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.

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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!