In other news...

TH and I played a Timed game IDENTICALLY earlier. Siiick. Look at the top of the Normal Last 24 hours leaderboard.

I'm at the top of the Normal list, but you two are close.

In fact, I'm on top of all 3 front page daily lists right now. That's how good I am.

Kokiri

Just sayin'

I hate you. I only need 28 points now for mine.

After like one entire week of trainwrecks finally a good DC.
I am below 1460 goddammit

Treep

but not for long I fear

If you win the first round, we will have a match where one player has won 100 % of tournaments matches, and the other 0 %, so based on that you would be infinitely better than me.

Well, the newest player is number 633, Zac is 11, not sure if all numbers are used, but there are probably more than 600 registered players. Active players are a different matter alltogether though.

Maybe I just don't remember, but it had been a long time since I had seen someone other than me be 1st on all three daily leaderboards at the same time. So well done!



Game links:
http://triplechain.net/reconstruct?chain_id=1166094
http://triplechain.net/reconstruct?chain_id=1166098

Yea, it is a tough field, with short matches there could be a lot of upsets. Don't know what to do with the predictions, picking the player more likely to win should be +EV, but at the same time I would like to do a lot of surprise picks.

I predict I will, I mean I should lose at some point, not sure if this will be reflected with the official picks though.

Also this is major spoiler regarding your predictions, based on that, it is very obvious that you picked yourself to lose

I thought it might be interesting to follow how I do in DCs over time, so I made a spreadsheet to keep stats. Even though it might look complex (edit. actually it doesn't even look complex in the screenshot without any of the formulas visible), it is the opposite, very simple. It just calculates the basic stats (from three data sources: number of players, position and players you tied with), doesn't do much else (automatic color coding for win % though!). There are two optional other things to follow with regards to 9th rack luck, one of them is easy to follow, other needs some additional estimations/calculations. I still need to add a few things, but if anyone is interested in following their play at DCs, I could write quick instructions and upload it. It was made with openoffice, screenshot below.




And last. Note to self/general strategy tip: Do NOT play the DC while drunk.

kokiri and Treep will start hanging out with the other red squares now and forget all about their old blue square friends.

FYI Treep and TH10, your predictions are incomplete. Anyone else who wants to enter a bracket, you still have a couple days to do it.

I predict that I'll come back to the blue squares at least once

What happened to the chat? It seems to have disappeared. Or is the problem at my end?

gone for me as well

+1

Tourney time! The predictions are locked and we are ready to go. Feel free to start playing your first round matches.

Shocking no one, TH10 is the favorite in the predictions with 8 of 14 brackets having him at the top. Here's a list of everyone who was picked to make the final four in at least one bracket (with 1st/2nd/final four predictions):

TH10 (8/4/1)
Paul101 (2/4/3)
Alex (2/2/6)
krohn (0/1/5)
mrgibson (0/0/8)
Derwi (0/1/2)
Zac (0/1/1)
Gaby (0/1/0)
ibavly (1/0/1)
Popcorn (0/0/1)
Triplechang (1/0/0)

No love for me... It's ok, I can get over it, adults move on that's what I'm doing right now, I'm moving on.

I CAN'T DO IT, YOU KNOW I TRIED, I TRIED, BUT IT HURTS ME SO BAD IT HURTS ME DEEP DOWN INSIDE, YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR BRACKETS WITHOUT ME.

Bah

I deserved to win the challenge of 28-01

I was the only one in the top 4 not needing a 6 in the last rack for a topscore.

EDIT: BOOM! Lets see if I can win today then!

Was there any final ruling on number of games per round or did I miss it? How many games do we need to play now?

Ah good point. Same rules as last tournament, so 4 of 7 until the semis then 6 of 11. I didn't hear enough support for a longer format to change things.

71,000

hell yes, about time

Congrats!

Welcome to the club!

thanks, TH10.

TH10 I hate you

First again

It smells like another excellent, but not winning score.
I wonder who will show up and smack me in teh phace.

Now I'm first

but I thought my score was horrible when I finished

Don't want to be a killjoy, but this is definitely tmi.