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[Kirian]

Week 7, and we play with Hinterlands, our final official week.  Make sure to select six cards from Hinterlands!  Matchups are at:

http://isodom.challonge.com

Note:  Because of all the personnel shifts, there will indeed be a Week "8" for final makeups.  Ideally, all matches (from all rounds) will be played by Sunday 20 May.  Hopefully we'll get to that condition earlier than that, though, and can start bracket matches.

[shark_bait]

I had my match with ednever, the newly crowned champ of Rabid's one day tourney.  With that in mind, I was fully expecting a close intense series and it delivered with shark_bait (4) over ednever (3) for 8 and 6 points.

Game 1

Key Players - Border Village, Minion, Baron, Tunnel, City

Key Plays

Turn 12, shark_bait buys a colony planning for an eventual 3-pile
Turns 14 and 15, ednever accumulates 2 provinces closing the gap
Turn 15, shark_bait takes a gamble, emptying the 2nd pile planning for 3-pile next turn
Turn 16, ednever hits $8 on the dot to scrap the last BV as well as a Duchy and Estate for a buzzer beating finish!

Game 2

Key Players - Young Witch, Tunnel, Embargo (bane), Duchy

Key Plays

Turns 5, 7, 8, and 9, shark_bait hits $2 picking up 3 Embargoes
Turn 9, ednever buys the last Tunnel winning the split 5/3
Turn 11, ednever plays a Young Witch and reveals 2 Tunnels
Turn 12 and beyond, ednever buys a Duchy

Game 3

Key Players - Ill Gotten Gains, Feast

Key Plays

Turn 15, shark_bait uses Feast to facilitate emptying 3-piles in a single turn for a buzzer beating win.

Game 4

Key Players - Duke, Expand, Crossroads, Margrave, Fool's Gold

Key Plays

Turn 2, ednever buys a Silver and shark_bait buys a Margrave
Turn 12, ednever uses Expand for a Double Duchy turn
Turn 13, shark_bait uses Fool's Gold for a Double Province turn
Turns 22 and 23, ednever gains the Penultimate and Ultimate Duke to close out a tight game

Game 5

Key Players - Trader, Embassy

Key Plays

Turn 6, shark_bait trashes a Trader, gaining 4 Silvers
Turn 8, ednever achieves to golden Cache/Trader turn

Game 6

Key Players - Margrave, Scheme, Silk Roads, Harem, Quarry, Scheme, Mint

Turn 10, ednever buys a Mint, trashing 5 Coppers
Turn 17, ednever buys the last Silk Road, losing the split 3/5

Game 7

Key Players - Treasury, Silk Road, Scheme, Noble Brigand, Expand

Key Plays

It's tough to nail down specifics for this game, but basically, ed could have responded much better to my SR strategy.  A Scheme/Treasury/Expand Strategy that gained a single province turn by Expanding the Treasuries could have possibly finished the provinces before the SR's became too big of a threat.

All in all, this was a great series with a great player with a lot of really close games. 

[ednever]

Great series.

I definitely didn't feel as in-the-zone as in Rabid's tournament. SB outplayed me in just about every game (except #2 where I feel I just got very lucky). The other two I won were nail-biters. Game #3 was IGG where SB had a first-player edge.

But games 5, 6 and 7 I was just outplayed.

On 5 I got way too many Traders (I was focused on that Trader-Cache. I should have been focused on winning...)

On 6 I should have went for SR a little earlier. I had the economy, I just waited too long.

On 7 I waited too long again and was left scrambling for VP at the end of the game. I really liked the Treasury-Scheme-Expand engine though. Just needed to make it happen a little faster...

Great playing you SB!

And thanks Kirian for organizing. I'll play my make-up match against GoBlue, but I think I'm mathematically eliminated. I'll be cheering for our Pacific Coast champion in the finals!

Ed

[RisingJaguar]

RisingJaguar 5 - Ahoppy 2

These were some odd yet fun games.  It was definitely a pleasure talking with him/her! I am a bit pressed for I will leave the logs for those who want to look.

