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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2016, 05:45:32 PM »
I am online now, if someone wants to play.
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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #16 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.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #17 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.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #18 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)
« Last Edit: October 07, 2016, 08:01:45 PM by Skane »

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #19 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.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #20 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!

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #21 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:

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #22 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.
« Last Edit: October 08, 2016, 11:20:20 PM by Leven »

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #23 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.

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2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #24 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.
« Last Edit: October 09, 2016, 12:35:46 PM by Jéré »

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #25 on: October 09, 2016, 06:46:18 PM »
5 games played, 10 left.
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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #26 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.


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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #27 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!

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2016, 07:15:07 AM »
Should be available for a game this evening!

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group B
« Reply #29 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... :-/


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