L25 Playoff OOB GeneralDisarray (X) V ABH (A) Bid 50

4. There were just 2 transports defending,
   Many subs were kept to sink many carriers where many planes could do nothing without a destroyer

@gamerman01

sure! I already forgot that carriers only attack at 0 🤪

I have posted the savefiles, provided screenshots, and summarized the unit/dice situation in text also. The choice of losses was made and confirmed and confirmed again despite warnings to select carefully;’ more dice were rolled. The loss decision was a major blunder, but that happens quite frequently in TripleA matches. I allow unlimited edits or changes of decisions prior to dice rolls, but not afterwards. This is the norm in League matches. I am going to claim this as a W.

@GeneralDisarray, I have had enough prior tournament successes and will have a busy remainder of the year. Go ahead and take my spot in the OOB playoff bracket and play Round 2 against @gamerman01 .

Assuming you two don’t change your mind about anything (the General hasn’t technically lost) and General Disarray does post his loss and it’s official,

It is not the right of the winner in a tournament to appoint someone else to take his place.
Assuming General D resigns, you have to either play me or resign. If you don’t start the game with me, be assured it will not count in the records/ELO

Hope this helps, so that you can be thinking about what you want to do

Well then reverse uno card: I resign in this match and take the L. GG General Disarray.

Who was winning this game? LOL
Was it tight until broken by an OOL?

i was bored and casually browsing around and noticed this, then got sucked into catching up as it was an interesting moderation challenge.

i guess i do have an opinion but won’t share unless asked.

sorry this happened!

This is not resolved yet.

Maybe we need a cooldown period. Or maybe we just need @GeneralDisarray to weigh in again.

I can wait.

I’m in a 20+ rounder myself right now, and for the past 7 rounds or so I think both me and @oysteilo would have been happy to just resign to the other because it’s been exhausting. So maybe there’s a little bit of that going on here.
I don’t know your personalities, unfortunately, so I just suggest you guys sleep on this some more. How many hours have been invested in the game? It’s understandable to just be tired and something like this just an opportunity to end it all, but just looking at map and TUV for a minute, seems you’ve got a real barn-burner going here and no A&A fan wants to watch it end on an OOL deal.

agreed it should def not end that way, and i think gamer’s on point as far as resolution. i really think it can easily go back to that point in the battle where all the jap DDs were chosen as casualties, and simply insist on explicit casualty selection from there forward.

It’s not uncommon. Two players matched up not by choice necessarily, maybe haven’t played before (just checked - according to league records they’ve never matched up) and have different ways of doing things and different expectations.

We’ll wait. It’s A&A.org league forum play and the playoffs are a big deal here.

@gamerman01 @axis-dominion

I believe it is resolved as ABH did official resign in the Results section.

Tough situation, but agree with what AD mentioned, that in this case explicit casualty selection is required. When it’s “obvious”, OOL like “max defense” make sense, but this was far from the case here.

Applaud both players in reacting in good sportsmanship in the aftermath.

@Booper said in L25 Playoff OOB GeneralDisarray (X) V ABH (A) Bid 50:

@gamerman01 @axis-dominion

I believe it is resolved as ABH did official resign in the Results section.

Tough situation, but agree with what AD mentioned, that in this case explicit casualty selection is required. When it’s “obvious”, OOL like “max defense” make sense, but this was far from the case here.

Applaud both players in reacting in good sportsmanship in the aftermath.

i think it’s a matter of interpretation of literal vs intent/spirit of the request… even “max defense” can backfire horribly if interpreted too literally (eg taking out the last dd instead of say a cruiser or fig when attacker has a lot of subs remaining, basically similar to what happened here), there is inherently an entrusting to the one running the battle that they will try their best to make the right interpretation, and usually we do it this way due to efficiency/expediency. however, given this is a playoff game, the correct approach would’ve been to insist on explicit casualty picks so as to eliminate the possibility of mis-interpretation.