This is basically notes to myself - but since you're going to be following them next tournament... I'll talk about them now. Please make any objections :)

A. If you play the tournament, you must play eight of the ten selected games(yeah... I think I'll go down to ten games, if not, ten out of twelve.) in order to qualify your scores for the tournament. Failure to do so will result in your scores not counting.

B. If you vote for the tournament, you must play NINE out of ten games(or ELEVEN out of twelve). Failure to do so will result in their votes not counting for a number of tournaments equalling the number of games short of nine you played. Example: if you played six out of ten games and you voted, you cannot vote for three tournaments.

Both of these will make sure you play other games than those that you like, or those that you're really good at.

Catch yall later :)

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), August 05, 1999

Answers

What happened to the simple rule: "If you don't play a game you get a zero score for that game." If people don't want to play games or (more importantly) are unable to play the games because of version problems or memory or religious issues, they shouldn't be forced to play them just to have there final 7 out of 10 games score be disqualified.

Maybe i'm just confused about what you're ruling?

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), August 06, 1999.

I am not opposed to requiring some kind of "games played minimum" to our tournaments. The reason being is that it prevents someone from coming in and just posting a couple of scores or so instead of actually participating in the tournament. The sporadic score submissions can definitely have an effect on the standings and in essence is unfair to those of us who are involved in this tourney. Just take a look at some of the players who posted 3-5 scores early on and have not been heard from since. This is not to say they won't eventually come in and finish the other games. But if not, you can plainly see that some of their scores do indeed change things in a close race.

JoustGod

-- JoustGod (pinballwiz1@msn.com), August 06, 1999.

Now why can't people explain why they do things while attepmting to do them at the same time, or why can't people think before they complain :) yeah that makes sense i guess. 90ish% games required should be decent enough to withold religous contraints.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), August 07, 1999.