but most of time either noone is online or they are already playing
If you could tell us when you will be online, we can try to be available at the same time - or let you know that we will not be around.
Given the time difference between EST and CET, it would work a lot better if you could let us know when you will be available - both date and time would really help.
Thank you.
I will be online between 13:00 and 17:00 CET If nothing gets between it..
And i did gave the group lot of times.. but it didnt work either, so please dont be mad at me and wait patiently..
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 22 03 2015:
6 players in Group C have played at least 2-4 games.
Leven has played all of the 6 games. He has won 5 games and one game with a tie - that means he has got 11 league points in the IC league group C.
He has won the IC league group C even that all the other players in group C haven't finished their games.
I am really interested to "see" who becomes the 2nd, 3rd, 4th...
rfielder and jungleboy have played 4 games.
B1inder and Carcking have played 3 games.
monwil and SRBO have played 2 games.
Please make appointments for game play.
I hope, that rfielder and SRBO will have their game today.
There have been played 12 games total.
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Well, im going to enjoy the first sun this year now, dont know if i will be online later on..
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Well, im going to enjoy the first sun this year now, dont know if i will be online later on..
Are you available now?
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Monwil vs Rfielder - 169 - 219
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kettle:
I have yet to play SRBO. That is my only outstanding game.
Monwil has yet to play jungleboy, B1nder, and SRBO.
We are headed out now, likely won't be back until too late for CET. Perhaps we can get some dates and time arranged for this coming week, excluding Wednewday and Thursday.
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Monwil vs Rfielder - 169 - 219
Outstanding scores from both of you.
I think 219 is the top score of the I&C league so far. And the aggregate score (388) may also be the highest.
I assume you both gained the 69 points for that huge city including a cathedral.
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I assume you both gained the 69 points for that huge city including a cathedral.
Yes.
If anything, I was lucky at the end of the game. Got the tiles to take the farm, and my last piece finished the cathedral city on the right side. Monwil did not get such good tiles, otherwise the results might have been very different. This was a luck win, not a skill win.
Then again, I have lost or tied a few games based on the luck of the draw of the last 2-3 tiles.....
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I'd like to finish my two remaining games against monwil and Carking this week if possible, before I go on holiday and before our clocks change for daylight saving.
I could do 6pm EST / 11pm CET tonight, tomorrow night (Tuesday), or Wednesday night.
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Monwil vs Rfielder - 169 - 219
Outstanding scores from both of you.
I think 219 is the top score of the I&C league so far. And the aggregate score (388) may also be the highest.
I assume you both gained the 69 points for that huge city including a cathedral.
I agree. I scored 87 against Jere which is little more than half of Monwil's score. The major difference being that hers was a losing score whereas mine was a winning score (just). Well done both!
It just goes to show how different games can be depending on who you're playing (this is why I'm interesting in tracking the highest losing and lowest winning scores). Jere and I play very similarly and if anything he's a lot better than me, I just got lucky in our game...
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I could do 6pm EST / 11pm CET tonight, tomorrow night (Tuesday), or Wednesday night.
I will ask for the 6PM EST slot today for monwil, if that is OK with you. I will be talking to her at lunchtime.
She may be available a bit earlier - is 11PM CET the earliest time for you?
Can you host? Or play with the online server?
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[...] before our clocks change for daylight saving.
Very good point! Take advantage of this before the end of this week!
Though I've noticed something in the past 3 weeks: Some people seem to have trouble to organise their games and it is clearly NOT due to time differences. It's ok to share with other participants via the appropriate thread your availability at the very beginning to give everyone a general idea of when you could play but then you have to make very specific and separate appointments with each one of your opponents in private messages. First you send an invitation to someone where you either specify a day and time or a limited time frame. It's important to offer some flexibilty and add alternative days/times so that if its not possible for your opponent to play your first proposed time then he/she can pick another time where he/she knows you are for sure available. Thats it. Easy.
Don't rely on luck, be strategic! ;)
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I will ask for the 6PM EST slot today for monwil, if that is OK with you. I will be talking to her at lunchtime.
She may be available a bit earlier - is 11PM CET the earliest time for you?
Can you host? Or play with the online server?
I'll reply to you and her in a private message but I'll repeat it here too:
The earlier, the better. Can you ask her if she can play at 5pm EST / 10 CET? I can't host but the online server has been working well lately so we can try that.
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Don't rely on luck, be strategic! ;)
:(y)
Never would have guessed that coming from you :)
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Tonight's game: jungleboy vs monwil.
4:30PM EST / 9:30PM CET.
Meet in the chatroom beforehand. Game will be played using the online Carcassonne server.
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I am available Thursday night at 6pm Eastern. Can either B1nder or SRBO play then?
