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#player1 Joshua_Sokol Joshua Sokol
#player2 Charles_Reinke Charles Reinke
>Joshua_Sokol: AAADEEF -AAE +0 0
#note J: This seemed the most balanced, but I shouldn't keep the F. The F is bad. DE or ADE are fine to keep, probably DE against a similarly skilled opponent. -3
>Charles_Reinke: ACIIMNR H3 MINICAR +74 74
#note C: I heard somewhere that experts will occasionally make "sub-optimal" placements of their opening plays so I decided to try it out.
J: This is when I started tweaking. Charles announced his score, and not one second later, Thomas, who was sitting right next to me, announces the EXACT SAME SCORE. I mean come on that is absolutely ridiculous
>Joshua_Sokol: ADEEFJR I2 JEFE +27 27
>Charles_Reinke: AEILTTZ 2I .EZAIL +48 122
>Joshua_Sokol: AADRSTU 10B DATURAS +76 103
#note J: almost missed this
>Charles_Reinke: BENOSTT 5E BON..TS +36 158
#note C: No S hooks on the board except JEZAIL, which I assumed would get blocked next turn, so I didn't feel bad about doing this. 11C BOT is the other option.
>Joshua_Sokol: DEENVWX 6D VEX +58 161
>Charles_Reinke: EEHPRTT 1M HEP +31 189
#note J: I notice while waiting for Charles to play that Darrell Day just got his TAWN* challenged off the board by Noah Berger. Weird.
>Joshua_Sokol: DENOUUW 4K UNWED +24 185
#note J: I think I have to play K5 (S)WOUNED here, as bad as keeping a U seems. Gotta go for the blank and not give Charles any gifts.
>Charles_Reinke: ?EEORTT O4 .OTTEREl +74 263
#note C: Missed 8A OpERETT(A) which looks better, not setting up the N10 hotspot.
J: At first I thought he was going to phony here until he circled the L as his blank. Patricia Barrett also got confused when gazing over our board when I was trying not to run out of time in the endgame.
>Joshua_Sokol: ILOORSU D10 .OLU +8 193
#note J: This was just a move out of pure frustration. D8 OU(T)RO is better
>Charles_Reinke: EEGHKLO N9 EH +28 291
#note C: 4D HOG looked great, but I wanted to kill this spot.
>Joshua_Sokol: IINORSY 7G I.Y +13 206
#note J: I honestly thought that not playing 14B ROSINY here was my fatal mistake when speaking to Charles after the game was over. lol please I was just playing badly
>Charles_Reinke: AEGIKLO B7 GOA.LIKE +78 369
#note J: desperate challenge, hopefully both of us were confusing this word with another
>Joshua_Sokol: ?FINORS - +0 206
#note Challenge.
>Charles_Reinke: CDIOOPR 8A C.OP +33 402
>Joshua_Sokol: ?FINORS 14B .NSIFORm +73 279
#note J: just cut spread josh you can't win. Trying to set up many bingo lanes
>Charles_Reinke: ADEIORY H12 YA.E +33 435
#note J: ensiform was stupid and useless
>Joshua_Sokol: BGIIQRW 12A Q. +21 300
>Charles_Reinke: ADINORU 4A DANIO +21 456
#note C: AUDIO instead.
>Joshua_Sokol: BGIIMRW C1 WRI.G +18 318
#note J: I thought I was making up EMBOWING, so I didn't play BRI(N)G instead of this. BRING might have won me the game if I drew EM(B)OWING and he somehow didn't block
>Charles_Reinke: AENRTUV 1A VA. +27 483
>Joshua_Sokol: ABILMOS 13G B. +14 332
#note J: This was also very stupid. I played this to block G(A)UNTER and go for S(E)MOLINA 15G, but he has high-scoring plays at 2B anyway. I knew I should have just played 2B B(R)AIL
>Charles_Reinke: DGNRTTU 2B G.UNT +22 505
#note J: look, the E was in the bag. B(R)AIL would have saved me like 40 spread
>Joshua_Sokol: AEILMOS 1F EMO +17 349
#note J: made this play with one second left. MIS 12M is one point better.
>Charles_Reinke: DRT J1 R.D +10 515
>Joshua_Sokol: AILS 12L AILS +20 369
>Joshua_Sokol: (T) +2 371
#note Josh went over on time, so the final was 361-515.
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