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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Redemption® Online Gaming => Playgroup and Tournament Central => Redemption® Online Official Tournament (ROOT) => Topic started by: Prof Underwood on October 25, 2011, 01:32:05 AM
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If you are interested in joining the Nov/Dec ROOT, please post on this thread. This tournament will also be going for 5 weeks (starting Nov 7th, and skipping the week of Thanksgiving).
Only rescuing opponent's LSs is out:
This month, we will NOT be using the proposed rule of only allowing players to rescue their opponent's LSs, but I would like everyone to share their experiences with that last month here (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/redemption-online-official-tournament/feedback-on-opp-lss-only-(used-in-oct-root)/)
"Dominant Cap" experiment is in:
We WILL be experimenting with another experimental rule. For a deck to legal this month, there can ONLY be as many dominants in the deck as there are LSs (Hopper doesn't count). At the end of games, please reset the game and allow your opponent to look at your deck to check the number of dominants. Please share your feedback here (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/redemption-online-official-tournament/feedback-on-dom-cap-(used-in-novdec-root)/) regarding how this rule has affected your games.
Week 5 (Final week) matchups:
Kirk vs. Pol
Alex_O vs. Drrek
Chronic vs. NWJ
Prof U vs. cg25
tse vs. Brow
Praeceps vs. Slug
Red vs. Katedid
Redoubter vs. Hobbit
Isildur vs. Megamanlan
Prof A (out of tourney)
Final Rankings:
1. Captain Kirk (20/16)
2. Chronic Apathy (17/15)
3. Drrek (17/9)
4. Prof Underwood (15/5)
5. Alex_Olijar (14/2) *Alex beat Pol head-to-head*
6. Minister Polarius (14/9)
7. Browarod (14/1)
8. Praeceps (14/-3)
9. NWJonathan (13/-1)
10. Christiangamer25 (11/0) *1 HP used
11. Slugfencer (10/-4)
12 theselfevident (10/-7)
13. Hobbit (8/9)
14. Red (8/-3)
15. Redoubter (8/-12)
16. Katedid (7/-6)
17. Megamanlan (5/-1)
18. professoralstad (4/-7)
19. Isildur (2/-23)
20. bye
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I'm in. Is this the Dom Cap rule?
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Im in for the rule testing what rule will it be?
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im in this is gonna be fun
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I'm in
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In
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SO in! Looking forward to a month of 3-4 fewer Doms per deck!
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Count me in.
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I'm in.
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Im in
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In
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I will give it a try this month.
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In
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I'm in
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In.
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I'm in.
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I'm in this month. Will we be using intro/prep phase?
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Count me in for November/December ROOT, I just got laid off from work so I be available to play more games. ;D
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Will we be using intro/prep phase?
Nope, standard rules other than limiting dominants in decks to be equal to the number of LSs in the deck (not counting Hopper).
Also, I'll be playing again (hopefully doing better than last month) :)
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This may seem like a dumb question, but I haven't played ROOT in many months: What day must we have our game complete by each week?
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Midnight on Sunday.
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Midnight on Sunday.
Thanks! :)
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I know there probably isn't any other way to do it, but I don't like the idea of revealing my deck to every opponent in the middle of a tournament.
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Er... what?
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Prof Underwood said that you have to show your opponent your deck after you finish your game to prove that you have the proper number of dominants for the cap.
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I won 5-0.
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I won 5-0.
Confirm, unfortunately
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I know there probably isn't any other way to do it, but I don't like the idea of revealing my deck to every opponent in the middle of a tournament.
I understand that. However, you only have to show your deck to the player who just finished playing you. They will know your deck by that point anyway.
And I maintain the normal expectation of ROOT for players to NOT reveal their opponent's decks when they post scores or talk with other players. I have deleted information like that from posts before, and I will again, so hopefully no one will make me :)
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Since nobody seems to have mentioned it, does NWJ basically get a bye the first round since lp670 is still MIA? Or did he ninja return and I haven't noticed? >_<
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Since nobody seems to have mentioned it, does NWJ basically get a bye the first round since lp670 is still MIA? Or did he ninja return and I haven't noticed? >_<
Oops. I forgot that he went AWOL after posting that he wanted to play this month. Yeah, I guess that does mean NWJ gets a bye (unless we have someone else join this week, who would become his opponent).
