A Carcassonne League?

[kettlefish]

danisthirty,
do we get an update of your table lists?

[danisthirty]

@quevy - I have lost many tiles in the same way because my children have distracted me too! It looks like it was quite a close match though, who started which games?

@kettlefish - yes absolutely, we just need to wait to see what happens in the carcking vs jvnoledawg match. Hopefully this should be taking place either today or tomorrow and I will update the stats and post them here as soon as that happens.

[jungleboy]

danisthirty,
do we get an update of your table lists?

I'd prefer not to see an updated version myself

[quevy]

@quevy - I have lost many tiles in the same way because my children have distracted me too! It looks like it was quite a close match though, who started which games?

In the first game rosco started, in the second I was the first.

[danisthirty]

Hello.

A massive thanks and a pat on the back for everyone for your involvement so far. I hope you're enjoying taking part in the league as much as I am, and are all set for an epic fourth round (more on this below). First though, here's a somewhat detailed look at the way things are at the moment starting with a round-up of all the round-3 action:



Wins all round (for half of us)! And not a draw in sight...







(thanks for the suggestions I've had regarding stats I should be tracking, if you can think of anything else please let me know and I'll add it to my ever-growing spreadsheet and end-of-round summaries)

As you can see, MrNumbers is still at the top! In fact as well as being unbeaten, the most anyone has scored against him in a single game is 79 (the least is 69, average is 73.5). Defensively, this makes him the most consistent player of all of us, but whether he can hold on to his impressive track record remains to be seen. With 4 rounds to go there are still plenty of points to be won and I firmly believe that anyone could finish anywhere at this point so let's bring it on!

As some of you may or may not have noticed, the league so far has actually been run as two "mini-leagues" of 4-players each. These mini-leagues were organised alphabetically with Carcking, myself, jungleboy and jvnoledawg forming the first group and MrNumbers, quevy, rfielder and Rosco forming the second. Now that we've reached the end of round 3, both mini-leagues are complete meaning that players in each group can be ranked from first to fourth as shown below:



Ultimately, our positions in each of these mini-leagues won't have any impact on our final position in the overall league. But what this does mean is that we can now play our same-ranked opposite numbers between the two mini-leagues for our round 4 fixtures. I'm hoping that this will lead to some very close and competitive matches, and I'm particularly looking forward to facing MrNumbers as a result!

So, fixtures for round 4 are as follows:

Match 1: danisthirty vs. MrNumbers (3-hour time difference)
Match 2: Carcking vs. quevy (6-hour time difference)
Match 3: jungleboy vs. Rosco (same time zone)
Match 4: jvnoledawg vs. rfielder (same time zone)

Good luck everyone!

[MrNumbers]

This round will be VERY interesting, in any case - for me

[danisthirty]

I'm hoping it will be a very interesting round for everyone MrNumbers, but I can't deny that I am especially looking forward to our match!

[quevy]

Finally I switched to ranked third, are in recovery.

[Carcking]

@quevy - the best time for us to play will probably be on Saturday June 21st. Sometime in the morning for me will be sometime in the afternoon for you. Something like that.

During the week days I can play around 6pm but that will be Midnight for you.

What day and time is good for you?

Carcking

[jungleboy]

Phenomenal work Dan! 

[quevy]

@quevy - the best time for us to play will probably be on Saturday June 21st. Sometime in the morning for me will be sometime in the afternoon for you. Something like that.

During the week days I can play around 6pm but that will be Midnight for you.

What day and time is good for you?

Carcking

I think that hour for me to be able to go well, unfortunately I do not know the shifts of my wife, if I have to watch my son does not think I can play.

[Carcking]

@quevy - the best time for us to play will probably be on Saturday June 21st. Sometime in the morning for me will be sometime in the afternoon for you. Something like that.

During the week days I can play around 6pm but that will be Midnight for you.

What day and time is good for you?

Carcking

I think that hour for me to be able to go well, unfortunately I do not know the shifts of my wife, if I have to watch my son does not think I can play.

Ok, just let me know what is the best day and time for you and we'll see if it can work.

[danisthirty]

MrNumbers and I have just had our match. He is an insanely good player! But, I got lucky in the first game (the last tile was a very good one for me) so wasn't too bothered that I got totally outplayed in the second and was happy to settle on a draw. I will add a write-up of the first game soon, and MrNumbers will do the same thing for the second game tomorrow.

Is anybody else expecting to play soon?

[rfielder]

Is anybody else expecting to play soon?

I am communicating with jvnoledawg for our game.   He indicated that this weekend is a possibility, and I am just waiting to hear back as to when.

Beign the low man on the totem pole/leaderboard just means I have place to go but up!

Or sideways.

Or no movement at all.....

Never mind!  Now, where's my beer.....

[jungleboy]

Well done Dan! The first person to take a game from MrNumbers so far! You're on a roll.