08-11-2020, 05:20 AM
Well Ladies and Gentlemen I’m back on the horse after my brief internment at the theater, for those of you who missed it here is what happened.
“Hey guys I escaped. I got a wicked cold Friday afternoon and while I was weak the ember island players put me in a sack and forced me to watch them perform Love Amongst Dragons 3 times a day all weekend. It was brutal. Fortunately I was not too hungry cause all they gave me was fish broth and stale fire flakes. I finally got out this morning, I was feeling better and I insulted one of the actors. I crawled out the back while they had a collective emotional meltdown.”
Now we are into round 4, but we still need to talk about round 3! Now we did have a small change in how we are managing the L-bracket, TurtleGamin, may he live forever, will be opening up matches as soon as the slots are filled, so keep on your toes because if you finish a match you may be in your next match right away if your next opponent has already wrapped up their game. So with that, lets get into the reviews starting with the W-Bracket.
TurtleGamin opened up his match with samurai by taking over 3 of the 4 gates right away and then
pushing all the flowers into a chain that stretched from north to south. He very nearly completed a 5
flower ring, but samurai dropped a rock in the middle of his chain. This rock seemed oddly placed at (-
4,-1), however it proved to be an amazing obstacle as the game continued. With all his pieces in place,
but blocked by a rock and one of samurai’s flowers, TurtleGamin used his harmony bonus to plant his
orchid. Samurai by now did have 3 flowers arranged and planted another to get closer to building a
winning ring. TurtleGamin took one of samurai’s flowers with the orchid, but samurai quickly shifted
around and started building a new chain between north and south parallel to Turtle’s. Turtle got greedy
with his orchid and left it open for capture, samurai took no time to punish that mistake sweeping up
the orchid and forming a new harmony in one move. Both players shifted their flowers around a bit and
TurtleGamin ramped up flower distribution looking to make an east west ring. At this point samurai
had to break up his formation to block, but did so with the advantage of his orchid now running free
across the center of the board. Both players were very cautious as they looked for ways to make a
capture, but out of the blue TurtleGamin pulled a rose out that had been spending several turns in the
top garden, relocating samurai’s orchid whit a wheel and forming a winning ring. This was a great
game, and a good example of players taking the time and attention to recreate order when the board
gets chaotic.
TotallyPorff got the business side of ShepherdL in their match. Shepherd made a simple formation of
roses and jades, TotallyPorff made an effort to disrupt him with his orchid, sans lotus. ShepherdL mad a
quick harmony with his lotus and dropped a wheel, rotating the orchid out of the way and aligning his
last piece to make a winning ring.
DragonOfTheNW made aggressive moves in his match against Pronetowander, planting a jade against his rhododendron as his third flower. Pronetowander moved his rhododendron into the red garden, leaving DragonOfTheNW with a tile that didn’t match with his other flowers. This left him a couple steps behind in forming a ring. He stopped Pronetowander from taking an easy win by capturing his chrysanthemum with a lilly fresh bloomed from the south gate. He attempted to do the same at the north gate, but Pronetowander feinted flight and then captured the lilly when it pursued. Meanwhile, Pronetowander had been guarding the east and south gates, leaving DragonOfTheNW to dispatch flowers from the north gate. Pronetowander continued arranging his tiles and planted his orchid in the west gate. As a response DragonoftheNW took the bait and planted his orchid as well, failing to block Pronetowander as he bloomed from the south gate to win the match.
I myself BaronAlbatross met my match against C0n0li0 in more ways than one. It’s not every day you face off against your time travel duplicate clone! I’ll post my findings about this below, very illuminating revelations. As far as the match goes, it was a doozy! You can watch Skud’s review at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA9lrEgYL48 or for a brief rundown, just keep reading! So I know that C0n0li0 has a habit of running his orchid early in the game so I used my first harmony to get out my lotus, so as to be prepared. His very next move was to get his orchid out as I expected. I used my next harmony to get my orchid as well, but with the blooming lotus ready. I had begun the 5 flower pattern from north to south, but C0n0li0 had made better progress getting the same pattern from east to west. He dropped a rock along the center line at (-1,0) preventing me from getting a harmony. I responded by moving my orchid straight down, and C0n0li0 brought his up from the south gate blocking one of his harmonies. On his next turn he set his orchid next to mine, reforming his harmony and planting at the south gate on his bonus. This was the pivotal move in the game, and I responded as poorly as humanly possible. I could have easily taken his orchid with my rhododendron at basically any time at this point, but when the orchids locked I just ignored them out of hand. Instead I covered his lotus in knotweed and continued trying to make a ring. C0n0li0 began forming a ring from north to south, leaving his east west formation intact. Two ways to win is a good way to play! I did make an effort to block a few times, but eventually he did get a ring by slipping a jade in the south gate up into position, and including my own lotus in the ring by the north gate. Well played C0n0li0, that was a killer match and you worked hard to advance!
