Week 2 Medians and Highs

They're posted...

http://www.pinzach.com/qualify.htm

Also, just a sidebar, here are the most played games in the league...

Week 1 - 58 players vie for the Title

No divisions this time, just a 58 player free-for-all.

First week leaders are Les Manley, Butterflygirl24, Railbender and Brian.  I'm next in 5th!!!!!!  But there's a long way (4 more weeks) to go.

Lots of good play this week with only one GC score being broken that would be worth bonus points if it holds up by the end of the tournament.  That was Brian on POTC - 488 million.

Remember that you only get GC bonus points at the end of the tourney if your score is still the GC ! AND ! the machine has at least 20 plays on it historically.

Also remember for next week that you get a bonus point for variety each week your score is from a different machine than your previous weeks.

HS2, Taxi and WH2O were wildly popular games this week.

Oh, and please use commas when posting your score.  Much easier for me to read.

RGPL Returns - Week 1

Lots of new games to play.  Check them out here...

http://www.pinzach.com/qualify.htm

Play your games by Sunday midnight - really!

Final week to make the playoffs!

Go me!

Week 4 - Time to Move up the Rankings

It's now or never (or next week).

See you in the playoffs.

RGPL Champion Cup - Mark in NJ

Finally finished the Champion's Cup for the last tournament.

Sorry for the blurry pics - it's grey and gloomy in Seattle today - not good lighting for pics.

Random Crap

There have been 3,995 games played in the RGPL.

Coincidentally, for games that start with the letters A-M there have been 1,997 games played.

For games that start with N-Z, 1,998. Crazy.

Funhouse is the game that scores the most consistently. After 41 games played the GC is only 219% (a little more than double) the median. The average (for machines with at least 20 plays) is that the GC is 807% of the median.

On the other end of the spectrum, Elvis, BSD and SM have the highest ratio of GC/median and the highest standard deviations. Meaning the scores are all over the map on these games.

To show why I use the MEDIAN and not the AVERAGE, for game with at least 20 plays, the median score is 71% of the average score. No game has a higher median than it does average.

The only games worth 3 bonus pts for GC scores are (more than 100 plays):

TZ - 2,501,781,020 - Tzodd/Gravitar
SM - 1,979,830,230 - Beemus
LOTR - 346,684,980 - TBK
WH2O - 1,375,993,670 - Troz
AFM - 28,910,673,170 - Kenbo

Good luck knocking them off.

Cliffy Contest Winner

Sometimes being the commish is a tough job (insert whine here).

As I read all the great posts about why people wanted the Cliffy sleeves I decided that it was too tough of a choice to make. There were folks who have none (and want some!), folks who have lots (Michael O'Brien counted his), folks finishing shop-jobs, folks wanting to salve their pinball wounds...

They were all good and I HAD decided to just have a random drawing out of all the folks who mentioned the Cliffys.

That is until Sunday night, when I read Brian's (B Coney) post... Have to give the man credit ("props" for you guys under 30 years old) for his inventive use. He is the winner.

If you didn't read it, here is his post...

Ok, well after my crappy performance on BDK last week, I decided to go to my ol' reliable Breakshot. She only let me down once so I fired her up cold and got 3,073,320 on the first game. Was a little worried, but my second game was a lot better at 14,503,040. Just think how good it
would've been if I had the cliffy colored posts on there!!

I actually REALLY need the colored posts because not only would I use a few on my games, but I just put a deposit down for a 5 week old German Shepherd puppy! Now, it's my experience with these dogs that they are VERY smart, so I was thinking about how I could train it.
Well, I came up with an idea that I could use the colored sleeves to help train the dog. I would put the red ones where the dog wasn't allowed to go and the green ones where it was allowed to go. I would use the yellow for the areas that quite frankly I just didn;t know if it was ok and where it should use caution because it MAY get in trouble or it MAY not, but it was up to the dog to decide. I think they would also come in handy for cleaning up the "wet mess" that the puppy may make before fully trained....I mean the post sleeves HAVE to be at LEAST as absorbant as the Sham WOW right!!!!??? The last few remaining sleves, I would string togeather and make them into a ball so it would have a multi color chew toy......so THAT my friends and all knowing commish, is why I NEED those colored post sleves.....have a heart.....do it for the dog for cripes sake!!!! :)

Brian

Week 2 Results

Lots more play in week 2.

