Response to MARP Tournament

hmm, let's see...

NotMan: good idea, a specific version of MAME for all the games sounds good... most likely all of them will run fine with 0.34 Final. Maybe any games added during the 0.35 beta cycle shouldn't be considered, for now.

Stig: having each player choose one game might not work. Let's say there are 20 participants. That means 20 games have to be chosen, making for 400 recordings if all the players submit one for each game!! Not to mention it'd take everyone a longer amount of time. If there are more than 10 people but a few of those get to choose their favorite game, is it really fair to the rest? Also, I'm not sure if having "playoffs" is a good idea... maybe some sort of championship match by the 2nd tournament (if there IS one) between the winners of the 1st and 2nd (assuming they're different) would be cool.

Steve: if all the "popular" games are picked first, what's left for the future? (I know I know, I should worry more about the first tournament than future ones). Besides, some of the more obscure games might put most everyone on equal footing when they're never played the game before. :) Maybe I'm just a bit biased since I suck at a lot of the "popular" games. :P

For now it seems like the most difficult thing about this is deciding what the games are. Whatever the case my be, I think a "balanced" lineup of games is necessary... if Pac-Man is a game in the first tournament, there's no need to include Ms. Pac-Man. Same thing with Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Save the games for future tournaments if necessary. I think each game being from a somehwat different "genre" of games would be great. 10 might be the magic number, but right now I think 8 might be a wiser number... 5 is too few. Thoughts anyone?

Game settings? Looks like TG Tournament Settings may be the way to go, including things like 5 lives (no extras) on Robotron. I guess things like this will have to be decided on a game-by-game basis.

Since Zwaxy commented that he's rather busy right now, perhaps recordings might have to be submitted the old-fashioned way... sending them via mail to someone. Also, perhaps a different web page for all the tournament stuff? I'd do it myself if I didn't suck so much at HTML :P hmm.

So am I the head organizer of this for now or what? ;P

-BBH

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