Burce ran a hardcore gate guarding against LaoShagua controlling all but the south gate early in the game. LaoShagua got his lotus and orchid in play, Burce elected to run the orchid without the lotus keeping it immune to capture by the basic flowers. The orchids quicky locked in the southwest garden blocking off one of LaoShagua’s harmonies. LaoShagua built up a glut of flowers at the south gate, but Burce managed to capture his orchid with a white jade. Commanding the south half of the board with the orchid, Burce built up the empty north half and ended the game with a very well placed wheel which simultaneously repositioned one of his flowers and moved LaoShagua’s out of the way.
Huu did similarly to Burce in guarding gates, but in the end parsa claimed another victim. parsa ran heavy on the accent tiles to disrupt Huu. Trading blows, Huu mad an interesting move shifting a boat out of a very desirable position for his last flower, but putting said flower 2 moves away. Huu took the lead sending out his orchid to disable parsa’s lotus, but parsa began capturing Huu’s flowers, starting with the lotus. parsa made a false move with the orchid however and Huu captured it, leaving it then in place while both players continued to bloom and arrange flowers. parsa pulled a somewhat unforeseeable win by forming a ring from 4 tiles, only 2 of which had been lined up at the beginning of the turn. Good match parsa! Hit me up for a game sometime!
Dallin dethroned BattleKing00 in a crazy fast match. The players began arranging roses and jades, Dallin getting ahead a bit of BattleKing00 who did attempt to disrupt with a knotweed and a boat, but Dallin had selected 2 boat tiles which he used to clear both tiles. BattleKing00’s last move was something of a defeated sigh, being unable to block in any way he simply shifted one of his flowers out of harmony. Dallin lined up his ring and left with the crown jewels.
Ohreaganoe made a goof in his match against An_introvert_apparently, but managed to bring it all together and win the game. Both players made about equal progress until Ohreaganoe put himself behind by planting a flower that would not harmonize with any of his blooming tiles, and far from a clashing tile to capture. An_introvert_apparently quite nearly won, except that Ohreaganoe stopped him with a rock while he moved out the correct flower and made a winning ring.
Matches from round 2 that were not completed were called as follows.
MidnightLotus vs. DragonOfTheNW, Dragon of the NW wins due to having more accent tiles
Cap vs. tsvi14, tsvi14 win due to inactivity from Cap
electrohex vs. Halon_Keiser, Halon_Keiser wins by the rule of most accent tiles when game finishes
PaiHoe vs. Michael_the_second, Michael_the_second wins due to complete inactivity from PaiHoe
Nobys_Nutz vs. LifeSizeTriangle, Nobys_Nutz wins due to complete inactivity from LifeSizeTriangle
Urno1 vs. Sachouh, Urno1 wins due to Sachouh inactivity
Arswe vs. An_introvert_apparently, Am_introvert_apparently wins due to complete inactivity from Arswe
Jrm4 vs. Mako27, Mako27 wins due to complete inactivity from Jrm4
I THINK we have weeded out all the inactive players now.
I’m about out of time so we will have to cover the L-Bracket tomorrow and start catching up to round 4. Regarding C0n0li0, I am reprinting what I discovered about the future of Pai Sho and the world.