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Bummer, I was really looking forward to a match. I hope somebody else joins. :o
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I'll play him! =D
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I'll play him! =D
I appreciate the offer, but you've already had your game for this week :)
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Yes, but I want to increase my differential so I can pull another win this month.
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I beat Matt Sinclair 5-4 in an immensely close game. Matt used a Plot.
Very fun!
Kirk
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confirm so close
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Drrek won 5-3 in the most ridiculous game I have ever played in the history of ever. I don't know how many turns we had no deck and a couple cards in hand between us. Nasty combos and counter-combos that just...I have no more words.
On a side note...why did I have to start the tournament against the ONE person who knows what I like to play? Again?!
Not that it made any difference but not fun...
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confirm.
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I was able to pull out a win in a very close game with Red. The final score was 5-2. I didn't even use NJ as I had to play SoG defensively otherwise I may have lost.
Excellent game. ^_^
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I had one turn till a win haha confirm
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I won 5-0 against TSE.
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Alex_O. wins 5-0, quick and easy LOL
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Beat Slug 5-0. Maybe when he starts using T1 decks when playing T1 he'll be not bad :)
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Beat Slug 5-0. Maybe when he starts using T1 decks when playing T1 he'll be not bad :)
I confirmeth the slaughterage. Maybe when pol turns to the dark side of T2 he will see the light!! :P
I must agree that my T1 "skillz" are in need of life support. I should post a deck on the deck Dr string to get some advice. :)
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I just won a hard-fought matchup with Isildur (5-2). Thanks for a great game :)
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I was never able to get on this weekend to play katedid, so please give her ghost points. I had a much busier weekend than expected.
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Rankings and New Matchups are posted.
On a side note...why did I have to start the tournament against the ONE person who knows what I like to play? Again?!
Random.org must just not like you :)
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5-1 loss to Alex. Ow.
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Agreed on both counts.
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Red=2
me=3
I outlasted Red in a close one. GG! :)
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GG but horrid preformance by my deck vs your defense.
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You should have done what I did and tech against T2 ;)
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You should have done what I did and tech against T2 ;)
I'm hoping that wink at the end means that you didn't really do that. Teching specifically against a player in this tournament is bad form. You aren't supposed to be able to choose a deck in a tournament after knowing who your opponent is going to be. Therefore, I want to discourage players from doing that in ROOT as well.
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I think the T2 should have been as much of a tip-off of joviality as the wink. I actually used a deck that should perform very poorly against a 105 on paper.
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You shouldn't be talking about your opponent's deck.
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If Slug has a problem with it I'm sure he'll say so, but I am pretty sure I know him well enough to know that he knows everyone knows he uses 100+ decks. If you care to go through the backlogs of tournament results, I think you'll find I never talk about anyone's deck during a tournament except in cases like these. Maybe just this particular case.
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ISILDUR PLEASE RESPOND IVE MESSAGED YOU TWICE ALREADY AND I DON'T WANT A GHOST WHEN CAN YOU PLAY PLEASE.
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I ain't got no problem with people teching against me.
I ain't got no problem with people talking about my decks.
I got a problem with the fact that my decks haven't had a full time victory in I can't remember when! :P
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Lost a close one 4-5 to Browarod
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Confirm the win against Drrek 5-4 in the second very close game of this month's tourney. Lucky draw into SoG+NJ last turn otherwise he would have won.
Cheers to Drrek. ^_^
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Won 5-0. I believe my greatest ally was good health, unfortunately.
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confirm, I was pretty out of it with pneumonia
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I just got beat by NWJ in a great game where both of our defenses beat out our offenses. Final score 2-1. I know I learned several great lessons from that game, and had a fun time. I hope NWJ did as well :)
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5-0 win vs isildur he got a crummy draw
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O-5 Loss. He got the better draw.
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O-5 Loss. He got the better draw.
Confirm and agreed. Seemed like every draw I had was a counter to what he had on the board, but was a fun game and good fellowship!
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Won 5-1 against Redoubter.
Kirk
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Confirm.
