Alright. If had done a little resarch i would never have challenged the Kid on the 5 format. He has specialised himself on the 3 & 5 scores and i was crushed. Tommy knows all the windows on the 5 point format. He does not calculate, he does not count, he does not guess...he knows! Normally i only give recognition to one player, and that is Jon Kristian, because i know he is in control. But at least on this 5 format i have to give credits to this Kid. He is probably among the top 3 players in the world on 5 pointers.
To sum it up we had a strange series of matches with a strange luck factor that made things very difficult, and made lots of matches very short, making errors in XG extreemly costly. And it mostly hurt my game. I was not ready for this format at this time. It didn't make it easyer to know that in addition to winning a match i also had to produce a medium 2 or a low 3 to hope to take or split the statt. That created a lot of preassure on my comeback shoulders...and i dealt with it poorly.
After 23 matches I had won about 70%, but was still behind in the bet with 5 points due to Tommy kept neutralising my wins with taking the statt. I decided to go on to 30 matches to see if my postion got better. If it didn't I decided to give him a Gin position, or a Technical KO. It is highly unlikely that i would catch up. It must have taken some serious braindamage on Tommys part.
I think we played in total 34 matches before it was all over. I have only posted 23 of them, and i will post all of them if Tommy insists. But since the position is Gin and the challenge is over, let me for now just sum it up quick. Tommy played super strong, and if the match scenarious had been more normal, he would have played even stronger, because the guy is programmed on the 5's. I think Tommys average (roughly calcutating also the matches not posted) is about high 2 or 3 blank.I had my worst experience since my comeback and played worse and worse. I could not adjust to the 5 format, i was not good enough prepared, and due to really short matches my errors got very costly. I also got really psyked out by beeing behind most of the time...it produced stress...and was not good for my decicions. I played 4200 matchpoints since early August, and my level is dropping...I think the volume is killing me. At the moment i don't see things clearly, its all a mess!
So Tommy won the challenge fair and square. But has promised me a REMATCH on longer matchscores!
And last but not least he also won the fameous T-shirt which was originally made for Arild Itsø, and looks like this:
I ADMIRE
THE JEDIMENACE
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