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[Eevee]

Eevee beats SimonDK 4-2-1.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-052029-b0c5b666.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-053018-7ad69e80.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-054338-9246bb8b.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-055634-bc7964cd.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-060347-3ba33360.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-062307-87ebb92d.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-063436-421d5155.html

Might write a report later, got to run now (match lasted more than 1½h, was close!).

[Simon (DK)]

MrEevee wins 4-2 against Simon (DK) with a single tie.
It had to end sometime, but I promise you that this isn't the last you've seen of me
MrEevee played very well, and I'm looking forward to see what he writes about the games.

I like the 2 games I won. Both were finished in turn 14 even though the last of them was a Colony board.
In the first I played Gouvernors + Treasure Map against his Fool's Golds.
In the other I played King's Court + Wharf + Bank and got mega turns in turn 13 (5 Colonies) and turn 14 (3 Colonies + 3 Provinces) winning 101-3. I was lucky to get 2 Wharves in turn 3 and 4 while he had to settle for 2 Silvers.

The other games was a bit more complex with a lot of cards having to fit together the right way. I still need a lot more practice to get better at those.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-052029-b0c5b666.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-053018-7ad69e80.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-054338-9246bb8b.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-055634-bc7964cd.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-060347-3ba33360.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-062307-87ebb92d.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-063436-421d5155.html

[mith]

Noooooooo! (Now I have to play Rabid.)

[mith]

Matchups will be official tomorrow some time (still time for round 5 losers to join in).

[mith]

Round 5 matchups are set.

[Eevee]

Eevee beats SimonDK 4-2-1.

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-052029-b0c5b666.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-053018-7ad69e80.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-054338-9246bb8b.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-055634-bc7964cd.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-060347-3ba33360.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-062307-87ebb92d.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/13/game-20130113-063436-421d5155.html

Might write a report later, got to run now (match lasted more than 1½h, was close!).

1st game
Well, the fact I ended up with 17 different cards on a board without fairgrounds should speak for itself. With 5-2 I prefer a contraband over the mandarin-hunting party simon goes for. I get a black market, moneylender, some tournaments, cities for actions and hunting parties, and eek out a win despite not getting to followers first. Interesting game with lots of decisions.

2nd game
My fools gold-torturer does laughably terrible against Simon's governor rush with treasure maps. Outplayed.

3rd game
I open village-baron for peddlers (and conspirators, but I never get that far as I decide to for single province turns instead). I think smithy is better than envoy here as a drawer, and baron is a better opening than cutpurse just for the buy that essentially means free peddlers. Getting to 5 is not a priority here at all (nothing there), so getting kicked to 4 or 3 or even 2 is not really an issue given all the stuff I want to buy are at those price points anyways. Terrible board for cutpurse.


4th game
Simon goes for mandarin-upgrade, I just play a simple hunting party-swindler thing. Really, it was a simple one, my deck in the end consisted of: 5 Hunting Parties, 1 Swindler, 7 Coppers, 1 Silver, 1 Gold, 3 Estates, 3 Duchies, 5 Provinces.

5th game
Well, I lost 101-3 so that's not good, but drawing 4-4 in the second shuffle a board like this against someone drawing 5-5 does that to you. I really like playing these mega-wharf engines, but this time he had already bought out all the colonies and some of the provinces when my engine still wasn't even kicking in. I don't think I could have done anything to prevent this, honestly.

6th game
Another fun one with my absolute favorite card: vineyards. I think (at least) 2 potions is correct (I would have gotten a third had he gone for them more aggressively), and I think he also wasn't concentrated enough on the actions / vineyards. Provinces are just a detour in this game. Also worth noting, even a single margrave attack probably just helps your opponent because it makes activating your menageries that much easier.

7th game
Another fun one, trade routes to trash, menageries to draw, highways to make everything cheap, markets to acquire buys and throne rooms to act as a pseudo village and generally double on whatever is needed. I feel I played this one quite well.

Overall another fun match with fun boards and a nice opponent. Gg!

[Simon (DK)]

Just a few comments on my play:

3rd game: I don't know what I was thining with Cutpurse. Clearly a mistake.

4th game: No Village-type card, so 1 terminal is enough. I chose for that terminal to be Mandarin for the +3$. That was a mistake. My thoughts was a single Upgrade for trimming the deck and then go heavily on Hunting Parties. Didn't work out.

6th game: I only went Province after my opponent had gotten 2 Potions and 2 Vineyards against my 1 of each, so I thought I had to do something. His deck was better than mine at that time with more actions.
I probably should have went Highways too in this game.

