 | 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 Playing another spoilage LA after to check my luck, and have already been my score here after 8 rounds. |
 | James Hall Choices make a massive difference - I've never seen so many Js!
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| 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! |
| Callum Todd This should help: https://www.apterous.org/wordstats.php?variant=1024&dic=0&len=-1&hittype=0&show=100 |
 | 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 This round and California have the variants they do for two reasons...
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 | Andy SC Fellow candidates dishing out useful advice? This is not very political. |
| M S R A few of my favourite alternative offerings...
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 | 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 Ditto. |
| 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. |
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. Level scores: Tie-breakers played. Approved.
Fixtures: 33. Completed: 33.
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Struck-out names and scores are players who have since been deactivated. A struck-out individual score is an excluded performance.
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