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#player1 Asif_Ali Asif Ali
#player2 Joshua_Sokol Joshua Sokol
>Asif_Ali: IMOOTV 8D VOMITO +30 30
>Joshua_Sokol: AILPPRX 7E PAX +45 45
#note On turn one of Nationals I made my play relatively quickly. I considered LAX instead for a second, but I decided to take the points and increase his chances of a big overlap. I might have preferred to do LAX!
>Asif_Ali: EGY E7 ..GEY +22 52
>Joshua_Sokol: ILLPRRZ 9I PRILL +18 63
#note I liked the balance this provided me. But it's not worth scoring so few; I should be better off playing R(E)Z first to reduce his scores. This play was actually correct after all, but I don't know if I took the time to really figure out for sure that I should try to defend against a bingo so early.
>Asif_Ali: ADINSTT N7 DISTANT +68 120
#note This way, Asif missed the (POGEY)S hook and I blocked the VOMITOS hook. Luckily my suboptimal play worked out well.
>Joshua_Sokol: EFINNRZ K5 FINN.ER +40 103
>Asif_Ali: DEIMT O4 TIMED +39 159
#note Asif rightly talked himself out of MITED* in the same spot. I believe I would have challenged.
>Joshua_Sokol: DEFJSUZ 12A FUZES +54 157
#note I liked L2 FUZED better but I chickened out of it last second. Ugh. For some reason I had a feeling that he couldn't hit under the Z next turn though! I was right about that...
>Asif_Ali: BEIR A8 BRIE. +30 189
>Joshua_Sokol: DEJSTUU J2 JUTE +32 189
#note Pissed off at myself for being unsure of FUZED and not drawing an A for (Z)A underlaps I proceed to miss JUSTED for 52.
>Asif_Ali: AHY C10 HA.Y +38 227
>Joshua_Sokol: DIKNRSU 12L DU.K +28 217
>Asif_Ali: OOOOO -OOOOO +0 227
>Joshua_Sokol: ABINNRS L1 BRANS +26 243
#note I also chicken out of BRAN(T) last minute. I knew it was a better play.
>Asif_Ali: LOW 1L .OWL +27 254
>Joshua_Sokol: AAAINOW O12 .ANA +26 269
#note now I'm in pretty bad shape. Really not happy, but he'll probably miss b10 (I)C(H)
>Asif_Ali: EEEE -EEEE +0 254
>Joshua_Sokol: ACEIIOW 7I WI.O +23 292
#note OK now I might get a play there like CR(U)E-L-T or just ECR(U)
>Asif_Ali: ?EGGLOS 4C LOGGiES. +70 324
#note only bingo
>Joshua_Sokol: ?ACEIRU B1 sAUCIER +82 374
#note Not out of the woods yet, so blocking the last viable lane with ACqUIRE or AURIClE 13F was not as good as this.
>Asif_Ali: AQ 3A Q.A +28 352
>Joshua_Sokol: ACDEEOR 1A O. +3 377
#note I didn't see how this lost and it induced a lot of mistakes. Perhaps I shouldn't have done this, but I can't really see how I lose.
>Asif_Ali: EH F10 HE +31 383
>Joshua_Sokol: ACDEEOR B9 ECR. +31 408
#note -7 to H1 OCR(E)AE, but I didn't expect him to block my outs all at once.
>Asif_Ali: EINOTV 13H OVINE +15 398
#note Whoops, this gave me an out!!!
>Joshua_Sokol: ADEO 14J DOE +21 429
#note -7 ugh, I was out of time though. Still needed to see (R)OAD(I)E
>Asif_Ali: T F6 T.. +7 405
>Asif_Ali: (A) +2 407
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