RE: Solo AND alliance player

> I  must be pretty dumb.  The best I can find is the Round 1 
> results for WM00 and WM99.

Me too, but WM99 results are useless to you anyway.  There was only one
round before the semifinal and about 30 solos.

WM00, IIRC, had about 18 solos in the first round and *very* few in the
second.  The cut off was a little above a first round solo (60 points), and
well below a second round solo (70 points), so most (if not all, with
replacements) of them would have advanced to the semifinal.

I can think of at least 2 finalists who had soloed in an earlier round and
only one that hadn't.

But Ray's right, it's kind of irrelevant.  Some people will see his two
solos as a reason to target him, others will see it as a reason to get other
people to target him and then jump on them when their back's are turned,
others still will see it as a mark of a quality player and will take the
"I'd rather get stabbed by someone who knows how to stab well than by an
eejit" approach.

Another player getting through with two shared board tops does not guarantee
that this player is a good fair alliance player.  And even if they are,
there's no guarantee that they'll act the same way in a winner-takes-all
semifinal as they act in an earlier round (I know I don't).

Another player who just scrapes into the semifinals may be perceived as a
soft-touch, undeserving, an easy puppet, a safe ally, or any number of other
ways.

49 people will all view 48 others in different ways.  As always in
diplomacy, the trick is to figure out how other people see you And each
other and explo- err- react to that accordingly.

P