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Title: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on May 30, 2017, 02:53:01 PM
ROUND 10

Start date: Now! (31st May 2017)
End date: 13th June 2017 - any matches not played by the end of this date will be forfeited... :( :(n)
(parent thread) (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3108.msg46053#msg46053)


Match 70: Leven vs. Adrornalin (tie)
Match 71: Rosco vs. MrNumbers
Match 72: TheSteveAllen vs. Merlin_89 (tie)
Match 73: Jéré vs. Halfling (tie)
Match 74: What If? vs. Hounk (tie)
Match 75: Rich_The_Fish vs. khalidqasrawi (2 - 0 to Rich_The_Fish)
Match 76: glh510 vs. danisthirty (tie)
sitting out: Chooselife (not sorry - as requested) ;)


Please use this thread to post scores, screenshots and post-match reports. Good luck everyone!
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Jéré on May 30, 2017, 08:28:33 PM
As I told Dan sometime ago, I am moving tomorrow June 1st and will be without internet connection at home for x number of days...
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Rosco on June 05, 2017, 02:58:54 PM
Well I have no chance this round!

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Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 05, 2017, 03:01:23 PM
Well I have no chance this round!

Good plan. Lull him into a false sense of security and then - wham! - give him a taste of what he's in for after it's too late...
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on June 06, 2017, 12:54:58 PM
khalidqasrawi :red-meeple: 82 v Rich_The_Fish :green-meeple: 102
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on June 06, 2017, 12:57:40 PM
Game 2
Rich_The_Fish :green-meeple: 103 v khalidqasrawi :red-meeple: 92
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Rich_The_Fish on June 06, 2017, 01:03:44 PM
khalidqasrawi and I played tonight both matches tonight. A rather (make that very) surprising result if I'm honest. Both games were very close and really could have gone either way. I threw a bit of caution to the wind in the second game and fortunately it paid off, but it could have gone horribly wrong! Thanks very much for the tough games Khalid and good luck for the remainder of the tournament.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Halfling on June 07, 2017, 11:58:02 AM
I'm Hallucinating
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Jéré on June 07, 2017, 01:11:49 PM
I still don't have Internet at home but I shared my 4G mobile connection with the laptop and it worked pretty good.

Game#1 (Starting player: Jéré)

Halfling played very well and I was behind the whole game but I managed to steal the main field with my last tile.

:red-meeple: Jéré       103
:yellow-meeple: Halfling    97

Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Halfling on June 07, 2017, 02:09:54 PM
I do have Internet.

Game#2 (Starting player: Halfling)

I played even better and didn't get overhauled this time!  I was able to use cloisters but Jéré was short on resources at times.

 :yellow-meeple: Halfling 104
 :red-meeple: Jéré        85

Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Jéré on June 07, 2017, 10:13:48 PM
I do have Internet.

Lucky! Will get it only June 19 the Internet Provider says. 19 days without internet is long!
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Hounk on June 08, 2017, 08:47:27 AM
What If? and I played our games earlier this afternoon. He won the first, dominated by a few big cities (as starting player) and took the picture of this one. Second one was quite different with small cities and two main farms. Luckily I managed to tie the smaller farm and win the bigger one (they were only 15 and 12 points anyway, with What If getting a 3 city farm), and this decided the close game for me 99:91.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: What If? on June 08, 2017, 12:44:02 PM
What If? and I played our games earlier this afternoon. He won the first, dominated by a few big cities (as starting player) and took the picture of this one. Second one was quite different with small cities and two main farms. Luckily I managed to tie the smaller farm and win the bigger one (they were only 15 and 12 points anyway, with What If getting a 3 city farm), and this decided the close game for me 99:91.


"luckily" he says, but I thought he was being almost crazy for getting my last farmer in and then with an almost perfect block tile given to me he needed the last RRRF-tile, and got it! The chance he took, and it was decisive, was to actually give away a good farm in order to avoid a tie in the biggest field and then come back in. One of the sweetest moves I´ve had against me, and decisive and towards the end as it should be.