Ahoppy 31 - RisingJaguar 37 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-181745-f61abea5.html
Ahoppy 43 - RisingJaguar 32 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-183133-13571e20.html
I missed this log but I remember winning this one. 
Ahoppy 9 - RisingJaguar 31 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-184625-58f162e1.html
Ahoppy 34 - RisingJaguar 59 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-185324-78f80f66.html
Ahoppy 57 - RisingJaguar 56 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-190618-d78fb38a.html
RisingJaguar 19 - Ahoppy 24 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-191353-e167409b.html

[CoheedandCambria]

Coheed 5 - tlloyd 2

Had a fun series against tlloyd even though he disagreed with some of my decisions. I think I have the logs mixed up but I'll just post them in the order I have them anyway.

Game 1: Coheed 45 tlloyd 35 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-210459-f540e23a.html

Game 2: Coheed 37 tlloyd 24 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-211025-74eb69df.html

Game 3: Coheed 43 tlloyd 54 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-211918-3e7ae66d.html

Game 4: Coheed 31 tlloyd 37 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-212818-7582af57.html

Game 5: Coheed 28 tlloyd 21 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-213404-741cd6f4.html

Game 6: Coheed 20 tlloyd 14 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-213840-4b91834a.html

Game 7: Coheed 36 tlloyd 24 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/08/game-20120508-214433-4aa59b67.html

Analysis:

1: We both open FV/JoAT but on the first shuffle he gets a trading post/spice merchant/gold with 5/4/6 while I get a 2nd JoAT/spice merchant/gold with 4/4/6. He gets the first province but then gets a couple unlucky draws (3/4/5) right after. He didn't get much use out of his trading post and my silvers helped me green faster than he could. I feel trading post was a little too slow as he got only 2 plays out of it and my JoATs helped cycle a little while loading my deck with silver.

2: We both choose to go spice merchant/FG and then into cities. We get an even split on the FG but I was able to win the city split from him unluckily getting 9/3 on turns 7 and 8. The extra cities let me easily connect the FG together and green faster.

3: I try a tricky engine using BV/wharf/embassy/tunnel and find that loading my deck with tunnels and golds really hurt my chances of chaining wharves. He went straight up jack BM and took the win.

4: I mistakenly thought spice merchant/FG could beat familiar and took 10 curses to the face with nothing on the board to trash them. The game was pretty close but I was unable to pick up the last province for the win because of my thick deck. Pretty funny play on turn 14 where he buys a province and I trash 4 FG and draw all 4 golds with my library.

5: IGG rush with FG, nomad camp and a bunch of strong 5's that we completely ignored. We both open 5/2 and I chose to go IGG/FG while he went IGG/nothing. My thought on this was that even though it would be incredibly hard to connect my FG's, I could end up trashing them for gold later. Even though I never got the chance to trash them, they proved useful and I luckily connected them a couple times. I was able to get an early 7/2 IGG lead because he had very unlucky turns after the 2nd reshuffle(4/8/3/4/4/4/8/4/3/3) and from then on I greened faster and ended the game on a 3 pile.

6: We both went for an ironworks/silk roads rush. I think oasis isn't that good here and silver is a better pickup but I chose to follow him with the oasis' anyway. Even though we split the SR's, I was able to get more estates than he could.

7: To me, this game was the most interesting of all.. I looked at the board for a while before making my first purchases. I open 5/2 while he opens 4/3 on a JoAT board. I couldn't beat him with jack on my opening so I tried to think of a strategy that could beat it. I like Pirate ship a lot and feel it is an underrated card in 2 player.. I felt that my ships would be able to easily hit every time since he is loading his deck with silvers. This board also has some good enablers for ships (stables/crossroads) because they can run through the deck easily to find the ships every turn. At the end of this game, tlloyd stated that Jack should beat my strategy every game but I have to disagree. The only luck I saw happen in this game was me getting 5 coppers on turn 11 after my reshuffle and with those out of the way, I was able to get a province every turn.

