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[danshep]

In Witch division, Elyv (4) outplays danshep (29) 4-0.

A lot of fairly mirror'd matches, where I mainly lost by not paying attention while Elyv played them properly. I think my game 3 loss was probably unlucky, but the rest were just Elyv playing a better game.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-153637-6c2e4ff9.html - elyv 48-47
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-154704-d1fb726e.html - elyv 37-21
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-160156-0543cd2b.html - elyv 49-32
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-161648-5e384c87.html - elyv 60-57

[Elyv]

I beat Danshep 4-0(witch division), but despite the final score, all of the games were really close.

Game 1: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-153637-6c2e4ff9.html (Elyv 48-47)
Both of us open ambassador/caravan. I think he plays slightly better overall, and on the last turn he is up 6 points, and I have $7 worth of treasure and a pawn in my hand. Because I went first, I can't buy the last province for the draw, so I pawn for card and buy and pray. I skillfully manage to draw a gold and steal a game I shouldn't have won.

Game 2: Forgot to save log. The game had grand market, courtyard, upgrade, and menagerie amongst other cards. Both of us go for the grand markets, but I mix in a couple of midgame menageries while he gets silver, and they make a huge difference.

Game 3: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-160156-0543cd2b.html (Elyv 49-32)
I think I like Danshep's opening with talisman here better than mine with tournament(or at least, I felt like it panned out better). I manage to snag the first province, and then get a couple of prizes and win. Also, I don't think I've ever seen anyone get less lucky with wishing wells than Danshep did in this game. Despite both of us opening with ambassador, surprisingly possession didn't play a factor; I didn't end up buying a potion until after I got my first province, and I never it with $6.

Game 4: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-161648-5e384c87.html (Elyv 60-57)
Both of us open Fools Gold/Wharf, going for a ton of fool's golds. After that, our paths diverged; I went for a more BMish deck with wharfs and warehouses and money, while Danshep went for village/wharf. Luckily for me, I manage to end the game on piles right as his engine starts to get rolling.

Danshep was an excellent opponent, and this series could have very easily gone the other way.

[WrathOfGlod]

I lose Game 5.
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/10/game-20111210-145537-2a7299d3.html
I essentially had no coherent strategy this game and just derped around buying random cards and again, ignored Goons, which Michael was able to exploit for lots of VPs and handily win this one.

I don't understand all the University buys in this game.  It seems like the clear strategy is to get enough cantrips and Lighthouses to protect you from attacks and then double-buy Peddlers as often as possible with your Goons.  And the more Peddlers you have, the more likely you are to consistently hit your Goons with money and having played four cards.  I can see the advantage of having one or two Universities to get you going (with Spies) and then perhaps allow double-Goons plays later on, though.

Yeah the potion was to hopefully get one or two double goons turns eventually i also figured that i would hit the university quickly enough to not slow down my deck that much, it was probably the wrong decision as that game was really sloppy and BM could have easily beaten both of our decks in general I have no feel for university.

The interesting thing about game 3 is that there was a long period where I would have lost if he had ended the game but because the third pile was alchemist and he had no way of buying any I was safe to grind my way to a goons win.

[timchen]

In thief division, timchen (allfail) beat The Adventurer 4-0.

The Adventurer is a very nice person. I am very impressed that he (she) chose not to play with a point counter, yet did not disable mine. I won largely due to my luck (or his/her misfortune) tonight. I certainly hope we can play more in the future!

game 1: forgot to get the log. A Colony game with wharf and villages. The Adventurer tried to end the game quickly with Vault-- didn't work.

game 2:: 30:25
smithy is slightly faster than remake I think; and my salvager was drawn at exactly the time I wanted it.

game 3: 36:24
mirrored chapel match; again I luckily got the upper hand at chapeling. It's quite interesting that the Border Village is completely useless here yet we both got several anyway.

game 4: 33:30
I went for Young Witch and he went for Familiar. While he got his at turn 3, my minions seemed to throw it away often enough to force a 7-3 curse split. Afterwards however, I thought a slow Duchy-Duke buy suited my deck more, and he almost came back and won. I only won because he couldn't quite figure out what's the score when he took the second-to-last Duchy.