62 players played this week, there are currently 69 active players in this tournament.

GC scores were set on several games that will be worth bonus pts at the end of the tourney if they are still the GC score...

Blubboman - Space Station (worth 2 pts)
Tzodd/GravitaR BK (1 pt)
Jeff Blair - Paragon (1 pt)
Kevkat - TOTAN (1 pt)
rev-test - Seawitch (1 pt)

Very high scoring this week an average of 7.3 pts. The scores averaged 260% of the median compared with 208% last week.

There is now a link at the top of the scoreboard to sort it by region! (or just click here)

The region battles are shaping up nicely, luckily I'm in the lowest scoring region.

The leaders are:

seymour-shabow in the East
blubbloman and Xerico in the M/S
Raymond in the Pacific

Keep in mind that some folks are in line to win bonus points at the end of the tourney for their GC scores - those points are NOT currently included in the ranking. The new GC scores worth pts are highlighted on the page so you can see them easily.

Kevkat Gone Wild

Usually mild-mannered Kevkat has accomplished the rare feat of setting the GC on both games he played this weekend.

TOTAN & BK. TOTAN was his official score and he doesn't get any extra for the BK score, but holy crap, that's pretty studly.

Scoreboard updated.

Week 2 - Contest and Oops

Week 2 begins....

This weekend's contest:

Tell us why you want or need a pack of 20 of Cliffy's Colored Sleeves. If you have the best/most compelling reason, you win.

Also, on a side note, I missed an email for JJJ early in the week and will be updating the list of qualfied games later today. The punch line (and only change) is that Starship Troopers is now a qualified game.

Week 2 Stuff

Week 2 medians and highs are posted.

New games are:

Bally Game Show

North Star

Time Machine (DE)

Maybe if you play Time Machine you can go back and play it during week one. (Sorry, couldn't help it).

Contest this weekend with Cliffy's Sleeves being the prize - get your begging cap on.

Cliffy's Generosity Bubbles Over

We have a new "sponsor" to add to our list of benefactors.

Now, in addition to Pin Footies from Bryan Kelly and Glare Guards from Mr. 68, we have colored sleeves generously donated for prizes from Cliffy.

Everyone thank Cliffy, without whom my Elvis wouldn't be nearly as cool.

Tzodd/gravitaR runs off with the prize

Tzodd/gravitaR has won this week's drawing.

Apparently the rich get richer since he already has some RGPL swag from being a previous champion. Congrats.

He also holds the distinction of being the person with BY FAR the most games submitted towards qualifying machines.

A true friend and future Hall-of-Fame member in the RGPL.

Prize drawing

A little later tonight I'm gonna announce the winner of Week 1's contest.

Remember it is a random drawing out of the people who posted by Saturday night.

42 folks are eligible. Winner wins choice of Glard Guard or Pin Footies.

Just have to get the names together and... Poof. There'll be a winner.

Making a list, checking it twice

Clearly I'm not as well organized as Santa, because I didn't check my list twice.

I missed Steve-O's post. My humble apologies.

I will update the scoreboard with his score and a few more locations/regions later tonight.

Week 1 done - 61 players strong

After week 1 of the latest RGPL tournament, here is some arbitrary info:

Four guys lead with 11 points: blubboman, Les Manley, seymour-shabow & Xerico.

With the new playoff format, regions matter.

The Midwest/South region looks tough as 3 of the 4 leaders are from that region. (blubbo, Les, Xerico)

The East is led by Seymour-shabow with Ray in NJ only 1 point behind.

The Pacific region (go Zach!) is led by Bobby Conover & Raymond with 10 points each.

Although there were 4 GC scores set this weekend (the four leaders), only Seymour-shabow set the GC on a machine with enough plays to earn bonus points if it still stands at the end of the tourney. It was on STTNG (worth 2 points). If you read his post, you'll see that it could/should have been even higher.

Average score was 5.7 points and 210% of the median.

Yours truly (the hero of this story) is tied for 14th!

Get me you locations and mug shots!

Scoreboard Updated

42 players thru Saturday, nice.

Everyone currently on the scoreboard is eligible for this week's "early bird" drawing for a prize.

Nice playing so far everyone.

I have 3 balls

And so should you.

Just a reminder - especially with more SS and EM games being qualified - that all games are to be played as 3 ball games.

By the way, for those of you that haven't read it, the FAQ answers most of the RGPL questions in condensed form. Read it here...

RGPL FAQ

Start Me Up - Win this week's prize

Week 1 of the new tourney.

Play by Saturday night and you have a chance to win a glare guard or set of pin footies.

Doesn't matter what you score, the winner will be chosen randomly from everyone who plays and posts by Saturday night.

See what I did there?

TBK - Still the all-time leader

Updated the all-time stats. You can see the whole list by clicking from the scoreboard page.

Meanwhile, here are the Top 30. There have been 180 players in all.

Click on the list to zoom.

Rule Change #2.413.088D

Playoff.

Sometimes as the tournament comes to an end, folks are a little less interested if they aren't at the top. To help keep more involved and give more a chance to win, the winner will be determined by a one week playoff (after the normal 5 week tournament).

Here's how it works...

There a now 3 regions... East (E), Midwest & South (M/S) and Pacific (P).

There will be four players who make the playoff. They will be the highest finisher in each of the regions plus a wild-card (the highest finisher who didn't win their division).

Those four finalists will play one more round (with scores wiped out and starting from 0). The winner of that playoff round will be the Champion.

This way, you don't have to win it all in the 5 weeks, just win your region - to get a chance to become Champ in the playoff.

As an example, the four finalists last tournament would have been Mark in NJ (E), TBK (P), Tzodd/gravitaR (M/S) and dcerny (wildcard with 48 points).

It's kind of like pro sports now, the winner of the regular season may not become the Champ. You have to win in the playoffs, too.

Good luck.

Rule Change #1.003.47C

Points for GC scores.

As described before, all GC scores are not created equal.

To set the GC score on a game with only 4 plays is cake.

To set the GC score on a game with 100 plays is difficult.

I got several good suggestions and in the end here's the deal...

It's just too damned easy to get a good score (as a % of the median) and set the GC on a game that doesn't have many plays. So, if the game has less than 20 plays, there is no bonus for setting and holding the GC.

50 games seems to be the next level for plays and 100 separates the most popular from the rest.

So, in the end, here are the new GC bonus points awarded at the end of the tournament.

Machines with <20 plays - 0 Points
Machines with 20-49 plays - 1 point
Machines with 50-99 plays - 2 points
Machines with >99 plays - 3 points

I didn't want to go higher than 3 pts so that no one could run away from the pack.

That'll make the GC more coveted on the popluar games and make the competition more wild and woolly.

Of course you still get all the same points for your score each week (% of median) regardless of how many plays are on the machine you choose.

Love & Kisses,

The Commish

Our Champion

Mark in NJ - on fire as usual

Mark in NJ Wins

I know you are all disappointed that I didn't win.

Mark in NJ did win. Congratulations from the Pinzach the commish and congratu-frakking-lations from Pinzach your fellow competitor.

The rest of the Top 10

TBK
dcerny
Michael O'Brien
Evets
Tzodd/gravitaR
Brian
Tomdotcom
John Bigbooty
Les Manley

12 points separated the Top 10 places.

Top Urchin was Jaret.

Week 5 was extremely LOW scoring. Only 6.3 avg points per player. Almost a half point less than the previous week. And the lowest week this tournament (when adjusting for bonus points).

Will have a few minor changes this weekend when the league starts all over again. I'll explain them in a few days.

It'd be great to get some more folks going (100 maybe???), so please drag your friends and family into the RGPL.

GC scores in Week 5 were:

Nip-It - Homebrood
Champion Pub - TBK
Centaur - dcerny (who had 3 GC scores this tournament)
WCS94 - tomdotcom

Scoreboard Updated

Thru Saturday's play.