7th game: I go for a simple 1 Colony at a time strategy, but my opponent gets his deck together nicely with Highways and other cards to be ably to by several Colonies and other cards each turn.

[Antonidas]

Antonidas defeats dudeabides 4-1. We played with the default game rules but agreed to ban Ambassador, Possession, and Tournament. It was a really fun set of games, with unique strategies on each board and few dominatingly powerful cards. Oddly enough, there were no actual villages in any of the games. Instead, throne room and golem featured several times.

Game 1 (A 61 - D 49): This game probably came down to shuffle luck. We both built decks around heavy cycling to play monument frequently; golem was crucial since it cycles a ton and it was the only way to play extra monuments. dudeabides got an unlucky draw on turn 6 of $2P; I ended up getting my first golem earlier even though I picked up a potion a shuffle later than him. I was then able to play golem a bunch to secure an early province lead. dudeabides had a more powerful deck toward the end with menageries and the ability to triple-monument, and he had a very real chance of stealing the win on the last turn if I had another dud draw. But instead I got a very lucky draw on my last turn to cinch the deal. (I started the turn with golem, lab, and 3 victory cards and ended up playing 2 monuments for exactly $8.)

Game 2 (A 29 - D 34): I was definitely outplayed in this one. There were a ton of trashers, but with no real engine it was tough to decide what to go for. dudeabides opened chapel/spice merchant, clearly aiming for an ultra-thin deck. I decided to open silver/remake and add a spice merchant later, thinking that I would trash less but ramp much faster, and I'd be able to use jesters to counter his thin deck. What I failed to realize is that he could also incorporate the same cards and use them more effectively in his chapeled deck. He made a great play on turns 6 and 7 where he picked up a remake and saved 2 estates to trash with it, which jump-started his economy. I gave him some extra trashers with jester that didn't hurt him at all, since he could just remake them into more money. Since his jester also copied a bunch of my golds, there was no chance that he would stall out. Still, with a great draw at the end I could have been able to steal the game.

Game 3 (A 54 - D 38): A really fun and interesting game! It seemed like there had to be some kind of tactician engine present, but it was really unclear how to go about it. I opened silver/develop and dudeabides opened silver/silver, and the develop opening likely won me the game. It helped by trashing a bit while picking up needed silvers and schemes. The schemes would eventually let me alternate playing tactician while throning a harvest every turn. I also had one golem as basically a double-scheme village, which was incredibly useful since it I could play TR-harvest and tactician in the same turn and then top-deck the throne room and harvest. dudeabides went for a similar strategy but his deck was less consistent, so I was able to piledrive the provinces before he could make some kind of comeback with fairgrounds or saboteurs.

Game 4 (A 60 - D 46): There were no strong engine or BM possibilities here, but there were a good number of non-terminals. I quickly decided to go all-in on vineyards, and even bought my first potion on turn 4 (with no other potion cards out)! Bridge would allow me to buy 2 action cards a turn and scheme meant that I could reliably play the bridge every turn; lighthouse and great hall could defend me against young witch. dudeabides played a BM strategy with monument and expand which probably didn't stand much of a chance against the incredible VP potential of vineyard. However, I did have to be careful not to let him buy out a third pile before I could buy enough vineyards to take the lead.

Game 5 (A 47 - D 33): Unfortunately the least interesting game, as we both immediately identified the power combo of governor/militia. We didn't do too much differently - I bought more militias and less treasure for extra consistency in hitting the attack, and I got some better shuffle luck earlier that more than compensated for his first player advantage. It ended up being enough for a comfortable win.

This was a great match with a really friendly and courteous opponent. We even had a great post-match discussion. I got lucky in a few spots, and the scores are more lopsided than they should be because of it; I'm very happy to be able to advance this far. Thanks again for the games, dudeabides! I would love to play with you more in the future.

Edit: Fixed the incorrect game logs, and also updated them all to link to CouncilRoom.

[dudeabides]

Thoughts on my series with Antonidas.  Before the match, I checked out his position on the leaderboard.  With a mean skill of 53 (compared to my 46), I knew I was in for trouble.  We played some interesting sets, though we never had a Village

Game 1:  Fundamentally a mirror match, and our only game with real draw cards.  He hits $5 on turns 3 and 4, while I get $5 and $4.  Further exacerbating the bad luck, I hit $5 on turn 5 and $2P on my Potion's first time through the deck on turn 6.  I drew 2 Estates when I could have draw a Stables, a Monument or 2 Estates.  I agree with the shuffle luck assessment.  Early luck goes a long way in this game, though I threaten a comeback with some Upgrading into Duchies and more Monument plays.  One turn I hit $8 and don't break PPR.  If I had, I'd have won.