[ackack]

Thief division, ackack (7) vs. TheO_Ravenheart (26) : TheO wins 4-1. I'll post logs when they get to CouncilRoom.

He played quite well, but I did feel pretty hosed in several of the games. The last two Minion games in particular felt like there was not too much to be done in.

[TheO_Ravenheart]

In thief division, TheO_Ravenheart beat ackack 4-1.

Very tough opponent as Ackack is a level 39 after all. All the games are really well played.

Game 1:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-054535-a8befcc5.html

A city + bridge + wharves combo. Cities was sold out very fast, causing bridges and wharves to take tremendous effect. The last turn was pretty crucial as Ackack bought most of the highways away. Pretty lucky with the cities over here.

Game 2:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-060012-3630986c.html

This game has pretty lots of awesome cards: Masquerade, Goons, caravans, IGG, possession. We cleared the caravans away pretty fast followed by IGG, which i didn't thought of it initially. Was a pretty close game, but i could have done better buying the IGG first. GG nevertheless!

Game 3:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-060012-3630986c.html

Ackack tried to do a governor + ghost ship strategy, while I did an alchemist one. I sort of got lucky with the market, bought from the black market, resulting me to build up alchemists very fast. Initially i thought that alchemist can indeed counter ghost ship till i realised there's rabble! However i still won the game as i bought the provinces quickly.

Game 4:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-063944-42527801.html
A minion game. Had a good start with the 7 minions in my hand. However i realised i always get up to only 7 gold! Luckily there's an expand card as i upgrade my merchant ship and estates. Very good fight over there though.

Game 5:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-065243-c245eedb.html
The best game out of the 5. However i got my KC pretty early, thus exploiting my KC with minions, lighthouses and swindlers. Ackack bought so much lighthouses that i can't get attack him. The first half of the game was pretty bad, with Ack's minions bombarding me. Luckily my lighthouse seems to be working and with my abundance of KC, i did some pretty nice turnover. A very good game. Must watch!

Overall, Ack played tremendously well. Sorry i didn't chat much because I was pretty stress throughout the game. Didn't expect this win seriously!

[lespeutere]

The results from Thief division, 2nd round lespeutere (16) vs. Voltgloss (48): 4-3
I've got 6 game logs only but can add the missing once it appears on councilroom.
5 really close games (except for 1 and 2), all won by player 1 except game 7 that I could steal away from Voltgloss. It was lots of fun:

lespeutere - Voltgloss 0-1 (30-59)
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-061013-54dc556e.html
Embassy first was clearly superior to Stables first, especially with a little luck of hitting estates with salvager. Still Voltgloss played really well, while I managed to create a desaster.

lespeutere - Voltgloss 1-1 (52-27)
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-062412-2bc45880.html
Both of us starting with council room I was more lucky to get early golds. I pretended to buy grand markets by buying one but thought they were somewhat superfluous. 2 menageries with oases in the end helped to end it with 6 golds vs. 3 compared to 1  vs. 3 grand markets.

lespeutere - Voltgloss 1-2 (34-45)
Tournament was in. I tried labs and fool's golds while he sticked to tournaments, silvers and golds. I got the first prize taking trusty steed while he took followers as the second. He got one more duchy (4 vs. 3) and 4 more estates (9 vs. 5) while I got 4 more curses. That kind of explains it.

lespeutere - Voltgloss 2-2 (47-32)
I start potion woodcutter, he goes for trader and silver. While I get native villages and apothecaries to support my margrave and get two treasure maps in my hand just after having bought the second he sticks to money from the beginning. I was a bit lucky with the TM but could overtake his early lead.

lespeutere - Voltgloss 2-3 (?-?)

lespeutere - Voltgloss 3-3 (11-0)
I buy an early mountebank just to see him scheming his traders back into his hands while getting lots of silvers to buy grand markets. I trade my mountebank and go for KC with bazaar or grand market. When schemes and grand markets are gone he overlooks the silver pile emptying which I exploit for reaching a final game 7.

lespeutere - Voltgloss 4-3 (20-12)
Again the question of who's got enough buys to end the game by buying up the third pile while holding the lead. He goes for NV and bridge only adding two hamlets while I start potion hamlet to have some apothecaries and hamlets to support conspirators. I actually get two of those only because I start buying bridges to keep them away from him. I thought he could've ended it when he picked up 7 cards from NV but het had to get two provinces and buy 3 hamlets and 3 NV. He does not succeed while I manage to get 7 buys, buying the aforementioned and another province to steal this game from Voltgloss.

