Well, it seems nobody is, so I'm not trying again

My March 31st DC. It takes a special kind of senility to have 3 numbers left and still not notice the misclick...

Plus, FYI, I discovered the "I formation" opening sucks pretty bad..lol

March 2022 DC Highlights

	DC Points
Derwi	277
wafflesobv	213
Dynasty	208
SmalltownBoy	203
arjun13	196
mrgibson	192
SubArcticK	187
Hg80	179
Popcorn	175
nails	174

	DC Wins
Derwi	5
Popcorn	4
Dynasty	4
Hg80	3
anton-09	3
Donk4	3
13 players	2

Monthly Race

• Derwi ran away with the March DC race, though it was closer than the final scores indicated. For much of the month, it was a four-way battle at the top between Derwi, wafflesobv, SmalltownBoy, and nails. However, Derwi posted three wins in the final six days of the month to pull away from the pack. Derwi led the field in wins (5) and top-5 scores (14). It was Derwi’s sixth monthly DC win, tied for seventh-most overall.
  
• wafflesobv finished second in March, posting 11 top-4 scores (tied for second-most behind Derwi). All 15 of his top-10 scores were seventh place or better. waffles has finished in the top 10 in 14 out of the past 17 monthly DC races.
  
• Dynasty, SmalltownBoy, and arjun13 rounded out the top five, separated by just 12 points. Dynasty rolled up the leaderboard late in the month thanks to three wins and two other top-10 scores in the last six days. StB had only one win but was consistently in the top 10 throughout the month, with 11 top-5 scores and at least one finish in each of the top 10 places. As with Dynasty, arjun’s fifth-place finish resulted from some late-month heroics, including one win and five other top-10 scores in the final nine days of the month.
  
• Among the rest of the top 10, mrgibson (sixth place) had 11 top-4 scores and only one other top-10 finish (10th); SubArcticK (seventh) tied with arjun for the most top-10 scores (19) during the month; and nails (10th) scored 159 DC points through St. Patrick’s Day, and then 15 points over the last two weeks of the month. shamsnemesis, dogfloss, and velourfog finished just outside the top 10.

Milestones

• wafflesobv surpassed 500 yearly race points in March, becoming the 12th player to do so.
• On March 15, Hg80 played in his 3,000th DC, the 12th player to reach this milestone.
• On March 2, mrgibson played in his 2,000th DC, the 24th player to reach this milestone.

Stat of the Month

• 12: The 30/03/2022 DC featured 12 winners, the 16th time that a DC had at least 12 winners. (The record is 19, set twice – most recently on 25/05/2021.)

2022 Yearly Race

	Yearly Race
Dynasty	40
arjun13	36
SmalltownBoy	35
wafflesobv	30
Derwi	29
dogfloss	25
Guessinator	18
SubArcticK	16
anton-09	15
nails	13

	DC Wins
Derwi	9
anton-09	8
dogfloss	7
arjun13	7
consul	7
Dynasty	7
wafflesobv	6
SubArcticK	6
Bandwagon	6
mrgibson	6

	DC Points
arjun13	550
SmalltownBoy	550
wafflesobv	541
Derwi	503
SubArcticK	496
Dynasty	495
dogfloss	472
nails	472
mrgibson	463
anton-09	453

2022 TC DC Stats

TC DC Hall of Fame

My first month win since September 2014, crazy.

I won only one DC

**** March

For anyone ever doing DC points from a Free for All (like Battle Royale) or something similar, I was able to come up with a nice base formula. Of course I didn't really come up with it myself, but I found someone on the net who was tracking similar types stats and I was able to tweak the formula to fit the DC points.. ie 25 points for 1st, 18 for 2nd, etc.... It also handles ties properly.

Best part is that once I import the BattleRoyale results into excel from the TC site, the DC points are calculated immediately. Previously I had a process that was pretty time consuming.

I know lots of you are very knowledgeable with respect to excel, but thought I would share it anyway.


=IF(RANK(B2,B2:W2)<11,LOOKUP(RANK(B2,B2:W2),{1,2,3 ,4,5,6,7,8,9,10},{25,18,15,12,10,8,6,4,2,1}),"")

Below is a link to Battle Royale VIII stats. I just dropped everything in excel into sheets.

Battle Royale VIII

April 25th DC.....


Gabe was gone for so long I almost forgot he despised 3s more than I do...

Registration is now open for the World Cup of TripleChain, the second major of 2022. The winner gets a baby blue trophy!

The World Cup will have a league-play format based on the Daily Challenge, which was instituted for the first time in 2021. Participating in the World Cup involves nothing more than playing the DC each day.

Here’s how it works:

• Each World Cup participant will play head-to-head against a different World Cup participant in the DC each day, until everyone has played every other participant once. I will put together a randomized schedule prior to the start of league play.
• You get 2 points for a win (i.e., outscoring your opponent in the DC), 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss or DNP (did not play).
• Once the head-to-head play is complete, the top 8 in the league standings will be put into a seeded playoff bracket to decide the winner. Tiebreakers for seeding and/or playoff spots will be (1) head-to-head results, (2) total points across head-to-head games, and (3) total points across all league games.
• Each head-to-head playoff match-up will be a three-game series, still using the DC and the same 2/1/0 scoring. If any matches are tied after three DCs, the next day’s DC (and beyond if needed) will be used to break the tie.

