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#player1 JJB John J. Bulten
#player2 CS Carl Solomon
>JJB: CIIMRSU H5 URIC +12 12
#note 1:23 [23:37] (music 8d 24 +3.1) After the round robin, CS, bottom seed who is having a fine tourney at 4-3, is paired with JJB, who just lost humiliatingly by 200. CS genially won the previous contest, but JJB is loaded for bear. He opts for a vertical play and hopes for a bingo, although counting the S as worth 8 is useful here (music 24 and surimi 22 beat uric 12 and mic 14). He actually intends h6 (2.2 better) but it goes down as h5.
>CS: ORTW 7G W.RT +12 12
>CS: ORTW -- -12 0
#note 1:05 [23:33] (row 65 14 +19.3) CS misremembers wert.
>JJB: AEIMPRS 8A SAPREMI. +95 107
#note 0:34 [23:03] JJB draws a rack he has studied closely. He holds, challenges after 12 seconds, and plays the cleared triple after 22 more. Besides parecism, he also holds impresa/auric.
>CS: ORTW - +0 0
#note 0:15 [23:40] (wot 9e 19 +22.3) CS plays risky enough that he is willing to double-dip by challenging JJB back. He convinces himself that such a word should be spelled like supreme and takes the dive. Suddenly he finds himself with a 0-107 score.
>JJB: DGNOSSS 5G S.NDOG +16 123
#note 1:07 [21:56] (dosing 7e 20 +4) JJB has a little leeway to play for beauty and is also now looking at all the Ss in the game. Facing only his own words, he makes the best play aside from forming the same letters into dosing 20. (Sundogs is unnecessary because the second S is worth 3.3 more after the first is worth 8.0.)
>CS: ORTW 9B WO +16 16
#note 1:00 [22:40] (ow 6j 17 +1) CS gets on the board with the second-best placement of these letters.
>JJB: DELOSST D2 OLDSTE.S +74 197
#note 2:11 [19:45] Toadless was blocked, and solidest is a two away from playing, but is it possible there's another word in these letters? Oldsters indeed plays, and the score gap is now excessive (but still early enough to be recoverable).
>CS: ERTV 10A VET +21 37
#note 1:30 [21:10] Another good overlap that significantly helps balance and some openness but not score.
>JJB: EEHJLOZ 5B JO.H +28 225
#note 1:42 [18:03] (jee c2 36 +6.2) JJB much likes his leave, but he can triple the J at c2 without sacrificing leave much. Also 28: hole e5, for risk-takers.
>CS: AEERT 3B RE.ATE +14 51
#note 1:15 [19:55] (ae 4h 13 +6.9) This is not really the time to dump bingo tiles when a good fishhook like ae/auric/en will also keep chances alive.
>JJB: ?EEILWZ K4 v.WELIZE +88 313
#note 0:39 [17:24] JJB is not certain of his play now, since it's a word he uses colloquially in study but not as a study word itself! But the spread is enough not to worry about losing a challenge. He tries to find the other word in the rack (wheezily) but doesn't form it.
>CS: DHI - +0 51
#note 0:42 [19:13] (hid h1 29 +29.5) CS sees the best static play but also can sense that there are very few win paths remaining if JJB's play is good. So he holds awhile and challenges in the category of "learning experience". In this case hid 19 l11 is a stronger opener.
>JJB: AFLNTUV A10 .ATFUL +39 352
#note 0:32 [16:52] JJB is further rewarded with another easy decision; flaunt 30 is a different triple.
>CS: DHI H1 HID +29 80
#note 1:07 [18:06] CS can tell there's "nothing for it" and works on further optimal plays around his opponent's obscure bingos.
>JJB: AGILNTV 11H VAL.TING +62 414
#note 0:26 [16:26] JJB continues bingos every other turn by working out an -ing word. Now it's a question of what high score he can shoot for as 500 will be easy with plenty still in the bag.
>CS: ANOR O11 .ROAN +21 101
#note 0:33 [17:33] Best use of the open triples.
>JJB: ?ABEMQU 7G Q. +42 456
#note 2:27 [13:59] (umiaq 2f 46 +2.3) Even the dumps are writing themselves. Yet in his leisurely search he does miss umiaq 46 as slightly preferable.
>CS: EINX H11 .IXEN +48 149
#note 0:38 [16:55] CS finally begins to gain on JJB even if the win is not foreseeable.
>JJB: ?ABEMTU N14 MU +18 474
#note 6:39 [7:20] (bunkmate 15f 62 +8.2; um i13 19 +1) JJB is convinced another bingo is available, and it would be fitting as the fifth bingo every other turn; but he has not recently studied the list containing bunkmate and umbonate. Many plays, including zebu, are very close to bingo value because the likelihood of bingo is still incredibly high.
>CS: ABR G12 BAR +22 171
#note ~0:55 [~16:00] CS is almost having fun by this point.
>JJB: ?ABCEOT 2H .CEBOATs +76 550
#note 1:03 [6:17] (hecatomb 1h 95 +19) And with that JJB blows past 550. However, the same list that gave him iceboats would also have revealed hecatomb 95 if he had taken more time to pursue it, and certainly time is not a factor anymore.
>CS: AEY 1M YEA +28 199
#note ~0:45 [15:15]
>JJB: AEEIKNY 3M YAK +47 597
#note 1:18 [4:59] Neither player can believe how well JJB's synergy is coming out; he even leaves one in bag. Even more points with two-vowel leave is alkyne 54.
>CS: DIO 6A DOI. +20 219
#note 2:02 [13:13] (do 12k 31 +5.9) CS, having learned vowelize, has a chance to make it past tense for 31, but plays tamely instead.
>JJB: EEFINOP F12 OPEN +30 627
#note 4:00.8 [0:58.2] (open f12 30, lungi 8k 21, fife 13a 20+2) JJB calculates freely. The big consideration is that he must block luring 8. This is best done with an easy-to-find play, nope or open; so JJB has found the best endgame play for once!
>CS: GINRU 10K .IG +18 237
#note 1:18 [11:55] (lungi 8k 21, fife 13a 20+2 +7) Best continuation is to spot lungi, but it hardly matters anymore.
>JJB: EFI J11 .IEF +15 642
#note 0:11.1 [0:47.1] (fife 13a 20+6 +5) JJB found at least two outs but missed fife/fief. It would have been worth taking the 40 extra seconds given his high-score attempt.
>JJB: (NRU) +6 648
#note When the smoke clears, JJB has played his best score ever and one of his best performances ever, leaving only about 47 points on the table. CS has enjoyed watching the show, after he got to go out against JJB for 110+6 earlier in the day. None of the three challenges went in his favor; but, mathematically, his forgetting wert is worth the same 19 points as JJB forgetting hecatomb. Known points available: CS 8, JJB 29. Overall points available: JJB 47.8, CS 91.9+.
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