[Deptheads] Pinball Arcade tournament - need some outside input

[Nekojin]

Thinking of mid 1980s at a minimum, moving onward. I'd love to have Addams
Family involved, but the Kickstarter for that still has 12 days to go, and
I doubt they'll finish coding it by February, even assuming the Kickstarter
finishes successfully (it's at 76% right now).

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Eric Aldrich <ealdrich at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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