lol bandwagon

1/30 games played after 13/30 days on the winter FFA. He is straight up trolling any tournament he is playing

Registration is open for 3 days for the November Championship Tournament. Don't forget that this tournament is Part 2 of the Winter Classic Triple Crown Tournament, and points will be awarded towards the Winter Classic depending on where you finish. See Post 2022-28 in the Tourney News tab on the TC site for more details.

In general it seems tough to evaluate play on racks 1-4. A mode that I think would be interesting would be to take some old DC game played by someone better than you, start with their plays from racks 1-4, play the rest on your own, and compare the scores. Get an idea if the reason they are better are in racks 1-4 or racks 5-8.

Edit: Or maybe the better metric would be to compare to your actual score on that DC. Would you play better than your current self if you would have made their plays on racks 1-4? That actually makes more sense.

I think racks 1-4 are more decisive than racks 5-8.

I think this was discussed a bit ITT earlier in the year. Gabe also had a response in post 6541.

I agree that racks 1-5 are more critical than 5-8.

From a previous post of mine........ if one was able to quantify rating points won/lost or something like that, I think the first 4 racks would be much more important than racks 5-8.

Let's say you took the highest rated player and then the player rated 15th, and you had a 80 point rating difference that was pretty constant. If there was a way to analyze it it would not surprise me at all that points gained would be something like +55-60 in racks 1-4 and +20-25 in racks 4-8.

I know some might argue that rack 5-8 decisions are more important/critical, but often rack 5 plays itself (but not always). Also, in rack 8 most of the decisions are forced by then. So, really it comes down to decisions in racks 6 and 7. In the opening, however, racks 1,2 and 3 are very fluid and played significantly differently by lots of players. And, even rack 4 is often not forced.

I guess one way to confirm this thought is if we had a team event with 1st matched with 16th, 2nd matched with 15th, etc... And, each team had to decide which player was going to play racks 1-4 and which was going to play 5-8 in each game. If the higher ranked player was captain, I am pretty sure he/she would suggest they go first, and have the lower ranked player bring the game home. That, rather than have the top player take the lower ranked player's opening home. Once you got to 6/11, 7/10, 8/9 matchings it probably would not matter as much.


In general I think players with a higher DC win-rate and DC rating tend to have more options after racks 1, 2 and 3 than lower ranked players, and this is what gives them more wins/better scores overall. I think lower ranked players tend to make polarizing decisions sooner, thus sacrificing flexibility.

I also think this is not fully tied to ability either. That is, I think many good TC players are deciding that they like a certain opening or style of play (or preferences) and are just going to roll with it and whether it is -EV or +EV who cares if they like it and are having fun....

lolme

I gave Arjun a bye in the winter tourney
Wasn't paying attention very much

#lolirony

Popcorn and Arjun co-winning the DC with completely different chains is pretty amazing

Pretty ludicrous win for me in the DC yesterday.
Dynasty went into rack 9 with like 75+% equity, but got killed off by the 2x1 and I also needed to dodge the 5 or else Arjun/Bandwagon beat me
I used up one of my rack 9 premonitions to guess everything right in rack 8

Compensates for the other day where there were 3 2s in rack 9 that robbed me and various others of a win

November 2022 DC Highlights

	DC Points
SmalltownBoy	240
SubArcticK	228
arjun13	222
mrgibson	217
Bandwagon	216
Guessinator	205
dogfloss	200
Dos	197
wafflesobv	163
quaspl	158

	DC Wins
SmalltownBoy	4
mrgibson	4
Guessinator	4
Bandwagon	3
SubArcticK	3
Kampi77	3
dogfloss	3
Dos	3
quaspl	3
velourfog	3
anton-09	3

Monthly Race

• SmalltownBoy won his third consecutive monthly DC race in November, the first three-peat since arjun13 in October-December 2021. StB led the table with 23 top-10 scores and tied for the most wins with 4. That said, it was a very close race for much of the month, but StB took over the top spot with three wins in the last 10 days of the month.
  
• SubArcticK finished in second place for the third time in 2022. SubArc tied for second in top-10 scores with 19, including three wins and eight other top-five scores.
  
