OK, now that it is official...I'd like to thank everyone for the stiff competition over the past 3 months. You guys are definitely some of the best on the planet! The final hours were kind of tense as I expected some last minute submissions to arrive...then the crash...could there have been worse timing?!?(posted 9568 days ago)I couldn't be happier with the final outcome as I've felt all along that BeeJay was the man to beat in this tourney. He absolutely dominated a quarter of the games and didn't fare too badly on the rest of the bunch. I just happened to get lucky on a few games and ended up higher than expected (I was only hoping for a top 10 finish).
To Pat Laffaye...my thanks are not enough to repay you for the work you've put into this. You're decisions were quite fair in regards to several situations that arose during T1. Yes, one of those cost me a point at the end...but I still feel you did the right thing with dotron...Good work! :)
Zwaxy - unending thanks for providing the field of battle for us. You were most formidable on pang3. Now let's work on some kind of Qbert Qubes tournament, huh? ;)
Gameboy9 - you performed a task that was forever underappreciated. It is an impossible task to please all of the people all of the time (I know, I coach my softball team and at times I get the pleasure of hearing 10 other people telling me how to make a lineup card!), but you did an admirable job in attempting to do so.
To the judges - thank you for your diligence in the task of score confirmations. It's not the most glamorous job, but certainly one of the most important.
Brian McLean - man, you are smoking with a capital "S"! Incredible finish for someone who joined in two-thirds of the way into this. You are certainly going to be a force to be reckoned with in T2.
Cicca - where'd the baseball skills come from? You are Italian, aren't you? Well...we did have a player by the name of Joe DiMaggio... ;) Super Gyruss score as well as zzyzzyxx. What a last 2 weeks of activity to move up! Good going!
Q.T. Quazar - what can I say? You were a constant in the top ranks of this tourney from beginning to end. When you decided to take a break from your MARP "mission", you gave us tremendous competition and really held your own. Now back to that "mission"...watch out BBH! :p
BBH - I have a sneaking suspicion that you went easy on us mortals! A great batch of scores from one of MARP's all-time best. Looking forward to see what you do when the games are a bit more to your liking.
Skito - super job with dowild! And your baseball skills weren't too shabby, either. Now back to that Chicken Shift battle...
Donut - incredible miexchng score! You nearly did the seemingly impossible with this one.
Renzo - unbelievable pang3 submission. Not too bad on several others, either. You'll be a force in T2.
Aqua - kicked my butt on dowild. :p Now just get one of those wrestling games in T2 and you're on your way to the top!
Others who should fare better in the future provided they play more of the tourney games...NotMan (I really thought you'd be there with us in the top 10, for sure), Phil Lamat, Steve Krogman (one of the planet's premier arcade and MAME players...he gave us a break on this one!), KiLLerCloWn (wow, some impressive scores you posted).
As for the games...Like BeeJay mentioned above, I didn't really have an affection for ANY of these games and was prepared not to play at all as I was afraid of sucking too much in front of an audience. Well, the competitor in me nudged me back in and I ended up shocking myself by actually playing some of these games without extreme embarrasment. It surely didn't hurt to have so many masters out there providing me with blueprints for strategies. To you guys...thanks!
Here's looking forward to T2! Now on with the voting...
JoustGod