Abbey & Mayor League: Groups D1 - D7

[jma03]

I'll be available tomorrow afternoon until 10 ( Spanish time).
other days I will be available at midnight.
regards

[Leven]

D2 Quevy vs Leven 161:198

By placing his barn early in the game onto a promising farm quevy seemed to be in good position, but then came the turning point of the game when I could gain majority in a huge city where we both deployed our mayors and then with some lucky draws I could even close it except for a CCCC hole in the middle which divided the city into more parts. There was only one CCCC tile left: the one with two pennants. It could have made the city even more valuable (+8 pt), so to avoid this threat quevy decided to put his abbey tile in the hole, but nevertheless I still gained 44 pts from the completed cities so it proved to be the decisive factor in this game.

Dan asked for the video recording, and others may also be interested, so I published it .

[kettlefish]

Here comes the x-score list - AM-League-Group D2 - 25 06 2015 -1:

The 4th D-group has started with game play - group D2...
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[danisthirty]

Here comes the x-score list - AM-League-Group D2 - 25 06 2015 -1:

The 3rd D-group has started with game play - group D2...
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I think this was actually the fourth group to start as games from D3, D4 and D5 had already taken place prior to this (D4 was me vs. Paul)

[kettlefish]

Here comes the x-score list - AM-League-Group D4 - 23 06 2015 -1:

The 2nd D-group has started with game play - group D4...
ok danisthirty - I forget to make the picture of the of the game in group D4 - played 23 06 2015
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[kettlefish]

Are there any plans for game play today?

[danisthirty]

Are there any plans for game play today?

I'm hoping to play my last game of the league against Chooselife. But it will be a late game, probably starting at some point between 11pm and 11:30pm UK time...

[danisthirty]

Are there any plans for game play today?

I'm hoping to play my last game of the league against Chooselife. But it will be a late game, probably starting at some point between 11pm and 11:30pm UK time...

D4
Well, it was a late one but at least we got to play!





CL played well and certainly made the most of the tiles he drew. This included almost all of the cloisters in the early stages of the game but I never seemed to be able to do anything to block him, and struggled to keep our scores level despite winning the 16-point city in the middle of the screen outright and a few others besides.

CL was the first to place his barn on what looked like a very promising farm. I managed to get mine down adjacent to it but he stopped me from joining on to his so I concentrated on developing my own and both barn farms ended up being worth the same.

It felt like a close game throughout, but I did get particularly frustrated at one point when CL had two turns in a row where he drew the exact (uncommon) tile he needed to get out of whatever I was trying to set up. The first of these tiles meant that he won the incomplete city to the west outright for 11 points, and the second meant that he maintained an equal share of the large city in the south-east (worth 38 points). At that point I just felt like there was nothing I could do. 

I was very surprised by the final scores as it felt like I'd lost by a much larger margin. Still, if you have to lose you might as well do it by 1 point so I can't be too disappointed. 

Well played ChooseLife! 

[kettlefish]

Here comes the x-score list - AM-League-Group D4 - 26 06 2015 -2:

danisthirty has finished his 2nd game. He won a game and lost a game in group D4.
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[kettlefish]

Here comes the x-score list - AM-League-Group D1 - 25 06 2015 -1:

jma03   199 -  zone2   181
and again jma03 has won the game.

I still miss the screenshot of this game.
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[Chooselife]

Well played ChooseLife! 

Thanks Dan and what a game it was to play.  I was indeed very lucky on the tile draw as I turned my back on the big city, in order not to lose focus and wood, but the tiles that came around were perfect to level it.
With such a close score it really could have gone bot ways.

Thanks for waiting and have a nice holidays.

[Rosco]

I would like to play my 2 games on either sunday night or during the days of Monday,  Tuesday,  Wednesday,  or Thursday. Otherwise I can't play until after the 7th July.

[danisthirty]

Well played ChooseLife! 

With such a close score it really could have gone bot ways.

Definitely. Even if just the last two tiles had been the other way around the end result could have been different! 

Anyway...

Just a quick note to let you know that I’m going to be away for a bit and so won’t be able to host any JCloisterZone games. Hopefully MrNumbers, Decar or rfielder will be happy to help out in this respect in my absence, but if you’re really stuck, the online server does appear to be working again now and can be connected to as long as you’re using JCZ version 3.2. In my experience this version doesn’t appear to be as stable as version 3.1.1 but as long as either player saves the game in the event of any technical difficulties then you should still be able to recover it.

Enjoy! 

[jma03]

very even game throughout the game.
the tiles were the last I decided the game (I think)

[jma03]

I would like to play my 2 games on either sunday night or during the days of Monday,  Tuesday,  Wednesday,  or Thursday. Otherwise I can't play until after the 7th July.

Sunday at midnight 'm available.
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon also