There is a decent amount of ammunition to back "for the casual gamer". I don't agree with Ron, but things like MACH 3 or T2 Kung Fu Leech Master don't make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. But the MARP Scoreboard is reasonably good as it is, and I believe things wlll improve with time.(posted 9480 days ago)I love the tournament concept as a way to promote competition on lesser known games. The main scoreboard, even if it was improved, can't really encourage people to try unfamiliar games to the extent that a tournament does. And I don't feel it would be fair for me to hang around proposing and debating and arguing and voting on the rules if I'm not going to participate. That's why I wouldn't have left T2 even if nothing got DQ'ed or the voting was left as it was in T1. But if some of what's changed hadn't changed I wouldn't have voted for games in T3, and I probably wouldn't be going to play in T3 either.
To do a purely random choice of games risks getting all clones of one or two games - say 4 Donkey Kongs and 6 Street Fighter 2: The World Warriors. Easily maxable or badly broken games also need to be removed. So a list of "acceptable" choices would have to be made. Essentially, the voting for games now is making a list without forcing one or two people to play every game in MAME.
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