Game 2:  The battle of the trashers: 4 of the 10 kingdom cards are trashers.  I think Chapel/Spice Merchant is much better than Silver/Remake here.  Councilroom agrees: Chapel/Spice Merchant as opening is 3.235 ± 0.947, while Remake/Silver is 1.936 ± 0.907.  My deck gets very thin very quickly.  He goes with a Jester hoping to clog my deck, but it's too thin already.  He hits Chapel and Remake and gives them to me.  When he gave me the Remake, I had hoped I could draw it with my other Remake to give him a Curse with IGG.  I smiled when this came true.  I got very lucky hitting Gold with my Jester, but I don't think that was too critical.  If I'd hit a Copper or VP to clog his deck, same result.

Game 3:  Antonidas has the link wrong:  http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/17/game-20130117-113056-d5cac2de.html

I agree with his assessment of this one wholeheartedly.  I debated whether to go Develop/Silver.  Looking at Antonidas' by-card record (a mistake), I noted that he had a worse record with Develop than without it, and I was hoping that this was one of those instances where he misread the board.  Furthermore, I hadn't decided whether I wanted to go Golem or not.  These two differences were key.  Other than this, we both recognized the Tact/Harvest/Scheme/Throne Room engine.  Golem/Develop win this one.  Definitely outplayed here. 

Game 4:  Again, Antonidas has the link wrong, but I was so sure I was done for after this loss that I didn't keep it.  When I saw this board, I hated that I was going first.  I open Monument/Lighthouse to his Bridge/Lighthouse.  I failed to recognize that the 2 Cantrips in Great Hall and Scheme could be combined with Vineyards to make for a huge score.  If I had this to play over again, I would not have followed him down the Vineyard path, but instead threatened with Young Witch earlier.  He has only 1 Lighthouse for the first 10 turns or so until I buy a Young Witch.  While I don't intend to dish out any Curses with it, it lets me cycle.  But more importantly, it makes him buy Lighthouses, which would slow down his Potion drawing.  On several turns, I was ahead and could get 2 of the last 3 Lighthouses, making the game 1 Lighthouse away from piling out, but if he had been able to buy Vineyards and the last Lighthouse, he'd have won.  I probably should have risked it.  I also should have Expanded Coppers to Great Halls, giving me 1 VP and limiting the number of Cantrips he could get, reducing his ability to boost Vineyard points and shortening the game.  Overall, though, his strategy is superior to mine. 

Game 5: 

Another mirror match likely decided by shuffle luck.  My Militia hit on Turn 5, missing the reshuffle.  His extra Militia probably helped, too, though it could have hurt him if he'd had early collisions.  We split Governors 5/5, but I had to use Governor to remodel a Silver into the second to last Governor, which let him trash an Estate for Silver, before I bought the last one on the same turn.  After he uses Governor to trash a Gold for the last Province when he's well ahead, he plays Militia to make me discard... what a dick! 

Overall, this was an interesting set of boards.  The lack of Villages, draw cards, and extra buys was disappointing for someone like me who prefers an engine board.  In sum, 2 of the 5 games were basically mirror matches, which are usually decided by luck.  He outplayed me in 2 and I outplayed him in 1.  Best of luck to Antonidas going forward!  I think he has what it takes to win the Loser's bracket (sorry Rabid ).  I really enjoyed our 25 minute post-match conversation (though we should have been playing extra games while we had it!).

[SphinX]

SphinX 4-3 over Eevee

Game 1
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-152544-b3897001.html
Game 2
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-153232-3ba40107.html
Game 3
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-153947-f7847ca9.html
Game 4
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-154733-48273596.html
Game 5
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-155708-b7451f92.html
Game 6
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-160532-dcbc2845.html
Game 7
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-161143-59a5ded1.html

[Eevee]

SphinX 4-3 over Eevee

Game 1
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-152544-b3897001.html
Game 2
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-153232-3ba40107.html
Game 3
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-153947-f7847ca9.html
Game 4
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-154733-48273596.html
Game 5
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-155708-b7451f92.html
Game 6
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-160532-dcbc2845.html
Game 7
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/18/game-20130118-161143-59a5ded1.html

Grats and gl for the rest of the tournament!

