Hi guys, since I aimed in the high level competition in this tournament i want to give a suggestion. I will post every game in here and make a small comentary, and I would advice people to that the same. It can be also a learning post as The Impaller vs. the World was.
Match 8
dunga 3
Gnuffone 1
http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=2747201 (dunga won)
http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=2749658 (Gnuffone home won, europe)
http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=2749723 (dunga home won, strategic)
http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=2749752 (dunga won)
In Game 2, Europe game and Gnuffones home map he made clean picks and pick his 7 with a huge counter on me. I made a mistake on my picks. Quick win for him, bad template by me. I need one new template in Europe.
Game 1, 3 and 4 were pretty similar by my side. I went for a 5 bonus combo + fighters. I got the combo all 3 times.
Game 1: It was a dangerous call but my feeling was a could go for it in this game. I like this combos because you can go for pretty big expansion, 10 than 13 than 18 than 23, in a straight way, but it has its downsides, like being vunerable at 4th and 5th round. Gnuffone went for safety and got it, but he also gave me safety in exchange and my growing options were better.
Game 3: The oportunity presented itself, I went for it. The greenland combo seemed a safe choice to make the counter at 3,4,5 and i got it all again. Than it was pretty much just attack.
Game 4: We had opposite of the map picks. I started growing faster but he hit a good 19 at turn 5. Turn 6 he made a mistake, he already had a free card piece attack. And prefered using a mind game, going for expansion and not even using his card. I think he should've gone all in in california, the game would be tottaly different.
Great series Gnuffone,
and I hope you all like the idea of commentaries.