Sorry that a lot of these games came down to luck, tlloyd.. and for overtaking your #1 spot by only 1 point because of it. I'm cheering you on, Jorbles!

[tlloyd]

Coheed played well, and I made some errors, but boy did I catch every bad break imaginable in these games. Oh well.

Game 1: I figured Jack is good for getting rid of estates and Trading Post would be good for getting rid of Coppers. I still think it could have worked, but probably Spice Merchant is the safer bet.

Game 2: I think you have to buy the last City, even though it gives your opponent the first turn with better cities, if doing so is necessary to avoid a 7/3 split in his favor. I probably should have just sucked it up and bought a City for $9 instead of that first Province.

Game 3: Border Village + Wharf is very strong. Embassy + Tunnel is also quite strong. Probably all four could make for a decent strategy, but Jack's simplicity is also very strong. Coheed's attempt to incorporate Jack into the engine strategy was just asking for trouble. I think this game was closer than it might have been.

Game 4: If any play sums up how this series went, it's my buying a Province when Coheed's five-card hand was Library, 4xFG. Talk about a punch to the gut. It's not just that he gained a Province, or even that he did so without losing a turn. The worst part was that on a single turn he largely extricated himself from a losing FG strategy. Even though I won this game I got the distinct impression that the universe had it out for me tonight.

Game 5: Once again my rhythm was off in this game. Obviously in an IGG game you've got to hit $5 consistently, and once again I pull an early $8. How do you ignore that in an IGG game? You've got to buy a Province when you can, right? Because it's going to come down to a Duchy race, right? Not if you have such a hard time reaching $5 afterward that you end up swallowing 8 Curses. There's simply no way that a Fool's Gold strategy is the right play on an IGG board -- I mean lots of IGG games never even touch the Provinces! So with all due respect to Coheed, the outcome of this game was simply ridiculous. I will note that I overbought Nomad Camps, but I did so in a desperate attempt to reach $5 before Coheed had handed me all the curses.

Game 6: I didn't play this one well, partly due to the soul-crushing defeats I had already suffered up to this point. I'm still unsure about Oasis vs. Silver here (I am in most games with Oasis actually). Silver is worth more and you can play it if you draw it from Ironworks, but Oasis should give you better cycling so you play your key card (Ironworks) more often. Oasis should be especially useful when your strategy is to flood your deck with green cards. Regardless, I think I bought too many Oases and switched to Estates too late. For all the bad luck I had in the other games, this one comes down to poor play.

Game 7: I think Coheed's play was actually quite clever here, and my claim that his strategy should never have worked was clearly the result of Coheed's having mopped the floor with me over seven games. I do, however, think Coheed's draws couldn't have been planned much better. Despite using finicky drawers (Crossroads needs green, Stables needs treasure) his cycling over the course of the game is excellent. He reshuffles after turns 3, 4, and 5, and after that is off and running.

My expectation - which I have learned was incorrect - was that Coheed's Pirate Ships would make up for one of Jack's few weaknesses: the inability to trash copper. But look at the treasures Coheed's ships trash from my deck: Silver, Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper, Copper. By the time the last two coppers were trashed the game was long over. His excellent cycling and very effective crippling of my economy (in a double Jack deck!) was a killer combination.

Thanks for the game Coheed. I hope we get a chance for a rematch. 

[Brando Commando]

Brando Commando won 4 games, Dsell won 3. Dsell was a fun opponent and we had some good talks about the games. I think IGG made this one of the less interesting series I've played -- while there are subtleties to playing it, it pretty much broke me when Dsell got early advantage (in some cases this was my fault, as I recall).