Thanks alot again, it was fun.

[ackack]

A city + bridge + wharves combo. Cities was sold out very fast, causing bridges and wharves to take tremendous effect. The last turn was pretty crucial as Ackack bought most of the highways away. Pretty lucky with the cities over here.

This was a pretty big mistake on my part. I underrated the likelihood of a close out turn and didn't pick up any Provinces. If I instead buy 2 Provinces and a pile of Highways, then I'm probably in pretty good shape to win this one.

Game 3:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-060012-3630986c.html

Ackack tried to do a governor + ghost ship strategy, while I did an alchemist one. I sort of got lucky with the market, bought from the black market, resulting me to build up alchemists very fast. Initially i thought that alchemist can indeed counter ghost ship till i realised there's rabble! However i still won the game as i bought the provinces quickly.

I have a hard time assessing this one. I'm not sold on my strategy, but I also think this was on the lower end of its success potential.  Several of my big Governor turns didn't find Ghost Ships, which obviously hurt quite a bit. The Market pull was very strong, too. I did dodge a bullet early on when TheO played Black Market, drew Sea Hag, and had $3. Anyway, I'm not very pleased with this game.

A minion game. Had a good start with the 7 minions in my hand. However i realised i always get up to only 7 gold! Luckily there's an expand card as i upgrade my merchant ship and estates. Very good fight over there though.

I thought about skipping Minions altogether and going heavy Horse Traders, but decided that conceding all of the Minions might be a problem and figured I'd go for the split. Losing 7-3 despite going first with matched starting hands seemed pretty bad. I did get a perverse kick out of playing the first $1 Harvest I've ever had - seemed like a pretty good summary of how the match was going as a whole.

The best game out of the 5. However i got my KC pretty early, thus exploiting my KC with minions, lighthouses and swindlers. Ackack bought so much lighthouses that i can't get attack him. The first half of the game was pretty bad, with Ack's minions bombarding me. Luckily my lighthouse seems to be working and with my abundance of KC, i did some pretty nice turnover. A very good game. Must watch!

Overcoming the early KC was probably impossible here. I decided the mismatch in deck strength meant my best chance was to start rushing for points once I got a KC. I think that's probably right, but it just didn't pan out.

[Jorbles]

Exclams (aka !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) beat me 4-3 last night in a really good set of games. He should have the logs up soon.

[Guy Srinivasan]

Thief, 29-20 matchup. Guy Srinivasan advances over grobstein, 4-2.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-110659-5ee7a1ed.html
grobstein 36-24 correctly chooses Silver/Silver over Silver/Envoy on a Hunting Party board.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-111804-82f12afd.html
grobstein 13-10 teaches me about the power of Ill-Gotten Gains

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-113116-af37ee08.html
Guy Srinivasan 39-38 wins a very close game where both chose to get a single Jack plus stuff over 2JACK

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-114318-8d42a6b0.html
Guy Srinivasan 62-45 buys Warehouses over Silvers to hit Tacticians more often

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-115321-1e9612ac.html
Guy Srinivasan 39-27 gets a 5/3 Gardens split on a Montebank/Hoard board.
(I'm not clear what the plan with Universities was supposed to be?)

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-120747-dfaa114e.html
Guy Srinivasan 39-37 Remakes his way to a close victory despite losing the Familiar->Curse race 3-7

[monsterbrick]

Thief Division
monsterbrick wins 4-2 over Rjax36

Game #1  http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-111017-48392320.html
Pretty boring game because I got 5/2 with mountebank on the board.  Not impossible to overcome because upgrade was on the board also.  Still difficult though. 

