My losers bracket 1st round is against liopoil (jefhw). He lost his first round match 1-4 to Marin – but as everyone knows, anyone who can beat Marin in even one game should be pretty good. My abridged comments follow each match.
Game 1 -
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/12/game-20121212-131943-80543802.htmlSame warehouse/remake opening for both players, with a margrave/bazaar engine on the to-do list. Fairgrounds is an option as well, and I connect better on my initial remake turns and cruise to victory mainly due to initiative.
Game 2 –
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/12/game-20121212-133039-80e1b2ea.htmlVinyards / university. However he got more potions earlier which basically won him the game. I should have gotten more potions! Oh well
Game 3 –
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/12/game-20121212-134851-564cc1a0.htmlBlack market + Inn/council room. I out-cursed him with familiars at the start with the goal of at least slowing him down, but he got marginally better black market stuff including masquerade and possession. Interesting game, with intelligent usage of Inn from both players.
Game 4 –
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/12/game-20121212-140136-df64eea6.htmlI tried pirate ships here, both to trash his money and to discard his mountebanks (which are pretty strong here as well). He eventually trashed his mountebanks and all of his money in favor of monuments – this was much more elegant than my pirate ship / lookout setup. It was an inevitable result.
Game 5 –
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/12/game-20121212-163717-00d6e4aa.htmlSwindler game, but I opened 5/2 so I did mandarin/trading post. Moneylender, swindler, inn and crossroads all followed. Don't know why he embargoed duchies.
Game 6 –
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/12/game-20121212-164824-da4d1b3c.htmlHe has double masquerade but it's kind of counter-productive here since we're both going for islands as well, and there are no cursers or anything. The masq was kind of annoying though because I had to give up a silver and a scheme. However I'm up to 3 golds before he has any, and it's game over from there.
End Result:
=-sup-= 4, jefhw 2It was a very fun match and I look forward to my future matches. Thanks for the good games jefhw.