• The remainder of the top five – arjun13, mrgibson, and Bandwagon – were separated by just six points. arjun13 had 13 top-five scores, second only to SmalltownBoy’s 14. mrgibson tied for the most wins, while Bandwagon had the most top-three scores with 9.
  
• Among the rest of the top 10, Guessinator (sixth place) tied with mrgibson and SmalltownBoy for the most wins, wafflesobv moved up to ninth place after two consecutive 10th-place finishes, and quaspl (10th place) finished in the top 10 for the first time ever. consul, Kokirixx, and velourfog were just outside the top 10.

Milestones

• On November 11, Dynasty played his 4,500th DC, becoming the first player to do so.
• On November 28, lilrascal played in his 2,000th DC, the 26th player to reach this milestone.
• SubArcticK moved into seventh place on the all-time DC points list, passing Kokirixx.

Stat of the Month

• 48: The combined number of DCs played by mrgibson (24) and Bandwagon (24) in November. That’s the fewest DCs for two players that made the top five since Gaby (12) and chub (21) did it in August 2010.

2022 Yearly Race

SmalltownBoy has locked up the yearly race for 2022, but there are still things to play for as we enter the final month of the year:

• Dynasty and arjun13 are tied for third place, the last spot on the yearly race podium.
• With a finish of eighth or better in December, SmalltownBoy’s yearly race total would be in the top five all-time.
• Dynasty is two DC wins away from reaching the top 10 for most wins in a calendar year, while SmalltownBoy is four wins away.
• SmalltownBoy is 271 DC race points away from making the top 10 for most points in a calendar year.

	Yearly Race
SmalltownBoy	186
SubArcticK	146
Dynasty	121
arjun13	121
dogfloss	99
wafflesobv	66
Derwi	65
Bandwagon	48
mrgibson	42
Guessinator	36

	DC Wins
Dynasty	39
SmalltownBoy	37
SubArcticK	30
mrgibson	29
arjun13	28
dogfloss	28
Derwi	27
Guessinator	24
Bandwagon	23
wafflesobv	21
anton-09	21

	DC Points
SmalltownBoy	2415
SubArcticK	2270
arjun13	2130
Dynasty	1968
dogfloss	1941
wafflesobv	1795
Derwi	1745
Bandwagon	1709
mrgibson	1619
nails	1545

2022 TC DC Stats

TC DC Hall of Fame

2022 50 game Holiday FFA Team Event.

Registration is open for one week for the 2022 50 Game Holiday FFA Team Event.

See post 2022-31 in the Tourney News section on the TC site for the details.

Games will run Dec 14 to Jan 13 (30 days).

Dark Blue trophy for the players on the winning team AND the player with most individual wins..

Its fun and festive and free!!!!!

Ugh, I had a horrendous run in this tournament. I compared with Arjun and he massacred me 33-15-2

got me curious. You and I ... me 31 you 16 ties 3

Tourney rating change since start of FFA
Gaby -24
Arjun -1
Arctic +2

This may not mean much on the wins front though... in any game 2nd and 15th are worth the same... If it isn't a win it don't matter.

PS. You actually crushed, and I mean crushed, the last Battle Royale though....
Edit .Your tourney ranking in last year's Battle Royale games went from pre-tourney 1367 to post-tourney 1428 +61........ insane.....

Nowhere near finished yet but I can see Sub silently cursing me for my chain 3 play costing us games. 2nds in the BRs is just painful

lol nah ... cursing myself maybe....

for about two years I felt like I have forgotten how to play... and for sure not playing +EV in events like this where only a win matters...

On the Daily Challenges.....

Anyone else feel this whole year of DCs so far is possessed by the power of rack 9 2s? It has been a nutty year for XXX22, and XX222 and then when you really need a 2, you get 33356.

And just forget it when you are full of twos in 5 zones but can handle rack 9 1s no problem...... 45233...lol

I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that in TC if you knew ahead of time how many 2s there would be in rack 9 you could get 60+ DC wins a year. The number of twos in rack 9 have always been critical, but this year it seems even more so.

Can you not change your PW on TripleChain? Trying to update some sites and I can't find where to do it there.

Hi IRTM

I don't think there is any automated function where you can change your password. You can email triplechainnet@gmail.com and ask the site owner/operator (Zac) to change it.

