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Round 4, Board 2
The game ended by time limit after Fall, 1908.
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Austria:
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John Gramila
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(0)
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0.000
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England:
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Chris Glassburn
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(2)
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1.504
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France:
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Eric Grinnell
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(10)
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37.594
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Germany:
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Jake Trotta
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(2)
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1.504
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Italy:
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Bryan Pravel
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(3)
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3.383
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Russia:
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Matt Sundstrom
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(7)
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18.421
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Turkey:
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Brian Shelden
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(10)
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37.594
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A:John Gramila
E:Chris Glassburn
F:Eric Grinnell
G:Jake Trotta
I:Bryan Pravel
R:Matt Sundstrom
T:Brian Shelden
E:Chris Glassburn
F:Eric Grinnell
G:Jake Trotta
I:Bryan Pravel
R:Matt Sundstrom
T:Brian Shelden
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Tough, tough, tough game for me, and honestly pretty difficult to evaluate my performance. On one hand, I could have gotten a better result… which would have moved me onto the top 7. On the other, look at the metagame incentives on this board.
[b]Metagame death[/b]
Germany (Me): Need more than 10 points to improve score. Big board top gets me on the podium.
France (Grinnel): Owns best Germany, needs me to die. One place behind me, needs me to die.
England (Glassburn): Owns best Italy. Needs strong France. As England, if you need a strong France, you want Germany to die.
Russia (Matt Sundstrom): A couple spots back of me, needs me to die.
EF jumped me. Russia worked with me, then turned at the worst moment and build STP (SC). Despite those circumstances, I recovered from 4 back to 6. But at the same time, I ended on two.
[b]Why I lost[/b]
I could have had a much better game if Italy doesn’t massively botch stabbing Austria and Turkey doesn’t misorder a stab of Russia. Because of those mistakes, I spent the whole game wedged between two giants- France and Russia. As Russia was falling, France stabbed me… and I made a mistake in allowing that to happen. I should have rebuilt a second fleet as soon as I had the chance. Also, as soon as Grinnel said “let’s pop your unit so you can rebuild,” I should have said “fuck no dude.” By allowing Grinnel to pop Belgium, he was able to take Holland, and that was (somewhat) all she wrote.
[b]What I’m taking away[/b]
01 and 02 was just EF lying to me… if no one wants to play ball, there’s not much you can do. But I really struggled in negotiation with France and England. With England, it seems there was just nothing I could do- he was stuck in his metagame. With France, I possibly could have made better pitches. I think I came in with too high of asking prices a couple of times. That being said, he ended up with all of England and North Sea before he supported me into anything, so it was a pretty one sided alliance.