From: leonard@mimsy.umd.edu (Leonard Dickens)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: INL scrimmage: Golden Bears at TWNN
Summary: TWNN wins 12-7-1
Date: 7 Nov 92 22:23:09 GMT
Organization: Deep Thirteen, Gizmonics Institute

Last night -- late last night -- the Golden Bears came to Kansas to
take on the Team with No Name.  A slugfest was predicted.  A slugfest
materialized.  Strangely, it seemed to have none of the tension of our
slight win over LAR.  Credit the INL for this: a scrimmage, no matter
how high quality, never grips the gut like a game that counts.  Thanks
are once again in order to Tom for establishing the INL... of course,
I personally am grateful for the INL about twice per day... can you
say, "no life"?

The TWNN, augmented with ZZFree Kill as our eighth, were ALL there and
ready to play ON TIME, in fact, about five minutes EARLY.  The Dow
Jones Industrials moved up 30 points in heavy trading at the news...
Meanwhile, the Bears COULD have been there on time, but instead
insisted on bopping around Berkeley looking for speedy machines...
sheesh.  (smiley impaired alert.)  Finally, a crowd of "jh" logins
sprang in from machines named skipper, maryann, thurston, lovey, etc.
(No, no gilligan I am sad to say.)  The score at this point was even:
4 to 4 on style points.

The Bears chose Rom, and before I could point out the advantages of
choosing Kli to my team, they instinctively chose Fed.  Shortly
thereafter, the game started.  

Suffice it to say, this was NOT the GB squad that almost won against
Side Salad.  They didn't have Amazing, for one thing... maybe they had
lag... or maybe they just didn't have the fire in the heart.  But
after the initial army flush period where they briefly held three of
our planets, the Bears were fighting for their terrain the entire game.
Not that they are a bad team... they made the distance from Dra to Ind
look insurmountable.  TWNN was never up more than three planets;
however, we were up either one or two planets for most of the game.

The scout bombing on both sides was good, but ours was better.
Sunscreamer[*] would have been proud...  Our ogging was feeble, but it
did not matter, for they rarely carried.  We managed to carry enough
armies forward, and guard our takes for long enough that we held them.
They didn't.  Frequently they would take a planet only to have it
instantly retaken as soon as the planet taker moved off, and
frequently over his dead body.  Our space control was excellent at the
front line.

The general flow of the game can be seen just by looking at a simple
stat: which planets were taken and how many times.  Only seven planets
ever changed hands: Capella, 18; Regulus, 18; Indi, 15; Rigel, 3; Beta
Crucis, 2; Canopus, 2; Sirius, 1.

The Bears nearly threw the game into overtime with a last minute push
to Regulus, Mojo on the carry.  However, as they were plotting that,
MUCUS and the whole space control battalion of the TWNN were screaming
up the left side to take Capella for the umpteenth time.  Mojo managed
to neutralize Reg before the buzzer.  Final score: 12-7-1.

Thanks to the Bears for a really fun game.  I think the whole team
enjoyed it a lot, especially those tense moments toward the end when
you guys drove us back from 13-7 to 11-9 or so... good luck in the
NIT!

-Wreck
 Minister of Truth, TWNN

[*]ObSunscreamer

Appendix 1: Gandhi stats

                 |-- Planets --|-------- Kills --------|--- Deaths ----|

Player Code/Name   tpd tpt tpb  tek pck eck cak fck fak def dpf duc pcc

F0 MUCUS PIG         3   3   8  118  48   5   9   2   5 101   1   0  14
F1 FillInTheBlank    0   0  21   80  38   6  11   0   0 106   0   0  22
F2 Helix             6   8   7   82  24   1   1   1   1  68   1   0  19
F3 bav               2   2   3  116  45   2   2   0   0 106   0   0  28
F4 Red Shirt         1   3  45   57  30   4   8   1   1  99   2   0  24
F5 Wreck             4   3   0   87  40   0   0   0   0  38   0   0   7
F7 Streaker         12  12   5   76  28   2   3   0   0  64   1   0  15
F9 ZZnew guy         2   1  60   31  15   2   2   0   0  63   4   0  19
                    30  32 149  647 268  22  36   4   7 645   9   0 148

R6 Pyro J@e          3   1  11  132  57  11  19   0   0 107   1   0  30
R8 Mojo Riser        7   7  14   65  33  11  24   1   1  94   2   0  25
Ra Hell Peacock      4   3  12  140  59   9  12   0   0 150   1   0  40
Rb Dazzler           0   0  41   57  33   8  15   0   0  97   6   0  24
Rc Ginger Lynn       9   9   4   85  34   6  12   0   0  67   2   0  14
Rd Whirlly Bird      0   0  85    7   1   0   0   0   0  31   1   0  16
Re LURI              5   5   1   98  31   6  11   0   0  43   0   0  11
Rf Gaia              2   2  15   51  21   2   4   0   0  50   0   0  10
Rf Iolo the Bard     0   0   0   10   7   0   0   0   0   8   0   1   3
                    30  27 183  645 276  53  97   1   1 647  13   1 173
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