Accused:
Rock Stars
Master Wooky
The accused are suspected of:
Being Multis
OR
Conducting Secret Diplomacy
Game number(s):
Game 6592394
Comments:
1) Rock Stars has attacked Master Wooky only twice: two territories on his very first turn to set up a controlled region.
2) Master Wooky has attacked Rock Stars only twice: one territory on his very first turn to set up a controlled region and one territory later in order to complete control of a different region.
3) Their opening moves were suspicious because their borders were only secure against each other in a token sense. (This was not blatant enough to be evidence alone, but along with everything else it adds up.)
4) Rock Stars passed up eliminating Spilseth (and collecting his cards) and allowed Master Wooky to do it. (This was not blatant enough to be evidence alone, but along with everything else it adds up.)
5) Rock Stars has passed up two easy chances to reduce the number of armies that Master Wooky accumulates each turn.
6) The way Rock Stars took his turn in Round 4 was extremely suspicious. It made his position worse and helped Master Wooky. This gave Master Wooky the first significant advantage that anyone in the game had.
7) Rock Stars' turn in Round 5 was also suspiciously bad. He left ic in a convenient position to be eliminated by Master Wooky (whose turn follows Rock Stars' turn) which would allow him collect ic's cards. He did nothing to prevent Master Wooky from accumulating 18 armies on his turn (without cards) which he could have cut down to 9 armies by merely defeating two of Master Wooky's armies. Instead, he made a bunch of attacks that only make sense if he considers Master Wooky an ally and cost himself many more troops than it would have taken to eliminate those two armies.
Before Round 5 I considered it plausible (although I was suspicious) that Rock Stars was merely a very bad player who had no clue what he was doing and that Master Wooky was just taking advantage of his stupidity. After Round 5, I no longer considered that level of stupidity believable given the non-stupid things he had also done.
