[Deptheads] Pinball Arcade tournament - need some outside input

[Eric Aldrich]

How recent of digital do you want? 1970s? 1980s? 1990s?

For some reason Addams Family comes to mind immediately, though I'm partial to older titles like Meteor and Spirit of '76. You could do something weird like Black Hole.

And yes, we could do a slightly tweaked payout scheme. Say $5 for table high score.

Eric

On 29 Sep 2014, at 11:56 , Nekojin <nekojin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm planning to run a Pinball Arcade tournament at Orccon (and further on, if it does well). I've already figured out that, given the average play time of playing pinball, the sweet spot for doing a tournament would be an "Ongoing" theme for three tables. I have now have two questions to resolve. 
> 
> The first, which I'm mostly going to have to do myself, is to find three tables that are truly tournament-worthy. I'm going to be avoiding the pre-digital tables (those with purely physical tables), because there isn't any goal in those machines - the "goal" is simply to keep the ball from passing the flippers. Beyond that, though, it gets more complicated. I've already crossed Bride of Pinbot off the list for a couple of reasons, but could use some more suggestions for tables that are exceptionally good or bad for tournament play. 
> 
> The second, which I particularly want input from here, is whether it would be appropriate to do a different payout scheme - in addition to (or instead of) the classic First / Second / Third payout, would it be worthwhile to also give per-table awards - say, give an extra 3 DD for someone who was the top scorer of Table 1, even if they didn't end up being the top overall player? 
> 
> Any thoughts or input are welcome. 
> 
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