PS. Hope you and CC and family are doing well..

There's no way to change your password or to request a new one.

I recently had password problems when getting a new computer.

I had to guess a password I created over a decade earlier (and wasn't using on any other site). Somehow, an idea popped into my head and it worked.

Thank you!

Zac was considering some solutions to the problem other than guessing the password.

Happy New Year, TCers!

Here's the link to the 2023 DC stats sheet:

2023 TC DC Stats

I'll post the December and 2022 stats wrap-up soon.

December 2022 DC Highlights

	DC Points
arjun13	253
SmalltownBoy	232
SubArcticK	228
Dynasty	218
Bandwagon	217
velourfog	210
Kokirixx	202
Derwi	181
wafflesobv	166
quaspl	153

	DC Wins
arjun13	4
SmalltownBoy	4
SubArcticK	3
Dynasty	3
Bandwagon	3
velourfog	3
Derwi	3
quaspl	3
5 players	2

Monthly Race

• arjun13 won a tightly contested December DC race, taking over the lead late in the month thanks to two DC wins in the final week. arjun tied for the most DC wins (4) and had the most top-five scores (13) in December. It was arjun’s second monthly DC win of the year and 27th overall, the most in DC history.
  
• SmalltownBoy and SubArcticK finished in second and third place, respectively. Both players tied for the most top-10 scores (20), and both moved up the standings in the last two days of the month, when StB had a first- and fifth-place score, while SubArc had a second and first. It was StB’s seventh straight month in the top three and SubArc’s 11th consecutive month in the top 10, the longest currently active streak.
  
• Dynasty and Bandwagon rounded out the top five, separated by just one point. Both players were at the top of the table in the first half of the month, when they amassed most of their six combined wins, but were eventually overtaken by the top three.
  
• Among the rest of the top 10, velourfog (sixth place) returned to the top 10 after a four-month hiatus, Kokirixx (seventh place) finished in the top 10 for the third time in the last four months, and wafflesobv (ninth place) and quaspl (10th place) finished in their respective positions for the second consecutive month. Popcorn, Hg80, and consul were just outside the top 10.

Milestones

• Bandwagon moved into 11th place on the all-time yearly DC race points list, passing wafflesobv.
• Popcorn moved into 11th place on the all-time DC points list, passing Paul101.
• Guessinator moved into 13th place on the all-time games played list, passing Donk4.

Stat of the Month

• 26: The average daily number of players in the DC in 2022, the most since 2016.

2022 Yearly Race

SmalltownBoy won the 2022 yearly DC race, his first win since 2014. StB had four monthly wins, three second-place finishes, two third-place finishes, and one fourth-place finish. SubArcticK finished second for the third straight year, while arjun13 captured the final podium spot, breaking a tie with Dynasty thanks to his win in the December DC race. Other 2022 highlights:

• StB’s 204 yearly race points were the third-most all-time.
• Dynasty had the most DC wins with 42, tying for the seventh-most calendar-year total in DC history.
• StB had the most DC race points with 2,647, which placed 12th on the all-time list.

	Yearly Race
SmalltownBoy	204
SubArcticK	161
arjun13	146
Dynasty	133
dogfloss	99
Derwi	69
wafflesobv	68
Bandwagon	58
mrgibson	42
Guessinator	36

	DC Wins
Dynasty	42
SmalltownBoy	41
SubArcticK	33
arjun13	32
Derwi	30
mrgibson	30
dogfloss	29
Bandwagon	26
Guessinator	24
wafflesobv	23

	DC Points
SmalltownBoy	2647
SubArcticK	2498
arjun13	2383
Dynasty	2186
dogfloss	2030
wafflesobv	1961
Derwi	1926
Bandwagon	1926
velourfog	1741
mrgibson	1702

2022 TC DC Stats

TC DC Hall of Fame

Thanks nails

Happy new year everyone

42 wins over one year is pretty sick, ggs Dynasty

I am really happy with 41.

Thanks for all the stat work nails!!!

Congrats Dynasty on the wins and Gabe on the DC points. Well done to both...

Happy New year to all!!!!

lol @ the DC of yesterday. I played it and thought: meh score, did not 5-zone 4s.
Nobody did! Unexpected.