If you want to see, check the southeastern red and green farmer in Hounks much nicer picture above. Hounk (green) glomed the red on to the smaller farm with the bent road tile above and gave red majority with one chance only to being able to get back himself via the RRRF tile. I´m still in schock.

First game was decided by one nice defensive move by me saving two meeples being killed in one city and then I had the nicest possible distribution of tiles in quite the right moments.

(http://i66.tinypic.com/2myojo9.png)

Both games really nice.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 08, 2017, 01:34:33 PM
2 great games with glh510 this evening. In both cases the starting player won so it was a tie, although the second game couldn't have been much closer!

First Game:
Dan :blue-meeple: 76 : 71 :green-meeple: glh510

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/dan_vs_glh510_game1.jpg)

A lot of early trapping in this game seemed like it had put me off to a good start although glh510 possibly gained more points from it all than I did when the final scores were calculated. This game was a bit all over the place after that. I seemed to score a few more 3 or 4 tile cities than I normally do which gave me the edge, although it wasn't secured until I'd also tied the north farm. There was a chance that glh510 could have pipped me at the post but didn't get any of the corners he needed to do so in the last few tiles of the game so I took the win by a whopping 5 points...

Second Game:
glh510 :green-meeple: 101 : 100 :blue-meeple: Dan

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/dan_vs_glh510_game2_scores123.jpg)

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/dan_vs_glh510_game2_map.jpg)

My biggest regret in this game was that I wasn't counting the tiles. If I had been, I would have known that the big farm was safely mine with 3 x :blue-meeple: against 2 x :green-meeple: BUT I was nervous about glh510's 3rd farmer which was poised to potentially tie the farm with the last tile of the game. So, I joined my fourth farmer on with my last turn, and glh510 grabbed a 4-point road with his final tile instead since he couldn't have used it to tie the farm with me even if it had made sense for him to have done so. Ultimately I robbed myself of 3 points by doing this as my fourth farmer would have been worth 3 by himself and adding him onto the big farm didn't add any new cities onto it. Ultimately though, glh510 deserved the win and I'm happy with the tie.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 08, 2017, 01:47:51 PM
Leven, Adrornalin, Rosco, MrNumbers, TheSteveAllen, Merlin_89 - what's going down my main man(s)? O0

(i.e. do you have any idea when you might be playing your games?)
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Adrornalin on June 08, 2017, 02:02:27 PM
Leven v Adrornalin on Sat evening.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 08, 2017, 02:03:30 PM
Leven v Adrornalin on Sat evening.

Excellent! Good luck to both of you. :(y)
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: glh510 on June 08, 2017, 11:39:55 PM
2 great games with glh510 this evening.


Thank you for this nice report, dan. Learned some things this evening, especially your moves to avoid blocking and your ability to join farms were impressive  :(y)
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 09, 2017, 04:15:09 AM
2 great games with glh510 this evening.


Thank you for this nice report, dan. Learned some things this evening, especially your moves to avoid blocking and your ability to join farms were impressive  :(y)

Thanks for those kind comments. I definitely learned a lot too! :) :(y)
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Merlin_89 on June 09, 2017, 01:54:57 PM
I expect to play my match this weekend... But we don't have fixed meeting yet.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Leven on June 10, 2017, 01:48:14 PM
Leven v Adrornalin on Sat evening.

And here are the results (starting player first):

:violet-meeple: Leven vs :yellow-meeple: Adrornalin 107:66

As the game started with two small cities, Adrornalin decided to deploy a farmer right at the beginning. It may have been too early as I was able to surround this farm by roads quite early, so the farm had only those two cities at the end of the game, too. Then I went on with trapping, with some success (and even had some luck, too, as I seemed to draw all the tiles that my opponent could use to escape his followers). Then I gained some easy points by cloisters as well, and could secure the good positions on the farms, too.