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jungleboy 202, monwil 151
As rfielder points out, the difference was only one city ... but that city had a cathedral and was worth 60 points. We fought hard for it in the early part of the game and I had four followers to monwil's three. At the time I closed it, we were exactly even at 52-52 if I remember correctly. Then I had a comfortable lead and spent most of the rest of the game adding farmers to the various small farms to consolidate my lead. Monwil came back to tie up some of the farms but the gap from the cathedral city was too much in the end.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 23 03 2015:
6 players in Group C have played at least 2-4 games.
Leven has played all of the 6 games.
He has won the IC league group C even that all the other players in group C haven't finished their games.
I am really interested to "see" who becomes the 2nd, 3rd, 4th...
rfielder and jungleboy have played 5 games.
monwil has played 4 games.
B1inder and Carcking have played 3 games.
SRBO has played 2 games.
Please make appointments for game play.
There have been played 14 games total.
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Due to an extreme busy schedule i like to withdraw myself from this league, my apologize for this!
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Due to an extreme busy schedule i like to withdraw myself from this league, my apologize for this!
I’m sorry to hear this SRBO, but if that’s your decision I will make alternative arrangements and respond again here with further information.
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Does that mean SRBO will finish with 0 pts and a total score differential of -194. (-35 per forfeited game) ?
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Due to an extreme busy schedule i like to withdraw myself from this league, my apologize for this!
I’m sorry to hear this SRBO, but if that’s your decision I will make alternative arrangements and respond again here with further information.
Yes Im very sorry, but the times im online doesnt fit the rest of the group.. and next weeks will become even more worse.
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In light of SRBO's withdrawal, and having spoken with everyone else from this group individually as to how best to continue, I'm pleased to be able to welcome Aenima to the group to take over where SRBO left off...
Aenima will play all 4 of SRBO's remaining games in this group followed by the 2 final matches in whichever of the final groups he ends up in. Obviously this isn't an ideal position to be in, but it's always going to be a bit messy if someone drops out in the middle of a league and we have all agreed between us that this was the best way to continue for the following reasons:
- Leven and jungleboy both beat SRBO and deserve to keep their wins, excluding these results and asking them to play again against Aenima in order to win back the points they've already rightly won would not be fair.
- Similarly though, giving away straight wins (forfeits) to everyone else in the group isn't fair either as this undermines the wins achieved by jungleboy and Leven. It also robs B1nder, Carcking, monwil and rfielder of the opportunity to win by more than 35 points which is how many points would be given away in the case of forfeit. And further still, forfeits would mean they don't get to play the full number of games, which would be a shame for them, as playing Carcassonne is what the league is all about moreso than who finishes where.
- Aenima will be starting off with 2 losses under "his" belt but this has been explained to him and he is happy with this. These losses won't count against him in his "career" summary but will remain in place for the purpose of this tournament.
Please join me in wishing Aenima every success in the league. He's being a bit of a hero in this by agreeing to take over, and I'm very grateful to him for his willingness to join in and overall enthusiasm! :)
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Welcome Aenima!
Meanwhile Carking and I have been unable to arrange a time for this week due to the time difference and our various commitments. So we will try again next week. I will be on holiday but I'll have my laptop with me.
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hello to all!!! ;D
well... I post my best times for playng for the last days of march according to my work calendar and the time zone (I am +1)...
so...
today 25/03 20:00 - 23:00
26/03 09:00 - 14:00
27/03 all the day 09:00 - 23:00 (I work at home)
w-e 28-29/03 09:00 - 23:00 (but it will change if my girlfriend want to make something out)
30/03 09:00 - 14:00
31/03 I'll return in Italy for the holiday so no game, but there I have another pc and soon I'll be able to tell you other times...
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Welcome, Aenima!
If possible, monwil and I will ask for some time on Friday, Mar 27. We are EST, so five hour time difference at the moment. Will ask for more specific times after I speak with monwil - she has already left for work.
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Welcome to the league aenima and thanks for being a hero.
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Hi aenima,
nice to have you here as a player for the IC league group C.
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my first game in the league! :)
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the full game
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 25 03 2015:
5 players in Group C have played at least 3-5 games.
Leven and rfielder have played all of their 6 games.
jungleboy have played 5 games.
monwil has played 4 games.
B1inder and Carcking and SRBO/aenima have played 3 games.
Please make appointments for game play.
There have been played 15 games total.
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Welcome to the group, Aenima, and congrats for your first win.
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thanx! ;D
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Wow, what a battle for the farm. Congratz, aenima.
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Wow, what a battle for the farm. Congratz, aenima.