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New Rankings & Matchups are posted.
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This tournament will also be going for 5 weeks (starting Nov 7th, and skipping the week of Thanksgiving).
Just to clarify, this being the week of Thanksgiving, do we have until 12/4/11 to complete this week? Doesn't look like my opponent and myself will be able to match up time-wise until after the holiday, and this is what I had anticipated based on the first post. Just looking to confirm so neither of us ghost.
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Lost 4-5 to Drrek. Really fun and lengthy game. We both made some mistakes and I would have won if SOG hadnt been the 4th from the bottom.
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Lost 4-5 to Drrek. Really fun and lengthy game. We both made some mistakes and I would have won if SOG hadnt been the 4th from the bottom.
confirm. Lots of bad luck all around for both parties in this game. First Turn Mayhem wiped out an awesome hand for me, and SoG was hiding for her.
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I won against browarod 5-1. He had an awesome opening draw but I had just the right counter. I seemed to have the right cards at the right time the rest of the game.
Kirk
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Just to clarify, this being the week of Thanksgiving, do we have until 12/4/11 to complete this week?
Thanks for bringing that up. Yes you do have basically 2 weeks to get in this week's game. That is part of why this is the Nov/Dec ROOT, and will hopefully give everyone the chance to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday without worrying about ghosting.
Just another thing to be thankful for :)
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Confirm loss to Kirk. All my artifact counters always seemed to be on the bottom (except when I was discarding from the top of my deck, then they were there). :'(
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I just got beat down 5-1 by Chronic. He played a mistake free game and deserved the win.
We also had a REALLY cool battle around the middle of the game :)
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Confirm. Excellent game that, as Underwood mentioned, was highlighted by a 20 minute long battle phase.
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I LOSE 1-5 VS NWJ GRRRRRRRRR
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I defeated cg25 5-1 in a good game.
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good game
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I'll play
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I'll play
Great, that'll get rid of the bye. I'll add you in for the next round of games (which I'll probably update Sun or Mon night). We have 2 weeks left in this month's tourney, and will be glad to have you join us :)
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Okay. Where are they posted?
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Okay. Where are they posted?
On the opening post of this thread.
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Beat Pol 5-4 in a close game.
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Aye. Two turns of soul drought is a nightmare when your deck is filled to the brim with LS generation.
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Redoubter--er...Drrek...er...? haha =6
me-5
Good game! :)
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Haha, yeah 6-5 over slugfencer in a time-out T2 game (which was amazing and came down to one heart-pounding rescue and Mayhem...). Very good game.
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Hey I'll just put this up here sorry for keeping RED in the dark about this. I have been with out power for the past 3 days and I am still with out it. Before this I was extremely busy with concerts and practices. I was also out of town for a majority of the thanksgiving week. Sooooo yeah..... That's what I have been up to.
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Unfortunately, Profalstad informed me he would not be able to play our game this week and is giving me the victory.
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Redoubter--er...Drrek...er...? haha =6
Is this a serious accusation? Are Redoubter and Drrek the same person? I noticed that they were asked in the chat box about it and avoided the question, or even implied that they might be.
If so, then it would be very poor form for them to be competing in ROOT as 2 separate people. I would appreciate a response from them on this.
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They are brothers, both in ROOT, I will let them argue who is the better player. Drrek is Blake (Type 1 player), Redoubter is Dayne (Type 2 player)
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Redoubter--er...Drrek...er...? haha =6
Is this a serious accusation? Are Redoubter and Drrek the same person? I noticed that they were asked in the chat box about it and avoided the question, or even implied that they might be.
If so, then it would be very poor form for them to be competing in ROOT as 2 separate people. I would appreciate a response from them on this.
Yeah its this
They are brothers, both in ROOT, I will let them argue who is the better player. Drrek is Blake (Type 1 player), Redoubter is Dayne (Type 2 player)
Dayne's just is over at my house a lot on weekends, so he uses my computer for matches sometimes.
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Unfortunately, I must again ghost my opponent this week. This week (and month) has been more stressful with work/school than I envisioned, and since that is unlikely to change until after the holidays, and there is currently a bye in the tourney, I will drop out.
