Author Topic: 2017 Basegame League - Round 8 (Read 14432 times)

danisthirty · « **on:** May 03, 2017, 04:11:39 PM »

ROUND 8

Start date: Now! (4th May 2017)
End date: 17th May 2017 - any matches not played by the end of this date will be forfeited...

(parent thread)

Match 56: Hounk vs. Rich_The_Fish (tie)
Match 57: Halfling vs. What If? (2 - 0 to Halfling)
Match 58: Chooselife vs. Jéré (2 - 0 to Jéré)
Match 59: MrNumbers vs. TheSteveAllen (2 - 0 to MrNumbers)
Match 60: Adrornalin vs. Rosco (2 - 0 to Rosco)
Match 61: glh510 vs. Leven (2 - 1 to glh510 because of tied game)
Match 62: danisthirty vs. khalidqasrawi (2 - 0 to khalidqasrawi)
sitting out: Merlin_89 (sorry)

Please use this thread to post scores, screenshots and post-match reports. Good luck everyone!

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3308.0

danisthirty · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2017, 02:17:12 PM »

Full writeup to come, but I wanted to note the scores before I lose them. It was a win for... khalid

Game 1: khalid (started) - 108 : 93 - danisthirty

Game 2: khalid - 84 : 77 - danisthirty (started)

Two very similar games won by the better player on the night (and most nights so it seems).

Stupid Carcassonne.

danisthirty · « **Reply #2 on:** May 09, 2017, 05:18:20 AM »

Anybody else playing this round?

Jéré · « **Reply #3 on:** May 09, 2017, 05:18:57 AM »

Chooselife and I tonight.

danisthirty · « **Reply #4 on:** May 09, 2017, 05:38:10 AM »

Awesomezz...

Leven · « **Reply #5 on:** May 09, 2017, 08:38:54 AM »

GLH510 and I on Thursday, presumably.

Rich_The_Fish · « **Reply #6 on:** May 09, 2017, 01:39:13 PM »

Hounk and I are probably playing on Fri (or over the weekend)

Jéré · « **Reply #7 on:** May 09, 2017, 02:25:14 PM »

Game#1 (Starting player: Chooselife)

Chooselife 70

Jéré 86

First game was quite close. I had no meeples left in my supply for the last few tiles which was a bit stressful, just played defensively to prevent Chooselife from winning the fields (12 & 9 pts).

Game#2 (Starting player: Jéré)

Jéré 110

Chooselife 76

Was a bit surprised to see Chooselife miss several occasions to block my meeples. Meanwhile, I blocked two of his guys... that plus one lucky tile at the end helped me to win with a big margin.

Thanks for the games and good luck for the rest of the league.

MrNumbers · « **Reply #8 on:** May 10, 2017, 01:59:38 PM »

MrNumbers vs. TheSteveAllen
119:103
104:68

First game was almost even, except the moment when Steve chose to close the road instead of escaping the trap for his two followers. We shared two medium-sized cities, that's why my city scores are higher, which made the main difference.

The second game reminded me this game a little bit

I had control on both big farms and successfully prevented 3 Steve's followers from joining the party

That's why my only competed road in this game is that 5-point road in the North, all other road tiles were used for the reason described above.

Good luck with the rest of the tournament, Steve!

TheSteveAllen · « **Reply #9 on:** May 10, 2017, 02:18:53 PM »

Thanks for the write up of the games MrNumbers. I really enjoyed the first one, and got really frustrated with the second. I'm glad to see that I am not the only person that you have given the defend-the-farm-at-all-costs treatment!

Best of luck with the rest of the competition MrNumbers. Next time I play you, I will do a bit of farmyard defence revision beforehand!

glh510 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 11, 2017, 01:53:51 PM »

Leven and I finished two astonishing games. We had the first draw in this league :-)

1.Game: GLH510 (Home) 79 : Leven 67
2.Game: Leven(Home) 91 : 91

Leven will post the screenshots and sum up both games.
In the second game he played extremely impressive against the bad luck of card drawing.

Leven · « **Reply #11 on:** May 11, 2017, 02:19:35 PM »

I've played two thrilling games with GLH510. Here are the results (starting player first):

GLH510 vs

Leven 79:67

A balanced game with lots of stuck followers. GLH510 was able to join a second farmer to the main farm near the end and then it was too late for me to do the same. Winning that farm secured a home win for my opponent.

Leven vs

GLH510 91:91

Throughout the game I had the feeling: this was not my game. Nothing worked really for me while my opponent played very well and built a 20 point lead quite early. Moreover, he had all his meeples in his supply (!), while I was struggling to gain any points (for a long period I didn't get a single city closer tile). I knew I had to win the largest farm to have a final result around a tie. In the end I managed to do this but I needed some luck with the last tiles to avoid another defeat. Both my last tile and GLH's last tile was a CCFF, but mine included a pennant.

Thanks for these great games, GLH.

danisthirty · « **Reply #12 on:** May 12, 2017, 08:42:19 AM »

Our first draw! As much as I thought about how to handle these, I was never 100% on how they should affect scores. For now I've put the result of match 61 down as 2 - 1 to glh510 with the point distribution being the same as if it had been a 2 - 0 defeat. Any suggestions?

Quote from: Rich_The_Fish on May 09, 2017, 01:39:13 PM

Hounk and I are probably playing on Fri (or over the weekend)

Good luck with your game! I don't know for sure, but please be aware that you might have to upgrade to the latest version of JCZ if you want to play your match on the online server.

Halfling, What If?, Adrornalin and Rosco: any updates?

Jéré · « **Reply #13 on:** May 12, 2017, 09:01:11 AM »

Quote from: danisthirty on May 12, 2017, 08:42:19 AM

Our first draw! As much as I thought about how to handle these, I was never 100% on how they should affect scores. For now I've put the result of match 61 down as 2 - 1 to glh510 with the point distribution being the same as if it had been a 2 - 0 defeat. Any suggestions?

Any reason why you wouldn't want to give half points? Personally, I'd give 1.5 to glh510 and 0.5 to Leven but maybe you wanted to avoid this for a reason I can't think of right now.

danisthirty · « **Reply #14 on:** May 12, 2017, 09:09:36 AM »

Quote from: Jéré on May 12, 2017, 09:01:11 AM

Quote from: danisthirty on May 12, 2017, 08:42:19 AM
Our first draw! As much as I thought about how to handle these, I was never 100% on how they should affect scores. For now I've put the result of match 61 down as 2 - 1 to glh510 with the point distribution being the same as if it had been a 2 - 0 defeat. Any suggestions?

Any reason why you wouldn't want to give half points? Personally, I'd give 1.5 to glh510 and 0.5 to Leven but maybe you wanted to avoid this for a reason I can't think of right now.

I can't avoid things I hadn't thought of...

My thinking was that if a game is a draw neither player has won. So the outcome of the match would be decided by the winner of the other game. This doesn't seem quite right though, as it does feel like a draw should be rewarded even if the player lost the other game (and consequently the match). I'd be happy to go with 1.5 / 0.5 if others think it's fair/ fitting but am keen to gather opinions at this stage.