Game 1: BC 15 DS 27

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120507-181447-f6fc90ff.html

Game 2: BC 55 DS 41

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120507-183145-864a43c0.html

Game 3: BC 32 DS 42

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120507-183738-c3fcd1a7.html

Game 4: BC 52 DS 29

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120507-185329-758d09d5.html

Game 5: BC 37 DS 33

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120507-190824-c77f51fe.html

Game 6: BC 33 DS 47

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120507-191542-f4293a7f.html

Game 7: BC 20 DS 15

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120507-192111-1e9db398.html

[michaeljb]

Ok, so since my Week 7 match was against someone who has apparently dropped out, I'm all done? That's the impression I'm getting from looking at the bracket and accompanying table. (I'm in the Central Group)

[Kirian]

Ok, so since my Week 7 match was against someone who has apparently dropped out, I'm all done? That's the impression I'm getting from looking at the bracket and accompanying table. (I'm in the Central Group)

That is correct.

[O]

O defeats Antony 5-1-1

I'll upload the logs when they hit Council Room.

1: O-51 45-Antony 
2: O-43 31-Antony
3: O-38 38-Antony
4: O-13 7-Antony
5: Antony-36 31-O
6: O-53 34-Antony
7: O-39 26-Antony

1) http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120510-225610-0b9ab1f3.html
I buy golds while he grabs royal seals with 5$, his alt-VP rush endgame doesn't save him from my better luck (and slightly better play) in BM-Militia

2) http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120510-225936-9cf51ddf.html
Jack-Tunnel versus Jack-Silver, his opening blunder ruins his chances immediately.

3) http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120510-230255-5ab0197d.html
I try to play 2X smithy BM in a game with Margrave.. lolnope. He tries to play Margrave X2 + Smithy BM... also nope. I eek out a tie that I probably didn't deserve since my mistake was a bit worse than his.

4) http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120510-230531-7dbaa206.html

I luck into a Turn 4 feast ->IGG + 5$ -> Upgrade. This, plus Antony's ignoring of Upgrade (with Border Village for hijinks, even though it never happened) allows me a win in the IGG rush.

5) http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120510-230809-e0a47601.html

BM.... trader. With some markets and noble brigands thrown it. I broke PPR but had no choice (was a 5-3 split). Not a highly strategic game, I might have lost because my trader missed first reshuffle, but I also probably made more mistakes than Antony.

6) http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120510-231228-43d8dbb2.html
Lookout/Jack. I ignore the Haggler trap (which Antony falls for) and pick up a Margrave a bit later, cruising to victory (Antony has terrible opening luck)

7) http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120510-231441-6c1713a0.html

Lolwut. The score conceals how much of a blowout this was, though it had nothing to do with Antonys play. I open Haggler/- on 5-2 and rapidly grab up some engine components (Stables, TR, Shanty Town). Turns 6 and 7 each I pick up a Province.. with a grand market from Haggler. I'm honestly surprised it took 14 turns after that bout of luck.

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Mostly BM games from Hinterlands, pretty unsurprisingly (oh hello, JOAT, Embassy and IGG). I was very worried about this match, as Antony has done quite well in this tournament. I felt I got luckier than him and probably would have went 4-3 or 4-2-1 with more even luck (in my arrogant estimate). 

[Mergus]

Mergus beats Axxle 4-3
Logs to follow when they are on CouncilRoom.

Thanks everyone in the group for being very serious and not dropping, making our group a fun group

[yuma]

yuma beat Jorbles 4-3 (8pts to 6pts)

Jorbles 31 - yuma 30: Silk Road with Island and Tunnels (Oasis as a discarder). His Jester is better than my Margrave and gives me a curse that wins it.

Jorbles 37 - yuma 40: Jorbles gets a lucky 5 coppers on turn 3 to buy a mint in a Fool's Gold game. I scramble and end up buying a Mint that I trader away for 5 silvers that help after a few Embassy buys and scrape out a win. Jorbles gets some unlucky turns late as I think his deck is pretty green.

Jorbles 25 - yuma 15: Sea Hag game. Jorbles adds a Margrave, another Sea Hag and some Hamlets and buys more money (including coppers!) I stumble around a bit and get some actions that aren't super useful (Haggler, Smithy, etc). He ends it on a three pile with curses, duchies and estates gone.