;)
anyway ...today I'm on IRC chat if someone of the grop C want to play
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the second game! :)
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the map...
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I see in the map only a Cathedral. The other cathedral and the city CCCC have been eliminated during the game, have been caught and eliminated in sequence or in two different moments of the game?
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the normal cccc at the beginning of the game after few tiles... the cathedral... I don't remember
:)
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the normal cccc at the beginning of the game after few tiles... the cathedral... I don't remember :)
Yes, both the CCCC and cathedral went within the first 10 tiles.
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third game... :o
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the map...
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Hi aenima,
and again well played.
Now I have to update the x-score list for IC-league group C.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 28 03 2015:
5 players in Group C have played at least 3-5 games.
Leven and rfielder have played all of their 6 games.
jungleboy and monwil and SRBO/aenima have played 5 games.
B1nder has played 4 games.
Carcking has played 3 games.
Please make appointments for game play.
There have been played 17 games total.
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Look like CET is now on Daylight Savings time. It is 9:03AM here, and 3:03PM in CET, so we are now six hours apart.
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Hi B1nder - monwil and rfielder will be back at around 7pm (our middle European time).
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One more game completed: monwil vs B1nder.
monwil for the win! 160 - 122.
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Well done monwil!
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 29 03 2015:
4 players in Group C have played at least 3-5 games.
Leven and rfielder and monwil have played all of their 6 games.
jungleboy and B1nder and SRBO/aenima have played 5 games.
Carcking has played 3 games.
Please make appointments for game play.
There have been played 18 games total.
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I write to Carcking yesterday... but until now no answer from him...
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I write to Carcking yesterday... but until now no answer from him...
He told me earlier in the week that he wouldn't be available this weekend.
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Hi,
I can play this week on Tuesday and Thursday at 6PM Eastern. Does that fit with anyone's schedule?
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Hi,
I can play this week on Tuesday and Thursday at 6PM Eastern. Does that fit with anyone's schedule?
Each of your opponents are now 6 hours ahead of you, so 6pm your time will be midnight for Aenima, B1nder and jungleboy. Maybe this will be OK for some of them if they don't mind the late night...
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My status is 'day-to-day' as I will be in a new hotel most nights for the next two weeks so I can't always be sure of the Internet connection. So I will try to give updates when I can. In any case, by Saturday I will be in Portugal which is one hour behind Spain so that will make it a little easier.
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I really don't know... tomorrow I return in Italy so, I think I'll spend my nights with old friends... so... I don't know... I write something next days!
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I can play at midnight as well, if anyone can play at their 6am or so.
Just post up when you can play and we'll see what works.
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Does that mean - no one is playing a game tonight?
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There are still 3 games to play - all with Carcking.
Tuesday and Thursday no game was played.
Did you make an appointment with Carcking to play a league game?
The opponents for Carcking are:
- B1nder
- jungleboy
- aenima / SRBO
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After me and Carcking had tried to play our game two nights in a row, we managed it on our third attempt. Merit to Dan for waking up, providing a server and make it happen :)
The winner was Carcking and here are the resaults:
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After me and Carcking had tried to play our game two nights in a row, we managed it on our third attempt. Merit to Dan for waking up, providing a server and make it happen :)
Thanks for the merit! There are few things I'll get out of bed before 5am for, but watching a game of Carcassonne between two great players is one of them... :(y)
Well played both, it felt like a fairly close game throughout although the farm made all the difference in the end.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 04 04 2015:
3 players in Group C have played at least 4-5 games.
Leven, B1nder, rfielder and monwil have played all of their 6 games.
jungleboy and B1nder and SRBO/aenima have played 5 games.
Carcking has played 4 games.
Please make appointments for game play.
There have been played 19 games total.
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Leven, B1nder, rfielder and monwil have played all of their 6 games.
jungleboy and B1nder and SRBO/aenima have played 5 games.
B1nder has played 6 games.
The two remaining games are:
Carcking vs. aenima
Carcking vs. jungleboy
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jungleboy 165, carcking 132
I went 'all in' on a cathedral city with four followers and ended up closing it for 69 points. From there, carcking faced an uphill battle although he won the main farm.
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Well played. I'm sure Chuck is kicking himself for forgetting to claim one of the city tiles which jungleboy then claimed and merged into the big city as it was this that gave him the overall majority!
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 07 04 2015:
The last game is Carcking against aenima.
Please make appointments for game play.
There have been played 20 games total.
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To finish 3rd, Carcking must win with a score difference of 59. Not impossible but quite difficult. Good luck!
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To finish 3rd, Carcking must win with a score difference of 59. Not impossible but quite difficult. Good luck!
Why 59? I counted 118! And this already is almost impossible.
