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Well this was the best tournament I ever saw, period.

I also got to met Tommi and his friend Esa Kokko. Esa was one of the strongest Joust players I ever saw in a long time. He got 426,000 on 5 men, and I congratulated him on a fine game.

The only other comparable player is our own John "JoustGod" Rhodes, who recently scored 413K+ at the Deca200.

My own skills are still improving however, and I managed to score 648,000 getting to wave 42, my best score in 12 years. Naturally I videotaped that game. My final death by a shadowlord sitting on my head was largely due to playing the sitdown version, as it's difficult to judge the top of the screen and the extreme right.

Tommi destroyed all competition on Track N Field with 91,560. He uses 6 fingers on the buttons (3 per button). Unfortunately Tommi didn't play Marble Madness, as the controls were not too good.

Once again, Steve "The Krog" Krogman destroyed the competition on Galaga by an insane margin. One wonders why anyone bothers to play Galaga when Steve is around. He got 11.8 million in 7 hours of play.

John Marks won the Tron title with 1.8 million.

Here are some other notable scores:

Donkey Kong Bill Mitchell 655,200 Joust 2 Mark Longridge 421,600 (I was really dumping tons of tokens into Joust 2, with less than stellar results) Moon Patrol Pat Laffaye 137,000+ Frogger Pat Laffaye 229,000+ Carnival Fred Pastore 214,000+ (the guy hardly ever misses) Pole Position Chris Ayra 66,710 Ms Pacman Darren Harris 910,700 Ms Pacman Chris Ayra 910,300 Dig Dug Mark Longridge 2,679,620 Arkanoid Zack Hample 1,650,000+ Robotron Dwayne Richard 463,000 Jr Pacman Rick Fothergill 619,000+

I'll post more scores later if I can remember them.

-- Mark Longridge (cubeman@iname.com), June 08, 2000


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