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Carcassonne iPhone/iTouch
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Gatekeeper
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Round 1 finished with a hefty victory thanks to the final piece. GG roodiculous!
roodiculous
Member
Gatekeeper said:
I was really hoping that piece was going to fall to me but as fate would have it, it was not to be today. GG!
bigwinnerx
Member
If eznark pulled one card, I think he had me. But it didnt fall until my last turn.
Bigwinnerx 84
eznark 70
And my ELO is back above 1200 for he first time since resigning 5 neverending games.
Bigwinnerx 84
eznark 70
And my ELO is back above 1200 for he first time since resigning 5 neverending games.
Just finished my game against a very talented Porthos, who hamstrung my still-in-beta-stage gungho balls-and-all tactic, and won well with 2 large cities getting him home. Great game and very well played.
Scores were somewhere around ~157 - ~135 IIRC (1/10 of our respective ELO scores, coincidentally!)
My decent from 1400 ELO continues unabated!
Scores were somewhere around ~157 - ~135 IIRC (1/10 of our respective ELO scores, coincidentally!)
My decent from 1400 ELO continues unabated!
As elifinke mentioned we had a a good game, but it would have been much closer if I didn't get a certain road piece with only about 7 pieces left. I find that 1 v 1 can come down to the luck of the draw with a couple of pieces.
I was just glancing at the the bracket and the bottom bracket doesn't seem right. Shouldn't the loser of J, L, F, and H go to the first round of the bottom bracket instead of the loser of E, G, I, and K? The reason I ask this is for example, if you look at the current bracket as it stands now, if I lose to Jonnyram, I will have played 3 games if I make it to eznark while he will have only played 1.
I'm guessing the bracket assumes some "regular season" rankings and it is done this way to give advantage to higher seeds... not a big deal but it doesn't really fit with a GAF tourney where everyone is considered equal before it begins.
Just so you know, I'm not complaining and think it should stay as is. It is just an observation... I welcome more games even if it means that my chances of winning decrease... the tournament is just for fun to me anyways.
I was just glancing at the the bracket and the bottom bracket doesn't seem right. Shouldn't the loser of J, L, F, and H go to the first round of the bottom bracket instead of the loser of E, G, I, and K? The reason I ask this is for example, if you look at the current bracket as it stands now, if I lose to Jonnyram, I will have played 3 games if I make it to eznark while he will have only played 1.
I'm guessing the bracket assumes some "regular season" rankings and it is done this way to give advantage to higher seeds... not a big deal but it doesn't really fit with a GAF tourney where everyone is considered equal before it begins.
Just so you know, I'm not complaining and think it should stay as is. It is just an observation... I welcome more games even if it means that my chances of winning decrease... the tournament is just for fun to me anyways.
bigwinnerx
Member
I had trouble figuring out the bracket, too. Does seem 1-4 have an advantage.
And if there are scores of 150 or 135 in single, I'm going to get annihilated.
And if there are scores of 150 or 135 in single, I'm going to get annihilated.
Unfortunately, with only 20 members it wasn't going to be an even bracket. I put the names into their bracket generator and that's what popped out -- I did not use ELO or any other methods to determine rankings. Sorry guys, this is as "fair" as it can be with the odd number of participants.
Gatekeeper
Member
Very good game. The piece that mattered most was finally closing off that city in the middle I think. Woo 50 point elo jump in 2 days!
bigwinnerx
Member
Oh I get to play winner of Jonnyram and porthos. Great. Thanks.
bigwinnerx
Member
DukeSucks said:Just finished a 3p game where I had 107 points and still came in last
That was the one where we all split a 38 point city on the last card of the game!
Had to do it.
Just played the weirdest game with dantehemi. Right from the start we just started fighting over one field, and we both basically invested all of our guys into it. I ended up with one free guy and was able to close up some cities and steal the field for the win. Fun game though.
Yaboosh - 80
dantehemi - 31
Yaboosh - 80
dantehemi - 31
Gatekeeper
Member
Good game Czartim! To the loser's bracket with me!
I have a question, since my mother won the game with more than 170 points.
At the end, you get points for all the fields, closed cities, unfinished roads etc.
If she have a field and that green field have a road in the middle of the tile, does that count as 2 points or still just 1 point? Even though the field goes around a road to the other side of the road.
At the end, you get points for all the fields, closed cities, unfinished roads etc.
If she have a field and that green field have a road in the middle of the tile, does that count as 2 points or still just 1 point? Even though the field goes around a road to the other side of the road.
Anastacio said:
Look at fields this way:
At the end of the game you get three points for every complete city that your farmer's influence touches -- Roads, especially incomplete ones, will block the farmer's access to the farm. Just follow the grass as far as you can to see just how far your farmer's influence goes.
The person who has the most farmers in an area wins all the points for that farm. This is big. Frequently you'll be able to place a farmer then connect it to another farm, giving you a majority.
This is probably the most difficult to grasp part of the game's scoring, but it is one of the most important.
roosters93
Member
roosters93 - 117
Kosh - 99
It was a good game
Kosh - 99
It was a good game
Quiet weekend?
I got owned by bigwinnerx and dumped into the Loser bracket.
He blocked a couple of cities early on and after that it was really a damage limitation exercise.
Final score was 66-56.
Not sure where everyone else is with their games but it looks like I may have a fair wait for my opponent to be decided.
I got owned by bigwinnerx and dumped into the Loser bracket.
He blocked a couple of cities early on and after that it was really a damage limitation exercise.
Final score was 66-56.
Not sure where everyone else is with their games but it looks like I may have a fair wait for my opponent to be decided.
bigwinnerx
Member
Jonnyram said:
Not owned. Was a good match. I got lucky I pulled that lone field.
1-1 carc in a tourney environment is much different than 1-1 regular. At least it feels that way to me.
bigwinnerx
Member
Gaspode_T said:
Yep, they do.
bigwinnerx
Member
Czartim- I say we hold off on our match until some other matches catch up. That ok?
POWERSPHERE
Member
Ahh so this is why gaffers have been declining games? It's that, or it's me.