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I played my second fargorate tournament on Friday a week ago. I was playing as a 475. A couple of the guys knew me and I think they rated me there with the the tournament director. Some other players also did not have an established rating, and they were playing as a 425. That was fine by me, as its well under where I think I'll end up, and I bought myself in the player auction again
I played 3 matches. Lost, won, lost. My first match was against Shaun, 645 fargo with over 1000 robustness. We have known each other for 15 or 20 years. He usually gives me the 6 when we gamble. I went to 3 games, he went to 4. He beat me pretty easily 4-1.
My next two matches were against players I've never met before. The first was Justin. He played as a 445. But I looked up his rating when I got home, it was 430 with 55 robustness. We both went to 4, and I won 4-2. Unless he was having a bad night, I felt I could have spotted him the 7 and gotten the money.
The last match was against Matthew, who is a 441 with 528 robustness (looked up when I got home again). He beat me 4-1. He made balls from everywhere, but I still felt like I'd like to gamble him even.
After I lost, I played a guy who I've known for 15 years. He's usually gotten the best of me. We played a set to 7, even. I beat him 7-0, and I really don't think I missed a ball I went for the whole set. I can't remember ever blanking someone for the cash. I played super well. He is a 595 with about 1500 robustness. He did play poorly on his end, but I pretty much got out every time he missed. It's funny, we were warming up together before the tournament started, and he beat me the 3 or 4 games we played then for practice.
I guess if you go my two tournament performances thus far I'm in the low 400's, but if you go by my gambling I'm off the charts! ha ha.
It was also my first tournament that used digital pool brackets. That was really neat. The brackets would text me when my match was up, with the opponent, table, and handicap assignment. It was quite slick. DCC is stuck in the MS DOS era.
Unfortunately, my fargorate has not been updated with the matches from this second tournament, even though its been 6 days now. I don't know what's going on. The digipool brackets are online, and they say they report to fargo for this event. On my first tournament which was about 1 month ago, I can't find the brackets anywhere online, but the games are in fargo. This one is the opposite. Go figure.
After the tournament, I gambled all night long until about 6am. I haven't done that in years. They were random games, we all played each other, and some partner games. They aren't relevant to the fargo ratings as I didn't know any of the players, their names or ratings, and just played everyone even. I did super well, and went on FB marketplace the next day and bought some super nice machinist tools locally with the dough
I did get a flat tire on the way home, but even changing the tire was fun
Until next time.
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