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#character-encoding UTF-8
#player1 hellacia ROBIN Lewis
#player2 skaplan31 Samuel Kaplan
#description Created with Macondo
>hellacia: ?CCEFMT -CCFM +0 0
#note Rd 6 Philly virtual 11-14-2021.
Standings:
1st Robin 4-1 +165
2nd me 3-2 +237
3rd 3-2 +167
4th 3-2 +64
5th 2-3 +83
6th 2-3 +70
7th 2-3 -271
8th 1-4 -415
Win this one and I have a shot at winning this one. Lose and I could drop a couple spots. If I'm in Robin's spot, I would keep CET? or EMT? instead of playing 8G FEM as she doesn't need spread.
>skaplan31: EENOOPR 8C OPERON +22 22
#note As someone who does need to win to overtake Robin in the standings because my spread is already higher than hers is, I have no problem opening up 2 hotspots with this instead of doing PEREON.
>hellacia: ?EEHLRT H1 LEaTHER. +83 83
#note That's rather inauspicious. That's not bad, but the star play is E5 ETH(E)REaL for 90.
>skaplan31: CEEIINU D6 EU.NEIC +22 44
#note This is pretty much the only way I'm gonna get out of this mess without obstructing too many lanes and scoring decently. It sims just behind F6 CU(R)IE, which I didn't love and just ahead of 1H LIEU which only scores 4.
>hellacia: AIIMSUY I3 YAM +29 112
#note Now I'm on the wrong end of a board that's gonna be hard to open up in some cases. Now I know how Connie felt when I did this to her.
>skaplan31: FIIRRST 6C R.IF +15 59
#note E4 RIF is 2 more. #findingsmall
>hellacia: DGIISUY 5E GI +17 129
>skaplan31: BIKLRST 11C B.RK +20 79
#note Chosen over 11C BILK due to the open R at 7H. Still don't like where I'm at.
>hellacia: ?DEISUY G2 DYE +29 158
#note Although the only bingo here is 1D SEDU(L)ItY, this doesn't sim too far back. Quackle likes this play too because I would have to open up for cheap and then Robin can hit me back nicely.
>skaplan31: CILSTTX G11 SIX +29 108
#note Just gotta hope to draw an F for an H12 play because I'm sinking that quickly with my lack of vowels.
>hellacia: ?EGHISU H13 UGH +30 188
>skaplan31: CEFLNTT 9B CE.T +12 120
#note It's all or nothing now...maybe 15C FLETCH is a better call over this, but this at least gives me another lane.
>hellacia: ?AEIOSS A5 AdIOSES +75 263
#note That didn't go over too well. I definitely would not have done 1H (L)OESSIAl, but I would have done A3 lOIASES for 3 more.
>skaplan31: FILNOTW B2 FLOW +25 145
>hellacia: EIIOPTV A1 VIE +25 288
>skaplan31: AILNRTU 14H .UL +6 151
#note And there's another 9 that I missed, 13E LU(XU)RIANT for 84. It's actually pathetic how many I've missed in 1 tourney alone. If it was only one 9 letter bingo that I didn't know, that's one thing. I've counted at least 4 in only a small handful of games. Time to get those straight. And maybe do 2E LU(DE) instead if I'm gonna miss this latest 9?
>hellacia: IMOPSTZ 15J IMPOST +41 329
#note Nice play.
>skaplan31: AADINRT N8 RADIANT. +76 227
#note I suppose I'll take a nice consolation prize.
>hellacia: ADEENRZ O7 ZEDA +54 383
#note I should have been down by even more because O4 ZANDER is 86. Got lucky here.
>skaplan31: ABEGTTU 13L BU.T +12 239
#note 7G BRUT man. That's how I'm gonna cut spread further because I have the E hook! I blew a chance to make something nice happen because there's only 1 more E unseen to me.
>hellacia: AENNOQR 11M Q. +11 394
#note Thank god she kinda gave me another chance to get back in this game by only playing off 1 tile.
>skaplan31: AEGJLOT 12I JOTA +30 269
#note Good. No reason to do M7 JOG here despite that being 1 more point.
>hellacia: AEINNOR M7 NO +6 400
#note I also got lucky she missed K5 REANOIN(T).
>skaplan31: AEGLNOV L4 LOVAGE +33 302
#note There we go. Blocking L2 ARANEID in case I draw the dreaded W.
>hellacia: ADEINRW K2 DRAW +28 428
>skaplan31: AN M4 AN +11 313
#note That's a wrap for this one.
Missing BRUT was because I didn't quite focus enough to realize how crucial that opening would have been for me. I should have lost this game by like 100+ more points because that's how bad this one went. CENT was a gamble that helped her a lot more than it helped me, and RADIANTS was me literally begging for dear life before I shot myself in the foot one last time. Ended up 3-3 +128 to be the show position in this horse race.
Congrats on winning the tourney Robin!
>skaplan31: (EIN) +6 319
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