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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2016, 03:53:05 PM »
Scheduled a game with jungleboy at 0630 EDT this coming Saturday. So two games in a row for me.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2016, 08:41:14 PM »
I'm online now.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2016, 11:19:12 AM »
jungleboy 264, ny1050220 127

Yi started out ahead in this game by completing a few small cities while we both eyed what looked to be potentially large farms on either side of the river. I drew a cathedral tile early, added it to my own city (near another incomplete city of mine), joined my two cities together, managed to thwart any potential chance to trap my meeples, and then completed it before Yi's large meeple could join the party. This gave me the lead and I was able to build on it for the rest of the game. Yi decided to go hard on farms and once he used his large meeple on a farm, I determined that the farms weren't that big after all and that I should go for other things instead. I drew the second cathedral tile and managed to complete another city with it (in fact Yi completed it to get trade goods). I then joined Yi's large city to the south just in case he managed to finish it, and at the very end I got my large meeple in it to score a significant number of points even though it was incomplete. I used my builder to good effect throughout the game and won cities by more than 100 points. As I suspected, the farms didn't score heavily in the end so I made the right decision not to go all-in. Thanks for the game Yi and good luck for the rest of the tournament!


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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #18 on: October 08, 2016, 11:51:15 AM »
2 games played, 13 left.
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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #19 on: October 08, 2016, 02:35:15 PM »
Grabuska 180  -  Ny1050220  177

Didn't watch the game so can't really comment but Grab said it was a tough one...





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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #20 on: October 08, 2016, 03:36:17 PM »
That city is ENORMOUS.
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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2016, 03:37:33 PM »
Two games with enormous cities closing in my favour.

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What If -  ny1050220, 326 - 210



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Maybe I shouldn´t buy kathars, what would I do next?

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #22 on: October 09, 2016, 04:05:10 PM »
In my game with What If?, he started well and built a 30-40 point lead when we started battling for what turned out to be a huge cathedral city with a lot of trade goods. He drew the right tiles and managed to take control of it and close it, which gave him a lead of well over 100 points and a guaranteed 20 more from trade goods that I was never realistically going to be able to pull back. I spent the rest of the game trying to control and build up a farm and trying to control and build up a large city with the hope that I could add the second cathedral to it. I eventually did that, but probably should not have added the cathedral as there was only a tiny chance by that point that I could close the city. Still, I decided to go for it anyway on the off-chance that I could significantly reduce the margin for points difference purposes. In the end I scored nothing for it but at least my farm helped reduce the margin a tiny bit.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #23 on: October 09, 2016, 06:42:22 PM »
5 games played, 10 left.
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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2016, 06:53:53 PM »
Hi MrNumbers,
this x-score list is for group C and not for group A.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #25 on: October 09, 2016, 07:05:09 PM »
Hi MrNumbers,
this x-score list is for group C and not for group A.
Sorry, my mistake. Just get tangled in all the screenshots :) Fixed now.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2016, 08:58:52 PM »
What If 240 - Choose Life 238

A very interesting game were momentum seemed to switch back and forth, and the lucky tile fairy blessed us both in different important situations. In the end a sneaky win.


http://sv.tinypic.com/r/2z3picy/9

Roads 52-39
Cities 107-117
Cloisters 15-17
Farms 46-55
Trade Goods 20-10
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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #27 on: October 13, 2016, 07:31:05 AM »
Grabushka told me that she has been in touch with ny1050220 and jungleboy so far. But silence radio from Chooselife, jma03, and What If? We are in Essen this weekend, but feel free to contact her next week to arrange your games.

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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2016, 08:15:03 AM »
Hi Jéré & Grabushka,

I'm early flying tomorow to London returning late Saturday I'll try to arrange a schedule next week.

Enjoy Essen
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Re: 2016 World Cup - Group A
« Reply #29 on: October 13, 2016, 09:56:29 AM »
Today someone available for a game??
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