Topic: IsoDom 2 Invitational Sign-Up Closed (Read 34962 times)

michaeljb · « **Reply #25 on:** September 23, 2011, 01:15:59 pm »

So after this round will the two players left in each division play each other? If that's the case, would it be too early for ehunt and I to play if we happen to find ourselves on Isotropic at the same time, or should I just be patient and wait for the first round to actually conclude?

pooka · « **Reply #26 on:** September 23, 2011, 04:17:38 pm »

@ Anon, We started a game with incorrect parameters before that.

I did some really weird things, like I totally would have gone Bridge/Village in the first game except Barsooma wasn't buying Villages at the start, and that confused me so I was trying to follow what he did. Which is a great way to come in second.

Trouble is, I wasn't watching closely. I don't consistently read every turn the other player makes, and I knew I needed to in order to not completely embarass myself.

"Follow the leader" happened again in the third game, when, having my stash stack, I failed to buy more chancellors and instead started flailing about for cards that would cycle my deck. After 3 or 4 turns of that I realized I just needed Chancellors but of course it was too late.

Davio · « **Reply #27 on:** September 23, 2011, 04:52:41 pm »

I played TheParty a couple of minutes ago and we both started the first game with incorrect parameters.
We both accepted the result however and I ended up beating him 3-0.

He was a good sport, even though I was lucky (and he was unlucky) enough in a couple of spots and he made some mistakes which were likely caused by brainfuzziness. He admitted to at least one misclick in the 3rd game and one miscount in the 2nd game where we used the point counter.

But it's 22:50 here, so if anybody should be complaining about having a hard time concentrating, it should be me, not the guy for who it's only 15:00.

Brando Commando · « **Reply #28 on:** September 25, 2011, 10:28:41 am »

From our "Expected Outcomes Department", I lost 1-3 to MMM this morning. I missed one the of the game logs, but here are three of them:

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201109/25/game-20110925-072416-88b79b03.html

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201109/25/game-20110925-071342-bb25cbb9.html

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201109/25/game-20110925-070335-c495e528.html

Thanks to MMM, a gracious winner.

Mean Mr Mustard · « **Reply #29 on:** September 25, 2011, 10:36:02 am »

Thank you for the games. They were closer than it seems, and we were 2-2 without some good luck on that last hand. GG's.

shark_bait · « **Reply #30 on:** September 25, 2011, 10:18:33 pm »

greatexpectations and I just finished. I forgot to save the game logs, but I'll post the council room ones tomorrow. It ended up going 4 games. First one was a familiar game, expectations got unlucky and missed the first familiar purchase. Second one was a tactician game with hamlet and a few other virtual money cards. I think they were merchant ship, jester and cutpurse. Third one was was a montebank type game. Last one was an island/BM type of game.

Mean Mr Mustard · « **Reply #31 on:** September 25, 2011, 10:43:30 pm »

Once CR updates I will post the final results of round 1. Thanks everyone for finishing your matches. Round 2 starts tomorrow.

michaeljb · « **Reply #32 on:** September 26, 2011, 02:17:04 am »

Quote from: Mean Mr Mustard on September 25, 2011, 10:43:30 pm

Round 2 starts tomorrow.

Hurray!

Mean Mr Mustard · « **Reply #33 on:** September 26, 2011, 05:32:15 am »

Quote from: Mean Mr Mustard on September 20, 2011, 03:06:18 pm

ROUND 2 Please complete matches by Tues. Oct 3

Division A
shark-bait(1) vs.
Davio(3)

Division B
ehunt(1) vs.
michaeljb(2)

Division C
Cminer(3)
Barsooma(2)

Division D
boloni(2)
Mean Mr Mustard(1)

theParty · « **Reply #34 on:** September 26, 2011, 05:45:04 pm »

Congrats to Davio - he played well. I didn't.

Thanks for organizing this Mustard! Was fun to be a part of, however short lived my stay in this tournament was.

Mean Mr Mustard · « **Reply #35 on:** September 29, 2011, 09:51:23 pm »

We have our first semi-finalist! Congrats Michaeljb on unseating ehunt, a worthy opponent. ehunt, thank you very much for playing!

CMiner · « **Reply #36 on:** September 30, 2011, 11:42:58 am »

Congrats to Barsooma. Close games all around.

Still kicking myself for losing game 3. Forgot I went first, thought I was forcing a tie...

barsooma · « **Reply #37 on:** September 30, 2011, 11:51:26 am »

Quote from: CMiner on September 30, 2011, 11:42:58 am

Congrats to Barsooma. Close games all around.

Still kicking myself for losing game 3. Forgot I went first, thought I was forcing a tie...

Yep it was a close match.. overall I feel like CMiner outplayed me, the first game which he won was the only blowout, where I ignored vineyards far too long.
Will edit in the logs once councilroom updates.