:yellow-meeple: Adrornalin vs :violet-meeple: Leven 118:100

This time I was behind in the whole game, and the gap even increased when Adrornalin drew the RFFF tile (to the north of his farmer on the screenshot) by which he not only joined another farmer to the main farm but gained an immediate 9 points for the cloister, too. Then it was clear that my only chance for victory would be winning majority on the farm but I failed, in the end we both had 4 farmers there.

Thanks for these great games, Adrornalin, good luck in the rest of the tournament.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Rosco on June 10, 2017, 02:24:02 PM
I am working a 7 day straight at the moment doing 12-13 hrs a day.  This ends on monday.  I can play tuesday anytime if that is still ok?

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Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Merlin_89 on June 11, 2017, 01:57:34 PM
I played my games.

67 :green-meeple: TheSteveAllen - Merlin_89  :yellow-meeple: 81
93 :yellow-meeple: Merlin_89 - TheSteveAllen  :green-meeple: 100

I couldn't find my footing both games, I struggled a lot with scoring. Happy to win one... Stupid mistake always come to bite you! Solid games from TheSteveAllen!
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 12, 2017, 02:31:29 AM
Excellent progress! 6 matches played and 5 ties so far! Looking forward to seeing the outcome of MrNumbers vs. Rosco - any news on when this is planned or is it a surprise?
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: MrNumbers on June 12, 2017, 02:35:27 AM
Looking forward to seeing the outcome of MrNumbers vs. Rosco - any news on when this is planned or is it a surprise?
We agreed to play on Tuesday's evening, when Rosco is finally free from his work.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 12, 2017, 05:06:47 AM
Excellent. Good luck both!
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: MrNumbers on June 13, 2017, 02:21:11 PM
Last games of the round 10
MrNumbers vs. Rosco
97:78
115:106

If I'm not mistaken, I should be back on top of the ELO ::) :D
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Leven on June 14, 2017, 02:18:13 AM
If I'm not mistaken, I should be back on top of the ELO ::) :D
And it's well deserved, you're in a winning streak. :(y)
If I'm not mistaken you won 11 out of your last 12 games (and your only defeat was one of our games in the basegame league where I won by 1 pt...) which is quite amazing.
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: MrNumbers on June 14, 2017, 03:20:27 AM
If I'm not mistaken you won 11 out of your last 12 games (and your only defeat was one of our games in the basegame league where I won by 1 pt...) which is quite amazing.
I didn't even noticed that :o Yes, if we take into account my final games in BC&B League, then it is 11/12 wins :D Will try to keep this streak during coming League 8)
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 14, 2017, 03:52:59 AM
If I'm not mistaken you won 11 out of your last 12 games (and your only defeat was one of our games in the basegame league where I won by 1 pt...) which is quite amazing.
I didn't even noticed that :o Yes, if we take into account my final games in BC&B League, then it is 11/12 wins :D Will try to keep this streak during coming League 8)

Damn! You've beaten my person record of 10 wins from 12 games (+1 loss [against you] and 1 tie [against Rosco]) set in the 2014 Basegame League. Although this would have been 11 wins from 14 games (+2 loss and 1 tie) if we included the results from my match with jvnoledawg but this was excluded as he dropped out.

Congratulations in any case! 5 rounds left to go...
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 14, 2017, 04:14:57 AM
Not much change at the top, although MrNumbers is making an impressive charge after 5 strong rounds in a row:

(http://www.dan.tehill.net//Round10_Results.jpg)

Round 11 coming soon!
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: danisthirty on June 14, 2017, 05:51:02 AM
Round 11 (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3396.msg50241#msg50241) is now live! O0
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Jéré on June 14, 2017, 06:01:51 AM

If I'm not mistaken, I should be back on top of the ELO ::) :D

Yes, very clearly! Congrats!  :(y) :(y) :(y)
Title: Re: 2017 Basegame League - Round 10
Post by: Jéré on June 14, 2017, 07:11:38 AM
Elo update available HERE (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=3129.msg50245#msg50245) !