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Kanga · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: 2 player tournament Round 2

All the winners are decided. The games generally went to the higher ranked players, although snoozefest upset spearjr, and Alashar knocked the lesser Robert (lol) from the tournament.

Round 2 is to be played on map 73, another map created by spearjr which has seen some very close 2 player games in the past. It's an arbitrary decision made by me because I dont want to use the dogbone maps (we've all played them to death).

The draw is as follows:

2A Shizzane v ooivalf
2B Rebelslayer v t_o_m9
2C kxw v Djura
2D Kanga v freduk
2E snoozefest v Alashar
2F gische v smlait

The two players who lose by the smallest margin (calculated by the difference in overall scores over the 3 maps) will go through to the quarter finals.

The 3rd round will be played on map 52, and will be run as following:

2A vs lucky loser 1
2B vs lucky loser 2
2C vs 2F
2D vs 2E

I'll adjust the lucky losers order if necessary so that matchup's are not repeated.

The maps for the semi final and final are not decided. Please make suggestions either here or via email. Some of the maps I've liked include 60 and 73, but I'm sure there are others. About the only criteria is not having a clear "best spot" to start in so that player 1 has an advantage.

Kanga · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject:

Please call the games Tournament 2A etc, so that when I am looking in the game list for them, I can find them quickly!

Also, password can remain as

tournament

stargate · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:21 am Post subject:

I predict the following winners

2A shizzane & a lucky loser
2B t_o_m9 & a lucky loser
2C kwx
2D Kanga -- sorry Fred your dead Smile

2E snoozefest
2F smlait

gische · Joined: 12 Oct 05 Posts: 186 Location: San Carlos, CA

Who let the old senile guy start posting?

smlait · Joined: 16 Jul 06 Posts: 392 Location: alberta, canada

stargate · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

freduk · Joined: 18 Jan 06 Posts: 433 Location: Bristol, UK

I hope it is. I really do Laughing

Rebelslayer · Joined: 17 Jan 06 Posts: 298 Location: Adelaide, Australia

What was the process of making the matchups Kanga?

Kanga · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:49 am Post subject:

Essentially based on rankings via win %. Because I started two games after the tournament had started (ie they weren't originally seeded), I just added the two winners into the mix at the spot they would have been ranked.

Note that snoozefest, who defeated spearjr (ranked 5th) got his spot in the seedings.

Rebelslayer · Joined: 17 Jan 06 Posts: 298 Location: Adelaide, Australia

Sorry to disappoint stargate (maybe your predictions are jinxes)!

Rebelslayer and t_o_m9 had another series of tight games.

Original: t_o_m9 put in a nice water block from which Rebelslayer never recovered. 218 vs 198

V1: t_o_m9 again tried a water block but it turned into wasted water and points when Rebelslayer turned his herds around and went to a different market. 175 vs 231

V2: t_o_m9 looked to have the game all wrapped up with a 50 pt lead in the middle of the game (80 vs 30), but Rebelslayer slowly clawed it back. t_o_m9 tried another water block to stop Rebelslayer getting to the last market, but Rebelslayer continued to creep back into it to even the score on the very last turn and steal victory in the tie breaker with more cash! 153 vs 153 (tiebreaker cash 0 vs 80).

Rebelslayer 2:1 - thanks for the games t_o_m9 Laughing

stargate · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject:

I hope it's not a jinx Embarassed

I also thought t_o_m9 had the best chance to beat you
and it looks like he gave you a good fight Smile

congrats on your wins Smile

Kanga · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject:

Kanga vs Freduk was a remarkably lopsided affair, with 3 easy wins to me. I think Freduk didn't want to be the player to knock the tournament organiser out of the tournament! Freduk did suffer the appalling bad luck in the variant 2 game of drawing 9 meadow tiles in his first 12 land, a start that I doubt anyone could recover from. The combined losing margin was well in excess of 100 points (ie Freduk wont be a lucky loser). However the games were played quickly and in good spirit. Oddly enough, my first round match is still not yet complete!

Djura · Joined: 04 Nov 05 Posts: 45 Location: Victoria, Australia

Djura defeated kxw 2-1

Normal game: 238-256 Kxw had a 9 point lead having touched 1 more market at the halfway point. Second half was even, leading to an 18 point victory for kxw.

Variant 1 199 - 149 Djura had an big lead at halfway courtesy of a large pig herd controlling the left hand markets.

Variant 2 155-135 very close throughout, with Djura's very narrow lead becoming a moderate sized victory in the last few turns.

Kanga · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:10 am Post subject:

The 3 players through are all from our old Adelaide playing group. I always thought it was a highly competitive playing group...!

ooivalf · Joined: 11 Apr 06 Posts: 2

the match 2A (Shizzane v ooivalf) ended and it was a 0-3 win to me.

2Areg -> 216-229
2Av.1 -> 189-239
2Av.2 -> 166-183

Shizzane, thx for the games Exclamation