The winning attack I meant to do would have worked.

But because I didn't know if there'd be enough time on its fuse to make it the required distance, I went over to collect the other crate just in case. Then I didn't take the chance of aiming the crosshair down 1 notch from straight up with the view of the crosshair being cropped by the roof, because tapping the Down arrow quickly enough to do that sometimes is ignored and sometimes isn't, due to the way WA polls its keyboard input. But if that aiming is done in advance, there's plenty of time to do it:

The Sheep Launcher move I tried at 27:47 was actually pretty tricky to pull off. Here are two ways it could work (see attachments #1 and #2 – note that the retry counts are independent on these two; the first one took 5 tries starting from scratch, and the second took another 19 tries starting from what I'd already learned from #1).

There was something else I could've done, though. A Flame Thrower double kill is easier, but there's an even better way it could be done to not only kill the two worms, but open to the left (see attachment #3).

167 hp damage from a Flame Thrower in this round.

This was accidentally reported in the wrong league... we agreed to TTL beforehand.

If I'd just clicked the mouse at the end of my turn in the last round, it would've been a draw, with 7 hp damage done to a 3 hp worm.

My hand was shaking a little bit, and I was being careful not to let that move the mouse. But that made it harder to click exactly when I needed to.

As for why I didn't just open at 24:28 when I found I couldn't Girder block, it's because I had decided quite strongly before my turn started that I'd block, and not open. Because if I opened, he still be able to keep Girder blocking me up to 5 more times, and who knows what crates he might get in the meantime. Girder blocking him would guarantee I would win the game on the very next turn. So when it turned out that he was jussst out of range of being able to be blocked with a Girder, I didn't even remember I still had a choice of opening. I remained resolutely determined to execute the plan I'd already decided on.



Anyway, congrats, Senator.

My two worst failed moves in this game could have easily gone differently:

This is what I should have done on my last two turns (playback at 21:51 and 24:03 respectively):