Jorbles 48 - yuma 58: Another Fool's Gold game with Spice Merchant to help. I have first turn and Jorbles gets an unlucky turn 3 draw (E,E,C,SM,FG) and is unable to double up while I am to win the split. I am not able to finish the game until a lot of silk roads, duchies and estates have been bought.

Jorbles 26 - yuma 21: Mountebank/Colony game with Tunnels, Embassy, Trader, Familiar and Boarder Village as key cards. I was really surprised here as Jorbles went Familiar and I avoided it thinking Mountebank was the better way to go. Actually I think 2 mountebanks would have been better but I only bought one getting distracted by B.V. Embassy and Tunnels that never came together. 3 pile ending.

Jorbles 18 - yuma 40: Salvagers and Highways with Hagglers to keep economy up made for a quick game. I started trashing Golds and Silvers once I saw him buy a Noble Brigand.

Jorbles 26 - yuma 46: My favorite game of the series with a fun dynamic between embargo and S.M./F.G. Jorbles played with my mind a bit here buying an embargo so I wouldn't go for F.G. (I was going to buy embargo as well if he went for them) but instead used it to embargo the embargos and then went for F.G. By that time I was into a Menagerie deck with Upgrade and Spice Merchant to help. I bought a few F.G. hopping to turn into golds and was able to keep my economy up despite some green.

I needed 10 points for first place, Jorbles needed 12.
In the end we couldn't quite catch coheed who looks like the winner from our group unless perdhapley is able to win all 7 of his games.

Our group was great and had great competition up to the very end. Thanks to all for playing, this was a great group.

[ignorentmen]

Ignorentmen 4 wins to Perdhapley 2 wins, 1 tie. (Is that right Perd?) Logs will be coming soon, I think both of us forgot to get them.

Congrats to coheed on the win.

[PerdHapley]

Yes, that's right, I was keeping track of the logs at the time and then somehow lost them. It was a good match, I was a little tired at the time so it's hard to recall everything that happened, but some things stood out:

- Our tie was my only tie in the whole tournament, and I forced it. It was a Highway game where I got a bit cocky with the lead and kind of spaced on adding +buy to my deck. I am curious to see if I would've had a shot at taking the win there if I hadn't ended the game. I really considered it.
- There was an Ambassador game where I opened 5/2 (I think as 2nd player? not sure) and really had no idea what to do. Ultimately I settled for Margrave in the open and I got crushed.
- The first game was interesting, and I remember one particular hand where my deck finally looked like it was about to click (pretty sure it was Border Village / Border Village / Margrave / Margrave / Bank / Silver) where discarding to Margrave was pretty heartbreaking.

Well now I'm just sad it's all over. Congrats to Coheed on the win in our bracket! To echo what the others have said, this (the Mountain bracket) was a really really great group. Everyone was friendly and competitive and easy to set up matches with. This was true up to the very end - I failed to show up to my first planned match with Ignorentmen thanks to some Internet issues and he was very cool about rescheduling. Thanks to all of you for making this so fun!

[Kirian]

Indeed, for all except the Central group, the remaining matches won't change the winner.  In the Central group, though, literally every player is still in the running, i.e. all within 14 points.  For the other brackets, we have as winners:

Eastern:  RisingJaguar, with the only 7-0 match win
Mountain:  Coheed, in a very very very close 55-54-54 win
Pacific:  O, with an average of 5 wins per match and no match losses

[CoheedandCambria]

I got a 7-0 match win too, it gave me the confidence to come back and take 1st!

[Axxle]

I was very glad to be an honorary Mountain player this tournament.  All of the players were very fun to play against and there were some incredibly tense games and matches.