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Redoubter--er...Drrek...er...? haha =6
Is this a serious accusation? Are Redoubter and Drrek the same person? I noticed that they were asked in the chat box about it and avoided the question, or even implied that they might be.
If so, then it would be very poor form for them to be competing in ROOT as 2 separate people. I would appreciate a response from them on this.
Nah, no accusation, just a joke (hence the haha). :P
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Nah, no accusation, just a joke (hence the haha). :P
The easiest way to tell me and my brother apart is by our sense of humor ;D Slugfencer knew I might log on my brother's computer since I was at my parents' all weekend, so when he logged on he asked if I was there essentially. Which I couldn't let go without SOME sort of joke. :angel:
They are brothers, both in ROOT, I will let them argue who is the better player. Drrek is Blake (Type 1 player), Redoubter is Dayne (Type 2 player)
Unfortunately I think Blake has me at T1 right now (2p at least), but at least I still have more experience at T2 8)
I really don't take offense to the questioning, I think it's logical to ask. If anyone still has a question or problem, just have an admin check my IP logs :) Otherwise my dismal performances at T1 in ROOT should vouch for me... :(
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Thanks for all the responses there guys. I'll consider the issue resolved at this point, and will be updating the rankings and matchups here in a bit :)
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YAY!
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New Rankings & Matchups for Week 4 are posted.
I apologize to Megamanlan, who just joined us for getting the bye. Rest assured, you'll get a game next week (or this week if someone else joins too).
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I played brow W1...
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I played brow W1...
Yeah. I played Red and Drrek in weeks 1 and 2 so I think I should be playing you, Prof U.
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I played brow W1...
Yeah. I played Red and Drrek in weeks 1 and 2 so I think I should be playing you, Prof U.
Good point guys. Thanks for keeping me on my toes :)
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Yea! I (Kindof) like bye's!
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Yea! I (Kindof) like bye's!
If you want to go for LS diff, I'll play you.
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That might be interesting. Sure CosmicKittens!
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Yea! I (Kindof) like bye's!
If you want to go for LS diff, I'll play you.
Just to clarify, this would only be a "for fun" game and wouldn't affect any rankings in ROOT :)
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That's what I thought too.
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Yea! I (Kindof) like bye's!
If you want to go for LS diff, I'll play you.
Just to clarify, this would only be a "for fun" game and wouldn't affect any rankings in ROOT :)
I could just join and quit! It'd be totally legit!
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Idc...
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Alright I don't know what we're supposed to do here, but here's what happened.
I played Red for our match, and I won 5-3, but after we finished, we reset to check our decks, and it turned out Red had accidentally put in more Dominants than lost souls. I don't mind at all if the match is just recorded as a 5-3 win for me, since the extra dom did not not effect the game at all, and I won, however I am unsure of how this is supposed to be ruled.
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Obviously since Underwood is the supreme chancellor of ROOT, his word is final on this, but I would argue that Red would be disqualified with a 5-0 loss.
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Lost 5-3 in a REALLY close game. Thought I was done from the beginning, but killing everything has a way of balancing things out...oh well, good game.
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Lost 5-3 in a REALLY close game. Thought I was done from the beginning, but killing everything has a way of balancing things out...oh well, good game.
Confirmed and having all but one hero who just happened to be buried in the deck REALLY hurts...
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I could just join and quit! It'd be totally legit!
I'd be glad to have you just join for the last couple weeks of this tourney, but joining with the intention of quitting right afterward seems to go against the spirit of the tourney. Let me know if you want in, and I'd be glad to have you play Mega.
I played Red for our match, and I won 5-3, but after we finished, we reset to check our decks, and it turned out Red had accidentally put in more Dominants than lost souls. I don't mind at all if the match is just recorded as a 5-3 win for me, since the extra dom did not not effect the game at all, and I won
I didn't really come up with a plan of what to do in cases like this as I assumed that everyone would be sure that their decks were legal. In this particular case, I would be inclined to just count the game with the current score since you're agreeable and say that it didn't affect anything.
The only caveat is that if anyone else does this before the end of the month, and it makes a difference in their game, then I'll probably have to call both games 5-0 to be consistent. Therefore everyone please be sure to NOT have too many dominants in your decks :)
Underwood is the supreme chancellor of ROOT
That has a nice ring to it.
