Gen Con 50 - Carcassonne National Championship - Final Match (Game 4) 

+Ryan Bell You did great and being able to say you're second in the nation is awesome! We hope to see you next year and a huge thank you to you and Z-Man Gamesfor letting us record your games.

Hi Ryan! Greetings from Barcelona, Catalonia. You played really good, you were unlucky with the big city! In my opionion you should try to defend the options to close the big city with the tile in min 10:30, with it your opponent could not use the curve the way he did even if he could have used a straight line (6 were used) or a cross to disturb you. Anyway, it is not easy to play a final, and luck always plays an important role!

I agree that had I blocked that big city, things might have worked out differently. :) I watched through the whole game after it was uploaded just to see if I had missed something obvious, but I think that ultimately my regret is that I didn't follow through on the strategy that, I think, won me most of the games up that point (I lost the fourth round in the previous day prior to the elimination rounds). I noticed that most people I played against were in a big hurry to claim potential farms, but my strategy is usually to wait until near the end to tie up any meeples as farmers... if I have a chance to steal a farm or negate them at that point, so much the better, but usually I score I enough points by not tying up my meeples to offset the score from farms, even the big ones. BUT, I didn't do that this time and as a result I lost some opportunities to score points because I didn't have a meeple left to score with. *shrug* Maybe that would have made a difference, maybe not... certainly, considering the skill of my opponent, any changes I made would have affected his play as well. Thanks for the interest, and hello from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA!

Thank you for the awesome write up on your play style. It’s always interesting to hear/see the different play styles of games like this. It’s my favorite part about board games, you can have a game with simple rules to learn, yet sooooo much strategy can be used while playing that folks have different play styles and those styles can be changed depending on what the opponent is doing.

What a fun game to watch. I can learn a lot from both players!

lol same

Because, unlike the vast majority of modern board gamers, you appreciate people actually getting good at something?

I will buy it probably

Me either I don't understand anything

@@melarym6530 Carcassonne is pretty cool, I recommend it. It comes with many expansions! So to understand, everyone is a lord with their own people, and together has to build Carcassonne from scratch (yea, it's a real city from France). Those meeples are their people, with them they build roads (those white lines), churches, fortresses and grazing the fields. When you finish each one of the above actions, you receive points. You can also prevent others from receiving points by stealing their properties or making them not finish them.

Wasn't that farmland already claimed? Or, am I looking at a different spot?

@@AvgJoeCrowe its only claimed on one side, on the far left side its unclaimed and counts as a separate field

It wasn't just 4 points, it was a total of 13 cause the road piece also connected one of his farmers to 3 new castles, making them share the points (2 farmers each) instead of only green getting those points. I wouldn't say that was a "big mistake"

agree. i also think black makes a huge mistake at 6:50 when he doesn't complete his cloister. having that extra meeple the rest of the game could have probably secured him the win.

Thanks for sharing

Manifest destiny bein' sneaky.

Lmao

hahahah i know what you feel but for me this is my favourite game

probably because carcassone player have high sportsmanship and not like magic the gathering or chess where people resort to dick move like that

Could it be because they play with an even number of tiles for player, so that they intentionally removed one random tile at the beginning?

@@Jon-G having one guy get the first move and the last move in a 1v1 sounds like bad game design maybe they took one tile out intentionally to make it more balanced for a 1v1 tournament.

It doesn't count when it's diagonally. The pieces only have to fit side-by-side (orthogonally).

aw I just saw, right after he blocked you. You deserved that :D

You can only use the meeples you get back on your next turn.

He didn't have a guy available.

9 is correct. 7 city tiles plus 2 pennants. The segmented city tile at the bottom-left corner counts as only 1 point.

They were using the new rules. All completed cities count for two per tile. Makes a big advantage if you can close lots of small cities and get the farm.

Paper Games lol didnt know about this new rules, where can i find it? Or its only this " 2 pieces castle counts 4 points instead of 2 points" rule? Thanks

@@r000nin7 I think is only that

I thought you can´t place a tile if it´s ONLY connect by corners. Here is one side connected correctly.

It's the sides that matter, not corners. I might have newer rules or something tho, but that's how I always played it.

Yes, there are new rules

@@pablopacheco5177 thanks

why does everyone say it's a new rule? I played this a lot over 5 years ago and that was always the rule. 2 points per completed city tile, 1 per incomplete city tile, double for shield

Oh wait I see the crest now

@@merthsoft crest is plus 2

The center city tile has a shield on it, so that city tile is worth an additional 2 points.

@@mn2233 Thanks. It's hard to see it.

who told that? there is not such a rule. it is an own strategy to force holes on the playfield, to make your opponents followers stuck.

Watching that hurt my soul. And ive been playing for 2 days. 😅

I'm no expert, but since it was ultimately a 3 point game, I wouldn't go that far? Though to be honest it was closer than I thought it'd be!

Major oof when he blocked him

That tile can make a city very valuable but it also makes it harder to complete and ties up a meeple for many turns. As you can see black never completed the city in part because of that tile.

Oh, new rules, ok... but black should have put a guy in the monastary at 19:15 :P

@@ihmesekoilua well he got the same amount of points from the road he put the meeple on instead, so in the end it didn't matter.

Maybe red shirt but I doubt the other guy is a soy boy seemed more normal and Carcassonne is a legit good game.

Nerd on nerd violence right here

You don't understand the rules and you want to play in the championship

even than was a 3 points victory... maybe the green guy was not so good after all

the green guy goes first he got higher advantage(going first/drawing 1 more card ), and he played defensively by killing blacks follower around 10:30 and 15:05.. but tbh these 2 guys werent super dick on the play, most ppl back in early 2000 on the xbox arcade ranking were better than these 2

And flicking them at the edges eventually separating the cardboard. He won't be back at my house again....

@@bmrigs He was at your house? lol

He lost though...The guy on the left won the game.

He made 8 points because one of the city tiles had the shield which grants 2 additional points

@@goncalosilva7384 ok, that would make sense, only tryed to watch it on phone, and got put off pretty fast... Don't see it on the small screen, but since im not going to watch it on pc, and i don't have reasons to distrust your neutral comment, I'll just take your word for it 🙂

You can add your meeples to other players started cities, there is a certain way of having to do it though. Look into the rules.

@@davidf9222 i know both rules, original clasic rules from the 200x in German and modern rules, in germam spanish and English.....

@@futendoji No, you obviously dont know the rules if you dont even know how a city is scored. get off your high horse nerd.