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GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:48 pm
by Paul Howe
Its been a bumper week in apterousland, so much so that I've found it impossible to winnow it down to 5 games. So, as an experiment, you get to vote for your TWO favourite games from this wider than normal selection. Enjoy!

Hulme v Sfyris - The fact that Dinos was one round away from perfection and it still came down to a crucial conundrum testifies to the superb quality of this speedgoat.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34042

Gough v Hurrell - More speedgoating awesomeness, something of a theme for the week. Two rapidfire goatundrums were required to separate the players in this one
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34180

Prime v Eadie - It looks like a goat, but it isn't! The man who invented the best form of the game seems strangely reluctant to play it, but if your regular games are as good as this, why bother!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=33640

Denniss v Prune - This is an Unlimited record for Joe. Picking up maxes in this format is rather trickier than Joe makes it look, something I should know after repeatedly losing to a six-year-old
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=33167

Howe v Prime - New speedgoat record, huzzah! I may have tainted it slightly be getting a 3 disallowed in one round, but its still pretty tidy. Fecking STYRAXES.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34349

Gough v Davies - Yet more high scoring, hair trigger speedgoat. Have I died and gone to heaven?
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34802

Velvet v Green - Matthew tells me this is a hypernumbers attack record, despite its suspicious nonappearance in the records page. It is rather good though, I'll give him that.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34923

Hulme v Gough - While not as high scoring as the other featured speedgoats, Lazarus himself would have been chuffed with the comeback Andrew pulled off in the last 3 rounds
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=33535

Howe v Prune - Is there a better test of raw countdowning prowess than the hypergoatundrum attack? According to my careful research, which consisted of me looking at the records page and discovering the holder was this, the answer is no.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=34858

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:31 pm
by Jon O'Neill
These are ridiculously good. I think that about four of these would've won in any other week.

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:18 am
by D Eadie
Paul Howe wrote: Prime v Eadie - It looks like a goat, but it isn't! The man who invented the best form of the game seems strangely reluctant to play it, but if your regular games are as good as this, why bother!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=33640

Charlie and Jono claim i invented it, but i think they were loaded at the time. :mrgreen:

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:59 am
by Kai Laddiman
Paul Howe wrote:I should know after repeatedly losing to a six-year-old
He's 10 :|

(Unless you're talking about someone completely different ;) )

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:37 pm
by Paul Howe
Kai Laddiman wrote:
Paul Howe wrote:I should know after repeatedly losing to a six-year-old
He's 10 :|

(Unless you're talking about someone completely different ;) )
Ah, well its nice to know I'm getting killed by someone who's only 15 years my junior and not 19. I can take it though, I'm used to losing to little people.

In other news, there are an odd number of votes in the poll, which means someone has either misunderstood or has decided to tactically vote for themselves and withhold their remaining vote :x

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:55 pm
by Jon O'Neill
You people don't have a clue. On what planet are those two games the best?

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:48 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
I used the approach I adopted in The Weakest Link by not voting for myself :mrgreen: Instead I voted for Paul's amazing new goat record, but I'll take credit where it's due :)

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:02 pm
by Charlie Reams
I actually wanted to vote three times, because IMO there are three games which would win any other week. So if anyone only wants to vote once, please also vote for Paul's Hypernundrum game too, to balance things out.

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:32 pm
by D Eadie
I voted once, went to choose my 2nd option, then wasn't allowed, but to be honest i didn't really have a second option. Its pretty clear which game is the best, it must be the one you played in yourself. How can you enjoy other people's games?

Re: GOTW 8-14 Mar: TWO VOTE SPECIAL EDITION!!

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:05 pm
by Paul Howe
Charlie Reams wrote:I actually wanted to vote three times, because IMO there are three games which would win any other week. So if anyone only wants to vote once, please also vote for Paul's Hypernundrum game too, to balance things out.
I'm a bit baffled that noone has voted for the hypergoatundrum attack, as I actually much prefer it to my speedgoat. Philistines.

Modestly, my two favourites are the two at the bottom, and I do wonder whether the games I put at the end suffer some neglect due to their position (especially with 10 choices).