[RisingJaguar]

Indeed, for all except the Central group, the remaining matches won't change the winner.  In the Central group, though, literally every player is still in the running, i.e. all within 14 points.  For the other brackets, we have as winners:

Eastern:  RisingJaguar, with the only 7-0 match win
Mountain:  Coheed, in a very very very close 55-54-54 win
Pacific:  O, with an average of 5 wins per match and no match losses

I have 5 games in 4P.  The next round is going to be brutal. 

[Eevee]

Indeed, for all except the Central group, the remaining matches won't change the winner.  In the Central group, though, literally every player is still in the running, i.e. all within 14 points.  For the other brackets, we have as winners:

Eastern:  RisingJaguar, with the only 7-0 match win
Mountain:  Coheed, in a very very very close 55-54-54 win
Pacific:  O, with an average of 5 wins per match and no match losses

I have 5 games in 4P.  The next round is going to be brutal.

I thiiink I have at least some chance to advance from our group (Eurasia), I've played 0 4p games and less than 10 3p games and even those are from back in the day when i was probably level 5 or something. Brutal sounds about right. 

[Kirian]

I got a 7-0 match win too, it gave me the confidence to come back and take 1st!

Oops!  Indeed you did!

[Kirian]

Indeed, for all except the Central group, the remaining matches won't change the winner.  In the Central group, though, literally every player is still in the running, i.e. all within 14 points.  For the other brackets, we have as winners:

Eastern:  RisingJaguar, with the only 7-0 match win
Mountain:  Coheed, in a very very very close 55-54-54 win
Pacific:  O, with an average of 5 wins per match and no match losses

I have 5 games in 4P.  The next round is going to be brutal.

I thiiink I have at least some chance to advance from our group (Eurasia), I've played 0 4p games and less than 10 3p games and even those are from back in the day when i was probably level 5 or something. Brutal sounds about right. 

Eevee:  Note that I was referring only to my bracket, not Mustard's (zxcvbn's) bracket.

[Eevee]

I have 5 games in 4P.  The next round is going to be brutal.

I thiiink I have at least some chance to advance from our group (Eurasia), I've played 0 4p games and less than 10 3p games and even those are from back in the day when i was probably level 5 or something. Brutal sounds about right. 

Eevee:  Note that I was referring only to my bracket, not Mustard's (zxcvbn's) bracket.

Yeah obviously, just sharing RJ's pain with having to (possibly) play multiplayer (If he was even talking about that.. now I'm confused.)

[Axxle]

Mergus beats Axxle 4-3
Logs to follow when they are on CouncilRoom.

Thanks everyone in the group for being very serious and not dropping, making our group a fun group

Mergus 45 - Axxle 32 http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120511-121021-8d6a6aed.html
Double Jack mirror.

Mergus 40 - Axxle 30 http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120511-121820-312f0b4b.html
Fool's Gold + support vs. Fool's Gold rush.  I wanted to get some support but I fell into the trap of not wanting to buy cards at my price point.

Mergus 23 - Axxle 40 http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120511-122619-82fee63a.html
HP + Tunnel vs. HP + Haggler.  HP drawing a Tunnel really slowed down Mergus's deck here.

Mergus 18 - Axxle 17 http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120511-123130-4548cc30.html
HT fueled IGG rush.  Mergus's TR buy seems to have won him this one?

Mergus 40 - Axxle 48 http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120511-124117-2366ed2d.html
Tunnels + lots of Enablers.

Mergus 27 - Axxle 30 http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120511-130040-fbf2133a.html
I think this is the strangest game I have ever played (I rarely play Cost Reduction + Trash for Benefit).  Turn 14 was fun:   
Axxle buys a Farmland.
   ... trashing a Curse.
   ... gaining a Border Village.
   ... ... gaining a Highway.
   Axxle buys a Farmland.
   ... trashing a Curse.
   ... gaining a Border Village.
   ... ... gaining a Highway.
   Axxle buys a Farmland.
   ... trashing an Estate.
   ... gaining a Border Village.
   ... ... gaining a Margrave.

Mergus 26 - Axxle 25 http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120511-130644-c97cb999.html
Tense FG + HT fueled SR rush. 