EDIT:
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110930-081207-e7675681.html
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110930-081657-6bdb6ef3.html
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110930-082526-cc890555.html
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110930-083612-cbd7005e.html
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110930-084059-b36c7ac0.html

Anon79 · « **Reply #38 on:** October 01, 2011, 10:14:53 am »

ehunt, I'm curious: in Game 2 against michaeljb, what was your thought process on skipping Mountebank? I usually assume that once Mountebank is on the board I would have to get one or two, so am interested in hearing cases and circumstances under which one could forgo Mountebank (even though it wasn't successful here).

ehunt · « **Reply #39 on:** October 01, 2011, 02:23:37 pm »

I was thinking I wanted to lose :-).

Actually, what I was thinking was that I could enjoy a megaforge turn before the mountebank could do too much damage; however, caravan is too weak at drawing to facilitate a sufficiently early megaforge turn to counter something as painful to the deck as mountebank, and so this was just foolish.

My gut is that this approach is definitely right if you replace mountebank with sea hag and caravan with laboratory, sometimes right if you replace mountebank with sea hag but leave caravan alone, and definitely wrong in the game I played it (michaeljb's draws aren't very lucky at all). Maybe some simulation data would be helpful - just now, I searched councilroom records for every time I've tried to pull this and it seems to come down against me a lot.

WanderingWinder · « **Reply #40 on:** October 01, 2011, 02:51:25 pm »

The only one card that often makes mega-forge work for me without other help, I've found, is tactician. Of course, any kind of big engine is also good.

chwhite · « **Reply #41 on:** October 01, 2011, 05:26:32 pm »

Quote from: Anon79 on October 01, 2011, 10:14:53 am

ehunt, I'm curious: in Game 2 against michaeljb, what was your thought process on skipping Mountebank? I usually assume that once Mountebank is on the board I would have to get one or two, so am interested in hearing cases and circumstances under which one could forgo Mountebank (even though it wasn't successful here).

Mountebank is so rarely skippable. Two cards that can make skipping Mountebank a good idea are Sea Hag and Counting House, and oh look this sample game has both of 'em!

http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20110901-113804-d99bff63.html

biopower · « **Reply #42 on:** October 01, 2011, 05:45:38 pm »

The opening buy of Fortune Teller probably did not help you at all; other than the lucky turn where you managed to discard both mountebanks at once, it just provided free deck cycling which let him get to his mountebanks faster.

Mean Mr Mustard · « **Reply #43 on:** October 02, 2011, 09:57:08 am »

In a battle that went 2-2 I had a tough fifth match against Boloni. He played very well but I eked out the win. Thanks so much for playing Boloni.

I'll update the results section with the games when I have time, hopefully this evening.

shark_bait · « **Reply #44 on:** October 02, 2011, 12:36:31 pm »

Davio and I finished up our matches yesterday. The logs are posted below.

Game 1: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111001-111948-b0ab9ec3.html

16 - 16 Tie

Game 2: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111001-112820-034c27b5.html

64 - 48 Shark_bait Win

Game 3: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111001-113306-fda2756d.html

57 - 44 Davio Win

Game 4: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111001-113819-8dbd8b15.html

44 - 21 Shark_bait Win

Game 5: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111001-114349-69578930.html

30 - 28 Shark_bait Win

Davio · « **Reply #45 on:** October 02, 2011, 03:00:15 pm »

Well done, shark_bait.

To be honest, my heart wasn't in it and I was pretty tired from my first football match in months (real fans refuse to call it soccer and a sport in which you mostly use your hands shouldn't be called football!). No excuses though, 'cause shark_bait was the better player.

I took some chances in some games, but they didn't go my way.

Good luck during the rest of the tourney, all of you.

Mean Mr Mustard · « **Reply #46 on:** October 03, 2011, 03:51:50 am »

Quote from: Mean Mr Mustard on September 20, 2011, 03:06:18 pm

SEMIFINAL ROUND Please have your games posted by Tues. Oct 11

shark-bait(1)
vs.
michaeljb(2)

Barsooma(2)
vs.
Mean Mr Mustard(1)

shark_bait · « **Reply #47 on:** October 07, 2011, 09:18:30 am »

Thanks to michaeljb to playing. He's a great opponent and I had an awesome time playing with him.

Game 1: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111006-180815-52dc9d98.html

Game 2: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111006-181608-11b5d9c2.html

Game 3: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111006-182133-868b0f26.html

Game 4: http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20111006-182653-dabb421d.html

michaeljb · « **Reply #48 on:** October 07, 2011, 01:06:57 pm »

Congrats to shark_bait, those were some fun games. If I could have the Ambassador one back I might pick up an early Potion to go for Alchemists to more consistently draw the Ambassadors, but I suspect (as I did at the beginning of the game) it might be too slow to work.

Well played, and good luck in the finals

DG · « **Reply #49 on:** October 08, 2011, 11:04:28 am »

Actually, if you look at that ambassador game there's a rather mighty alchemist deck just asking to be built. You could probably give away a five province lead and still win.

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