I say a player can make the MARP anyway s/he wants it to be - well at least in terms of high scores in arcade games anyway. You can make it your own personal high score archive, or you can work on the scores that are challenged. You can get tons points on the leaderboard by trying all the games, or you can try to get 100 points on every game. Because of this reasoning, I say a player's score in that player's opinion is NEVER a lame score. It may be lame to another person, but in most cases, a personal record is NEVER lame to the player, except maybe against the MARP in general.(posted 9614 days ago)Now I'm probably using only one case, myself - but I bet this is true to most or all of you. With this reasoning in mind - I will give the opinion to keep the leaderboard the same way as it is - which I believe rewards all the players for their accomplishments. If you say only accept a score that will place it in the top three(which is what we used to do in a way), I think that discourages players from showing off their best. True, it may not be the best in the MARP, but it's the best to the player itself.
This leaderboard issue is arguably the most controversial issue in the MARP(2nd is the tournament... in my opinion anyway :) ) - it probably will be for quite some time... no matter how you make it, you'll probably still get different opinions... I guess the point is, you can satisfy some of the people all of the time, but you can't satisfy all of the people some of the time. (Is that the right quote?)
Thanks for reading my thoughts :)