Bones

PS, is it true that bonus posts in this thread give double bonus?

Where did Ektar place last round? he was very big very early! top 3? won?

I dont know why you are putting words in my mouth, koheartsgpa. If you follow the discussion it's about grabbing or not, not about Tmac. In my mind, and I could be wrong here I have not played tournament seriously for, well years by now actually, is that most of the people who grabbed last round would have finished higher with all-explore.

Tmac won, and he would have won with all-explore as well because he is clearly adept at running a strong techer, grabbing or not. But everyone else who grabbed, seemed to have lost out on it.

Now if the arguement was that you need to grab to get 45m+ NW i'd be on board with that.

Do you, or anyone else, think 47m NW is a reasonable expectation for anyone who grabs in tournament?
I assume that was a techer, given it grabbed and had low ending acreage. Not to take anything from Tmac but there is probably a reason(or two) that doesn't happen every reset. It's not only the grabbing that needs to work out but also the tech prices were insanely lucurative last round and Tmac as an all-xp to 9-10k acres would most certainly have finished first with a WIDE margin anyway.

All these news and only one player above 35m NW. I assume that means grabbing didn't pay off for anyone else?

Very well played. But also if 5-7 players grabbed, and only one passed what can be done with all-xp every round(I assume the 33m NW one is all-xp?), then I gotta question the merit of grabbing. Or perhaps did all those others just straight up botch it? Seems unlikely.