Because this is a DC-based tournament, there is no traditional way to sign up on the TripleChain site. The only way to register is to post in this thread or in the TC chatroll that you want to register for the World Cup. The deadline for signing up is 11:59 pm EDT on May 7 (3:59 am GMT on May 8). I will build the schedule of games on May 8, and tourney play will begin with the May 9 DC.

Depending on the number of entries, league play should last through the remainder of May, and the playoffs will likely run in early June. I will create a Google spreadsheet to track the results; a link to the sheet will be posted in the Tourney News section, as will semi-regular updates throughout the competition.

Heh

That was not a success.

it seems everytime I approach orange, I start producing bottoms

In for the WC

I play DC's only with SB, but want my trophies on Gaby

in for WC

Three more days to sign up for the World Cup of TC. Game play will start with the May 9 DC.

Here are the 15 players registered so far:

arjun13
Bandwagon
Cherrycin
consul
Derwi
dogfloss
Dos
Hg80
nails
NP
SmalltownBoy (trophy to Gaby if he wins)
quaspl
SubArcticK
velourfog
wafflesobv

April 2022 DC Highlights

	DC Points
arjun13	272
SmalltownBoy	260
SubArcticK	219
velourfog	200
wafflesobv	196
Hg80	190
Derwi	181
nails	180
mrgibson	177
Popcorn	175

	DC Wins
arjun13	6
SmalltownBoy	5
SubArcticK	5
Hg80	4
Popcorn	4
velourfog	3
wafflesobv	3
Derwi	3
nails	3
mrgibson	3
quaspl	3
mikeb	3

Monthly Race

• arjun13 won the April DC race after a tight month-long battle with SmalltownBoy. arjun posted 19 top-10 scores, second only to StB, but his 13 top-5 scores and six wins (including two in the last eight DCs) led the table. The monthly win was arjun's 26th, the most all-time, and he extended his record streak in the top 10 to 43 consecutive months.
  
• SmalltownBoy finished in second place in April but led the standings for much of the month. StB had the most top-10 scores (20), the second-most top-5 scores (11), and managed to finish in every top-10 position except 10th during the month. It was StB's third consecutive top-4 finish and ninth straight top-10 finish.
  
• SubArcticK, velourfog, and wafflesobv rounded out the top five. SubArcticK posted five wins, tied for second with StB, and held off a late charge from v-fog and waffles to finish third overall. velourfog had 17 top-10 scores, including a win and second place on the last two days of the month. waffles' third consecutive top-5 finish featured 16 top-10 scores and eight top-3 finishes.
  
• Among the rest of the top 10, Hg80 (6th) and Popcorn (10th) tied for the fourth-most wins with four, while nails (9th) finished in the top 10 for the fourth consecutive month, the third-longest active streak (behind arjun and StB). dogfloss (who had 16 top-10 scores but only one in the top 2), Bandwagon, and quaspl finished just outside the top 10.

Milestones

• On April 3, shamsnemesis became the 25th player to play his 2000th DC.
• On April 11, Popcorn won her 200th DC, the 14th player to reach this milestone.
• On April 21, mikeb played in his 3,500th DC, the seventh player to do so.

Stat of the Month

• 24.7: The average number of DC players in April, a six-month low.

2022 Yearly Race

	Yearly Race
arjun13	61
SmalltownBoy	53
Dynasty	40
wafflesobv	40
Derwi	35
SubArcticK	31
dogfloss	25
Guessinator	20
nails	17
anton-09	15

	DC Wins
arjun13	13
Derwi	12
SubArcticK	11
SubArcticK	10
anton-09	9
Dynasty	9
wafflesobv	9
Hg80	9
Popcorn	9
5 players	8

	DC Points
arjun13	822
SmalltownBoy	810
wafflesobv	737
SubArcticK	715
Derwi	684
nails	652
dogfloss	637
Dynasty	620
velourfog	611
Hg80	580

2022 TC DC Stats

TC DC Hall of Fame

Thanks nails

There is an excess of SubArctick and a lack of SmalltownBoy in the DC wins table

So there is. Oops.

Here's the corrected table:

	DC Wins
arjun13	13
Derwi	12
SubArcticK	11
SmalltownBoy	10
anton-09	9
Dynasty	9
wafflesobv	9
Hg80	9
Popcorn	9
5 players	8

Less than 24 hours to sign up for the World Cup of TC. 16 players registered so far:

arjun13
Bandwagon
Cherrycin
consul
Derwi
dogfloss
Donk4
Dos
Hg80
nails
NP
SmalltownBoy (trophy to Gaby if he wins)
quaspl
SubArcticK
velourfog
wafflesobv

Hey all -- I'm pushing back the start of the World Cup of TripleChain until the May 11 DC. The timing works better for me in terms of being able to manage the playoffs. If anyone else wants to enter in the meantime, let me know in the next day or so.

