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Although it was painful losing the decider of my duel against viv-, your reaction to my win in the first game was one of my highlights of this tournament - thank you so much for this commentary! 😎

Thank you for streaming the UK vs Taiwan match! I was unable to play as I was at the UK Games Expo (board games convention which also hosts the UK national championship). I was able to avoid finding out the result of the match at the time and wait until I got home on Sunday evening and then watch this full stream to find out the result with all the entertainment and excitement!!

There was a field opportunity for Napalm with his 2 last moves, with the road dorito on left shared city and a starting tile, however this is tricky because black could still equalize the field 3 to 3

[SPOILER] At 43:46, mitaocat's clock went from 0:06 straight to 0:02. What a joke platform! Congrats to Portugal, amazing performance!

POLLO VERDE MIO PADRE ❤

Thanks for covering the exciting final round of Group B matches and for featuring my deciding game against pollo_verde on your stream! I have to disagree with your analysis that i should be placing a meeple on the 5pt road at 2:22:26 (and the next turn). There are a lot of opportunities to score more points than that with the remaining tiles. There are 2 regular monastery tiles which will score at least as much but probably more and if my opponent draws the roaded monastery and takes the 9pt drop spot they create a 6pt farm. I definitely want to be ensuring i dont overcommit and go meepleless (with quick point tiles still available) and i may still need to use a meeple to neutralise the city at the bottom. In the end, sure i only end up with a 3pt field so we can claim i lost 2pts here. Ultimately pollo_verde did very well to find the winning move on their penultimate turn and then have the tile runout fit their requirements. I dont begrudge them the victory but i also am not feeling like i misplayed the endgame significantly

Thx Nallerheim for your stream, I really enjoyed your comments on this incredibile matches 👍 I gave all i got on that 33% chances to enter the field and fortunately I succeeded 😄 see you soon on the next stream

Hey, I have been watching out for your TH-cam channel so I have gotten some "issue" solutions blueprints for you. May we make sure through a good conversation?

I like group standings a lot. :-) Your math was right this time. Astounding! There’s definitely a lot going on … For those who don’t want to watch Nallerheim’s 30+ minutes of standings musings (from 1:04:00 onwards), here’s the gist: 3 wins likely won’t be good enough for playoffs for at least 1 team, but there’s one set of results where there are only 4 3rd place teams with 3 wins (UK, ROM, COL, PT, FIN, MEX would all need to win their games). As a German player I’m rooting for that scenario. ;-) Group A: tiebreakers of top 3 are good enough to qualify for playoffs, even a 0:5 (0:10) in their last matches likely wouldn’t change that … Group B: ROM could get 3rd place, but would be out anyway as there are already 2 3rds with 3 W and there’ll be at least 2 more (JPN vs. ESP, GER vs. BEL). UK could drop to 4th with 1:4 or 0:5 and GRE winning 5:0 or 4:1 - depending on games diff. Group C: Top 3 are quite safe, but a 5:0 by CAT would make things interesting. ;) They even could get to 2nd place if Latvia would lose 0:5. Group D: FRA is quite safe, considering they are heavy favorites against Peru, even a 2:3 (or 1:4) might be enough to secure 2nd place. BEL and GER need to win at least 4:1 and hope for matches in other groups to go their way to get 4th best 3rd. (Most crucial UK winning against Italy and ARG winning ideally 3:2 +3 or +4 against MEX to pass both on games difference tiebreakers - definitely a long shot.) Group E: HK would need a commanding win against FIN to have a shot at 4th best 3rd. HK could *in theory* overtake both PT and TUT, if TUT would win 4:1 (8:6) against PT and HK 5:0 (10:0 against FIN). If PT would lose 1:4 or 0:5, they could drop to 4th. TUT would need a 4:1 or better to get to 2nd place. A 3:2 might not be enough to secure 3rd place if HK wins 4:1. In reality PT just needs a 2:3 to secure 2nd place and HK should gun for a 5:0. Group F: Winner of JPN vs. ESP will go to the playoffs. If MEX loses against ARG they might lose out on 4th best 3rd, if it’s 2:3 (4:8) or worse ARG will pass them. same goes for POL if they’d lose 1:4 or worse against LIT. A Polish 2:3 should be enough to secure a good enough 3rd place. But there’s an outside chance for ARG to win the group with a 5:0 (10:0) against MEX, ESP - JPN 3:2 (6:7) and POL - LIT 2:3 e. g.

Will you stream Argentina vs México?

I have to correct my last comment regarding HK possibly overtaking PT, if the latter would lose 2:3 against Tutejšyja. Even in the best case scenario for HK (5:0, 10:0) both would have 14:11 duels (won:lost), but PT would’ve at least a +6 (34:28) games differential and HK’s upper limit is +5 (33:28). If PT would lose 1:4 or 0:5 though, they could drop to 4th.

The way I lost my 1st game was insane: mistake makes me lose the shared city and the field, then I attack and get the field with 2 meeples with a roaded monastery, then I grab a city (since I knew I was behind) and proceed to endanger it with a triangle, only to win the plain monastery against the odds and still lose the game :P

Im eager to hear what you think about Latvian eurovision song :)

Almost 6 hours😮 💪💪💪

Hello Otto, I'm MadCan, thank you very much for the stream and for commenting on two of my games! Regarding the 'contentious move' in the first game, as I saw it at that moment, it was about freeing a meeple and setting up its entry into the field or closing off a part of the city easily blockable in case the divider happened to come my way, as it eventually did. I had many outs to free a meeple, both from the small city and the monastery. In the end, I couldn't finish closing the big city, but I believe I did the right thing; I just delayed the recovery of a meeple by one turn. In any case, thank you very much for your analysis; it's always very helpful to hear the opinion of someone at your level.