Winning Time

Final week of the tournament. Nut up.

New games this week - Mata Hari & Xenon

The medians and GC scores are updated for week 5 - (the last week of this tourney).

Find the game you are going to lay a beat down on.

GC Scores & bonus points (future change)

To remind everyone, at the end of next week (the end of the tournament), everyone who scored and still holds the GC score on a machine during the tournament will get a bonus point for each GC score. That could make or break a winner.

It did get me thinking, though... It is MUCH easier to get a GC score on a newly qualified game than one that has had lots of play. When a game is newly q'd, there have only been 4 games played. The odds of you being able to set the GC score vs 4 other scores are much better than (for instance) a machine that as had 100 plays.

Just like at home, when you reset the GC scores, you keep breaking it in the beginning, but then as more games pile up and there is more data, the GC score becomes higher and harder to break.

SO, while I won't change the rules in the middle of the Tourney, I think that next time the award for setting the new GC on a machine will be based on how many games have been played historically on that machine in the league. You may get 1 bonus point for the new GC on a newly q'd game and yet get 3 or 4 bonus points for the new GC on something that's been played more than 100 times like LOTR or TZ.

Sweet.

Playing the same machine every week... Good?

Mark in NJ is our leader. He has played Fast Draw each of the last three weeks. This brings up an interesting strategic point about the RGPL. Of course, some people only have one game available to them, but for others, you have to choose whether to play the same game or different one each week (or even 2 diff in a weekend).

Theoretically, if you only have one game or play the same game all the time, you might be better at it and that would be advantageous for scoring. To counteract that, remember that in the RGPL you get a bonus point EVERY WEEK that your posted score is on a different machine than previous weeks. SO, you have to decide whether you want the bonus point, or think you can do so much better on the same game that you don't care about the bonus point.

In the end, it must not be very advantageous (in general) to play the same game each week because since we have run the RGPL this way (bonus points for variety), all the Champions have played different machines each week in the tournament that they won - except for one, who only repeated one machine in the 5 weeks. I guess if you are good, it doesn't matter what game you play.

Scoreboard redesigned

The new scoreboard has the most current week in the first column for easier reading.

Also, there are now 3 versions of the scoreboard stacked vertically on the same page. First, there are the normal rankings, then there is an alphabetical listing so you can easily find someone and finally, a third scoreboard lower down that is the quick summary of just the points scored each week for each player, in case you don't like how the first scoreboard is laid out.

Week 4 results

Another week, another gaggle of ballers.

Mark in NJ leads going into the final week with 43 points.

Tzodd/Gravitar is 2nd with 41.

Brian, Michael O'Brien and TBK are tied for 3 with 40.

There were GC scores set this week on

Fast Draw (Mark in NJ)
CP (Michal O'Brien)
Cosmic Gunfight (dcerny)
Flash (Dennis)
JM (rev-test)
TOTAN (Taxman/Shreksman)
BK2K (blubboman)
Joker Poker (Dr Dave)

I'm the picture of mediocrity standing in 31st place having slightly beat the median each week.

The average player scored 6.7 pts this week vs 6.8 last week.

Remember that after week 5 is complete, if you STILL own a GC score (highlighted in yellow), you are awarded a bonus point for it (for as many different GC scores you hold).

Scoreboard Updated Mon Morn

Holding off final analysis until all stragglers have reported.

Sultans of the Silverball

I realized that I wasn't putting who the GC was on the qualifying page. So here they are. All the GC scores and the ballers who scored them. Below that is a chart of all the ballers who own more than one GC score. The leaders are llabrevlis and Xerico with 7 GC scores each.

Just click on any chart to make it bigger.

These are games A-M...



These are games N - Z...



This is the count of GC scores by baller...

Why we play two games

So I looked at last weekend's games. The average for all players for their better game was...

196% of the median and 6.8 points.

Just to be irksome, I calculated the scores for everyone's crappy game, they averaged...

77% of the median and a (would-be) 4.1 points.

