Welcome to tonight's Elimination.
Tonight you will be playing Blokus.
This Elimination is based off of the abstract strategy board game, Blokus. This will occur on the same 20x20 board and occur together. Each individual will have 21 differently shaped pieces (shown in link below) per color. Players will alternate turns placing one of their pieces on the board.
For the 1st move, each player has to place a piece so it is in their corner square (each person starts in their own corner). Every subsequent move has players place another of their pieces down connecting from one of their pieces on the board. However, players cannot have the edges of their pieces touch each other. Instead, the pieces must be connected by corner-to-corner contact. An example of a valid and invalid move is posted in the link below (with the pieces):
Link to pieces and example of valid/invalid moves:
http://imgur.com/a/vZ5M9 This game will continue until each player has made every possible move they can for each color. There is not time limit but do not take forever because if you take too long by my judgment you will be SKIPPED and the highest value piece you have unplayed will be REMOVED FROM PLAY as a penalty.
The only restriction is the first move must start in your corner and every following move must be from the LAST PIECE you placed down.
There is a twist. At any point you have ONE ASSIST where at any point you do NOT have to place your next piece from the last piece you placed down but from any piece of your color. You are allowed to do this ONCE but keep in mind once you do that you must continue from the previous piece for the remainder of the game.
Since this Elimination can take awhile, if the person before you makes their move and you see it is your turn, you DO NOT have to wait for me to say it is your turn, you can immediately post your move.
The game ends when both players either place all their pieces down or cannot make any moves. When the game is over a player's score will be the number of squares on the 20x20 grid (400 in total) that they have their colored pieces on. In addition, if a player places all their pieces down in one color set they earn an additional 15 bonus points. If a player places all their pieces down AND the last piece they play is the single square (Piece 1) then they earn 20 additional bonus points INSTEAD of the 15.
In the event of a tie, the tiebreaker will be whoever placed their last piece in the most recent round (each round is once everyone has made a move). If that is tied there will be a tiebreaker round incorporating the current board.
The board will be located at this link and be updated every turn:
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1xKARXnyipsb-H0xxxdivoTj5MAh05LT7tdKOwwebZrY/edit?usp=sharing Starting corners:
Top Left - Red
Top Right - Blue
Bottom Right - Green
Bottom Left - Yellow
Moves will be made here or on Skype, wherever ALL PLAYERS DECIDE.
The order of moves will be:
nothingbutrouble
s73100
Absol
awwsum11
This is based on the order you checked in.
Any questions or clarifications needed before we begin?
