His turn 8 seems ridiculous. So does going for woodcutter herbalist over pawn as +buy. With shanty town festival, pawn would give much better options. Even tournament would. It looks like he kept getting stuck with 2 shanty town two action card turns. Piling out was an obvious risk he totally ignored. I think with goons on board, starting with it is the obvious play. And in a mirror match it more or less automatically becomes a goons game. But had you mirrored his vineyard rush, you'd both have only half as many actions and a fast pile-out and it would be much more luck based, who drew potion first or who started greening when the piles started running low.