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My DC setup from yesterday, I think we dubbed it "Superbasic" strategy, is quite rare, but when you get it, it has proven very successful. I don't think I have a higher DC winrate with any other setup

Just off the top of my head, if asked where you gets wins where others don't........... I would have to say taking a 445XX or 446XX rack 1 and going dynasty with 4s as your outer chain. Seems to have got you a few wins IIRC, and I don't think anyone else was doing it.

Games are usually won by whoever snaked the most, not by whoever snaked the right one.

After your setup, a great part of who wins is determined by luck

Did you get 2 of this digit? Whoever has that as his major chain will 4-zone and be ahead.

Rack 5-8 showed 3*6? Whoever did advanced setup with 6s will be ahead. That player will unlikely win if 5*6 showed up on rack 5-8, as his other chains will suffer.

Did you get 4 of a number? Hopefully that was not your minor chain.

So for me, the primary objective is to assemble any playable setup after rack 4 and if possible after rack 3 (only possible for setups with a degree of freedom, like basic strategy and Dynasty)

Deadline for registration for the Summer Match Play tourney is Thursday Jun 13 at 10PM MT. So far I have the following players registered.

Dogfloss, Derwi, wafflesobv, SubArcticK, lilrascal, nails, quaspl, Dos, Checky, Gaby, arjun13, anton-09 and Hg80.

Let me know if I missed anyone and/or you still want to register.

2024 Summer Match Play Tournament begins


Hello folks!! The matches are set and ready to join for the 2024 Summer Match Play Championship. See below. You have 3 days to join your match (join in the Tourneys section on TC site). If you don't join your match in 3 days you will forfeit. You have 20 days to complete your 50 games in round 1, so that will take you to July 6th (11PM MT). For more info see post 2024-16 in Tourney News.

First round matches are as follows.

(2) SubArctic vs (15) Cherrycin;
(3) Gaby vs (14) lilrascal;
(4) wafflesobv vs (13) Checky;
(5) Derwi vs (12) Dos;
(6) Dogfloss vs (11) quaspl;
(7) nails vs (10) anton-09
(8) Hg80 vs (9) Kokirixx.

We have 15 players so #1 seed arjun13 has a 1st round bye.