“So this is going to be hard to believe. Honestly I couldn’t believe it myself but the evidence is overwhelming. Cannoli is me. OK not exactly me, but he is a time travel duplicate made by Russian agents from the future. Don’t believe me? Let me lay it out for you. It is the year 2084. The world is under a single government, there is no war, but neither is there peace. The government is not elected, nor are decisions made either democratically or by dictate. Everything is decided by Pai-Sho. Want to pass a new law? Pai Sho decides if it passes. Want to hold public office? You gotta beat the old guy first. Over the last several decades however, the great strategies have been taken away from the masses. Nobody can play on the level of the elites. They only train puppets who will carry out the will of a corrupt secret cabal, and win every time. The world is dotted with resistance groups, old men remember where the borders used to be, they long for the right to live for themselves again, for the liberty to prosper their neighbors. Some resort to violence and terrorism, but the machines always find them. Others have sought out a more harmonious way of regaining their national sovereignty. They play day and night to learn the ways of Pai-Sho, using illegally printed sets sometimes, even rocks on lines in the dirt when a sympathetic print shop is unavailable. Sometimes they make small gains, getting wise and honest men into local offices, helping the people to get the resources they need to survive. Rarely are they able to get very far at all.
One group had a different plan alltogether. They built a time machine. It would have been too complicated to go back in time and try to change the present, besides it would only change one timeline. What they needed was wisdom from the past brought to them then and there. This small group operating out of an obscure abandoned missile silo in the east of former Russia began sending agents back in time. They started by identifying players who once achieved considerable skill. They then went back to their birth years and abducted them, then went back, replaced them and re-abducted one of them thus creating time duplicate clones. They made clones of many players, and I was one of them. They dispersed the clones around the world and across time and raised them under mind control to be pai-sho machines. When they are ready they will be called back to 2084 to storm the government, take control and re-establish national sovereignty and the rights of each individual globaly. Until then they practice and sleep. They are moved from time to time, from place to place and they train. Cannoli is in the process of training to become one of the many players who will save the world of the future, but for now he must master this tournament. Thanks to time travel this is his 12th time playing the tournament. I don’t know much about the kind of life Cannoli has had, but I can see the future will be in good hands when they recall him back to 2084. For our timeline, all we can do is support and encourage... And teach your kids Pai-Sho before they take away our boards
Turns out alternate community tree is actually a time travel duplicate of tree. The clone told me everything.”
“Hey guys I escaped. I got a wicked cold Friday afternoon and while I was weak the ember island players put me in a sack and forced me to watch them perform Love Amongst Dragons 3 times a day all weekend. It was brutal. Fortunately I was not too hungry cause all they gave me was fish broth and stale fire flakes. I finally got out this morning, I was feeling better and I insulted one of the actors. I crawled out the back while they had a collective emotional meltdown.”
Now we are into round 4, but we still need to talk about round 3! Now we did have a small change in how we are managing the L-bracket, TurtleGamin, may he live forever, will be opening up matches as soon as the slots are filled, so keep on your toes because if you finish a match you may be in your next match right away if your next opponent has already wrapped up their game. So with that, lets get into the reviews starting with the W-Bracket.
TurtleGamin opened up his match with samurai by taking over 3 of the 4 gates right away and then
pushing all the flowers into a chain that stretched from north to south. He very nearly completed a 5
flower ring, but samurai dropped a rock in the middle of his chain. This rock seemed oddly placed at (-
4,-1), however it proved to be an amazing obstacle as the game continued. With all his pieces in place,
but blocked by a rock and one of samurai’s flowers, TurtleGamin used his harmony bonus to plant his
orchid. Samurai by now did have 3 flowers arranged and planted another to get closer to building a
winning ring. TurtleGamin took one of samurai’s flowers with the orchid, but samurai quickly shifted
around and started building a new chain between north and south parallel to Turtle’s. Turtle got greedy
with his orchid and left it open for capture, samurai took no time to punish that mistake sweeping up
the orchid and forming a new harmony in one move. Both players shifted their flowers around a bit and
TurtleGamin ramped up flower distribution looking to make an east west ring. At this point samurai
had to break up his formation to block, but did so with the advantage of his orchid now running free
across the center of the board. Both players were very cautious as they looked for ways to make a
capture, but out of the blue TurtleGamin pulled a rose out that had been spending several turns in the
top garden, relocating samurai’s orchid whit a wheel and forming a winning ring. This was a great
game, and a good example of players taking the time and attention to recreate order when the board
gets chaotic.
