Chess - Game Thread [Concluded]

[Montmorency]

Conservative, lacks juice.

He has two distinct blocks of three posts. First set of 3 posts is a joke and a few low-impact reads, standard Choxorn.
Second set of 3 posts is shading a few people (Zack and Xiahou), recreating a case against Logic to sheep Pizza (who is looking like town but you can never be sure).

It's the second block, right?

Order as in top-bottom or.

[Winston Hughes]

He has two distinct blocks of three posts. First set of 3 posts is a joke and a few low-impact reads, standard Choxorn.
Second set of 3 posts is shading a few people (Zack and Xiahou), recreating a case against Logic to sheep Pizza (who is looking like town but you can never be sure).

It's the second block, right?

Order as in top-bottom or.

He's not left scumhooks, except by omission.

[Montmorency]

He's not left scumhooks, except by omission.

Here's his full ISO:

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'Sup

Medium Claim: 4th Party Hyperdimensional Alien Serial Survivor Pirate

(a pawn on the c-file)

Hot Takes:

Dp101's posts are good

Csargo's are scummy

Zack, Pizza, Winston, and Monty all being themselves, more or less

Joke + quick leans on major actives-so-far.

That was the joke.




Don't like this post. Hard to say way, it just sorta rubs me the wrong way. Call it gut feeling, I guess.

Leans being weak was "the joke", replying to Zack. Negative gut feeling about Logic's wall on his return following the first volleys from Pizza.

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> Says Pizza is going after low-hanging fruit
> Votes El Barto





Your post is bad and you should feel bad

Even El Barto had more to say than just "I don't like how active the thread is"

Shading Zack for criticizing Barto for going after low-hanging fruit. Shading Xiahou's opening for complaining about post-count and voting Zack; compares Xiahou to Barto.

I find myself agreeing with most of what Pizza says and getting solid town vibes from him.

Of course, given that this is Pizza, I'm not going to place him in the "definite town" column unless I get a 100% Truescan Reading on him saying he's absolutely, totally townie, and even then I'm still going to have some doubts.

Solid town vibes from Pizza, but Pizza can never be fully trusted.

Logic-

First few posts are just talking about video games, total fluff

First real post is this one, in response to Pizza calling him scummy:



Then more fluff

Some stuff about how he's confused by how Pizza's playing, which is odd, because talk a bunch and engage in weird roleplaying is what Pizza always does.

Then there's this:



I still don't like this post. Still just feels off, and voting Kagemusha for an obvious joke vote looks scummy to me. His later attempt to justify it seems like he's really grasping at straws:





And this post is just wishy-washy. And still feels off to me.


Just generally Logic feels very non-committal with his suspicions, is guarded with his language, never pushing anything he says too strongly so he has room to go back on what he said earlier, and a lot of his posts are pretty light on content.

Vote: Logic

Nxe7+

Logic ISO, concludes case against Logic for being guarded and non-commital.

What pinged me is the compartmentalized shade and sheeping without venturing anything new or evaluating players broadly on balance. What is the omission from your POV?

I looked at town Choxorn in Swords and Sorcery, where I recall him being fairly good. 4 evenly spaced few-liner posts, shift in earnest attacking and voting DP for a scummy thing he did, responding to DP's challenge with analysis of DP alone and DP-Winston, absenting himself for the second half of the day then popping back in during night to offer a fair contribution of analysis on day's events. I think one way to put the difference is that Choxorn was more precise and focused in that D1, in the one instance he addressed the game course. What Choxorn did here in his second block of posts was spreading himself thinner.

So if you want to diversify wagons,

Unvote: Zack

Vote: Choxorn

might be a better shot than Barto or Manasi.

[Winston Hughes]

Order as in top-bottom or.

Townpile is most townie at top.

[Winston Hughes]

You're making me feel you should be even higher.

Very nice work if you're scum.

[Zack]

Monty -- I think the push on choxorn has merit (certainly more than the one on me ).

He seems to be riding / piggybacking on Pizzaguy.

[Zack]

Oh, I just realized that was the null pile.

but still

[Zack]

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[Csargo]

Kage is 90% town here.

[Askthepizzaguy]

You're making me feel you should be even higher.

Very nice work if you're scum.

+1 Monty's good.

By post 919 he's made seriously impressive and game-winning posts if he's scum. He's good but the vibe I should be getting from him is neutral /vaguely townie / vaguely scummish if he's scum. I shouldn't get a strong read off of what he's doing, because in the middle is the best place for him when he's scumming, and it's where he almost invariably ends up, too.

No, Monty's a strong town read here by now. I'm not just impressed by his work, because he's a mega hard worker as scum. The kind of content that he's specifically giving always makes him town, and I've probably never ever said that before about Monty.

[Winston Hughes]

Vote: Logic