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My Tournament Experience (Nov 6, 100 Daily)
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alcaras wrote
at 11:32 AM, Thursday November 6, 2008 EST
Played in today's 100 tournament.
It's always a bad sign when people say hi to other people at the table and not you... Got eliminated after 2 games, both times because of the manipulation of AnMoNiDa, popularly known as "mona." Sigh. First game I said I'd flag 3rd, flagged 3rd; fought green for 3rd, started losing and reflagged 4th. Meanwhile mona was in the corner, in last place. I 8v7 her stack and lose. She proceeds to convince the rest of the table to let her "fight for 4th" and I proceed to have horrible luck (Tournament Luck: 45.2%) and get beaten back, except for another island stack of two. All the time I try to convince my table to kill her since I flagged 4th first, but they love her too much and let her take 4th. Second game, similar -- I say I'll flag 3rd, mona says she'll also flag 3rd >.< and green, Stigmatore, says he'll flag 3rd. Since green and I are pretty intertwined, I say I'll flag 4th. I have a 5 stack with a beautiful position on green, but I say "Because I said I will flag 4th and because lower flagged players shouldn't attack higher flagged players, I won't attack green because I will flag 4th." Next turn green attacks a stack of mine and kills it. I ask in chat "Backstab?!" and he apologizes, then proceeds to suicide out. However, by this time many other games are ending and the crowd pours into the room, and proceeds to chant "kill purple," all while I'm trying to point out that had I not been honorable, I wouldn't have been screwed at this point. Brown -- who is now flagged 4th with an eight stack in the corner -- laughs at me. I get killed and am out of the tournament. Frustrating. |
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alcaras wrote
at 11:44 AM, Thursday November 6, 2008 EST I guess the point of this post, apart from venting, is to try to understand flagging. I've had more grief and suffering because of flags than any other feature of the game.
In the first game, I flagged first for 3rd, and first for 4th -- but both those were not respected in favor of someone who said they'd flag 4th. In the second game, I said I'd flag 4th and didn't attack someone who said he'd flag 3rd, and yet that wasn't respected in favor of someone who sat in a corner, doing nothing, but flagged 4th once I had been beat down. What gives? How do flags actually work? |
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Frogger. wrote
at 12:02 PM, Thursday November 6, 2008 EST You sucked out on a tourne big deal just play better in the next and learn from the mistakes
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Vermont wrote
at 12:28 PM, Thursday November 6, 2008 EST Ryan has never officially clarified what the new flags are supposed to mean, apart from a lone forum posting that you have no ability to search to find (that I know of.)
So, without official direction, people have interpreted things many different ways. And even the same person will argue for different treatment depending on whether they are the one flagged or flagged to. Their is clearly an issue here. We see forum postings over and over again asking how they are supposed to work, and tons of reviews (if not a majority) dealing with misunderstandings over flagging. |
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montecarlo wrote
at 1:53 PM, Thursday November 6, 2008 EST i think this isnt so much a problem with flags as it is with otfs (old time friends). my guess is that if alcaras's name had been montecarlo, his flag would have been respected. just a guess.
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Vermont wrote
at 2:18 PM, Thursday November 6, 2008 EST Monte, my points regarding confusion and lack or direction regarding flags were for the situation in general, not just this one case.
And every time I see that av, I think you are MadWilly posting. |
