Today's Games' Results: 26/05/10

Before resuming with the intern League our contestant started with a warming up game. Here are the results:

Morning Practice/warm up
(coffee break 11:00)

3 rounds:

David- 1 victories
Daniela- 2 victories
Lea- No Victory ( but still a good play)

Intern League
(Lunch 01:00)

3 Rounds:
David -19
Daniela -32
Lea -11

The first game played in Holland after the Portuguese leg of league open well for David, winning 1st round, gaining only 2 points in the 2nd round and blocking the game at the 3rd leaving him with an extra of 8 points and giving the game to Lea who scored only 7 extra points.

Lea got a clear victory in the 2nd round, together with her technical victory in round 3 she takes the game.

After decisive victories in the her last 6 games our analysts wonder if Daniela's golden age is over or if today's loss was due to the change of environment.

!Update! Intern League @ PORTUGAL

Between 12 and 23 of May the Intern League continued in Portugal with with 5 games ( 15 rounds) played in Porto, Barroca, fundao, Alcaida & Lisbon.

(In the photo: first game of the Portuguese series played in Porto with the XISTO DOMINO prototype over a celebratory coffee and cakes)

These games had disastrous results for David who did not do well at all, besides of winning the first game with 3 vs 25 & 10 to Daniela and Lea respectively, David lost all other games: - 59, -30, -35 and -22. Despite this tremendous losses David still keep his lead over Daniela and Lea, but only by a shoe string, as the end results of the Portuguese leg of the intern league are: David -909, Daniela -911, and Lea -943.

(in the photo: view over the *battle filed* from Daniela position)

Lea did very well through the whole whole series, keeping her losses low and winning 3 out of the 5 games played. In total she gained only 62 points throughout the Portuguese leg of the Intern League, meaning that now only 34 point stand between her and the championship.

(In the photo: Game end in Porto after 3 rounds , cakes and coffee)

The title of 'Best Player' of of the Portuguese series goes for a Portuguese herself. Daniela Pais managed to keep the edge over David during the series, winning 1 game only but keeping her losses to an ultimate low of 50 points!

Today's Games' Results: 07/05/10

She's back! What a good day for Daniela especially after such a disastrous week. Today we have seen Daniela at her best, winning 5 of the 6 rounds played and pushing Lea back to third place.

And here are the results :

Intern League
(coffee break 11:00)

3 Rounds:
David -17
Daniela -5
Lea -27

Intern League
(Lunch 01:00)

3 Rounds:
David -35
Daniela -0
Lea -36

For David game 1 went quite well, but it was his attempt in the first round of game to horde on the sixes for a possible a 'divine intervention' move that cost dearly with 20 points. Lea had hard time today as she found herself continuously blocked through out both games forcing her take on more stones and points.

This it for the first week of May, the Intern League is off to a short vacation, but stay tune for next week as we follow other daily games from Portugal.

The Sneakiest Preview...

I just could help myself and had to take another piggy wiggie picture. While working on my domino set and the Domino architecture guide for it, this building *happened*! Never thought it work out, but then again energy flows in direct lines and so it stands. In my humble and biased opinion - simply amazing!

Today's Games' Results: 06/05/10

today's games developments can be summarized in 4 words and a question mark: is this the end? (in the photo: a bad omen? - Daniela's spilled accidentally her coffee at the start of game 1 round 3)

As far as the 2ND spot in the Intern League goes its bye bye Daniela and hello Lea, here are today's games' Results:

Intern League
(coffee break 11:00)

3 Rounds:
David -9
Daniela -28
Lea -9

Intern League
(Lunch 01:00)

3 Rounds:
David -15
Daniela -60
Lea -20

Things already seem to go wrong for Daniela in game one as she lost in all three game rounds and collected 28 points. Though David won most rounds Lea kept her ending hand in rounds1 & 3 light preventing David from a game victory.

In the photo: end of game 2 round 1. David blocking the game with with the sixes, leaving Daniela with a stunning 32 points! Lea squeaked herself out of this round with only 4 points.

If things weren't bad enough in game 1, game 2 was simply a disaster. In the photo: end of game2 round 3, David takes the round and the game, and if the 32 points from round 1 were not enough, now Daniela has collected another 20 for her score.

From starting with a strong lead over David, Daniela finds herself at the bottom with 831 points since the beginning of the season, but there is still enough time to fix this up till the season ends the July.

Today's Games' Results: 05-05-10

In the photo: End of game 2 - round 3, David blocking the game with 5's (Devine intervention) leaving himself and Daniela with 5 and 9 point respectively. Lea takes the round and the game.


Intern Leage
(coffee break 11:00)

3 Rounds:
David -32
Daniela -21
Lea -7

Intern Leage
(Lunch 01:00)

3 Rounds:
David -50
Daniela -67
Lea -11

In both games today we saw David and Daniela trying very hard to catch up with Lea who ended the day with only 18 points! indeed a tiny amount compared with 88 points for Daniela and 82 points for David.

After loosing badly with 32 points in game 1, David concentrated in game 2 on keeping his lead over Daniela, paying no attention to Lea who played fast and dominated the day with 4 victories.

In the beginning of the week Lea's gap from the lead was 189, today it all changed, no longer a loosing game - if Lea keeps this up she might even win the leage!

Domino Architecture Challage!

In the past week I have been busy building and collection the most mind boggling structures that can be build when using a double 6 set. From these I have selected 15 key structures for a publication I am making about Domino and Domino architecture.

I am actually busy designing a domino set made out of stone, which will be unveiled in 2 weeks in Lisbon (and which is also the reason for starting with this blog, well... that and Janine's Domino Dojo certificate). after wards, I am thinking of starting a monthly Domino Architecture Challenge (using some of these buildings) for domino enthusiasts, but mostly for my friends. The task will be to build / reverse engineer these structures, Those who manage to do this will enter a raffle, the winner will get a signed fortune chickens~! ;).

I decided to sign off this post with a small Domino Architecture Challenge, both as an exercise and a hint for the future competition. Good luck figuring this out and have fun!

PS.
This is a fortune chicken and here is another page about them.