Overall: jaybeez - Tonks77 4:2
Game 1 (0:1):
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jaybeez 30 - Tonks77 41
Treasure map/warehouse against Hunting parties with Navigator. Although my treasure maps activate quite late, I can also buy some hunting parties and a gonns later. Goons gave brought the win with extra VP and extra buy.
Game 2 (0:2):
jaybeez 15 - Tonks77 45
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There was much going on in this one with Festival, Bazaar, JoaT, Wharf, KC, Young witch and possession. When jaybeez bought a potention I found it was time to go green and also buy another young witch.
Game 3 (1:2):
jaybeez 27 - Tonks77 24
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jaybeez had a 5-2-start and could buy 3 IGGs before I got my first. With the help of remakes and salvager I could still make it a close one, but in the end I didn't have much of a chance here.
Game 4 (2:2):
Tonks77 33 - jaybeez 50
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Although I win the Ambassador war, jay's deck has more buying power due to conspirators and schemes. My rabbles fail to do much damage to his deck.
Game 5 (3:2)
Tonks77 31 - jaybeez 37
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Vault opening against double-swindler opening. Although I can luckily get 2 golds in T3 and T4 with my vault, I get most of my coppers swindled into curses. In T20 I have 9$ in hand, duchies and estates are already gone and I am exactly 6 VP behind. So buying the last province would have lost me the game. My only hope to win was to give out another curse to jaybeez, so I had to buy another swindler with 9$. Then next turn jaybeez swindled a province of mine into the last province and so won the game
Game 6 (4:2)
Tonks77 27 - jaybeez 33
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Interesting BM-game with wharves. Ambassador and masquerade. While I went for masquerade, jaybeez opended ambassador. He managed to develop more buying power. Also I had a bit too many masquerades(2) and wharves(4), so they drew each other dead quite often.
Thanks to jaybeez for 6 great games and good luck for the next rounds.
Whoops, we had a little miscommunication here. I typed up a summary too. But rather than letting all that go to waste I'll post it here anyway.
jaybeez defeats Tonks77, 4-2
Rules: No veto mode, official point counter enabled, no Chrome PCE, no identical starting hands.
This is my first Dominion tournament and my first round was a thrill, but also gave me a bit of a scare. I played very poorly in the first two games, and after the second, I was thinking I was going to get swept. But I squeaked out a chintzy win in Game 3, and won the next three pretty handily, although with all due respect to Tonks77, he still made every game interesting, I didn't feel like I had any of the games completely under control except Game 4.
Game 1
Tonks77 41 - jaybeez 30
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/08/game-20121208-110651-f1a54b9b.htmlI wasn't sure what to do with this board, so I go for HP+Navigator, which was almost certainly a mistake. Tonks77 goes Treasure Map/Warehouse and gets his TMs to line up in T7; I think I played badly, handling my reshuffles poorly with Navigator.
Game 2
Tonks77 45 - jaybeez 15
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/08/game-20121208-111725-6d7463d1.htmlI get some pretty bad shuffle luck on this one (and Tonks77 gets some good shuffle luck, lining his single King's Court up with a Wharf twice), but ultimately it was not luck, I was outplayed. Tonks77 had 4 Provinces (edit: actually 2 but he double-Provinced on his next turn) when I bought my first Possession, which I should not have even thought about going for, as Jack and Wharf accelerated the game so much. I ignored YW too, which was dumb. Really, don't look at this log. I'm just embarrassed.
Game 3
jaybeez 27 - Tonks77 24
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/08/game-20121208-112617-f649fbc2.htmlIGG, no other Cursers on the board. I get a 5/2, Tonks77 gets 4/3. You know the rest. Although actually hats off to Tonks77 because he made it pretty close, I almost didn't win this one.
Game 4
jaybeez 50 - Tonks77 33
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/08/game-20121208-115132-3a834126.htmlI enjoyed this game the most. Really interesting board: Ambassador, Conspirator, Duchess, Great Hall, Haggler, Hamlet, Herbalist, Rabble, Scheme, and Trade Route. Tonks77 goes double-Amb, I go Amb-Scheme, my thought being that I want to be able to start playing activated Conspirators as soon as possible, and that topdecking the Amb early on will keep me from falling too far behind in Ambassador Tennis. I'm able to grab a Haggler on T4 which I planned to use for stuff like Great Hall/Hamlet and Conspirator/Scheme buys, and I think it worked out pretty well. Tonks77 gets a Rabble with his first $5 turn, and I think that plus the fact that he didn't buy a Conspirator until T15 is what mostly made the difference. By having a Haggler and a couple Conspirators earlier, I was able to ramp up my economy much faster while keeping my deck lean(er) by avoiding buying Treasure cards. I'm pretty happy with this win, I think I played it well.
Game 5
jaybeez 37 - Tonks77 31
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/08/game-20121208-120003-6d0696d0.htmlI think my victory was again mostly due to the fact that we had different starting hands. I get 4/3 and opened double-Swindler (and they didn't collide either, I had some luck). Tonks77 goes Vault/nothing, which I think was the right move on a 5/2 here, but he also made what I think were a couple significant mistakes: he buys a Swindler on T6 with $5 (I would've bought another Vault I think), and a Trader on T8, which did allow him to avoid gaining a Curse once but other than that did not help him all that much. The ending of this game was pretty interesting: he had gone first, and the score was 37-31, my favor, with one Province left and all the Duchies and Estates gone. So on T20 he bought a Swindler for $9 which was of course the only buy that made sense, which I found kind of amusing. And on the very next turn, I ended the game not by buying the last Province, but by Swindling one of his Provinces.
Game 6
jaybeez 33 - Tonks77 27
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201212/08/game-20121208-120640-30d5b99d.htmlI though about going with Bishop here, so I could build a lead by crunching the Estates I got from his Amb or Masq (I knew he'd buy at least one of those two). But I thought better of it, as it probably would have been too slow. I wasn't sure what to do for an opening with Amb, Masq, and Caravan all on the board. I decide to go Amb/Caravan, and transition to a Wharf-BM strategy. He goes Masq/Caravan, and I'm not sure, but I think Amb is much better with Caravan than Masq is. I get a Wharf on T4, another on T6, which is all I need with my nice trim deck, and go for money and VP from there. I win pretty handily, as he goes overboard on the terminals (4 Wharves and 2 Masquerades at game's end).
Anyway, thanks you Tonks77 for being a friendly and gracious opponent. I really enjoyed our match!