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.