In for the World Cup

May 2022 DC Highlights

	DC Points
Dynasty	233
SubArcticK	205
Bandwagon	194
mrgibson	193
Donk4	184
anton-09	181
dogfloss	171
wafflesobv	171
velourfog	169
consul	167

	DC Wins
Dynasty	6
mrgibson	6
quaspl	4
dogfloss	4
Bandwagon	3
Guessinator	3
9 players	2

Monthly Race

• Dynasty won a closely contested May DC race. Dynasty led the table with six wins and 11 top-5 scores, but he took over the lead with a second-place score on May 30 and pulled away by winning the May 31 DC. It was Dynasty's 23rd monthly DC win, tying him with Paul101 for second-most in DC history.
  
• SubArcticK finished in second place in May. SubArc had 17 top-10 scores and 10 top-5 finishes, but only two DC wins for the month. It was SubArc's third top-5 finish this year.
  
• Bandwagon, mrgibson, and Donk4 rounded out the top five. Like SubArcticK, Bandwagon had 17 top-10 scores and 10 top-5 finishes. mrgibson had just 11 top-10 scores, but six of them were wins, tied with Dynasty for the most in May. Donk4 rallied into the top five thanks to two wins and four other top-10 scores in the final six days of the month, which constituted just under half of his total points for the month.
  
• Among the rest of the top 10, dogfloss (7th) had just 10 top-10 scores, but nine of them were in the top four; velourfog (9th) had 17 top-10 finishes but just one win; and consul (10th) made his first appearance in the top 10 since November 2021.
  
• arjun13 finished 11th, missing the top 10 by just seven points. As a result, arjun's all-time record streak of 43 consecutive monthly top-10 finishes came to an end. The streak dated back to October 2018 and is a full year longer than the second-longest streak. quaspl and Derwi were also just outside the top 10.

Milestones

• On May 7, consul became the eighth player to play in 3,500 DCs.
• On May 10, Popcorn became the ninth player to play in 3,500 DCs.
• On May 10, shamsnemesis won his 100th DC, becoming the 26th player to reach this milestone.
• Hg80 became the 13th player to reach 15,000 DC points.

Stat of the Month

• 19: Derwi had 19 top-10 scores in May, which was the most of any player during the month, but he never won a DC. That's the most top-10 scores in a month without a win since nails did the same in March 2021, though it was short of Dynasty's all-time record of 21. Speaking of nails, he had 18 top-10 scores in May, second-most behind Derwi, and he too had zero DC wins.

2022 Yearly Race

	Yearly Race
Dynasty	65
arjun13	61
SmalltownBoy	53
SubArcticK	49
wafflesobv	44
Derwi	35
dogfloss	31
Bandwagon	27
anton-09	23
mrgibson	22

	DC Wins
arjun13	15
Dynasty	15
SubArcticK	13
Derwi	12
SmalltownBoy	12
dogfloss	12
mrgibson	12
anton-09	11
wafflesobv	11
quaspl	11
Popcorn	11
Guessinator	11

	DC Points
arjun13	982
SmalltownBoy	952
SubArcticK	920
wafflesobv	908
Dynasty	853
Derwi	833
dogfloss	808
nails	793
velourfog	780
Bandwagon	765

2022 TC DC Stats

TC DC Hall of Fame

Worst month ever. I can't hit a single triplechain these days

DonkDonkDonkDonk should request a new undertitle. Triplechain World Champion 2022.

All hail DonkDonkDonkDonk!

I wish posting worked to fix poker run bads....

Copied from the Tourney News Tab on the TC site

POST 2022-19 Jun 7 - SubArcticK - Summer Match Play Championship

It is time for the 2022 Summer Match-Play Championship. Past winners include Paul101 in 2018, SubArcticK in 2019, and arjun13 in 2020 and 2021. A yellow trophy is up for grabs for the 2022 winner.

Format

-It is a head-to-head (H2H) match play tournament with the winner of each match advancing to the next round. The loser is out.

-Each H2H match will be 50 games played over a period of 20 days (maximum).

-Seeding will be based on the Triplechain tournament ratings at the end of day on June 13th. Seeding will be done in exactly the same way that the TC site is programmed to seed the first and subsequent rounds of any multi-player tourney. (NOTE - There could be some 1st round byes.)

-If fewer than 8 players register the tourney will not run.

Please DO NOT register if you can't commit to play 50 games in 20 days. If you register and don't play, I won't take your entry for this tourney in 2023. (Obviously, if you win your 1st round you will be playing another 50 games in the next 20 days against a different player, and so on).

Because I will be manually creating the 50 game H2H matches, you can't register for the tournament in the normal fashion. Instead you MUST post in chatroll on the Triplechain site or here in the Triplechain thread on the 2+2 site that you are registering for the tournament. Registration will close at 10:00PM ET on Tuesday June 14th. NO LATE ENTRIES.

On June 15th or 16th you can expect to see the first round start. I will create the H2H matches and then announce them on chatroll so that people can join their match and begin.

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