The better game on average was just about 2.5 times the worse game.

It's Week 4

Don't worry, you are definitely finishing in the Top 100.

Custom Cards for CC and Power Play - Need Guinea Pig

Here are some new custom cards I think I'm done with but I don't own these games. Could someone please email me who would be willing to test them to make sure they fit. Especially since Cactus Canyon has the gun handle blocking some of the cards. I intentionally left the area blank where I think they cover.

There are two different sets for CC.

Thanks for the help.

Here's the preview if you are interested....

Week 4 medians and GCs posted

New machines available for play in week 4:

Card Whiz/Royal Flush
Flash
Party Zone
Corvette

TSPP Custom Cards

Lots of folks here play TSPP. So here are some custom cards I made. Hope you likey. There are 3 because I made two different kinds for the design credits, use the one you like better.

You can download the set of all 3 in the "custom card" section of my pinzach.com site.

Week 3 is Ooooovveer

Our leader is Brian...

There was a young baller named Brian
Whose scores have all been flying
He plunges the ball
And then beats us all
The only thing left is the crying.

Scores were down this week - the avg was 198% of the median vs 235% last week.

The following set GC...

blubboman
butterflygirl24
dcerny
Hugh
Jimmy Lipham
Mark in NJ
tomdotcom
Tzodd/Gravitar
Xerico

More later...

Stats are a little delayed

Had a damn power outage all morning.

Scoreboard Updated Sunday A.M.

Includes Saturday's scores

Scoreboard Updated

Includes Friday's scores.

Week 3 Commences

Go play your games and hurry back and post your scores. Go on.. Hurry... That's a good boy/girl.

If not, everyone is gonna get mad...

What the frak? Counting backwards

A recap for those who don't remember but may have noticed something weird on a few lesser played games.

The number of games played and the GC score may have gone backwards. That's because after a game has at least 8 total plays on it, I remove the qualifying games from the data. Therefore, the 4 Q games are no longer represented in the median and if one of the Q games was the GC, it is gone also.

The reason I do this is because Q games consistently score lower than league games - maybe folks don't concentrate as hard. Anyway, it's easy to trounce the median on a newly Q'd game because the Q scores are generally low. Thus, when there are at least 4 league games played (8 total with the Q games), I remove the Q scores from the data.

File that under things you don't give a crap about.

Week 3 medians and GC

The new goals are up for this coming weekend. Click on the link in the right column to see them.

EBD and Viking are new games this week and there are 19 more machines that only need one more game played to qualify them.

Please try to play Friday or Saturday so that I don't get all the scores posted late Sunday night after New Orleans wins the Super Bowl.

POTC Custom Cards

Lots of folks in the RGPL seem to play POTC. Thought I'd make some custom cards.

If you want to download the full size/resolution set, just head over to my site, pinzach.com and go to the custom cards section.

RGPL - Contest Winner (See below)

There were lots of great posts. Several poor souls had to do some repair work to even be able to play their games.

Others had to interrupt long days of chores to fit a game in.

In the end, there were many runners-up including: (but not limited to) Bryan, Blubboman, ButterflyGirl24, Karmatose & TBK (for his play-by-play after each ball).

In the end, only one guy played with a respirator and that alone is worth a prize. Congrats Pincorrect. Please choose from the TZ clock board, Glare Guard, Pin Footies and Zit Cream and email me your mailing address.

If you missed it, below is the text from his post...

I'm doing a kitchen renovation and have moved my machines into the
dining room as I shuffle stuff throughout the house to accommodate
stuff that I'm clearing before doing tilework on the floor.. There's
drywall dust and fiberglass all over the place. I've got walls torn
down and holes in the ceiling where work is being done and insulation
is exposed. So I donned a mask and at first tried to pull the plastic
off the machines, but I remembered if I did that, I would have a
helluva time putting the plastic back over the machines because
they're all pushed against a wall in the far end of the room, book-
ended with a new fridge and other furniture. Now if I had one of
those robotic arms like they have on the space shuttle, it would have
been no problem, but I didn't, so I thought it best to crawl under the
plastic and try to play the games.

