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Chris Butler Eek, 3 previous Omelette Weakest Links is not a good omen, haha

Gevin Chapwell I'm a bit out of my depth with 4 large so very happy with that score regardless of whether I progress.

Tim Down Slightly regretting having a go at this just to see how I'd do. https://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3984244

Adam Latchford rawdogforever

Gevin Chapwell By the way for future tournaments would it make sense to have raw score as a tie-break in front of total tournament score?

Tal Lessner Nah, chickening out of trying to fudge a max should not be rewarded.

Gevin Chapwell But it's also unsatisfactory that the games against Rex can lack the resolution to distinguish between players.

Tal Lessner Yeah, but most bad declarations isn't a better tiebreak than total tourney score.

Gevin Chapwell It would be a general tie-break mechanism so only against Rex might it be considered a "bad" declaration. But it could even be done the other way round if that's how people feel about it - lower raw score. I think generally keeping it in-game as much as possible is preferable.

Tal Lessner I don't see why fix something that doesn't require fixing.
Neither of these tiebreaks is good, because playing rex one should try doing the best to get as close as possible. Adding tiebreaks non-relevant to game score will mean players will declare strategically for 0 pts and playing later will give a big advantage (knowing to go for a raw score instead of trying to win the round).

Matthew Tassier I'm happy with it as it is. While raw score is a indeed a stat taken specifically from this round, it is not necessarily relevant to your task of scoring against this round's bot challenge. And in some circumstances as Tal points out it would reward poor play rather than good play in relation to the round's challenge. I also quite like that total tournament score is something that it is worth trying to keep high, as long as it only ends up being used in a small number of rounds.

Sam Shepherd Not looking good for me here. Got stumped by some tough 4L rounds, including one impossible round where Rex got closer to the target.

Gevin Chapwell It's so tight with 30 points separating everyone so far.

Jon Elmer Astonishing standard of play here, pretty sure that's me done for. Gl to all.