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.
Monday, March 1, 2010
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!
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!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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.
Friday, February 26, 2010
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
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?
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?
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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.
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.
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
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
Monday, February 22, 2010
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
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
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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.
Find the game you are going to lay a beat down on.
Monday, February 15, 2010
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.
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.
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