SpielByWeb

[Early_10]

3 fantastic games with kxw!

We finished the no variant first. After round 1, I was behind by 9 pts.

kxw - 329
Early_10 - 334

Variant 1 went to kxw who managed to get all but one pig in the deck for a massive herd.

Early_10 - 266
kxw - 278

We just finished Variant 2 which was neck and neck the entire game. I lucked out in getting a horse, my biggest herd with a hacienda, as the second last card in the animal deck and won it in peso points.

kxw - 213
Early_10 - 215


Early wins 2 very tight games to 1. Thanks kxw.

[Early_10]

Kanga, who do I play next or is it decided yet?

[Kanga]

You play the winner of tom and Djura
koinski plays the winner of gische and still

[ahauwi1]

Rebelslayer and I just completed a great match. I've been dreading this series since docation had pointed out that the winner of my series with him would be facing either Rebelslayer or the lucky loser.

Rebelslayer trounced me in our V1 game 235 to 193. This was the first one to finish. At halftime in this game, he had a solid 13 point lead, which seemed insurmountable and really was.

Our next game to complete had had the same halftime flavor, where Rebelslayer had accumulated a 10 point lead at halftime. I'd nearly thrown in the towel on this game but wanted to at least post a score that wasn't too embarrassing, so I kept fighting and growing my land chain.

Meanwhile in our V2 game, I was building up a decent lead, though it seemed not to matter much after the halftime scores in the two other games.

Back to V0 - the game drew to a close with a final tally that honestly shocked us both. Final score: 245 to 242 - ahauwi1 on top.

A short time ago, the V2 game concluded with no leader change. Final score: 130 to 109, ahauwi1.

Lessons I learned - 1) never throw in the towel; you might surprise yourself and 2) draw as many random pampas as you can. They're often quite useful

ahauwi1 advances 2 games to 1.

[t_o_m9]

[Rebelslayer]

Lesson 3: Concentrate and close out an opponent carefully when you have him beat (even a little bit of attention would have seen me put down a few extra land instead of just buying out the animals)!

[Rebelslayer]

I think you learnt that one as well in the recent 3p final Tom?

[t_o_m9]

[Kanga]

still defeated gische 2-1 in some close games.


That leads to the following 3rd round match:

2 Player 3D still koiski


Tom looks to have Djura covered (also 2-1) but will wait a couple more rounds before declaring that one.

That will create

2 Player 3C t_o_m9 Early 10

[still]

I would like to thank Gische for 3 excellent and very close games.

Games 1 & 3 were won by Still but both games were very close and always withing reach of either player. Gische made many excellent moves. Still got lucky on a few of the draws.

Game 2 was not as close and Gische played a great Variant 1 game with excellent control of the board.

Thanks for the great games.

[Kanga]

Kanga defeated flaviorj 2-1

I opened up big leads in both the games with halfway scoring, which made the fact I was always struggling in the var 2 game less important. Thanks for the games flaviorj!

[Early_10]

I've set up our matches t_o_m, whenever you're ready.

[t_o_m9]

[Kanga]

As it turns out, tom was right. Djura staged an amazing comeback on the back of drawing 4 pampas in the last stages of the game. Down by more than 20 points with all markets touched and no tiles left in her hand (ie seeming all the big scoring done), Djura used the pampas's and a few well played waters to steal a 1 point victory from tom in the deciding game!

It was extremely entertaining to watch this game, I could not see how Djura could catch up (even given the problems in predicting results in Var 2 games), but she stuck at it!


So Djura plays Early10 now in Round 3.

2 Player 3A Rebelslayer ahauwi (ahauwi won)
2 Player 3B Kanga flaviourj (Kanga won)
2 Player 3C Djura Early 10
2 Player 3D still koiski

[t_o_m9]