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#player1 Will Will
#player2 Kenji Kenji
>Will: EIMPTUW 8G WIMP +22 22
>Kenji: AAADINO 9G ODA +20 20
#note Note that I'm doing these racks by memory on a day where I felt awful, so some of these racks are likely off, though I feel pretty confident that a lot of these are right.
>Will: EGKTUUX 10I XU +23 45
>Kenji: AADIINS 11I INIA +23 43
>Will: EGIKLTU 10A GUTLIKE +80 125
>Kenji: ADEIOQS K4 QADIS +42 85
#note I'm not really sure if the last tile was the O or another A, but I don't think it changes my play here.
>Will: AGHLNNP 12L HANG +30 155
#note Not thrilled by this, but big equity gap between this and the other options.
>Kenji: AAEEOST A8 TO.AE +21 106
#note Pretty sad miss of GOATEE here. This wasn't a choice, it's just a miss.
>Will: BELNOPT O12 .LOB +21 176
#note Considered BELONG, but balked at the scoring spot; I don't really mind GLOB.
>Kenji: ?AEEIRS 12C wEARIES +78 184
#note Again, I didn't choose this over AERIfIES, I just missed it. Both the last two mistakes are pretty minor I guess, but yeesh.
>Will: EGINPTT L3 PIG +37 213
#note The board's gotten rapidly worse over the last few turns; I saw no need to play PETIT here and keep a mostly useless GN, helping Kenji score better and either open or not as he sees fit.
>Kenji: CEIORRT N6 TRICOR.E +66 250
>Will: EELNTTZ 8M Z.T +36 249
#note Didn't generate 13E TENT as an option at all; seems like a pretty easy play for Kenji to read. If he has any reasonable blocks I think I regret going that route.
>Kenji: DEEFIJO B6 JOE +28 278
#note This one I actually did choose. idk, I'm not really convinced JEFE is better even though Quackle likes it.
>Will: EELMNNT M12 .MEN +22 271
>Kenji: DEFINOO O1 FOODIE +38 316
>Will: AELNSTY M2 YAS +32 303
#note Quackle doesn't particularly like this, probably because it's just too easy to score well in response, but it's certainly an extremely annoying lane if he can't hit it...
>Kenji: BHNRRUY E9 B.N.RY +22 338
#note The idea of making a better line with BUHR just feels awful to me. YAS doesn't even mean Will has the R, and even if he does blocking feels pointless, especially since I can't survive a bingo, and I don't think partially blocking with BUHR and setting up a 30 point Y play is going to help.
>Will: AAEELNT 9M A.E +20 323
#note I strongly considered LANATE to go harder for the blank, but figured I could keep a leave that had a strong chance of connecting. Still, spending my L with LACE gets me another point, another tile pull, and several more percentage points of bingo%. #tacticssmall
>Kenji: HLNRUUV -UUVVW +0 338
#note This looks really bad. I probably need to throw the H as well: while it's a good scoring tile, that's really not what I need right now. I don't really like playing HURLY or ERUV still, despite the sim, but I think this needs to be an x6, not an x5.
>Will: AELNTTV 14B NAV. +20 343
#note I dunno...didn't want to burn the E here, obviously.
>Kenji: CEFHLOR 1H CHOLER +43 381
#note I felt like at this point, I just have to go. CHOLER gives me an F that might play at j2 or give me a decent play, at this point I'm thinking Will has VES?x and I just have to go. I know the next rack can get very ugly but if I can just draw an E I might survive as this board is really bad for bingos.
>Will: ?ELNSTT J1 .N +4 347
#note Just TET here is better. I thought I would lose to JEU (the only play Kenji can make from the J, aside from JEW which isn't useful) any time Kenji has it, i.e. only the E in the bag would win after TET; but it beats JEU as a block with an F draw for NESTFULS after JEU and an R draw for ANTLERS atop JEU; together with the E, that's 3/8. I felt I needed a fish that draws into plays where I make my blank an O; my play is 2/8, winning with the E or the R for SETTLOR (or SLATTERN down low) and TELEOST. The V was in the bag, so I was in trouble either way.
>Kenji: DEFRUUW H1 .URF +13 394
#note Another pretty terrible endgame by me. CURD leaving FEW and WEFT is pretty obvious. Missing CURFEW is also pretty sad. Both are obviously a lot better than this atrocity.
>Will: ?ELSTTV 3C VeTTE. +18 365
#note Out of time, I should block 15A - my move is 15 points off #endgamelarge
>Kenji: DEUW 15A DEW +28 422
#note This is sadly the best I probably played all day, and I still didn't play very well. It all goes downhill from here.
>Will: LS 10M S.L +18 383
>Will: (U) +2 385
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