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To finish 3rd, Carcking must win with a score difference of 59. Not impossible but quite difficult. Good luck!
Why 59? I counted 118! And this already is almost impossible.
Because if Carckings differential goes up by 59 aenima's will come down by 59 and this will be enough to put him ahead...
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To finish 3rd, Carcking must win with a score difference of 59. Not impossible but quite difficult. Good luck!
Why 59? I counted 118! And this already is almost impossible.
Because if Carckings differential goes up by 59 aenima's will come down by 59 and this will be enough to put him ahead...
Yes, right, they will play with each other! I forgot about this little fact :D
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jungleboy 165, carcking 132
I went 'all in' on a cathedral city with four followers and ended up closing it for 69 points. From there, carcking faced an uphill battle although he won the main farm.
Yes, good game jb. I tried something different for the fun of it you might say, or to test the game. Normally, I would have played to kill that city, as any of my opponents might attest - and that would have been a race, I'm sure, but instead I decided to join back into it to see what could happen - nothing to lose but the game so why not. You played well to keep me getting any more followers in, that was well done. Then it became interesting since I think it came down to needing two cccf tiles...and you were lucky enough to draw two of them...although it came down to being only two remaining with you still needing one - and you drew it.
But in the end it's my opinion that the Cathedral mechanic is over powering. True, you can try to kill the city and block the points, but that just tends to build the city beyond reason and comes to lucky draws. At home we never play with I&C without including the Cathars & Siege to temper them some.
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But in the end it's my opinion that the Cathedral mechanic is over powering. True, you can try to kill the city and block the points, but that just tends to build the city beyond reason and comes to lucky draws. At home we never play with I&C without including the Cathars & Siege to temper them some.
The dragon can also be very use in such games.
I also like the Towers, although my partner enjoys them less so.
I have not played with Cathars & Siege. Is that available on Carcassonne Shoppe?
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To finish 3rd, Carcking must win with a score difference of 59. Not impossible but quite difficult. Good luck!
Why 59? I counted 118! And this already is almost impossible.
Because if Carckings differential goes up by 59 aenima's will come down by 59 and this will be enough to put him ahead...
This likely won't happen as I don't really play for points. It would require chasing a Cathedral city at least, which can prove luck more than prowess in most cases.
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I have not played with Cathars & Siege. Is that available on Carcassonne Shoppe?
Cathars, Siege and the Besiegers are three different expansions that all have the same mechanics. Besiegers (with 6 tiles) is available at the Cundco store. Siege has 4 tiles and is part of Cult, Siege and Creativity, which is available here (http://shop.spiele-akademie.de/en/international/Carcassonne-Cult-Siege-Creativity.html?listtype=search&searchparam=carcassonne). And Cathars (4 tiles) is a Spielbox expansion from 2004 that is out of print but that occasionally pops up on ebay/BGG etc at an inflated price.
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*offtopic* I highly recommend this mini expansion, rfielder. It has a neat mechanism which makes sense and adds to gameplay (not so far fetched like "Windroses", "Festival" and the like), and the tiles are really beautiful. I have the "Besiegers" from CundCo, but the other sets are, although different, great looking, too. But for me, one set is enough.
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I also love the theme and mechanics so I have all three.
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Yep, I too have all three. :)
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ok, ok, I'm back! I can play now... I can have a game also today at midnight
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ok, ok, I'm back! I can play now... I can have a game also today at midnight
I suggest to send a private message to increase your chance to reach him.
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Please make an appointment for the last IC-league game in group C:
Carcking - aenima /SRBO
As long as this game is not played - we don't know the 3rd participants for the IC-league groups D3 D4 D5.
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I'm waiting from yesterday some news from carcking
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Please make an appointment for the last IC-league game in group C:
Carcking - aenima /SRBO
As long as this game is not played - we don't know the 3rd participants for the IC-league groups D3 D4 D5.
It is being arranged via email. I'm sure it will be taking place very soon... :)
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the last C game...
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the map :D
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Congrats, aenima. Now you are the only player of the I&C league who has won all the games.
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Here comes the x-score list - IC-League-Group C 13 04 2015:
All the players of Group C have played all their 6 games.
The last game has been played by Carcking against aenima.
There have been played 21 games total.
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Congrats, aenima. Now you are the only player of the I&C league who has won all the games.
He still has to play in Group D3 ;) I also won all games in group stage, but then suddenly something went wrong :o :D
But anyway, outstanding performance, aenima! Who knows how it could be, if you would participate in the League from the beginning...
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thanks guys, but it seems I miss the 2 most important game! :) so it can't be true that I'm unbeaten... anyway I'm happy for the opportunity to join the league even if not from the beginning!