Thanks,
@MMike It was bitter-sweet this evening in our fortune-deciding World Team Carcassonne Online Championships match against Brazil.
I drew Melvin Quaresma, current World No.2 in the singles championship, so was rather trepidatious.
However, I won the first of the best-of-three duel
. However, he won the next game so it went to a decider.
It didn't start well for me; he got what I consider the perfect starting tile, a straight city extender with pennant, and I just couldn't do anything particularly useful so he gradually pulled ahead to where I couldn't recover from and he won the duel.
The rest of our 5 players for this match were evenly matched with 2 duels won per team, so that's the UK out of this year's World Team Championships
On the plus side, we've had a great experience and lots of fun, so we've just got to prepare ourselves for the European Team Championships hopefully later this year.