Yeah, if I had to do it over again I would just lead with Troq/Oni, rather than what I’ve been trying to do. Now that I’m last place, I have no motivation other than “play the most difficult possible MU and try to lick my way into a big win.” Even though it is by now impossible for me to get remotely close to a good finish in the event. But that’s an issue I have with Swiss more than the tournament itself.
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I fucked up my match report. 
The first two rounds I played against UTRALAW were against Menelker, not Valerie. I have adjusted my points accordingly but I may have made a mistake there as well.
The points check out. I’ll update the standings with the new totals.
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Either someone has Valerie on the brain or that is just how many times you been counter picked by her lol
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Unless @snoc contacts me before 09.00 UTC tomorrow or thereabouts, we will not be able to play our game before the deadline.
We tried to play on Thursday of last week, but I failed to show at the agreed time thanks to an ill-timed software update. After that we rescheduled and agreed to play today. I suggested 16.00 UTC, but I have received no confirmation and seen neither hide nor hair of snoc. Presumably something pressing came up or he was prevented from contacting me.
As such I would personally think this is a mutual, no-fault failure to schedule, but how do you want to handle that, @vengefulpickle?
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Yeah, you’re kind of facing a slippery slope issue right now with that.
I’ve decided to mostly mono-
after my 
vs. 
set because he has soft matchups against nearly the entire cast but he’s kind of an okay character who can steal games every now and then. Ideal for the format. I’m having a lot of success in it right now, but yeah just like 19XX or LLL or any other oddball format, we’re kind of testing a wider set of skills that don’t all have to do with playing the game well, which is… interesting, at least. You still have to win matches and play well! But maybe the character selection strategy is getting really skewed. Maybe it isn’t, maybe it’s not a problem. Not really a way to tell after only like 5 weeks or whatever.
About “getting +2 points for a set win”: I was thinking about the “ideal” way to win a set in that format. It seems like it’s WAY good to win the first 3 games in a set (and score around 15 points) and then in game 4 you obviously try to win, but if you lose, you get to “hard counterpick” your opponent by going into a 2-8 if they are playing 
or or something. So their Game 4 pick kind of can’t be any character that has a good matchup because you are guaranteed to get the +2 points already; might as well swing for the fences and go for another 7 points or something and get a 4-1.
I think the thing we want overall is just to see different matchups. I think we can get there by having lots of different types of players, as IYL tends to produce. You have lots of character specialists in all of the different divisions so it tends to lead to some pretty varied gameplay. Maybe the 
players are the ones who rise to the top at the end? Doesn’t seem to have been that way in last IYL.
idk!
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Yeah, I think me and @ArthurWynne both dropped the ball on our match this round. Guess it’s up to TO decisions with what to do.
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Yeah, we’ve got a couple of matches that dropped this week, and the holidays coming up, so I’m loath to schedule the next round. So, I’m going to extend Round 5 out through New Years, and pick up with Round 6 at that point (or, if everyone plays before the deadline, I’ll put the Round 6 matches up whenever they’re ready).
Have a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/New Years/etc, everyone!
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Lum’s Long Odds
Week 5
Mystic Deadman vs. @variable
+5
+5
+5
+5
+4
Final Score
MD 14-10 variable
…this set took almost and hour and THAT’S what we have to show for it?!
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LLO R5
MR vs @Ivan
(0,0 - 4,0)
(6,0 - 0,0)
(0,0 - 4,0)
(0,0 - 4,0)
(6,0 - 0,0)
all games were very close and tense (g1 took about 35min and I went out of deck), except g3 where I was easily destroyed 
Total score (please double check it)
MR: 12,0
Ivan: 12,0
I think that this is a case where +2 points for the winner of the set could make a little difference.
GGs mate!
Our MUs are always very hard for me!
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Tournament’s first tie on points, nice. I was waiting for that!
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Also the historical MU chart’s first draw set! World first!
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Hear it @Ivan, we are first in something of Yomi world !!! 
By the way, I think that LLO’s aim isn’t to win single set vs opponent, but to earn as much point as one can.
So hereafter my considerations:
I agree with +2 points for set winner, but I’d keep the total 5 games format (not Bo5)
This format motivates to try some little hard MUs (i.e. in my match vs Ivan, apart from 1st blind game, I went always for 4-6 MU, in which I feel some confidence anyway, I wouldn’t have tried 
vs ) , otherwise with Bo5, I fear that it could become more a standard CPs format (go for less point MU but with more possibilty to win set 3-0 / 3-1 and prevent opponent to earn other points).
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It’s probably going to break the ELO spreadsheet, too…
Maybe at the end we can just calculate everything and see if there would have been a different winner? Haha. Although week to week the +2 set bonuses would have changed up what matches actually occurred during the Swiss, but yeah. Would be neat to see if it were drastically different results.
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What if you only gave +2 point bonus to the set winner in the event of a tie?
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snoc vs @ArthurWynne, round 5
0+5 0 Surprise mirror! I successfully banished all of Arthur’s Qs
5+5 0 Arthur returns the “no Qs” favour
10 0+5 Very tense finish on this one.
10+4 5 fishyfish! This was still a close finish. Even though I hardly have any bones to crack 7 is still a good card.