Game #2  http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-111706-0bc70959.html
Another boring game because he got 5/2 with mountebank on the board.  There was no trashing on the board, I think.  Any way he got two mb's before I bought one.  When he started to piledrive the nobles, I packed it in.

Game #3  Forgot to get the link.
He won because of double ambassador and I tried to do a scrying pool strategy.  Basically, I'm dumb.

Game #4  http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/11/game-20111211-112425-b2414c78.html 
I win a game the game 6-2 on province, the interesting thing for me was I got 5 or maybe 6 of them from expands and upgrading expands.  I don't think I ever did that before.

Game #5  Forgot the link on this one, also.  Told you, I'm dumb.
Just a weird mishmash, that I win because of farmland (I think).

Game #6  Refer to game #5

A game in which I got lucky on the last turn.  He took the last curse from torturer, then I bought the last duchy and two dukes. 
I won by one point.

I will post the other links, if I remember.
Thanks to Rjax,  I think he got unlucky alot.  Still a good match.

[Qvist]

Wow, I (#37) just finished my matchup against Dark Force (#5) in the Chapel Division. I won in some very close games 4-2
Who would have thought that?
We played with veto mode, with point counter and with identical starting hands.

Game #1 Qvist vs Dark Force 47-40 (1-0)
In this Colony game I opened Smithy / Chapel, while he opened Silver / Chapel. That was a little bit risky but was paying out. I bought Stash whenever I could. I haven't thought of that in the beginning, but later turned out great. I buyed Platinum first in turn 8, he in turn 9. He went green earlier as I, in turn 10, but I bought a second Platinum first. The game went very quick as he bought the second last Colony with only a 3-point lead. And luckily I paired my Stash with 2 Platinums to buy the last one.

Game #2 Qvist vs Dark Force 44-31 (2-0)
We both opened Quarry / Masquerade and then going for Worker's Village and Council Room for +Buy
He went for more money and a second Council Room while I bought a second Worker's Village and a second Masquerade. It was very close, buy I think my second Masquerade made the difference. It was 31-30 when I bought the second last Province with a Duchy and an Estate. He had $13 and couldn't surpass the 10 point handicap.

Game #3 Dark Force vs Qvist 36-23 (1-2)
Same opening Bishop / Silver. I somehow missed that Hunting Party was in the supply. So I had no chance. And I always missed $5 in the beginning. So his win was obvious from the beginning. I tried to use Embassy as alternate strategy but of course I had no chance. And I don't know why I bought Trader ??

Game #4 Qvist vs Dark Force 61-58 (3-1)
Colony game, same opening again: Talisman / Silver. But then I tried to get as many Caravans as possible as he got one Treasury and Pawns for +Buy too. Then I bought Jester which was very important I think. But he bought a Royal Seal which gave him a boost too. Basically we had both good strategies and it went very close. He was a little bit faster and I switched to Provinces. So I catched up and got the luck and got the last Colony.

Game #5 Dark Force vs Qvist 48-47 (2-3)
That was the closest game. Now we had different openings. He opened Watchtower / Silver and I Watchtower / Warehouse. He was heavily going for Menageries and Harem, letting me buy the first Province. I bought a Margrave, but with Menagerie and Watchtower it wasn't a very good card. But the +Buy was nice. It was a see-saw battle, then buying Duchies and Harems, yes even Estates. In turn 18 I bought the second last Province with a Duchy, taking a 6-point lead. He got more luck and could finish with a one-point winning margin.

Game #6 Qvist vs Dark Force 50-38 (4-2)
Guess what? Same opening: Bishop / Silver. Going first was very useful here in this Witch game. We both were going for Witch / Festival. He tried to catch up with 2 additional Bishops. I already got a lead of 22-2. But it was again very close, we had to switch to Vineyards and Fairgrounds. But the first player advantage let me win this game, I think.


Thanks for the good games, Dark Force, you were a worthy opponent.