So there I am, wearing a respirator, underneath the plastic, and go to
start Fish Tales and realize that there are no credits in the machines
and my keys are in some unmarked box. So now I'm on a quest to find
quarters -- I usually don't keep the machines on free play. This way
I'm motivated to recycle my pocket change and I usually put the coins
into some pinball fund that goes for something for the machines. Ok,
I find some quarters and fire up a game.

I'm on the first ball and it's going well, then the power goes out.
I'm like "what?" Then it comes back on, so I put my second quarter in
the game and start playing. Then the front door opens and it's the
contractor who was working on the outside electrical. At this point,
I'm wearing a respirator, underneath a pile of plastic playing
pinball. All he can see is some kind of weird distorted image of a
guy covered in plastic wrap wearing some kind of mask.

"I'm working on the electrical and ... um, what are you doing?"

"I'm playing pinball."

"Biggest fish I ever saw!"

"Biggest what?"

"I'm playing pinball"

"Lie!"

"No I'm not lying, I'm working on the electrical. I need to shut the
power off."

"Ok, can you give me a second?"

"It's a feeding frenzy!"

"Um, are you ok? Did I catch you at a bad time? Is there someone
else there with you?"

"No, I'm playing pinball. You've heard of pinball?"

"Are you gonna talk or you gonna fish?"

"I'm going to go outside and wait for you to finish whatever. Let me
know when I can shut the power off..."

I let him do his work on the electrical and decided to play Genie
instead:

192,680
478,060

Cactus Canyon Custom Cards

Help me decide which style I should complete.

Email me or post on the thread on RGP. Thanks.

Click here for the thread on RGP.

TYPE 1




TYPE 2

Week 2 in the books

Another crazy week of 60+ players.

Current leaders are tied at 22 points. They are...

Mark in NJ
Brian
qbert-WPC
TBK (prior champ)
Tzodd/Gravitar (prior champ)

Maybe we shouldn't let anyone win who hasn't sent a pic. For all we know all the ones without pics are all aliases for TBK.

Two players are right behind with 21 points.

Jaret & TDJWill are currently tied for Top Urchin.

The avg points scored this week was 7.1. More than the 5.9 last week, but remember that starting with this week everyone who played a different machine than week 1 got a bonus point for variety, so the two weeks' averages were actually very close.

A couple of new guys joined the fray this week and there are now 65 active players in the league. Roughly the same number as my IQ.

Two of the Top 10 players from last week (llabrevlis and pincredible) did not play this week. Bummer for them.

Get in your Q scores to qualify new machines for next week soon!

Scoreboard Updated

That's all, just letting you know.

New custom cards for old EM

Made some custom cards per request for a Wms Grand Prix (EM).

Emailed them to Pinball Rebel, so hopefully they'll be up before long.

In honor of them, I say we get two more qualifying games on it so it can be a league machine (there are two q scores already).

Here's what the custom cards look like....






I'll put the pics and links to Pinball Rebel on the custom cards page of my site soon. I'm lazy.

Scoreboard updated Sat Morn

14 players the first day, another strong showing.

I personally having proven what was thought to be impossible by both sucking AND blowing at the same time.

Pics

It's not necessary to send pics of your scores (qualifying or League games), but some players like to...

Here are a few Q scores from this week from Dennis & Rev-test. Always nice to see some backglasses.

Newly Q'd Games

The medians and highs are updated for this weekend's games. Click on the link in the right column to see them all.

New machines this week are Embryon, Genie and NBAFB.

There are now 120 games to choose from AND 14 more that have 3 games played toward qualification and only need one more.

In all, 310 different machines have had a score submitted on them and a grand total of 3,278 games have been played in the RGPL all included.

TZ still has the most plays. Followed by SM, LOTR, WH2O and AFM - they are the only ones with over 100 plays each, making the GC score on those much more impressive. Of those, the SM GC is the one that is the greatest percentage of its median, making it my vote for best score so far of all games.

Contest upcoming this Weekend

Since everyone was so cool and fun during Week 1 of the return of the RGPL,
I want to keep the ball rolling in Week 2 (coming this weekend).

