Callum Todd

Callum Todd I was never going to be truly competitive here anyway, but by god the selections in my game were awful. Neither of the two longest words were available at any point. If you were to get points based on the scrabble tile score of the letters in your selections I'd be walking this!

Callum Todd

Callum Todd Playing another spoilage LA after to check my luck, and have already been my score here after 8 rounds.

James Hall

James Hall Choices make a massive difference - I've never seen so many Js!
% of max would be an interesting thing to look at for these games!

Jim M

Jim M I can see the arguments both ways. % max / stepdown scoring / some other negative marking might be fairer. But the random element IMO makes it more exciting, and levels the playing field a little. Eg this round does not play to any of my strengths, and is worth loads of points, but I quite like the idea that luck of the draw could mean that some beneficiary gets pneumono... 7 times and wins the round. Sort of mirrors the chaos of politics.

Callum Todd

Callum Todd Oh absolutely, the chaotic element is what makes tourney like this fun. Not critiquing the round, just having a good old fashioned moan at my misfortune!

Jim M

Jim M I'm just annoyed that I have to make a token effort to learn how to spell the longest words on here. Currently trying to find the relevant page on statland :)

Callum Todd

Callum Todd This should help: https://www.apterous.org/wordstats.php?variant=1024&dic=0&len=-1&hittype=0&show=100

Jim M

Jim M That's exactly what I needed. Thank you

Dave Robjohns

Dave Robjohns From playing a lot of this format over the past few months I advise picking consonant first then only vowels (e.g. CV, CVV, CVVV). It's rare that this becomes too disgusting whereas adding more consonants increases the chance you'll get screwed over. In a usual game I max my selections but when prune goes CCCC it can all go very wrong.

M S R

M S R This round and California have the variants they do for two reasons...
-It has the ability to blow the contest wide open, with an 'underdog' (based on ProRanks) possibly being able to win a large number of votes.
-I am a slightly evil person *Twirls moustache and clubs a baby seal to death*

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Andy SC

Andy SC Fellow candidates dishing out useful advice? This is not very political.

M S R

M S R A few of my favourite alternative offerings...
When XSZ was the selection...
TEXASSIZEDWORDTHATICANTREMEMBER from #Canuck2020.

NOJOKINGAROUNDTHISISSHITTHISFORMATSUCKS from #Higginson2020

From #Todd2020...
THESELECTIONSAREAWFUL
THISISANABSOLUTEJOKE
And when JXYV came up...HA.

OHFFS was all #Hall2020's could see a selection BOJ. Don't know about you, but a 7 jumped straight out me from that one...

Elliott Mellor

Elliott Mellor Is there going to be an extension for this? I was intending to play my game today, but won't be able to if apto stays down.

Chris Hare

Chris Hare Ditto.

M S R

M S R I'll get an extension to this round up, closing at the same time as Utah (end of 08/04) for anyone who doesn't get their games played following the recent downtime.

Tourney round: Apterous Presidential Election: Texas

<< Maine | Utah >>

Notes from the organizer: From the border with Canada to the border with Mexico. Break out your ten-gallon hat, keep an eye out for immigrant vigilantes and prepare to recieve assault rifles as Christmas presents; we're in Texas.

Of course, everything is bigger in Texas. The words in this case. Time to remember coined terms for a lung disease and made-up Mary Poppins gibberish. For the 38 electoral votes (the second-highest number up for grabs in one round) you will be playing a Spoilage letters attack.

Yes, the sound of it is rather quite atrocious. Gubbins here-https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ld1_Ez4zYC2_kE5wBbVieHMZUM3Gr_82NtwgtzWEPHI/edit#gid=1552441202

Ran from: 31 March – 6 April 2020. Format: Spoilage Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Organizers: M S R.

Fixtures: 33. Completed: 33.

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