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It didn't effect the game at all.
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I could just join and quit! It'd be totally legit!
I'd be glad to have you just join for the last couple weeks of this tourney, but joining with the intention of quitting right afterward seems to go against the spirit of the tourney. Let me know if you want in, and I'd be glad to have you play Mega.
Sorry, after that incident with Pol, I won't be playing ROOT again. I was kidding with the quoted post.
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Are you guys in need of another player? If so I would be happy to join for the last two weeks.
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That would be nice, since I have a bye this round.
What happened between Pol and Kittens?
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Are you guys in need of another player? If so I would be happy to join for the last two weeks.
Glad to have you. Please try to PM Mega to line up a game with him.
What happened between Pol and Kittens?
I don't remember, but I'm going to try to find out over PM (I'd rather keep whatever it is off this thread).
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When I try to enter the ROOT network it says its full. This is the right information right? Network: ROOT 2012, Password: ROOT. I will pm megaman in the mean time thanks for letting me join on such short notice. :)
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When I try to enter the ROOT network it says its full. This is the right information right? Network: ROOT 2012, Password: ROOT. I will pm megaman in the mean time thanks for letting me join on such short notice. :)
Yeah the ROOT networks been full for a while, there's a backup network too, but I don't remember the information for that one. You two can always use the I'm LFG network if you can't meet up in the ROOT ones also.
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I am in the Root backup already but I don't know if megaman lan is. What is the LFG network code? Thanks.
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I am in the Root backup already but I don't know if megaman lan is. What is the LFG network code? Thanks.
the LFG network is
Name: I'm LFG
Password: currently
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Lost to Prof U 3-5 in an.......interesting game. :P
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Lost to Prof U 3-5 in an.......interesting game. :P
+1
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Lost 1/-4 to TheHobbit13.
My Deck seems to have a tendency to hate me...
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Confirm. 5-1.
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I won 5-0.
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I won 5-0.
Confirm, we both had to wait 4 turns before any hero's appeared on the board... erksome.
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beat katedid 5-0 and the tank rolls on
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yeah I basically got destoyed
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I won against Alex Olijar 5-2 in a good game. First turn mayhem was critical.
Kirk
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Won 5-1.
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New Rankings & Matchups for Week 5 (Final Week) are posted.
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Won 5-0. Drawing 2 drawing cards and a FTM was really lucky on my part.
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Won against cg25 in a game where I got all the breaks at the beginning. 5-0
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you can say that again hax
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Last turn lossage report--
Praeceps=5
me=3
GG! :)
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Confirmed on all counts ;D
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5-0 win for me.
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5-0 Loss. Frustrating game, but I ask everyone not to make your opponent have to trust you on something important in-game (not in dispute, just a statement).
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Confirm.
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I won 5-2 against Polarius.
Kirk
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Blast.
I mean, good job Kirk!
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Blast.
You just WANT my life to be difficult, don't you :)
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I'd have almost certainly won by differential unless Pol had won by more than two.
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Isildur never got back to me so our round never happened. I'm guessing that I get a 3/0 right?
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If you can give Underwood proof that you tried to contact him, then yes, you'll get the points for it. Underwood, can we get the final rankings soon? My understand is that it should be Kirk, then me, then Drrek, but I'm not entirely sure about that.
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Rankings Posted Soon:
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Rankings Posted Soon:
Again, thanks for getting me going on this. Are you vying for a spot in ROOT leadership starting in Jan :)
Final rankings (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/redemption-online-official-tournament/november-root/) are posted!
And the new sign up (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/redemption-online-official-tournament/january-root-29082/msg454551/#msg454551) is too!
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I wish I had the time Mark. I would love to. Maybe sometime in the future or if worse comes to worse and there is no one to do it.
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I wish I had the time Mark. I would love to. Maybe sometime in the future or if worse comes to worse and there is no one to do it.
No problem pal. For now I'll just keep running things solo. But at some future point I'll get burnt out, and will need someone to take over :)
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Mark, I sent you a PM on the subject.
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Mark, I sent you a PM on the subject.
Thanks, I'll be sending one back :)