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<blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 244817" data-attributes="member: 446"><p>Does your wink mean you're not serious? Anyway, this kind of claim is what I'm talking about. You don't know if it's true or false, and neither does anyone else, unless they've done research and can prove it. I think it's BS. Unless your definition of "common player" is so narrow that it includes only players with exactly the same amount of skill, in which case of course their results would strongly depend on number of games played, although the effect could still be less than the effect of luck. But if the definition is that narrow, who cares, anyway?</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's what <em>you </em>call a tournament, it's not what other people call a tournament.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But you <em>are </em>judging. You're judging people who like grinding and playing tables many times in a tournament.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is not true. I've played in several world championships -- PAPA and Pinburgh, although it was many years ago. In those tourneys, players could attempt to qualify as many times as they wanted. Some people had lots of attempts and some had only a few. The year I was the #1 qualifier in B, I got that on my first or second attempt, IIRC, but it took me several attempts in other years. (I would dearly love to have the data for all of those tournaments, but I've been able to find only a few of them online.)</p><p></p><p>Especially in A division near the end of qualifying, it was common for players to do exactly what you describe: restart their tournament entry if they got off to a bad start.</p><p></p><p>I don't think anyone else here has much experience in big-time real pinball tournaments, but I'd love to hear from them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="invitro, post: 244817, member: 446"] Does your wink mean you're not serious? Anyway, this kind of claim is what I'm talking about. You don't know if it's true or false, and neither does anyone else, unless they've done research and can prove it. I think it's BS. Unless your definition of "common player" is so narrow that it includes only players with exactly the same amount of skill, in which case of course their results would strongly depend on number of games played, although the effect could still be less than the effect of luck. But if the definition is that narrow, who cares, anyway? That's what [I]you [/I]call a tournament, it's not what other people call a tournament. But you [I]are [/I]judging. You're judging people who like grinding and playing tables many times in a tournament. This is not true. I've played in several world championships -- PAPA and Pinburgh, although it was many years ago. In those tourneys, players could attempt to qualify as many times as they wanted. Some people had lots of attempts and some had only a few. The year I was the #1 qualifier in B, I got that on my first or second attempt, IIRC, but it took me several attempts in other years. (I would dearly love to have the data for all of those tournaments, but I've been able to find only a few of them online.) Especially in A division near the end of qualifying, it was common for players to do exactly what you describe: restart their tournament entry if they got off to a bad start. I don't think anyone else here has much experience in big-time real pinball tournaments, but I'd love to hear from them. [/QUOTE]
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