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<blockquote data-quote="smbhax" data-source="post: 70181" data-attributes="member: 396"><p>I'm not disputing that grinding one table at a time is easier than a set of eight (the eh Williams Challenge or whatever it was in PHoF was kind of like that in a sense, with an even larger set of tables), I'm just saying I'd still feel compelled to grind, whether it's one at a time or all eight. Granted, eight would at least enforce some more regular variety in my play while doing it.</p><p></p><p>But because this is a set of eight, and the tournament scores are based on your relative placement per table, it seems to me that's a plenty big enough opportunity for skill to come out on top with all eight tables taken together, even if everyone just plays them once. And again, that's how the PAPA finals work, more or less. Anyway, to me, playing each table just once would be a lot less of a chore, and would feel a lot more like a tournament, where each play really mattered, whether you got three house balls in a row or not. As it is now, playing a table over and over feels just like what I'd be doing outside a tournament anyway, except my high scores won't save to the main leaderboard, and I'm a bit stressed over the whole thing because I'm trying to figure how much time I can actually squeeze in.</p><p></p><p>And hey that's another thing: this format really really really favors people with more time on their hands in any given week. That is a MASSIVE imbalance in the current format. I was psyched about this tournament because I had a few hours available last night and I figured I'd give it a whirl, but it turns out that I basically have to keep coming back to it all week long--and I don't usually have playing time during the week, not if I want to sleep--in order to feel like I have a chance of putting up a good showing. That makes it a lot less fun for me, and what's probably going to happen is that I'll just have time for a few plays on each of the other six tables I haven't played yet, and will in all likelihood not do nearly as well on them as I have on the two tables I played this weekend. Hm... No, actually what I'd better just do is pretend it *is* limited to one play per table, and just content myself with that--otherwise it'll be driving me bonkers all week long. Whew.</p><p></p><p>Another thing with comparisons to PAPA qualifying: people entering into PAPA contests have the opportunity to plan their schedule out months in advance for those tournaments, and they've basically set aside that weekend to play pinball. This tournament was announced what just a few days in advance, and I'm sure we all have other things we'd planned to be doing this week--most of us didn't have this week set aside to grind through pinball scores, but that is essentially what this format asks us to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smbhax, post: 70181, member: 396"] I'm not disputing that grinding one table at a time is easier than a set of eight (the eh Williams Challenge or whatever it was in PHoF was kind of like that in a sense, with an even larger set of tables), I'm just saying I'd still feel compelled to grind, whether it's one at a time or all eight. Granted, eight would at least enforce some more regular variety in my play while doing it. But because this is a set of eight, and the tournament scores are based on your relative placement per table, it seems to me that's a plenty big enough opportunity for skill to come out on top with all eight tables taken together, even if everyone just plays them once. And again, that's how the PAPA finals work, more or less. Anyway, to me, playing each table just once would be a lot less of a chore, and would feel a lot more like a tournament, where each play really mattered, whether you got three house balls in a row or not. As it is now, playing a table over and over feels just like what I'd be doing outside a tournament anyway, except my high scores won't save to the main leaderboard, and I'm a bit stressed over the whole thing because I'm trying to figure how much time I can actually squeeze in. And hey that's another thing: this format really really really favors people with more time on their hands in any given week. That is a MASSIVE imbalance in the current format. I was psyched about this tournament because I had a few hours available last night and I figured I'd give it a whirl, but it turns out that I basically have to keep coming back to it all week long--and I don't usually have playing time during the week, not if I want to sleep--in order to feel like I have a chance of putting up a good showing. That makes it a lot less fun for me, and what's probably going to happen is that I'll just have time for a few plays on each of the other six tables I haven't played yet, and will in all likelihood not do nearly as well on them as I have on the two tables I played this weekend. Hm... No, actually what I'd better just do is pretend it *is* limited to one play per table, and just content myself with that--otherwise it'll be driving me bonkers all week long. Whew. Another thing with comparisons to PAPA qualifying: people entering into PAPA contests have the opportunity to plan their schedule out months in advance for those tournaments, and they've basically set aside that weekend to play pinball. This tournament was announced what just a few days in advance, and I'm sure we all have other things we'd planned to be doing this week--most of us didn't have this week set aside to grind through pinball scores, but that is essentially what this format asks us to do. [/QUOTE]
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