Edit: Councilroom logs and some additional comments

[nomnomnom]

Gardens Division - Round 3

nomnomnom(5) 4 : 0 rod-(12)
We played with point tracker and identical starting hands but no veto mode.

nomnomnom 49:32 rod-
We open with 2/5 with Minions in play. The only real difference in our play is that I buy an Upgrade in my second turn whereas rod- goes directly for Minions. After a couple of turns I have equalized in terms of Minions and my Upgrade is clearing out my deck of Coppers and Estates. I manage to buy 6 of the Minions and with more Minions and a cleaner deck I have a much easier time going green.

nomnomnom 87: 57 rod-
On a Colony board I go for Embassy-BM and rod- builds an engine with Nobles, Embassys and Farming Villages. Before he has accumulated enough buying power to dig into the Colonies I have gotten my fair share aleady. Eventually there are not enough Colonies left for him to overtake me and after a little bit of Province dancing I am able to buy the last Colony.

nomnomnom 45:34 rod-
This game was quite the nail biter. We both buy Ambassadors and Apothecaries and both our decks begin to stall with only few Provinces left. At some point rod- manages to buy the second to last Province and we empty the duchies. I am 5 points ahead but if rod- gets the last Province he wins and without +buys I have no way of increasing my momentary lead. Anyway a lucky shuffle lets me buy the last Province with a teribble deck.

nomnomnom 42:28 rod-
Unfortunately the last game of our match was the most boring one. We both aim for Alchemists but rod- first misses his Potion in turns 3 and 4 and then is not able to buy an Alchemist in a later turn when he has the Potion. I only got a single Potion which was a mistake but it didn't matter. I was basically two turns ahead because of rod-'s bad luck and while it got closer than it should have in the end it I was able to buy 5 Provinces.

Thanks to rod- for the games and the match was definatly a lot closer than the score might indicate. The third and fourth game especially were decided by pure luck and on another day the score would have been 2:2 after these 4 games.

[Voltgloss]

Thanks for the games lespeuture, it was a really great (and learning) experience.  Good luck with the rest of the tournament!

lespeutere - Voltgloss 2-3 (?-?)

I don't have the log either, but as I recall this was a Gardens/Vineyard board with a lot of cheap +buy available (Worker's Village, Hamlet, Pawn).  I went straight for Gardens only while lespeuture stopped to pick up a couple Potions for Vineyards.  In the end I manage to grab the last Gardens (with two other piles empty - I think Pawns and Workers' Villages), which coincidentally is just enough to push my deck up to 50 cards, letting me squeak by for the win.

I encourage everyone to review game #6.  I thought I had that one in the bag until the game suddenly ended on piles with Silvers all gone and me behind on VP, from lespeutere Trading away big cards for like 5 or 6 Silvers at a clip.  From that clever play alone lespeuture deserved to move ahead of me in the tournament. 

[Titandrake]

In Titandrake vs ARTjoMS in Chapel Divison, Titandrake concedes due to a combination of scheduling issues and personal desire to stop playing in the tournament.

I forgot to save the logs of the games we did play, so I'll post the CouncilRoom stuff once it's up.
Also I'm abbreviating as Art from now on.

Game 1: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111211-103342-3ad4b6e2.html

Identical starting hands means we both open 2/5. I decide to go for Moneylender, Art goes for Cartographer. Cartographer pays off, with the increased cycling helping pull an early lead. I'm not quite sure why Spy was bought here. Maybe because losing a Moneylender play or an early Gold really hurts. I have some extra Silver instead of Spy, but decide not to buy some Islands along the way, which ends up becoming a mistake. Tiebreaker + removing Estates is useful. I get a Gold advantage, Art gets Cartographer advantage, and I maintain a slim advantage on VP.

Turn 11 I buy Noble Brigand. My logic being that because of Moneylender, we are both low on Copper, so my odds are pretty good to steal something of use. This pays off: I steal a Silver and a Gold, and Art ends up buying a NB as well. I try to end the game, the standard end-game desperate VP grab happens, and I lose in the end.

Game 2: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111211-103936-85cbf197.html

We both do the same strategy (Feast for a good $5, buy a Mint, then HP, Torturer, and Mint gaining Harem shenanigans). Art first gets $5 on turn 7. I get Silver + 4 Copper turn 4. Yeah.

