2020 Round 3

Start Date: August 27, 2020

End Date: October 3, 2020

Name in bold font indicates the victor. Red font indicates elimination.
Player listed in first column bids first.
A positive bid value is influence given to the US. A negative value means influence given to the Russian.
Asterisk on Game number indicates a Note of Interest following the table.

SU = 18

US = 21

Notes of Interest:

Game 4: On T2, US held all three scoring cards for net -18 VP.
Game 5: SU was down by 10 VP and caught in Bear Trap for 6 rounds (!!), but equalized after emerging. SU lost by accidentally playing ABM as Ops to coup at DEFCON2, rather than as event. Note: The PlayDek App apparently may not generate an explicit warning for this case.
Game 6: 1 card in the draw deck at the end of T7 kept almost all Mid/Early war cards out of play during the Late War.
Game 11: A rare tie in Final Scoring goes to the US. But still a tie for AREA rating.
Game 13: A 2 VP win with the SU holding a SALT-recovered Wargames for all of Turns 9 and 10, and VP near the edge of victory right up until Final Scoring.
Game 17: SU unable to net VPs on any regional scoring cards, but did manage to scrounge up 5 mil ops while under Cuban Missile Crisis !?!
Game 18: Fastest game of the tournament so far. 8:01 from reported bid to reported result.
Game 20: Final VP = 37.
Game 23: SU held CIA, UN; US held China; With DEFCON at 2, US played 5YP and found UN.
Game 28: CIA
Game 30: SU played 5YP and US pulled CIA from remaining 3 cards.
Game 32: US missed 4 rolls after a self-imposed Quagmire … giggity!
Game 34: Final VP =38 … one-upping Game 20.
Game 39: No Optionals.