You can laugh about my moves but never forget that I won you in Mind sports Olympiad :D Thanks for the stream ;)

in Alexey s game, the 5th regular dorito was on top, used to block the meeple requiring a cross road

Hi... kaika87 here from Malaysia. Thank you for the coverage and insights to our games yesterday. Personally, I feel that there's definitely still a lot of room for improvement to my gameplay and the analysis you provided will definitely help me in that area. Do continue to stream the WTCOC matches as we here in Malaysia see it as a valuable outlet for learning more about Carcassonne.

Hi, I'm Portgard, captain of the Vietnamese team. I sincerely apologize for Wolf Ren's no-show today. He's well informed of the date of the event today, yet he's overslept and we, as a team, apologize for such an action and we guarantee that it will not happen again any time in the future. You mentioned about the practice tournament which finished a few time before the match but it was automatically finished after a week and wolf ren hasn't been online for 3 days so it has no correlation with his absence today. Again, I'm the one to blame for being overconfident that my team members are capable of playing as they should. And I take a good look at your commentary of my 1st game vs Squallus. It was indeed a very bad game of mine with some very questionable decisions, mostly in the early game. When I realized, things kinda went a bit beyond my control already. My last attempt was as you might suggest, connecting the top left meeple with the field with the idea of overtaking the bottom right field of Squallus ( and try not to connect the two field of his, I kept all my meeples until my last 3 moves as a preemptive. It might not have changed the result even if I managed to do so tho, but at least that was the best I could think of at that time. I can learn a lot from your commentary, thanks a lot for that and keep up the great work ;)

For Lapinkoski 2nd game. In addition to blocking field expansion. 36:38 Lapinkoski take just 2 points, but might score 3 at the left. I think this 1 point would be enough to win.

Nice stream man! Arlock here hahaha it was my first tournament ever, I rushed on throwing those farmers, that curve never came and at the end he had enough luck, but the experience was really good, triple of my ELO and still managed to fight on 2 out of 3 matches hahaha!! It's amazing to get feedback and see my mistakes more slowly!

Thanks, Otto, for the stream. And for pointing out my horrible decision with the last CRRR . I was fortunate not having been punished for that by my opponent as he didn't see the chance and tried to enter the field from a different direction.

Thanks for covering the UK vs Netherlands match on your channel! I agree that having a delay on the stream is a sensible thing - good job!

step 52, 17:50 you got a straight road ,why not put it on the east grass, making the yellow need a cross road .so he can't share the road with you ,and your road meeple may not be blocked

How about finishing the city and dropping another field meeple @ 38:15 ? and grab the city+connect to the field with one of the three remaining vanilla caps

… and here I thought Finns were rather emotionless people. 😜Great commentary, especially the roasting. Thanks a lot for all your streams and videos.

Maude Quaniers (4p Round 3) is actually mobidic on BGA

1:52:15 Rofl: "Nico taking it SLOW trying to make an 8 point city"

@1:22:00 your highest rated players question: - BelgianGhost is Fabian's 2nd account (FabianM_be) - Bartholomeus is indeed an expansion player.

Greed is never good in 4p games :p

Hi! Thanks for the video with game analysis. On 47:42 I noticed, that already 6 straight roads on the field and missing one crossroad, with that you've add 1 point at the end to the monastery at 53:30.

It's nice to put a face behind the person ;-) ! we're going to follow this channel "jalamax"

Hello all

Some good matches! Thanks!

Thanks for streaming! I can recommend you this mic: Blue Microphones Snowball iCE. Plug and play and great quality for price!

Thanks for the stream. Just finished watching the first game. After such a decent start everything went south rather quickly for me😅

Hi Otto! Thanks for streaming. Related my last move 47:00 I got 6 points road and and RaKaRoT gave me 1 extra point. So 7 points move If only I lay down on the field, it would be 6 points move, so road is better But may be I should point it upward in case of crossroad to get +1 point myself. Anyway, road is better then field in that case.

Thank you, Otto!

38:00 I think it’s was your biggest mistake to orient road monastery with road to the right. You should have orient it to the top and quickly complete two monasteries. Thanks for sharing your videos and game comments!

Thanks for streaming! At 1:18:06, I saw there are still 2 big cities with a road left. With the move I made, I got 5 immediate points for the big ruin, and a 75% of getting at least 5 additional points (2 for the little road and 3 extra citypoints). I was afraid of going for the field, miss it, and my opponent getting the big castle with the additional 2 point road.

This is very interesting, thanks for sharing!

One remark: Your mic is VERY low volume, it should be a lot higher (next time), thanks!

What a strange games! Thanks for streaming!

Thank you very much for the stream! To clarify: After my final move in the final, l had 1 second left on the clock. If Niels would have pointed the dorito with road upward, I would have been able to block his connection to the field with the final curve I got.

A big thanks for the comments on my game with Nico. I saw the few mistakes I did 😎. Happy for my result after just a bit more than one year of Carcassonne 😊. Finished 5. Better than 9 last year. Will need to improve my game 😉 Fabian

5:16:37 Blue misscounted 1 point here??

4:54:40 I lost from Niels in the round of 16->8. Niels was able to overtake a big castle and finish a 30 point city, and I lost by 15 points or so, so 9th place was the highest I could achieve from that point. I managed to win my other 3 games, so 9th place it was!

4:40:00 Nico (blue) made this move with 3 seconds on the clock, I think he had 1 second left after making that move!

3:30:50 Fabian is FabianM_be on BGA.

2:58:05 Fun fact: Tania is my partner and also made top-16, I'm very proud! Unfortunately she lost all four 2-player games, so she finished 16th.