14+3 5 Arthur goes for the hail mary “give me all the points” play, but I start with 3 aces and topdeck the 4th at just the right moment to go for Blowfish Spikes lethal. Also duffing an UP turn with 4K+J with bubble shield up is pretty sad for Jaina.
snoc wins 17-5! No recording of this one because I’m on my laptop with family. But well played, tense games and you did a great job of representing DSD even when you might not have had it.
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So, I didn’t get a notification this week. I assume Round 6 was delayed due to the previous delay and Christmas?
Standings after Week 5
- Leontes: 82
- CKR: 79.5
- mastrblastr: 76.5
- thehug0naut: 73
- Southpaw Hare: 71.5
- MR: 71
- Niijima-San: 70.5
- Ivan: 70.5
- Castanietzsche: 69.5
- snoc: 63.5
- flagrantangles: 63.5
- MysticDeadman: 63
- variable: 62.5
- vengefulpickle: 58
- FaceOnMars: 57.5
- GutterOwl: 54.5
- ArthurWynne: 48.5
- UTRALAW: 48.5
- Hamvvar: 43.5
- neigutten: 41.5
- Fusxfaranto: 41.5
- mysticjuicer: 41.5
- Hobusu: 40.5
- Three Headed Monkey: 32.5
Week 6 Matchups
Leontes/CKR
mastrblastr/SouthpawHare
thehug0naut/MR75
Niijima-san/Ivan
Castanietzsche/snoc
flagrantangles/MysticDeadman
variable/vengefulpickle
FaceOnMars/GutterOwl
ArthurWynne/UTRALAW
Hamvvar/neigutten
Fusxfaranto/mysticjuicer
Hobusu/Three Headed Monkey
Week 1 Matchups
mysticjuicer/Castanietzsche
mastrblastr/Three Headed Monkey
flagrantangles/ArthurWynne
Niijima-san/snoc
Leontes/UTRALAW
Fusxfaranto/MysticDeadman
CKR/neigutten
SouthpawHare/Hobusu
GutterOwl/variable
MR75/vengefulpickle
thehug0naut/FaceOnMars
Ivan/Hamvvar
Week 2 Matchups
Leontes/variable
FaceOnMars/Neiijima-san
ArthurWynne/mastrblastr
Ivan/Fusxfaranto
Southpaw Hare/mysticjuicer
neigutten/vengefulpickle
Hamvvar/CKR
MysticDeadman/MR75
Hobusu/Castanietzsche
snoc/flagrantangles
UTRALAW/GutterOwl
thehug0naut/ThreeHeadedMonkey
Week 3 Matchups
Niijima-san/MR75
Ivan/Leontes
mastrblastr/Castanietzsche
neigutten/GutterOwl
SouthpawHare/ArthurWynne
CKR/mysticjuicer
snoc/Fusxfaranto
vengefulpickle/thehug0naut
variable/FaceOnMars
flagrantangles/Hobusu
Hamvvar/MysticDeadman
Three Headed Monkey/UTRALAW
Week 4 Matchups
Niijima-san/Leontes
mastrblastr/thehug0naut
GutterOwl/MR75
Ivan/CKR
Southpaw Hare/neigutten
ArthurWynne/Castanietzsche
variable/snoc
MysticDeadman/mysticjuicer
flagrantangles/FaceOnMars
Fusxfaranto/UTRALAW
Hobusu/vengefulpickle
Three Headed Monkey/Hamvvar
Week 5 Matchups
Leontes/thehug0naut
Niijima-san/mastrblastr
MR75/Ivan
Castanietzsche/SouthpawHare
CKR/GutterOwl
variable/MysticDeadman
snoc/ArthurWynne
UTRALAW/flagrantangles
neigutten/FaceOnMars
vengefulpickle/Fusxfaranto
Hobusu/Hamvvar
mysticjuicer/ThreeHeadedMonkey
Week 6 Totals
- ThreeHeadedMonkey: 26 (W)
- Leontes: 25 (W)
- Ivan: 21.5 (W)
- variable: 20 (W)
- ArthurWynne: 18.5 (W)
- flagrantangles: 17 (F)
- neigutten: 17 (F)
- Fusxfaranto: 15.5 (W)
- snoc: 14.5 (W)
- SouthpawHare: 14 (W)
- thehug0naut: 12 (T)
- MR75: 12 (T)
- FaceOnMars: 12 (T)
- GutterOwl: 12 (T)
- mysticjuicer: 11
- mastrblastr: 10
- Castanietzsche: 10
- UTRALAW: 6
- vengefulpickle: 5
- Hobusu: 0
- Niijima-san: 0
- CKR: 0
- MysticDeadman: 0
- hamvvar: 0
Running Standings
- Leontes: 107
- Ivan: 92
- mastrblastr: 86.5
- Southpaw Hare: 85.5
- thehug0naut: 85
- MR: 83
- variable: 82.5
- flagrantangles: 80.5
- CKR: 79.5
- Castanietzsche: 79.5
- snoc: 78
- Niijima-San: 70.5
- FaceOnMars: 69.5
- ArthurWynne: 67
- GutterOwl: 66.5
- MysticDeadman: 63
- vengefulpickle: 63
- neigutten: 58.5
- Three Headed Monkey: 58.5
- Fusxfaranto: 57
- UTRALAW: 54.5
- mysticjuicer: 52.5
- Hamvvar: 43.5
- Hobusu: 40.5
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