Game1 :
Brigands fail me again, I don't know. I guess his strategy was stronger then. Someone take a look at this and tell me!

Game2:
Standard IGG rush with navigator. Sphinx fell behind and tried to make a comeback with tactician and hamlet which I thought was questionable but I was so far ahead I don't think it mattered.

Game3:
Silk road - alt vp thing, Sphinx tried to for provinces which I thought was a pretty substantial mistake.

Game4:
Conspirator engine with no card draw. I probably misplay this rather badly, he gets most of the conspirators and generally has a stronger deck. In the end I get a duchy hoping to pile it out on my next turn, but his engine takes off and he takes it down comfortably.

Game5:
It took me way too long to get a second quarry, so I lose the city-split 7-3. Actually still ended one buy short of ending it for a win on turn 11.

Game 6:
I play workshop-gardens with hamlet support, he goes for a wharf engine with torturers that just isn't nowhere near fast enough.

Game 7:
Hoard with gardens, tunnels, fairgrounds and colonies. We have similar decks, but his is a tad better, maybe because of his third hoard.

Interesting boards, pretty much none of the games being province rushes. Sphinx played very well and deserved to advance for sure!

[ibavly]

I beat Qvist 4-3. Almost all the games were very tight, was pretty much a coinflip imo.

Very enjoyable match.

[Qvist]

Very tense games that could have gone either way. First player advantage was big on some boards. I will post the summary and the videos in a couple of hours.

[Qvist]

Ok, I lost 3-4 agains ibavly. We played with identical starting hands, without veto and with the point counter.

Video link:



Game 1: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-014851-5f834735.html ibavly wins 75-12
On a Witch board with Cutpurse and Pirate Ship as the only cards costing less than $5, we both opened Cutpurse/Silver.
He got two Witches in turns 3 and 4 and I had two times $3. The was really nothing I could do to win this game, I think.
I thought about a high variance strategy with Pirate Ship because I will lose the mirror strategy anyway, but I didn't go for it.

Game 2: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-020930-85c0e1e5.html ibavly wins 18-11
We tried to get as many Scrying Pools as possible and some Wishing Wells for the support and a Salvager for trashing. Until then it was basically a mirror match, but he picked up Torturers what I disliked because the discard don't hurt that much. He got 2 Festivals before I got one, what was big, but I could more reliably draw my whole deck sooner.
On turn it gets interesting. I have $17 and could buy 2 Provinces. But I thought it helps me to accelerate the game. So I buy a Province and a Salvager and another Festival, leaving 2 Festivals and 4 Wishing Wells left over. At that point I had only 1 Curse. He couldn't attack me and only buy a Nobles. In turn 14 I draw again the whole deck and thought I could deplete end the game on pile because I thought there are 3 Wishing Wells, not 4. But in the end I was $1 short. In the rewatch I saw that I could have trashed a Festival instead of a Wishing Well giving me exactly 6 buys and $3 more for the win. But anyway, what to do now? I decided to trash the curse instead as I couldn't end on piles anymore. This means I have $18 and 7 buys and a lead of 4 points. What should I buy? I decided to drain the Festivals and buy a Province. Bad choice. I didn't get a good turn and he could end the game in the second next turn. Ok, that game cost me this series. I could win on turn 13 and as I couldn't end it anymore, I should have gotten probably 2 Provinces insetead of trying to drain the piles. I'm still angry at myself about this game.

Game 3: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-022248-465f82e4.html Qvist wins 64-55
Well, this was interesting. This was a Tournament game with Gardens and Duke on the board. There was no good Gardens support and no Duke support either beside of Tournament itself. So it was obvious to me to go for Tournament. I open Tournament/Chancellor and he opens surprisingly Oasis/Navigator. And he went for Duchies already on turn 4. I was surprised about the Duke approach, but decided against it and not contest it and getting the Duchies maybe later with Tournament. Especially with Followers I would slow him down a lot. Unfortunately I only got $7 in turn 6 which will give him more time. I got the Province in the next reshuffle and another one in the next reshuffle. Then I stole 2 Duchies so that he got 6. In turn 13 when I connected the first time my Province I made the mistake and not get the Trusty Steed and buy the last Duchy I think. I then connected again soon and got 4 Silvers most of the time with Trusty Steed to give the possibilty to go for Gardens and still have enough economy for Provinces. In turn 21 I miscalculated again. I thought I don't have enough for a Province, but $2 and 4 Silvers would have been enough and I hope to draw a Tournament to connect my Province. But I could keep the lead because I could boost my Gardens to 5 points each.

