Round 4 Day 2 - Carcassonne CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2025

The Carcassonne Champions League featuring 48 of the world's best players representing 30 countries/territories has reached the fourth group stage round. Wednesday 0:00 UTC USA's crocodilefundy will be trying to put some resistance against the highest rated player online RabbitRain of Japan in round 4 in group H.

[@yzemaze]

@51:50 / @1:04:00 A is the player drawing next, so in this case croc. Additionally with 14 tiles left and 1 in croc’s hand there were still 4 curves + 1 dagger unaccounted for. So the inputs should’ve been 15, 1, 5 and 0 => roughly 17:83, so a bit better odds than in your example. Actually they were even a tiny bit better than that, because RR could’ve drawn the crossroad themselves (try 15, 0, 5, 1). Thanks for the plug. 🙂

[@yzemaze]

@30:18 Loss by "exactly 1 point" is correct. It’s -18 for the main field, because the splitter wouldn’t be there, but were placed for +3 on the right field. But yeah, a nearly devastating vanilla move. About the other order of the last 3 tiles: If green had attacked the field with a 2nd farmer on the monastery hoping for the curve red would’ve [should’ve! ;-) ] blocked with the splitter below their monastery. So drawing the curve was perfect for green. @31:15 I still don’t get RR’s preference for the 15 min format, but they found their winning moves and almost did profit from the (perceived!) time trouble of their opponent. croc had 2:10 on the clock when they got the vanilla and still had 1:17 left after placing it.

[@wfchannel4673]

yeah, croc gets one more point from the monastery plus a guaranteed 7 from all three remaining tiles with either a 7 point road or a 4 point +3 point completed city in his field, for a net of 8 points that rr can't catch