Game Details
Player 1
#player1 Johnny_Utah Johnny Utah
#player2 Nedd_Kareiva Nedd Kareiva
>Johnny_Utah: IMORSTX 8E MIXT +26 26
#note Game 7 of the 2019 Indianapolis tournament. I chose this unusual position to make it harder to overlap. I'm not sure I chose correctly.
>Nedd_Kareiva: ?AELORS 7D RELOAnS +75 75
#note Best play for Nedd. RELOAdS too.
>Johnny_Utah: GIORRRS 9B GIRO +11 37
#note 6A RIGOR is the equity play in theory but it gives way too much back and I am trying to eliminate the overly aggressive plays that give too much back to my opponents. This seems fine.
>Nedd_Kareiva: ADOW 6H WOAD +21 96
>Johnny_Utah: AEILRRS 5B RAILERS +71 108
#note Best play.
>Nedd_Kareiva: HPT A3 PHT +20 116
#note I catch a break Nedd could only do this. He was short on vowels at the time.
>Johnny_Utah: ADELNNV 5J VANED +30 138
#note Went back and forth between VANED and VANNED at this spot. I didn't like the lane VANNED opened up so I went with the safer play.
>Nedd_Kareiva: GNNOPUU - +0 116
#note Exchange 4.
>Johnny_Utah: ILNQSTY D4 Q. +22 160
#note I think this was my rack. Not sure. If so, this was best.
>Nedd_Kareiva: EGO B2 GOE. +19 135
>Johnny_Utah: ILNNSTY N2 LIN.Y +34 194
#note Best play!
>Nedd_Kareiva: ?EINRTV 2G INTERVa. +62 197
#note H3 INVERTIN for 72 was the star play and would have worked out better for Nedd. You will see why.
>Johnny_Utah: BEFSTTW M1 F.B +22 216
#note Best play. I can't punish INTERVAL yet because I have to get rid of these two clunkers, but I am hoping to hit the newly created INTERVALE spot the next turn. I just need to hope I don't get hit too hard on H1.
>Nedd_Kareiva: EHU 1G HUE +31 228
>Johnny_Utah: ENSTTWZ O1 ZEN +52 268
#note This and SEZ in the same spot rank closely. I wanted my S so I chose this. Nedd held this for a while and then correctly accepted. This was the only time I played a new 2019 the whole tournament.
>Nedd_Kareiva: OOT C1 TOO +19 247
>Johnny_Utah: DINSTTW 10A WIT +15 283
#note Playing defense here.
>Nedd_Kareiva: AGIO O6 AGIO +20 267
>Johnny_Utah: DEIJNST 9N J. +9 292
#note Bad miss. D7 EMOJI. This started a series of bad misses after playing the first half of the game almost perfectly. -5.8
>Nedd_Kareiva: AEE N8 A.EE +15 282
>Johnny_Utah: DEINSTU A10 .UD +9 301
#note Now I mysteriously chicken out of DETINUES, a common 8 letter bingo. This should have cost me the game. At least this is the best non-DETINUES play.
>Nedd_Kareiva: AIP 3G PIA +27 309
>Johnny_Utah: ABEINST 2B ..B +6 307
#note Now I flat out whiff on BETAINES. I may lose this game.
>Nedd_Kareiva: O G7 ..O +11 320
>Johnny_Utah: AEEINST D9 .E +9 316
#note Best play! Now no bingos play.
>Nedd_Kareiva: CDU 11D CUD +17 337
>Johnny_Utah: AEINNST 12D STANINE +83 399
#note I almost missed this underlap too. I weathered one of my worst collapses in recent memory.
>Nedd_Kareiva: AEKLMSU 11H KAME +32 369
#note Oh geez. O11 SKELM for 50 makes things really scary! Nedd still doesn't have a win. I can do K11 FYCES for 26 or the mistaken M11 FRY for 24 C sticking myself. Nedd can't catch me, just make the score a little close for comfort. Nedd's play gives me a second spot to dump my C.
>Johnny_Utah: CFRY M11 FRY +23 422
#note Best play! I can now do this without worrying about the C stick.
>Nedd_Kareiva: LSU K9 LU.S +12 381
#note Best play! I challenged just to make sure. No penalty for doing so in TWL.
>Nedd_Kareiva: (C) +6 387
#note Final score recorded as 421-387 because I underscored RAILERS by 1. I started off strong this game, but came very close to falling apart down the stretch. This was the only game I won on the day where I was double blanked. Now time to annotate the extremely awful game.
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