Game 4: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-023510-9065b82d.html Qvist wins 43-37
This was a really weak board in general. Minion is the only strong option with Steward for the trashing and the other option is Ironworks/Island. There's also Smugglers on the board. As second player I really wanted to make it dependant from my opponents' opening. He opened Ironworks so I thought he goes for Ironworks/Island, so I opened Ironworks too. The gets a Steward and I buy the Smugglers of course because even if goes for Minions I can smuggle them. And he did. I think then Steward/Silver or Double Steward would have been better for him. We split the Islands 6/2 in my favour. He had a 12 pont lead, but stalled very hard. I could catch up and get a lead. At one point he could have tied and probably should have done it, but I could win in the end.

Game 5: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-024300-f0eed5a1.html ibavly wins 38-27
No real power board either here. There's Trading Post and Grand Market and another time Duke on the board with Feast as support. So open Feast/Silver and trash the Feast for a Trading Post. I'm not sure if Silver/Silver would be better. I got $8 early once and buy a Province, but later on I have several $7 hand in a row while he has several exact $8 hands, pretty lucky I think. I made the mistake to continue buying Treasuries over Golds maybe. I later realise that I could buy Feasts and still put the Treasuries on top of my deck and later trash the Feast for Duchies. That would have been a nice trick, but I think that would have changed much. I think he was very lucky, not sure what I could have done differently. Go for Dukes from the start?

Game 6: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-025556-078dc974.html Qvist wins 41 -31
That's an engine board with Fishing Village, Courtyard, Market and Swindler. I had horrible Swindler luck although my both Swindlers didn't collide. With many cheap cards and also the Curses going down fast, Cities were a possibility. We both picked up few, but neither one of us wanted to deplete a pile. I'm not sure what went wrong for him. I had more Swindler luck later in the game and I picked up way more Courtyards, that was the key difference what might gave me the possibility to catch up and sneak out the win.

Game 7: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-031241-9fce33fa.html ibavly wins 38 - 27
Man, I thought a while here. There was Fishing Village + Watchtower, but no +buy beside of Jester as only support. But on the other side there was Courtyard + BM. I'm no real good BM player, so it was hard for me to decide what would be stronger. I was pretty sure that Fishing Village + Watchtower + Jester is at least as good as Courtyard + BM. As second player I was tempted to go for Courtyard + BM as I saw his Watchtower opening, but I went for the mirror match. Then I got two $7 in a row. ibavly had a big Border Village hit with his Jester giving him 2 Duchies in a turn. I was in the lead with 1 point when he gave me a Curse with his Jester and bought the second last Province. But in my turn I couldn't buy a Province for the tie because I've drawn all my Victory cards and all the good cards were in the turn after that. He could end the game and won because of first player advantage (I think so).


Good luck for the rest of the tournament ibavly.

[Zem]

Round 5 match BE: Zauberer beats Zem 4-3

Well, that was a short tournament Good luck to zaubererer for the next round!

game 1: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-071734-5201a360.html zaubererer: 43 points - Zem: 32 points
cards in supply: Council Room, Counting House, Farmland, Harvest, Hoard, Lighthouse, Oracle, Stash, Trade Route, and Witch
I failed to utilize Farmland properly. At one point for example I played all my money, including my hoard, then tried to undo the hoard to buy a farmland, stupid mistake, but probably not game-deciding.

game 2: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-072853-1f4ca568.html zaubererer: 45 points - Zem: 34 points
cards in supply: Caravan, Develop, Embassy, Farmland, Harvest, Nobles, Nomad Camp, Oracle, Village, and Worker's Village
I think this would have gone better with just big-money-Embassy.

game 3: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-074207-9d761fd9.html Zem: 68 points - zaubererer: 57 points
cards in supply: Bridge, Cartographer, Colony, Courtyard, Embargo, Embassy, Haggler, Monument, Platinum, Secret Chamber, Silk Road, and Walled Village
zaubererer went for a bridge engine with silk roads, but it went off too late. I probably should have embargoed the silk roads.

