[Deptheads] Pinball Arcade tournament - need some outside input

[Mike James]

I want to second Addams Family, and add my personal favorite, Junkyard. 

Mike




> On Sep 29, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Eric Aldrich <ealdrich at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I was referring to the Addams Family pinball machine -- it came out in the 1990s.
> 
> Eric
> 
>> On 29 Sep 2014, at 12:42 , Nekojin <nekojin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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