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#player1 Matt Matt Canik
#player2 Will Will Anderson
#title 2019 NSC Round 15
#description Matt Canik plays Will Anderson in Round 15 at the 2019 NSC
>Matt: AHHOPVZ H7 ZAP +28 28
>Will: EELMNOS 8E MEL.NOSE +61 61
#note Not very nice of me, but my phony count was flagging behind 2017 levels and it seemed a good opportunity...I was aware of MELANOSES, but for some reason I failed to find a couple nice plays with it later on.
>Matt: AEGHHOV I6 GA.EV +28 56
#note I wasn't really sure what to do with this position, but I figure that closing on Will is probably one of my best paths to victory and setting up volatile S hooks against the guy who is likely the best player in the field is also good. I hate holding HHO but whatever, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Sim agrees with this play, so that's good
>Will: EGIILNS 9F LI.. +12 73
#note I counted SLIMING as 36 somehow instead of 40, and the difference between SLIMING and LIPE is about 4 points of equity. #strategysmall
>Matt: ?EHHIOW K5 WHI.HEd +60 116
#note Not really a point to keep the fishy stuff after WHO(M) - I'd much rather close the board off (and this board LOOKS closed if you don't know MELANOSES, which I should know as a premed/pharmacy student but didn't put together over a scrabble board)
>Will: AEGINSS 7E AG +11 84
#note Fishing to SINGE gives me a little bit more bingo% than AG; Quackle wants me to do 11I SAD. The interesting thing about that is whether Matt knows to block MELANOSES afterwards; he might think it's an adjective with no hooks and block elsewhere. I think he'll try to block column L after SAD whenever it makes sense for him to, though, just because he might not be sure and the rest of the board is awful, so I'm not positive I prefer SAD to AG.
>Matt: BEJOOOT L3 OBOE +22 138
#note I completely didn't see JOE until about 15 seconds after I hit the clock. BOOT(E)E is also really nice but also isn't congruent with my game plan #findinglarge
>Will: AEINOSS 10I .O. +8 92
#note Drat. NOESIS scores 45, and playing parallel to OBOE on column M with any number of things retainng one S is just far better than fishing just an O. Might've been a bit tilted drawing my third consecutive unplayable CSW bingo - but the disappointing thing is that in this particular case, I might've been more apt to find NOESIS since I already had ANOESIS# in my mind. #visionlarge #strategylarge
>Matt: EIJORTY 6B JOEY +38 176
#note I feel it's probably good to take away the easiest bingo line here and the M1 plays let him score 30 easily while continuing his fishes if he did miss
>Will: AEINQSS M2 QI +26 118
#note Q draw to add insult to injury.
>Matt: DILPRTU 10C TURD +19 195
#note Continuing to play whack-a-mole with lines but also holding IL to hit the N column next turn
>Will: AAENRSS M6 NA +9 127
#note Needing the extra line (column N) badly; it's annoying to block and gives good counterplay to the triple a lot when I hit it, so maybe he'll just ignore it.
>Matt: EFILNPV N1 FIL +37 232
>Will: AERSSUX D1 XERUS.S +48 175
#note Truly hated giving up both esses, but felt I needed the space in the upper left quadrant...I could've done O1 ASSURE for 52, hoping for an X bomb underneath JOEY to follow up, or just fish my X there and try to hit ASSURE bingos for a zillion. Both seem like better ideas than XERUSES. C8 EXTRAS also scores well and keeps an S for OILS. #strategymedium
>Matt: ACENNPV 1A APE. +39 271
#note Is playing C(R)AVEN crazy here?
>Will: AADOORU C8 DA.URA +16 191
#note Saw OREAD but felt the quadrant space could prove to be more valuable at some point. Probably still a #strategysmall at least.
>Matt: CEELNNV 2B EL.VEN +32 303
#note I did not like doing this. I can get burned along 1F with a bingo, but I just have no good plays otherwise and it scores 32.
>Will: GINOOOR 1F ROO +13 204
#note Best for lack of other competitive options. Quackle says I'm at about 1.5 percent win.
>Matt: CCINRTU N6 TIC +18 321
>Will: BGIINOT 12B O.BITING +74 278
#note Hmm, that's lucky
>Matt: CIMNNRU 13I INCUR +20 341
#note And suddenly things are spiralling for me - this rack is not very nice, there's an unseen blank out, and I don't have a good way to control the whole board right now. Any advice on what to do here would be good, though I think I stand by what I played #questionable
>Will: ?DEKRSY L12 Y.K +20 298
#note This play would've been lethal before YUKE, but it should still be a pain in the ass, and sometimes he doesn't even have the last E. I considered 13A KRAY, which could also be annoying to block, but was concerned that any unhookable block through the T or I of ORBITING would be a game loser for me unless I hit the U of XERUSES, which might not happen some draws, like a lot of draws with the W, for example.
>Matt: DEFMNTW 15K FE +18 359
#note The saddest day of my life. I can't play FEW here, because emptying the bag loses to any outbingo. I can't outrun/block because I only have one vowel. I tracked the entire bag, but as I wrote out the letters my lowercase "d" turned into an "a" because I was violently shaking - in part it was nerves (this was my first time ever on board one at a nationals) and in part it was because the playing room was horribly cold. I even wrote out "redefeats" as a possibility before realizing it was impossible because no Ds were unseen..........
>Will: ?ADERST 15G ReDE..ATS +158 456
#note Sick finish, I truly felt awful for Matt here.
>Matt: DIMNTTW B11 M.TT +18 377
#note whatever #endgamesmall
>Will: A 1N .A +15 471
>Will: (DINW) +16 487
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