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October Daily Duels
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:28 am
by Ian Volante
Had to create this thread given that I trounced everyone yesterday! Clearly my best duel ever, and probably one of the best games I've ever played at all. Maybe desperately charging through the rounds because I was late to set off for England helped me unclutter my mind!
As for today's, well it's not quiye hero to zero, but it's not far off.
Re: October Daily Duels
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:17 pm
by Charlie Reams
Ian Volante wrote:Had to create this thread given that I trounced everyone yesterday! Clearly my best duel ever, and probably one of the best games I've ever played at all. Maybe desperately charging through the rounds because I was late to set off for England helped me unclutter my mind!
As for today's, well it's not quiye hero to zero, but it's not far off.
Yeah I was feeling all smug from getting two of the nines but three is damn impressive - a well-deserved win.
Re: October Daily Duels
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:29 pm
by Phil Reynolds
My new absolutely favouritest thing in the world ever is the sloooooowed-down version of the clock music from today's 90-second Duel. Gives it a kind of epic feel. Yeah.
Re: October Daily Duels
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:19 pm
by Edwin Mead
I managed to finish in third place on Monday (my best ever result) and then last place yesterday (my worst ever result)!
This averages out, putting me mid-table, where I belong.
Re: October Daily Duels
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:24 pm
by Phil Collinge
Edwin Mead wrote:This averages out, putting me mid-table, where I belong.
On the subject of the table, is there a reason why it takes around a week to re-set itself at the start of each month?
Re: October Daily Duels
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:05 pm
by Ben Wilson
One thought about the duels- would it make more sense to have the conundrums scoring 5 points as per flat scoring? It'd give the conundrum-heavy duels- like today's- a bit more balance (yes I got both of today's, but I'm still saying).
Re: October Daily Duels
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:04 am
by D Eadie
Ben, if you got 'both', it's hard to see how the duel was conundrum-heavy.
There have been a few lately where numbers games are over-represented. Today's is ridiculously so.
I'm lamenting the absence of conundrums in the duels and personally am tired with the numbers games, there are too many, and if you can only get 1 away, you've still got to wait for the clock to expire, it won't accept an early answer that is not spot-on target.
Never really understood the Gevin scoring system. Why 5 pts for a conundrum but 10 pts for a numbers game?
The duel, for me anyway, is weighted in favour of the maths buffs and changing the conundrum to 5pts will only make it more so.