[ezorn33]

Well, I'm going to do OK in this week's mega tourney, but I continue to be almost completely unable to beat these two players. I just had a premium tourney in which I played the first entry and was very confident with my score -- and one of these two came in and beat it by almost 1000 points! I played a few more entries in the tournament and none of them had anywhere near enough points available to beat even my first entry, let alone his ridiculous score.

The other weird pattern with one of these two players is that when I enter a tournament he's already entered, he often seems to have played a second entry -- and then after playing a couple of entries myself and seeing what the scores are like, it makes no sense that he wouldn't have been happy with his first score. For example, just now I entered a tourney and his scores were 14,850 and 14,700. I botched my first entry, but my second entry I played perfectly and got as many points as were possible with that board and sequence of spins, for a score of 14,575. I played a couple more entries and confirmed for myself that the tourney maxed out around 14,600. So after this guy played his 14,700, I'm sure he would have known that he played it just about perfectly. So why would he play another entry? As someone who has won three WOF survival tournaments, I find it pretty incredible that there's a player out there who can not only beat me just about EVERY time, but can often have TWO entries in a tournament that are higher than what I can muster -- and would play a second entry after "playing so well" in the first one.

I honestly don't know what the heck is going on, but I've played thousands upon thousands of games of WOF, and I remain extremely skeptical of this player in particular. (It doesn't help that he was in the lower end of the first tier for the first several months of WOF's presence on WW before quite suddenly flipping a switch and becoming the dominant WOF premium player.)