TotallyPorff got the business side of ShepherdL in their match. Shepherd made a simple formation of
roses and jades, TotallyPorff made an effort to disrupt him with his orchid, sans lotus. ShepherdL mad a
quick harmony with his lotus and dropped a wheel, rotating the orchid out of the way and aligning his
last piece to make a winning ring.
DragonOfTheNW made aggressive moves in his match against Pronetowander, planting a jade against his rhododendron as his third flower. Pronetowander moved his rhododendron into the red garden, leaving DragonOfTheNW with a tile that didn’t match with his other flowers. This left him a couple steps behind in forming a ring. He stopped Pronetowander from taking an easy win by capturing his chrysanthemum with a lilly fresh bloomed from the south gate. He attempted to do the same at the north gate, but Pronetowander feinted flight and then captured the lilly when it pursued. Meanwhile, Pronetowander had been guarding the east and south gates, leaving DragonOfTheNW to dispatch flowers from the north gate. Pronetowander continued arranging his tiles and planted his orchid in the west gate. As a response DragonoftheNW took the bait and planted his orchid as well, failing to block Pronetowander as he bloomed from the south gate to win the match.
I myself BaronAlbatross met my match against C0n0li0 in more ways than one. It’s not every day you face off against your time travel duplicate clone! I’ll post my findings about this below, very illuminating revelations. As far as the match goes, it was a doozy! You can watch Skud’s review at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA9lrEgYL48 or for a brief rundown, just keep reading! So I know that C0n0li0 has a habit of running his orchid early in the game so I used my first harmony to get out my lotus, so as to be prepared. His very next move was to get his orchid out as I expected. I used my next harmony to get my orchid as well, but with the blooming lotus ready. I had begun the 5 flower pattern from north to south, but C0n0li0 had made better progress getting the same pattern from east to west. He dropped a rock along the center line at (-1,0) preventing me from getting a harmony. I responded by moving my orchid straight down, and C0n0li0 brought his up from the south gate blocking one of his harmonies. On his next turn he set his orchid next to mine, reforming his harmony and planting at the south gate on his bonus. This was the pivotal move in the game, and I responded as poorly as humanly possible. I could have easily taken his orchid with my rhododendron at basically any time at this point, but when the orchids locked I just ignored them out of hand. Instead I covered his lotus in knotweed and continued trying to make a ring. C0n0li0 began forming a ring from north to south, leaving his east west formation intact. Two ways to win is a good way to play! I did make an effort to block a few times, but eventually he did get a ring by slipping a jade in the south gate up into position, and including my own lotus in the ring by the north gate. Well played C0n0li0, that was a killer match and you worked hard to advance!
Burce ran a hardcore gate guarding against LaoShagua controlling all but the south gate early in the game. LaoShagua got his lotus and orchid in play, Burce elected to run the orchid without the lotus keeping it immune to capture by the basic flowers. The orchids quicky locked in the southwest garden blocking off one of LaoShagua’s harmonies. LaoShagua built up a glut of flowers at the south gate, but Burce managed to capture his orchid with a white jade. Commanding the south half of the board with the orchid, Burce built up the empty north half and ended the game with a very well placed wheel which simultaneously repositioned one of his flowers and moved LaoShagua’s out of the way.
Huu did similarly to Burce in guarding gates, but in the end parsa claimed another victim. parsa ran heavy on the accent tiles to disrupt Huu. Trading blows, Huu mad an interesting move shifting a boat out of a very desirable position for his last flower, but putting said flower 2 moves away. Huu took the lead sending out his orchid to disable parsa’s lotus, but parsa began capturing Huu’s flowers, starting with the lotus. parsa made a false move with the orchid however and Huu captured it, leaving it then in place while both players continued to bloom and arrange flowers. parsa pulled a somewhat unforeseeable win by forming a ring from 4 tiles, only 2 of which had been lined up at the beginning of the turn. Good match parsa! Hit me up for a game sometime!
