The Return Of... Mornington Crescent

[duke o' york]

Yes, Mr Lith. You are most fortunate that I am on a sabbatical from my MC umpiring, although for all those in the West Yorkshire area, I shall be back in my chair at the Alwoodley MC Forum on 27th September. Ought to be a jolly good night.

Arsenal, eh? I'm tempted to take us to Tottenham Court Road to visit their football rivals, but in support of a wonderful cause, we're off to Wimbledon Park to cheer on AFC Wimbledon, the phoenix from the money-grabbing ashes of Wimbledon FC.

This sight-seeing necessitates a strile of 24 degrees clockwise, which is entirely possible at this stage, but unfortunately locks the Becks coefficient for the next three turns. Oops.

[Solly]

Bloody hell, will you guys flag or something when a new game is started. I've missed too many starts and am still looking for my first win here.

I'll start at a place I know well - West Ham - sorry if this harms your little plan Mike but we can't give this Yorkshireman an easy path through.

[CerberusIV]

Continuing the clockwise rotation and the footballing tradition, in an attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory I shall visit that graveyard of english hopes

Wembley Park

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Boddington's We can't give this Yorkshireman an easy path through.

I'm not from Yorkshire you cheeky blighter!

I just happen to live here.

Have a pleasant weekend everyone - I'll come up with an absolute stinker for my first move on Monday morning. If a sneaky Finn hasn't already won by then that is....

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Zylka
That's because anyone who plays Monnington crescent is a fagg0t wh0re!!!

WOW!#$ y#%q

You have us confused with your parents.

I dare essay the Alfred Hitchcock variation: LEYTONSTONE

[Immortal Wombat]

Seems the Duke of York has unusual mornings... In any case, I think a prudent Canary Wharf should go down like a ton of bricks.

[monolith94]

Kensington (Olympia)

[molly bloom]

I see where your Olympia is going...

all the way to the TEMPLE .

Mwa-hah-ha-ha!

[monolith94]

amateurs..... You really think that I'd play a move made so famous in the Rimsky-Jussi battle of 1993??? No, my mind is thinking on a different level.

[duke o' york]

Pshaw!
I popped in to see the progress over the weekend and the only new post was molly's somewhat direct rebuttal of the flamer. Thinking it a little rude to jump in straight away, I decided to wait until a suitable number had made their moves before diving back into the fray.
Some young players have no sense of MC etiqueete these days, and if you don't teach them the correct procedures when young then who knows what mayhem may be caused in championship games of the future!

As a fan of the more traditional style, then I shall try to initiate a cascade of the religious sort with Canons Park, and grab myself some amber tokens. I think that I shall have to introduce my tokens into play earlier than in the last game because there's nothing more annoying than finding yourself with a huge hoard of potentially match-winning tokens when the game has already finished.
Not sure how long this cascade could go on for, but I shall leave you to calculate the LV-Becks coefficient ratio at each turn and thence work out how wise it would be to continue. The rewards are better the longer it goes, but of course the risks are higher too, as someone could find themself with the correct ratio to break the Islington cordon and deposit themselves directly at MC.

[duke o' york]

I was afraid that this thread might have been closed, but instead decided to bump it from page 5.

Come on you layabouts - I can't play the whole game by myself!

[Immortal Wombat]

I'm getting the current coefficient ratio at around 5/16, which puts me on All Saints to continue the cascade.

[CerberusIV]

Stopping short of a boating trip my sense of envy leads me to Parsons Green

[duke o' york]

Although tempted by a tenuous connection by claiming that Jesus' teachings may lead you to Shepherd's Bush (Hammersmith & City, of course), I shall instead pop over to St James's Park. The spreadsheet I set up to keep an eye on the inverse of the quotient fluctuations seems to be having trouble with Cerberus' move and so I shall just give up and continue on pencil and paper. Far more of a traditional guide, and more accurate too (if my sums are all correct). The Becks lies at -4.78 at St James's, and with the LV as it is then that puts Wombat in squonk (sorry!).

[monolith94]

Advancing with tremendous gravity to Ruislip Manor.