[Jorbles]

I just want to toss in my two cents and say thanks to everyone in my bracket for being so good about arranging matches and for keeping the scores close enough that every game felt like it mattered. Congrats to coheed! Good luck in the 4 player matchup!

[RisingJaguar]

I have 5 games in 4P.  The next round is going to be brutal.

I thiiink I have at least some chance to advance from our group (Eurasia), I've played 0 4p games and less than 10 3p games and even those are from back in the day when i was probably level 5 or something. Brutal sounds about right. 

Eevee:  Note that I was referring only to my bracket, not Mustard's (zxcvbn's) bracket.

Yeah obviously, just sharing RJ's pain with having to (possibly) play multiplayer (If he was even talking about that.. now I'm confused.)

From the sounds of it... See you in the finals!

[ignorentmen]

For the sake of completeness here are the logs and brief summary.

Igmen 35; perd 30 Boarder Village, Schemes and Margraves into Silk Roads. I grab Goons for 9 extra VP.

Igmen 45; perd 37 Witch with Trader and then Tunnels late. I have two Witches, he has Witch/Jester.

perd 47; Igmen 40 King's Court, Grand Market, Embassy, Highway and Stables all around with Silk Road as a temptation. We both bite, him for 2 on turn 10, me for 4 on turn 12. I think I would have been better off buying two and getting another KC.

perd 30; Igmen 30 I make a fun Nomad Camp buy early to get into Highways early but make a huge mistake of buying Peddlers instead of Highways. Perd ends up forcing the tie.

Igmen 51; perd 22. Perd's 5/2 hurts in Ambassador game. If I were him I would have bought Ambassador with the $5 but that is a hard situation to be in.

perd 46; Igmen 33. Both Smithy/Silver start, I have a dumb moment and get Tribute when I know that Boarder Villages are going to be all over his deck along with other actions, so that ends up being useless. perd finishes out well.

Igmen 40; perd 20. Witch game with Cartographers and Crossroads being key cards bought. A random Venture purchase ends up being key in sifting through curses and greens.

[NinjaBus]

Here are my matches against CarpeDeezNuts, NinjaBus wins 4-2 with 1 tie. I hope to get around to posting more details, but here they are for now.

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120515-200846-367b23aa.html
NinjaBus 7, CarpeDeezNuts 21

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120515-201324-b909dacf.html
NinjaBus 41, CarpeDeezNuts 28

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120515-202010-1ace320c.html
NinjaBus 44, CarpeDeezNutz 42

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120515-202538-6e4c457a.html
NinjaBus 49, CarpeDeezNuts 64

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120515-203132-c1183232.html
NinjaBus 29, CarpeDeezNuts 27

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120515-203817-c3ed36b0.html
NinjaBus 57, CarpeDeezNuts 48

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120515-204407-80e77d25.html
NinjaBus 40, CarpeDeezNuts 40 Tie

[Titandrake]

Titandrake wins 5-1-1 over Insomniac-X

Okay so at this point I'm pretty sure we both don't care too much about the scores, but here they are anyways.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/20/game-20120520-212003-63e08fce.html
Titandrake 47, Insomniac-X 18

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/20/game-20120520-213040-f71dd7dd.html
Titandrake 24, Insomniac-X 24

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/20/game-20120520-214014-f9b2f9f3.html
Titandrake 49, Insomniac-X 54

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/20/game-20120520-214516-442caac9.html
Titandrake 27, Insomniac-X 15

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/20/game-20120520-215603-1e292614.html
Titandrakee 47, Insomniac-X 38

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/20/game-20120520-221303-1bc8c692.html
Titandrake 38, Insomniac-X 32

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201205/20/game-20120520-221740-fff45c63.html
Titandrake 40, Insomniac-X 24

Thanks for the games!

[Duck Sauce]

Hey all,

A little late, but greatexpectations and I just finished our match. 5 games me, 2 games greatexpectations