Game 3: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111211-104833-8ba79574.html

Basically the perfect Peddler game. Market, Caravan, Moneylender to remove coppers. We both race to get all the Peddlers we can. Art picks up some Remodels along the way to get some Platinum, while I pick up some Caravans instead. Art uses some Remodels to pick up some Caravans from Estates, but because of all the cantrip-buying many piles are dangerously low. In the end, I can end the game before Art's deck goes off, with the trashed Estates giving me the tiebreaker.

I failed to communicate some time issues, and because of time zones we only had Sunday to play. So in the end, I decided it wouldn't be worth the effort to finish the set and conceded.

[Smartie]

From the Gardens Division: Smartie vs Jahz (1:0)

As Jahz forgot to show up in the competition and we find another timing, Jahz has kindly agreed to let me win this. I would like to thank him, and hope to challenge him again in the near future 

[Exclams]

Gardens, round 2: Exclams beats Jorbles 4-3 in a very, very close match. Well played, Jorbles.

Logs:
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111210-194005-d71abbfd.html
Exclams wins, 6-1. Chapel enables an easy FV/Rabble engine, and BV/IGG makes it easy to run out stacks fast. I'm lucky enough to get a Rabble on turn 5. Jorbles trashes chapel early, which I think you can't do in this kind of IGG situation. On the other hand, he makes good use of Apprentice with IGG, which I fail to do.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111210-195131-60dae251.html
Exclams wins, 34-24. Another Chapel game. I foolishly imagined a lighthouse/watchtower engine, but with NV as the only +action and no +buy, it's not too compelling. I'm not sure either of our strategies was any faster than big money.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111210-195844-aee21b9c.html
Jorbles wins, 66-41. Joat/Colony game. I'm happy to pick up several early gold. I waste time with feast and governor, Jorbles buys money and colonies, apart from a second joat and a TP. Not sure any of our non-joat/non-money buys helped us.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111210-200801-10f5447f.html
Exclams wins, 33-19. Sea Hag/Steward with villages. Unclear to me if SH/steward is a good opening; we both suffer from terminal collisions. Perhaps SH/silver, then buy FVs and stewards later? I buy an early second steward and second FV, and do a lot more midgame trashing than him, which I think might have decided the game.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111210-201731-29a96c00.html
Jorbles wins, 21-(resigns). Jorbles gets a nice KC engine going, fast. We both open with potions, but I choose an early scrying pool/WW over alchemist. Jorbles chooses alchemist, which I think works much better with KC. We both pick up early KCs, but Jorbles top-decks his, and starts having big turns right away. His KC/alchemist on turn 11 probably decided the game, and top-decking the alchemist keeps his KCs useful.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111210-203130-09fbbb71.html
Jorbles wins, 30-(resigns). I score a turn 3 minion, but Jorbles buys unanswered minions on turns 5 through 10, and takes 8 of them by turn 13. My turn 8 Nobles is almost certainly a bad move. With minions depleted, Jorbles moves easily into cities and trade routes, and I give up hope.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111210-204727-12d22ad3.html
Exclams wins, 73-54. Colony game with lots of trashing (bishop, spice merchant, island, forge). Mirrorish match for a while. By turn 7, the only difference in our decks is his bishop and my island. My turn 12 forge gets played only once, on a colony, to end the game. However, my turn 11 ST is nice enough to collide with my turn 13 Envoy on turns 15 and 17, giving me the first two platinum and some nice actions. My early platinums buy a lot of colonies, and probably decide the game.

[hoff]

hoff defeats GendoIkari in a tough match, 4-2. (Round 2, Thief division I think)

[theory]

manzi and glasser will attempt to play tomorrow on Monday.  Other than that, all second round matches have been completed.

[manzi]

garden division manzi defeats glasser for 4-1

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-084820-0900e659.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-090202-fef9cbc6.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-091306-89e97313.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-092050-8f0c746d.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-093639-e42cfb7b.html

[Jahz]

From the Gardens Division: Smartie vs Jahz (1:0)

As Jahz forgot to show up in the competition and we find another timing, Jahz has kindly agreed to let me win this. I would like to thank him, and hope to challenge him again in the near future 

Very sorry again... I'm so sad to leave a great tournament this way... but entirely my fault... even if not helped by big timezone gap, which only allowed us one slot in the entire week to play.

