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[Vaxkiller]

So are you going move your vote?

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

my vote spiritually is on ben

but i've wanted to write this fanfiction about cabd but i just havent gotten into the mood yet because I need to be quite drunk to write good fanfiction and I don't drink much on weekdays.

so I don't want the day to end

but I do want to kill Ben.

[Vaxkiller]

Weekends are my low effort days tho!

Maybe write your fan fic during the night and surprise us tomorrow.

[DrippingGoofball]

We could end the day with 2 more votes on ben

We have intent to hammer from Pooky.

Ben needs to claim as soon as he appears.

[Cabd]

We're essentially all waiting for ben to show up and make his one post of the phase, yeah :/


Fffery i'm working on motivating. Eventually.

[DrippingGoofball]

We're essentially all waiting for ben to show up and make his one post of the phase, yeah :/

Fffery i'm working on motivating. Eventually.

You can play tic tac toe while we wait for Ben.

[DrippingGoofball]

We can make it a very exciting spectator sport. I'll sportcast it!

[Vaxkiller]

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Do we have to wait tho?

[DrippingGoofball]

Good evening everyone, DrippingGoofball here along with my fellow tic tac toe analyst Pooky and our match today comes from the College Basketball League.

I don't believe we'll settle the controversy tonight about the best strategic first move in the game but Vaxkiller, still bold after coming back to the ring following a crippling paper cut injury, drops down his first move in the middle square.

Just the other day I was talking to Vax's trainer notscience and Team X's General Manager Prism and they had a lot to say about how they had to re-position every player in the one-person team during the time Vaxkiller was on the injured list.

Pooky, Team O is going to have to keep an eye out for the corner positions, in your experience, do you think they are angling for an intercept at the 0.005 yard line?

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

This is going to be a classic battle of wits between two very strong sides. I love the big power move made by Team X to hit that center square and really put the pressure on Team O to defend. They've got a number of counterplays they can try to this classic opening and I know we will probably be in for a dogfight of a battle - no quarter will be given....

There's been some ongoing bad blood between the general managers of both teams, just yesterday Bork and Prism were seen fighting over the last banana in the cafeteria with their knives out... I think there's almost no way this doesn't end with some fisticuffs being thrown and possibly weapons being used.

[fferyllt]

Riviting

[notscience]

Can someone give me the short version of why bens scum bc I have very little faith in this flipping red

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

i was thinking who would syr look at in the scum PT and go "nope" and do the outty and I thought probly Ben?

[Prism]

I am openly dartthrowing, literally everyone else is extremely town to me except for Ben and Bork. Skitter takes next lowest just for the positioning around me/bork, but objectively their posting has been fine and they've literally made 1 mistake all game if they're scum imo. DGB/Elements are also both just kind of gut.

Skitter did an analysis of Syr's interactions that echoed my thoughts almost perfectly...except for 924, which she thought pointed away from Ben.

[Prism]

You're also not even trying to sell me as the alternative right now so ???

[DrippingGoofball]

Can someone give me the short version of why bens scum bc I have very little faith in this flipping red

• lurking
  
• appearing only when being voted
  
• getting angry at the players voting him and calling them scum
  
• being inexplicably defended by some players
  
• disappearing
  
• needing to be prodded
  
• disappearing again

[Elements]

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[PookyTheMagicalBear]

Team O makes a strong power play by targeting the UPPER LEFT corner - setting up for a mount position on the Central X first mover.

We rarely see this kind of raw unbridled aggression in classic play but it looks like the bad blood between Prism and Bork has spilled over into the playing area.

This is a very aggressive counter opening and I can't wait to see the fireworks that will follow!!!

[DrippingGoofball]

The upper left corner!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????

[DrippingGoofball]

This is gonna be replayed in every compilation of Best Plays Of The Week or my name isn't DrippingGoofball!

[DrippingGoofball]

Does Team X even have a comeback? I'd like to be a fly on the Manager's cell phone, is he discussing pinch posting?

[Vaxkiller]

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[PookyTheMagicalBear]

Wow goofballs.

an amazing unexpected move from team X.

They've decided to go with the rocket launch gambit.. completing the counterclockwise diagonal IMMEDIATELY on move three.

This is not something seen very often in modern competitive play and considered actually a remnant of the old classic Russian school of tic-tac-toe strategy...

This line of play has been analyzed over and over by centuries of grandmasters .. does pursuing it mean that Vax&Co sees an opening they can exploit? Surely they know any TTT player worth their salt knows the standard defenses for this line.

It looks like Prism is determined to pursue his unorthodox strategy to the end here..

[NoPowerOverMe]

Vote Count 2.03

Larry Johnson, UNLV 1989-1991

With 11 alive, it requires 6 to eliminate

benhalkum(4): DrippingGoofball, Prism, Vaxkiller, elements
DrippingGoofball(2): Skitter30, benhalkum
Prism(1): notscience
PookyTheMagicalBear(1): bjorkefkin

Not Voting(4): Cabd, PookyTheMagicalBear, fferylit, skitter30,

It is now Day 2. Day ends in (expired on 2020-12-19 04:32:33) or when an elimination occurs.

[Elements]

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