game 4: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-080111-f772b978.html zaubererer: 42 points - Zem: 32 points
cards in supply: Cellar, Develop, Golem, Island, Margrave, Market, Menagerie, Pawn, Potion, Spy, and Village

game 5: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-080553-aa9ff872.html zaubererer: resigned
cards in supply: Bureaucrat, Colony, Counting House, Envoy, Expand, Inn, Pawn, Platinum, Remake, Tunnel, Warehouse, and Worker's Village
Clear tunnel board. I think it is best to delay buying the tunnels for a couple turns until the engine is running

game 6: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-081604-93e30286.html Zem: 37 points - zaubererer: 22 points
cards in supply: Bazaar, Cartographer, Conspirator, Cutpurse, Hamlet, Nobles, Peddler, Potion, Secret Chamber, Vault, and Vineyard
secret chamber came in handy a few times against cutpurse.

game 7: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201301/19/game-20130119-082600-d9069b42.html zaubererer: 73 points - Zem: 37 points
cards in supply: Border Village, Colony, Laboratory, Masquerade, Monument, Platinum, Remodel, Royal Seal, Stables, Trader, Wharf, and Workshop
Border Village-Wharf engines. I really really really should not have opened with that Trader.

[mith]

All upsets so far this round... This is a good trend.

[Qvist]

All upsets so far this round... This is a good trend.

I have to disappoint you. I didn't manage to achieve an upset. So, maybe you won't do either. 

[mith]

Ah, missed those posts entirely. So one match left, and we're scheduled for tomorrow.

[mith]

mith 4-1 Rabid

Game 1: Rabid resigned-41 mith
Game 2: Rabid 30-34 mith
Game 3: Rabid 39-52 mith
Game 4: Rabid 34-20 mith
Game 5: mith 49-43 Rabid

Game 1 - 4 different Tunnel enablers in this one. Rabid opened Lookout/Potion into Apothecary, while I opened Lookout/Sea Hag. We only ended up with two Curses each, his Apothecary engine never materialized while I transitioned into Ventures (which took a long time to hit, but I had a few Gold through Lookout anyway, and had trashed some Coppers, so Provinces buys were easy).

Game 2- Chapel/Silver? vs. Chapel/Royal Seal - RS is strictly better than Silver, so I guess he must have just overlooked it. Anyway, Expand and Farmland are both on the board, plus Council Room for big draws, and fortunate to hit a double Farmland buy on my last turn to take the last two Provinces. Expand seemed difficult to use here, with no +Actions; wondering if it would have been better to skip it.

Game 3 - City/Apprentice/Border Village, with some Monuments on the side. I screwed up the City timing twice (accidentally drawing one too many cards to reshuffle with most of my good cards in play, where he could have taken a 6-4 City split, and later emptying both Border Village and City piles in a dangerous spot). I was careful about not taking too many Provinces once the Citys were powered, and bought some Banks instead which allowed me a megaturn to end it.

Game 4 - I saw the engine here, but thought a couple Silver would help to get to Mountebank faster (which was pretty irrelevant once the engine was going, with Remake to trash). Stayed in it as long as I could with Duchies, but it was over from the opening buys.

Game 5 - He went for Philosopher's Stone into Duchy/Duke, while I built up a pile of Lighthouses and Minions, pretty much ensuring I had a Lighthouse in play every turn to protect from Mountebank and Swindler. I jumped out to a comfortable lead with Provinces while he took a 6-2 Duchy split, then I made sure I could end the game on piles (or deny him enough Dukes).

Thanks for the series, Rabid!

[Rabid]

Thanks for the match.
You truly are my nemesis 1-9 now

Game 1,
My plan was to use apothecary to set up the lookout tunnel.
I drew Potion +1$ so many times.

Game 2:
Yep I completely missing Royal Seal here.
Also miss clicked on turn 4, failing to trash an estate!

Game 3:
I fail to draw $5 on turns 3 or 4.

Game 4:
Yep I agree mountebank is not very important on this board.

Game 5:
I really like Phil stone against Mountebank.
But failed to adjust for Minion.

Very well played set by Mith.
Good luck in the next round.

[Qvist]

I'm impressed. Congrats mith. Now I was the only one who didn't manage an upset. 

[lespeutere]

Oh, you did...
When did you join the rats division? ;-)

[mith]

Matchups will be official tomorrow, but if we don't get anyone else, we'll have:

ibavly vs. mith
zaubererer vs. SphinX
Antonidas vs. BYE

The zaubererer vs. SphinX winner would get next round's bye (making it a de facto semifinal).

If we get one more person:

____ vs. mith
ibavly vs. SphinX
zaubererer vs. Antonidas (winner gets next bye)

[mith]

Alright, no new signups, and with the third place match in the main tournament we'll close entry here, which means our complete bracket is now set.

[Insomniac]

That was an interesting round of upsets to say the least.