Jahz

[glasser]

garden division manzi defeats glasser for 4-1

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-084820-0900e659.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-090202-fef9cbc6.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-091306-89e97313.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-092050-8f0c746d.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-093639-e42cfb7b.html

Thanks to theory for giving us an extra day for manzi to kick my ass   The first four games were pretty close, whereas the last was a rout.  manzi definitely taught me a few things about this game!

[Axxle]

From the Gardens Division: Smartie vs Jahz (1:0)

As Jahz forgot to show up in the competition and we find another timing, Jahz has kindly agreed to let me win this. I would like to thank him, and hope to challenge him again in the near future 

Very sorry again... I'm so sad to leave a great tournament this way... but entirely my fault... even if not helped by big timezone gap, which only allowed us one slot in the entire week to play.

Jahz

If we ever have large tournament like this in the future, I suggest we split the divisions into timezones so we can minimize the problems that this causes.  It would hurt seeding a bit, but I think that's better than seeing players drop needlessly.

[WanderingWinder]

WanderingWinder advance 4-2 over lespeutere in the thief division.

Game 1: WW 19 - lespeutere 44 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-121109-d86a2ae3.html
A classic game of me floundering around a little for a plan (I wanted some kind of BV-Margrave-money, and HoP sorta distracted me, but balancing things didn't work so well). lespeuture went straight for BV-Margrave into UCS, and rolled me over hard.
Game 2: WW 39 - lespeutere 32 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-121356-ec301d78.html
Have to say I feel like I won this more or less on first turn advantage. A double jack game. lespeutere went for outposts to possibly have double big hands, and he got one. But in the end, I won the province race 5-3, and it was enough.
Game 3: WW 24 - lespeutere 4 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-121706-e0ff722c.html
The only real blowout win for me. I went workshop gardens, with a little talisman and throne room help, and (s)he... did something slower, with highway and remake, then tried to block, but too late.
Game 4: WW 46 - lespeutere 18 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-122238-3c87b066.html
I don't think this should have been as lopsided as it looks. I open masq/silver against masq/tournament, which I'm pretty sure is the right play from me here in the opening, and then get tournaments after. The big thing here is that I got really good shuffle luck to pop an early province and then more to match it with a tournament quickly. And I STILL didn't feel all that safe for a while.
Game 5: WW 53 - lespeutere 73 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-122711-9f31441b.html
We both open moneylender-silver, but when (s)he gets an early margrave, I dip in for (eventually all of the) tunnels. Well, I'm just too slow, because while I end up with a pretty nice deck, the margrave also accelerates him pretty nicely, and I get 8 a few too many times too early rather than 9, locking me out of dreaming of colonies for a good while. This probably wasn't as close as it looks, as lespeuture focused on getting platina and such to seal the win quickly rather than say provinces to lock me down and get the huge-looking lead. I didn't have a lot of hope though.
Game 6: WW 66 - lespeutere 45 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/12/game-20111212-123359-2c1f03e5.html
I'm very proud of this game. I open trader-silver against militia-silver. I grab some silvers and then start to dip for duchies. lespeutere's heading for grand markets, presumably for provinces. The big thing is that I'm able to grab provinces too. I like my decision to grab the first duke on only 5 duchies, and then the 6th duchy over the 3rd duke, even though it ends up being less points for me, because it really limits me, especially with enough provinces to lock that door out. So even though he had a ragingly-better deck, I had a pretty nice soft lockdown on the game.

Overall, a very tense match, but one I'm pretty proud of.

[lespeutere]

WanderingWinder advance 4-2 over lespeutere in the thief division.
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Overall, a very tense match, but one I'm pretty proud of.

Thanks for the nice comments and congrats on advancing to the next round. One big thing I learned is to take quicker endings with cheaper victory cards than the biggest into account, like gardens (simply overlooked by me) and duchy/duke in game 6 (which I saw but underrated). 2 wins for me feels ok, but I feel a bit ashame for the gardens game. I hope I'll have lost against the tournament winner