Re: Solo AND alliance player

I  must be pretty dumb.  The best I can find is the Round 1 results for
WM00 and WM99.  I don't really know who made it to the semis so its hard
to test the solo target theory.
Len

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Setzer" <mczet-1urT0Is/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Solo AND alliance player


You can check pretty easy. The DB's are at the WM headquarters:
http://www.worldmasters.net/portal
Go to the worldmasters tab and then subtabs for 00 and 99


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Tennant" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Solo AND alliance player


> Are there any stats on how many of the 7 finalists in the last WM
solo'd
> in Round 1 or 2?  And how many of the 42 semi final losers had a solo
in
> Round 1 or 2?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ray Setzer" <mczet-1urT0Is/[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Solo AND alliance player
>
>
> What should it matter who soloed or no in any prior rounds. Its not
like
> anything carrys over.
>
> You can argue that there really are no alliance players in the semi's
> since only one person from each board can advance. Its either top or
> your done. Perhaps a couple players may gang up on some prior solo
> getter, but I'd say that really had nothing to do with the solo, but
> rather that those players saw advantage in getting control of  some
> section of the board quickly. And even with that in mind, its likely
> that the other players on the board will try and either scuttle that,
or
> take advantage of it in some other way.
>
> Its the semifinals man, you either bring your best game or you go
home.
> If your distracted by what someone may or may not have done in a prior
> round, your likely to detour from your best moves.
>
> Take Yann for example...please. I don't trust him any further than I
can
> throw a piano, but I do know that he won't engage in a pointless stab,
> he won't wander off topic seeking revenge from some real or imagined
> slight, but I also would be an idiot to leave open centers lying about
> where he can grab them.
>
> I predict that people will play the board as it lies, and won't give a
> rats behind about what happened in any prior round.
>
>
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Peter J Richardson
>   To: [email protected]
>   Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 10:40 AM
>   Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Solo AND alliance player
>
>
>   I suppose all this depends upon whether the soloist's ally throws
the
> solo.
>
>   Regards
>   Peter
>
>
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: Andrew Stupple
>     To: [email protected]
>     Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:28 AM
>     Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Solo AND alliance player
>
>
>     Good question. Of course, soloists from round 2 will argue that
very
> point, whilst others will argue that a soloist cannot be an alliance
> player by the very nature of the fact that he/she ruthlessly soloed in
> round 2 (or at least one in rounds 1 and 2). .
>
>
>
>     Yann Clouet <[email protected]> wrote:
>       Funny demarcation.
>       Why would being an alliance player and a solo-goer be exclusive
?
>
>       (BTW hi to the list ;-)
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Andrew Stupple
>         To: [email protected]
>         Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:20 AM
>         Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Getting close:
>
>
>         I'm not convinced that all players in the third round, will
have
> a passing aquaintance with solos themselves. There is probably just as
> many allinace players as ruthless go-getters, which will make the
semis
> very exciting.
>
>         It's going to be a blood bath!
>
>
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