As is usual for our contests, instead of rewarding scores we are rewarding
fun & participation. The contest winner will be the player who writes the
most entertaining/fun/funny post about his/her league games.

No other parameters are involved. The Commish is the final judge.

The prize is your choice of any ONE of the following...

A brand new Rottendog TZ clock board I never used.

or

A set of Pin Footies

or

A Glare Guard.

or

some zit cream (if the other things aren't interesting to you)

Again I'd like to thank the generous donations of the Pin Footies and Glare
Guards, many players have won and cherished them. You can get to their
websites from the links on the right side of the blog.

PZ

Google Chrome & Safari issues

For some reason, Google Chrome and Safari web browsers don't handle the spreadsheet details as well as Internet Explorer and Firefox do. The main difference is that GC and Safari don't show the lines between the rows and columns which makes it a little harder to read the rankings.

If you can, use IE or Firefox to view my stuff. (I mean the RGPL stuff, not my stuff... Get your mind out of the gutter).

Week 1 stats updated - New alpha listing

In all, 62 players scored in Week 1. I've updated the rankings. Also, to make it convenient to find a specific player, there is now an alphabetical listing of everyone's scores below the main rankings. Just scroll down on the rankings page to find it.

We are all Chumpions now

Since there are so many players, and only a few prior champions, I have eliminated the separate divisions. Now everyone competes together. BUT, in order to make sure someone new has a chance, if a prior Champion is the winner, the highest ranked player who hasn't already won will be declared the Co-Champion. That way, the prior Champs can't keep us amateurs from winning.

The meek shall inherit the Earth (and the RGPL Cup).

Working on the stats

Finishing up the stats for week 1. I'll give lots more details when I'm done. There are still going to be a few stragglers who asked to play today because they were out of town, but we already have 58 players. By far a record.

Hordes, Spouses and Urchins

It's 6:15 Pacific time.

While I'm sure there are lots of folks who are still going to post, we already have 45 players this week (and only TWO former champs have posted so far). Several got their spouse involved and there are a handful of pre-pubescent players also.

Very cool. Long live RGPL.

Warming up, Schmarming up

So much for "warming-up" as far as this week's stats so far.

Of the 24 players who have posted, 15 had their better game on their first game, only 9 scored higher on their second game.

Scoreboard updated through Saturday's games

Updated the latest stats thru Sat night. Remember that the rankings don't change and sort until everyone has played for the weekend.

.....but we all know that I'm no longer gonna be in first place. D'oh.

Busy First Day of Play

Scoreboard is updated for the first day of Week 1. We had 11 players post scores in the first 24 hours - that's WAY more than in previous tournaments when we would have 1,2 or 3 in the first 24 hours. Hopefully that means we'll have a big turn-out the rest of the weekend.

By the way there are now quick links at the top of the blog (just under the title) to get to this weekend's scoring thread on RGP and to get to the scoreboard.

Riddle Me This!

When is a high score not so high?

When it's my new GC score on Johnny Mnemonic.

Yes, at the end of the tournament, you get one bonus point if you set and held the new GC on a machine, but your normal points for your score each week are still based on your percentage of the median. My 2.3 Billion is the new high, but since most of the qualifying scores were good and clustered together, my high is only 176% of the median. Thus, I broke the GC yet only scored 6 points this week. Wuh-wuh.

What we're playing for....

Newly Qualified Games

There are some additional games to play in the league now. Newly qualified games include:

Devil's Dare, Flight 2000 and Johnny Mnemonic.

The beautiful part for me is that not only do I get to add JM to my mix of games to play in the RGPL, but I recently bought two games that were already qualified: GNR and No Fear.

Below is a pic of the custom No Fear topper that my wife painted for me for Xmas.

Back in Business - Send me your pics

Since I'm restarting the league and there will be many new faces, please send me your face... That is, if you haven't already done so, please email me a picture of your pretty face and let me know where you are from so that I can put your info on the big RGPL scoreboard.

Besides, I need a picture of you so I know who I'm pissed at when you are beating me.