One Ball Ball One Tournament Results Palindrome Results Tournament One Ball Ball One
Posted: August 30th, 2008 by BounceBack
Today being the one-week anniversary of the one ball tournament, it’s about freakin’ time I posted the results, so here they are:
After two rounds, the cumulative points leaders were ASN and ROM tied with 8 points. A final, one-ball playoff revealed Aaron to be the champion on the evening, putting Ryan in second, and leaving Jacob Chandler unsupervised to do what he pleases as bronze medalist.
Our first tournament, organized on short notice and minimally publicized, drew 22 solid competitors and generated around $70 bones to be divided up between winners, with almost $10 extra scrill tipped out to the bartenders who tolerated the presence of our monster white board and agonized pacing as the final scores came down to the wire.
The machines (Spiderman, Monster Bash, Indiana Jones 1, Midieval Madness, and Whirlwind,) all played great with the exception of a mysterious reset on whirlwind during Jacob’s first round which probably wasn’t a slam tilt and which unfortunately cut him down at 4 mil, which held out to win the round on that machine.
With the exception of a few breakout scores, results were close on all machines, proving a couple of things: One, there are a lot of good ballers in portland, almost any of whom could rise to the occasion on any given day. Two, almost all of us do way too little with our average first ball! Watching the psychological spasms of most players coming to grips with the pressure of having one ball and only one ball to work with and build their strategy around was very interesting indeed. Several players buckled under the pressure, declared they “weren’t feelin’ it,” and drained away into the night after their first round entries. Given that 15 points were possible in each round, for a total of 30 possible points, the fact that the winners managed only 7-8 points shows just how level the playing field was. True to form the champs were among the most focused and consistent players around, day in and day out, but hopefully this motivates everyone who came (and everyone who thought about it but didn’t, or couldn’t make it,) to up their game and show up next time, knowing they could themselves take home the pride, glory, and $20 or so these massively great warriors earned.
We will be organizing another tournament next month, so please sign up for the board and leave some feedback about suggested locations, time/date, and format for the tournament. We could do a points system as before, head to head elimination games, or something completely different.
Thanks to everyone who played and helped, and special thanks to the Alleyway Cafe for hosting!
Bounceback
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Aaron 30 Aug 08 at 5:26 pm
Just an idea for the next tourney…draw names from a hat to set up a round robin heads up into a single elimination bracket style finish. I guess ideally you would like to have 32 contestants to make up 8 pools and have 8 winners emerge. Maybe even have a 2nd, 3rd, 4th bracket as well. C-Bar just got a few new machines making it 6 (New Indy, Fish Tales, Taxi, Revenge from Mars, Elvira..Party Monsters, Attack from Mars). Just an idea
ROM 3 Sep 08 at 1:05 pm
First picture: My monstrous hands strike again!
Aaron, yeah I like this tourney idea. It will take a whole lotta coordination. Let’s continue talking about it.
Danny Blackglass 3 Sep 08 at 8:15 pm
I WON THE 2nd ROUND FUCKERS.
BounceBack 4 Sep 08 at 8:56 am
that’s true, danny B did win the 2nd round, without even playing 2 machines– who knows he could’ve won the whole thing if his last two scores would’ve been monumental on those machines. total possibility.