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by **Dukasaur** on Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:12 am

bannana0 has let his invitations expire for the second time and is now disqualified. Activating got tonkaed.

by **chapcrap** on Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:14 pm

I think the change to let 2 vowels in is ok. If I don't get any vowels at all, I'd be screwed.

by **Dukasaur** on Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:04 pm

All Opening Round games have now started. In fact, 46 of them are already finished.

by **Gilligan** on Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:09 pm

I have the opposite problem...I have too many vowels...

by **Hannibal 19** on Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:19 am

i got 3 C 2 U 1 P and playing for E what should i do i loocked in scrabble dictionary and cant get a word of 5 or more latters.

by **Dukasaur** on Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:04 am

Hannibal 19 wrote:i got 3 C 2 U 1 P and playing for E what should i do i loocked in scrabble dictionary and cant get a word of 5 or more latters.

Yeah not too often you can get a 7-letter word. Sometimes a 3- or 4-letter word is the best that you can do.

You may still be able to improve your letters in the Challenge phase.

by **Hannibal 19** on Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:19 am

if i won my last game and i think i will i have 7 letters and im no able to make a challenge

by **got tonkaed** on Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:01 am

Hannibal 19 wrote:if i won my last game and i think i will i have 7 letters and im no able to make a challenge

Lament your bad luck or decision to win so many of your games.

by **xSekirei** on Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:44 pm

Finished all my games ^^
Letters :
A
C
T
T
B

Act, Bat, Cat, Cab, Tab O: I can make so many words

by **Dukasaur** on Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:37 am

Only three games still active, and two of those look like they're almost over, but there's one that's still very close and doesn't look like it will end any time soon. There's always one in the basket, isn't there?

by **Dukasaur** on Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:18 pm

Well, the vowel shortage is not imaginary.

Prevalence of vowels in English language: approximately 40% (different sources give different numbers, and the whole concept is somewhat debatable, but 40% is a reasonable approximation from what I can see.)

Prevalence of vowels on CC "browse maps" page: 52/175 = 29.7 or about 30% (not counting Beta maps which don't come up in Random.) I should have thought more about this problem when I started this tourney, but it's a learning process. This is only the first tourney in a series I intend to do based on this concept, so to some degree you are all my test patients. I apologise for the inconvenience.

Prevalence of vowels on games that actually came up in this tournament: 30/120 or exactly 25% . As I mentioned before, the luck of the draw has taken the shortage of vowels on CC maps and exacerbated it for us.

Okay, so a while back I suggested some possible solutions to the problem and asked for commentary. So far there have been 2 votes for Option 1, 3-and-a-half votes for Option 5, and half a vote for Option 4. This really isn't enough for me to feel confident about what the majority want, so I'm going to PM this out and (I hope) get a majority decision.

Options 2 and 3 never had any support, and Option 4 got very little, so I'll take them off the table entirely, and simplify this to a basic YES/NO question on Option 5. Please respond, preferably in the thread but I will accept PMs as valid also.

Just to make it clear what you're voting on:

If you vote YES, that means we change the rule according to Option 5. You will be allowed to add any two vowels to your tray, free of charge. You will not have to win them or defend them, but they will not score any points when you use them. Vowels that were won in the normal fashion still score points.

If you vote NO, that means we do not change the rules. The letters you won are the letters you won, and if you have no vowels tough luck. After all, we all know CC is largely a game of random chance.

Sorry to close the door on other possible solutions, but that door has been open for a long time, and if we are to come to a decision I need to simplify the question. So please, at this point, just an unequivocal YES or NO.

by **got tonkaed** on Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:26 pm

by **Dukasaur** on Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:30 pm

Votes received by PM:

dazza: NO
rmjw: YES
Doomyoshi: YES

Votes previously on record:
Doomyoshi, chapcrap, Ir1sh Ace: YES
Gilligan, dazza: NO

(Don't worry, I won't count the duplicates twice. Just being thorough.)

by **ckyrias** on Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:35 pm

well its hard for me to chose... on one hand i am thinking that i should go for NO. thats the nature of the game! those who can make a word those who cant... tough luck! i bet every one here has lost a game because he couldnt kill 1 last troop!

on the other hand for the shake of the good running of the tournament i am thinking a YES would be better... dunno Duk.. i have to think about it a bit and reply asap

edit:
ok i have to go for a NO