Dallin dethroned BattleKing00 in a crazy fast match. The players began arranging roses and jades, Dallin getting ahead a bit of BattleKing00 who did attempt to disrupt with a knotweed and a boat, but Dallin had selected 2 boat tiles which he used to clear both tiles. BattleKing00’s last move was something of a defeated sigh, being unable to block in any way he simply shifted one of his flowers out of harmony. Dallin lined up his ring and left with the crown jewels.
Ohreaganoe made a goof in his match against An_introvert_apparently, but managed to bring it all together and win the game. Both players made about equal progress until Ohreaganoe put himself behind by planting a flower that would not harmonize with any of his blooming tiles, and far from a clashing tile to capture. An_introvert_apparently quite nearly won, except that Ohreaganoe stopped him with a rock while he moved out the correct flower and made a winning ring.
Matches from round 2 that were not completed were called as follows.
MidnightLotus vs. DragonOfTheNW, Dragon of the NW wins due to having more accent tiles
Cap vs. tsvi14, tsvi14 win due to inactivity from Cap
electrohex vs. Halon_Keiser, Halon_Keiser wins by the rule of most accent tiles when game finishes
PaiHoe vs. Michael_the_second, Michael_the_second wins due to complete inactivity from PaiHoe
Nobys_Nutz vs. LifeSizeTriangle, Nobys_Nutz wins due to complete inactivity from LifeSizeTriangle
Urno1 vs. Sachouh, Urno1 wins due to Sachouh inactivity
Arswe vs. An_introvert_apparently, Am_introvert_apparently wins due to complete inactivity from Arswe
Jrm4 vs. Mako27, Mako27 wins due to complete inactivity from Jrm4
I THINK we have weeded out all the inactive players now.
I’m about out of time so we will have to cover the L-Bracket tomorrow and start catching up to round 4. Regarding C0n0li0, I am reprinting what I discovered about the future of Pai Sho and the world.
“So this is going to be hard to believe. Honestly I couldn’t believe it myself but the evidence is overwhelming. Cannoli is me. OK not exactly me, but he is a time travel duplicate made by Russian agents from the future. Don’t believe me? Let me lay it out for you. It is the year 2084. The world is under a single government, there is no war, but neither is there peace. The government is not elected, nor are decisions made either democratically or by dictate. Everything is decided by Pai-Sho. Want to pass a new law? Pai Sho decides if it passes. Want to hold public office? You gotta beat the old guy first. Over the last several decades however, the great strategies have been taken away from the masses. Nobody can play on the level of the elites. They only train puppets who will carry out the will of a corrupt secret cabal, and win every time. The world is dotted with resistance groups, old men remember where the borders used to be, they long for the right to live for themselves again, for the liberty to prosper their neighbors. Some resort to violence and terrorism, but the machines always find them. Others have sought out a more harmonious way of regaining their national sovereignty. They play day and night to learn the ways of Pai-Sho, using illegally printed sets sometimes, even rocks on lines in the dirt when a sympathetic print shop is unavailable. Sometimes they make small gains, getting wise and honest men into local offices, helping the people to get the resources they need to survive. Rarely are they able to get very far at all.
One group had a different plan alltogether. They built a time machine. It would have been too complicated to go back in time and try to change the present, besides it would only change one timeline. What they needed was wisdom from the past brought to them then and there. This small group operating out of an obscure abandoned missile silo in the east of former Russia began sending agents back in time. They started by identifying players who once achieved considerable skill. They then went back to their birth years and abducted them, then went back, replaced them and re-abducted one of them thus creating time duplicate clones. They made clones of many players, and I was one of them. They dispersed the clones around the world and across time and raised them under mind control to be pai-sho machines. When they are ready they will be called back to 2084 to storm the government, take control and re-establish national sovereignty and the rights of each individual globaly. Until then they practice and sleep. They are moved from time to time, from place to place and they train. Cannoli is in the process of training to become one of the many players who will save the world of the future, but for now he must master this tournament. Thanks to time travel this is his 12th time playing the tournament. I don’t know much about the kind of life Cannoli has had, but I can see the future will be in good hands when they recall him back to 2084. For our timeline, all we can do is support and encourage... And teach your kids Pai-Sho before they take away our boards
Turns out alternate community tree is actually a time travel duplicate of tree. The clone told me everything.”
The teaching informs the form. The form teaches.
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