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#player1 Mike Mike
#player2 Howard_Pistol Howard Pistol
>Mike: AEIIMOX 8H AXIOM +34 34
>Howard_Pistol: IISW 9G IWIS +26 26
>Mike: EEILLOU -EILOU +0 34
#note Itchy trigger finger strikes again. I wouldn't play MOUILLE, but OLEUM is fine.
>Howard_Pistol: BEIOST M3 BOITES +33 59
>Mike: AEELNPR 7B REPANEL +67 101
>Howard_Pistol: AEILT 8A TELIA +29 88
>Mike: ?AHKNOV L1 KHAN +40 141
>Howard_Pistol: CEEH 1H CHEE. +42 130
>Mike: ?IIORVY N1 IVY +26 167
>Howard_Pistol: MNU 10J MUN +22 152
>Mike: ?AINOOR A8 .ANdOORI +74 241
>Howard_Pistol: RSTUW 11G WURST +26 178
>Mike: ADDENOU 14A .EDOUND +22 263
#note Not obvious, but I think it's best; start shutting down lines and don't get trapped into fishing while ahead. If he hits row 15, it's still a tie game.
>Howard_Pistol: DIRY 6J DIR.Y +21 199
>Mike: ?AABERT 5E cABARET +89 352
#note And sometimes things like this happen! With the game now basically secure, some final thoughts over the next few panels.
>Howard_Pistol: DQU D12 QU.D +32 231
>Mike: AEGGJRZ 4H ZAG +51 403
#note (1) Nine missed bingos is too many; the year I won the CO, I missed one bingo in twenty games. As Conrad pointed out to me, however, this is a fixable problem.
>Howard_Pistol: EFNOOST 15G EFTSOON +86 317
>Mike: AEFGJRT I3 J.. +18 421
#note (2) I'm too paranoid of keeping bad leaves, which manifests itself in either tunneling onto plays that clear them (at the expense of higher-scoring plays that may not break up the leave) or exchanging too readily when playing through is fine. This needs to be a focus going forward.
>Howard_Pistol: EGLOV 14K GLOVE +25 342
>Mike: AEEFGRT O12 FR.E +33 454
#note (3) Five more endgame spread punted here (AFTER O11) brings the total to 202, or about 6.7 per game. That's free spread, sitting out there, that I didn't grab. The good players (Nigel, Kenji, Will) grab that spread. Again, this is a fixable problem.
>Howard_Pistol: CILP E11 PI +19 361
>Mike: AEGT N9 GATE +12 466
#note (4) Thanks for following along. Next year starts now.
>Mike: (CL) +8 474
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