And as expected the winners are BeeJay and JoustGod with 366 points. I'll leave it up to the two of them on how to split their prize. :) For each of them, they achieved an average positional placement of 4.50 for all 12 games. There was a slight delay in getting the final word out. Yesterday, I couldn't access the Tourney side of MARP. Makes it kind of hard to verify scores, and then we almost had a single winner. JoustGod would have finished with a 367 had Phil Lamat's last valid Combat School score not remained "in between" the two finalists.

I'd like to thank all the players and judges for making this 1st tourney a great success. Had a great time judging/coordinating even though I didn't get to play some games I would have done pretty well at.

Again, congrats to BeeJay and JoustGod!!

-- Pat (laffaye@ibm.net), October 03, 1999

Answers

OK... now that the actual results are in... I will now make my say on things for this first tourney.

First, I should begin with the thank yous.

First thank you I think should go to Zwaxy - if he didn't let us do this tournament, we wouldn't have a tournament... or a second tournament for that matter.

Second thank you goes to Pat Laffaye, our Judging Coordinator... he went through a lot of work, including judging FOUR games, more than any other judge; I think he deserves a ton of credit.

Next I'd like to thank the judges themselves... yes... Pat gets two thank yous, I'd also like to thank Donut and Chris Parsley as well for taking such a difficult task.

Finally, I'd like to thank everyone who submitted even one recording this tournament, if you didn't play, we wouldn't be having a tournament.

And now... I'd like to discuss a couple of Twin Galaxies World Record issues... all of these are in regards to MAME world records, not the actual arcade machines.

2020 Super Baseball - True, we did play using the money feature, but I think this deserves recognition just as much as perhaps a player minus computer ratio. In the money case, Cicca's mark of $119,800 would be the standard. In the player minus computer case, PJS, with 37(42 - 5 I think) would set the standard.

Discs of Tron - If the settings we used are actually TG settings(and I hope they are), the first world record holder would be Brian McLean with 115,600.

Gyruss - Can you say BeeJay? Big time! 5,200,000 more than DOUBLES AND A HALF the previous world record that was set by James Wilson(2,062,600)... and I'm positive we used TG settings.

Lock N' Chase - These TG Settings I got from the TG website - therefore, I'm sure JoustGod's mark of 65,240 is the first MAME world record.

Congratulations to all! For completeness, I will also recognize the other game's winners - seeing that they also deserve credit.

BombJack - BeeJay - 1,119,320

* Combat School - Stig Remnes - 378,170

* Mr. Do's Wild Ride - Skito - 113,351

Galaga(fast shoot) - BeeJay - 6,293,810

* Money Puzzle Exchanger - Donut - 63... wow... was that a sight to see myself!

* Pang 3(panic mode) - Renzo Vignola - 2,172,100

Us Vs. Them - BeeJay - 260,125

* ZZYZZYXX - Phil Lamat - 1,019,270

* - we used default settings... I don't know if they are TG settings, and therefore possible world records, as well.

I'd also like to congratulate BeeJay and JoustGod personally for taking victory in our first tournament!

Once again, I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the first tournament, and I hope to see everyone again in the second tournament!

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), October 03, 1999.

Well, since I basically dropped out of the tournement right after I uploaded that 2.2M Galaga score due to working my ass off with 2 jobs and also have a girlfriend now which soaked up all my free time I would of had to play mame and arcade games I figured I would comment on the results of the tournement and say I will discuss the scores listed in this tournement with Walter Day at Twin Galaxies and determine how many from each game will go in the next edtion of the book providing the settings are the same as what was used in the tournement. TG in some cases, uses the default settings which is good because I believe this was what all the games were set on. I will post back here within the next week with more info.

Congrats to BeeJay and Joust God!! BeeJay, I got so tempted to play another marathon Galaga game not only to upload for the tournement, but to see if I could bump up my 20.5M I have on MARP which I'm sure I could of gotten 30M if I didn't die so much before my first 10M. Great new high for you though! About 3 months ago to help promote the TG book, I went to Grand Prix in Fort Lauderdale and played till I reached 10M so everyone could see my score in it's entiety. I pulled it off in less then 5 hours and did it on 3 men! Also sold a few books too! :)

Regards, Steve Krogman Galaga ~ 15,999,990

-- stephen krogman (skrogman@concentric.net), October 04, 1999.