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Gaditus
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 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: 25 or Bust Rules and Draw |
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The draw for this tournament is set out below.
In this tournament a final score of more than 25 counts as zero. Hence the idea is to score 25, or as close as possible to 25 without going over.
I will use a different scoring method as I want to concentrate on the score and not worry about tie breaks within games. So only the score will matter, pyramids/stones/(money) will not be used to decide 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. 6 points will be awarded for a win, 2 points for second and 0 for 3rd. Within games ties will share the points (eg tied 2nd/3rd get 1 point each).
In the final table 'points lost by' in games will be used to separate ties. The top 9 players will go forward to the semi final.
Draw:
25 or Bust! 01 danbar1963 kekeweb rseulow
25 or Bust! 02 kekeweb HighwayStar Pompkin
25 or Bust! 03 HighwayStar rseulow daveszum
25 or Bust! 04 rseulow Pompkin Gaditus
25 or Bust! 05 Pompkin daveszum toutoune
25 or Bust! 06 daveszum Gaditus NoMoreCheese
25 or Bust! 07 Gaditus toutoune Kanga
25 or Bust! 08 toutoune NoMoreCheese rorshaq
25 or Bust! 09 NoMoreCheese Kanga worcesterarlo
25 or Bust! 10 Kanga rorshaq Wolfpack
25 or Bust! 11 rorshaq worcesterarlo thiery'en'sarjant
25 or Bust! 12 worcesterarlo Wolfpack baub64
25 or Bust! 13 Wolfpack thiery'en'sarjant pkwolf54
25 or Bust! 14 thiery'en'sarjant baub64 coach
25 or Bust! 15 baub64 pkwolf54 bennykdogg
25 or Bust! 16 pkwolf54 coach tammykins
25 or Bust! 17 coach bennykdogg Payton3434
25 or Bust! 18 bennykdogg tammykins tlc
25 or Bust! 19 tammykins Payton3434 LVBrian
25 or Bust! 20 Payton3434 tlc ahauwi1
25 or Bust! 21 tlc LVBrian danbar1963
25 or Bust! 22 LVBrian ahauwi1 kekeweb
25 or Bust! 23 ahauwi1 danbar1963 HighwayStar
25 or Bust! 24 danbar1963 daveszum pkwolf54
25 or Bust! 25 kekeweb Gaditus coach
25 or Bust! 26 HighwayStar toutoune bennykdogg
25 or Bust! 27 rseulow NoMoreCheese tammykins
25 or Bust! 28 Pompkin Kanga Payton3434
25 or Bust! 29 daveszum rorshaq tlc
25 or Bust! 30 Gaditus worcesterarlo LVBrian
25 or Bust! 31 toutoune Wolfpack ahauwi1
25 or Bust! 32 NoMoreCheese thiery'en'sarjant danbar1963
25 or Bust! 33 Kanga baub64 kekeweb
25 or Bust! 34 rorshaq pkwolf54 HighwayStar
25 or Bust! 35 worcesterarlo coach rseulow
25 or Bust! 36 Wolfpack bennykdogg Pompkin
25 or Bust! 37 thiery'en'sarjant tammykins daveszum
25 or Bust! 38 baub64 Payton3434 Gaditus
25 or Bust! 39 pkwolf54 tlc toutoune
25 or Bust! 40 coach LVBrian NoMoreCheese
25 or Bust! 41 bennykdogg ahauwi1 Kanga
25 or Bust! 42 tammykins danbar1963 rorshaq
25 or Bust! 43 Payton3434 kekeweb worcesterarlo
25 or Bust! 44 tlc HighwayStar Wolfpack
25 or Bust! 45 LVBrian rseulow thiery'en'sarjant
25 or Bust! 46 ahauwi1 Pompkin baub64
Each player is in 6 games (against 12 different opponents).
As usual anyone can create games. Please use the exact name, eg '25 or Bust! 46', put the names in the comments section and use password tournament.
Edited to show games yet to be set up in red.
Last edited by Gaditus on Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:48 am; edited 2 times in total |
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baub64
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Location: Montpelier, VT
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: Games 15 & 46 |
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| Games 15 & 46 now set up |
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Gaditus
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: |
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It looks like games 3, 23, 24 and 44 have not been set up.
Could someone in those games set them up as soon as possible. Please join and start them quickly.
If they have been set up under another name do let me know. |
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baub64
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Location: Montpelier, VT
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: Screwage factor |
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Hmmm, there definitely seems to be potential for some pretty serious screwage in this variant . . .  |
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Gaditus
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| Any thoughts on how it's gone so far? |
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baub64
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| Just coming to the end of one of the games, should be an interesting finish. Its fun to try and rethink the strategy, and its taken me a couple of games to retool my thinking (i.e. the game where I got ambushed and ended up with 19 points in the first epoch -ouch), but I'm enjoying the challenge. |
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NoMoreCheese
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:34 am Post subject: |
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I'm enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would. Serious screwage indeed.
I keep telling myself to aim for 23 points and leave some leeway, but whenever my turn comes around, I find myself adding to 25 exactly. Can't be helped  |
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Kanga
Joined: 27 Oct 05
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Location: Moe, Victoria, Australia
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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I agree this is proving quite fun, although the first 4.5 round have seemed aimless, the end play is intriguing.
Might be even more interesting with 5 |
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rorshaq
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Location: In Viriconium
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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i'm liking it - makes a nice change and more tactictal than i first imagined. btw what made you pick 25?
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tlc
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Location: Austin, TX, but my heart will always be in Boston
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Game 44 set up. Sorry for the delay.
As for the play... it is interesting. I agree that trying to play the second half of a game when you already have 19 pts is quite challenging. |
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Gaditus
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| rorshaq wrote: | | btw what made you pick 25? |
I wanted to make sure that it was not too high that it would not come into play and not too low that it would be difficult to get under it. 30 would probably have been as good.
| Kanga wrote: | | although the first 4.5 round have seemed aimless |
Perhaps there could be a bonus point for getting exactly 8 or 10 points after round 3, if we do it again. |
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daveszum
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: Games 3 and 24 |
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| Games 3 and 24 are now set up. |
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