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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 245794" data-attributes="member: 446">This was one of my favorite tourneys yet.  Half the reason is that all the tables (save FTBH) are an absolute joy to play, and while a couple of them (CC, EatPM) get a little tedious, they never get unpleasant.  The other half is that I did really well.  I blasted my high from previous tourney(s) on RBIoN/MM/MB/EatPM/WWater, and I did it quickly, on 2-5 plays on each table.  So I don't think I played nearly as much as I usually do in tourneys.  I've been working my way off a highly addictive medication and so really feeling crappy both physically and mentally (the excuse why I haven't posted a Top 100, which I'll try to rectify soon), and so I'm surprised I played so well.  Or maybe I didn't actually play all that well, I dunno, my logic is shot to hell right now, but I'm happy with #2/2/2/3/3/4/4/5, keeping in mind that Tarek's nemesis didn't play, and while Voof made his Steam Gold debut, he didn't seem to play much, and neither did switch3flip or pbw45b (as usual), though Lord Squeak, A-Jey, and jammer played a lot and seem driven to take "that next step".  Some quick comments on the tables...CC: 350M for #2 Steam.  Finished only one game, but with a few restarts until I got the 1M bonus Bounty, didn't drain until 0:58 left, had 81X for a 301M bonus.  I meant to try again, and restart until I had two 1M bonus Bounties, but kept getting busy working on things or yammering in this forum.  That's fine, CC will be back in about six to eight months, and it's about time to take another crack at the regular leaderboard (and track Bounty probabilities).  I have a note to self that says the CC difficulty increased sometime between the June 2015 tourney (I got 353M, but that was only #4) and the Dec 2015 tourney (250M, was good enough for #2), but no details.  It didn't seem difficult this time, I'm gonna have to figure out why I made that note, sometime.FTBH: 7842M for #4.  The Glove kept disappearing on DX11, so I played on DX9 and it did fine.  I still don't know the rules... I extracted them finally last night, haven't read yet.  I put this table off until the end because I wasn't looking forward to either playing it or trying to learn it.  I had acquiesced to having about a #10 until I hit a L orbit shot for 1B, then another and another.  I thought it was from 7th Inning Stretch, but it looks like it's just a combo (OK I read that section of the rules).  I believe I got very lucky to score what I did, as I've tried FTBH a few times outside of the tourney since, and haven't gotten another 1B.RBIoN: 178M for #2, in about five games lasting >10 min.  I missed the R ramp a lot and don't think I really played all that well.  I dunno, but I remember that making the ball go down the right lane of the upper PF (for 2X PF) started out being easy, then got tough for awhile, and in this tourney, seemed to go back to being easy.MB: 1900M for #2, in about four games.  I started MB quickly and efficiently (I had zero Mosh Pits after the 1st MoR ended), and didn't fail at collecting instruments (much, I think I had to redo Bride once), and had 499M and 719M MoR's.  But I'll need to do even better in MoR next time.  I'm sort of wondering if the Franky multiball might be worth playing in the tourney, with certain or several other modes going.  I don't know the exact rules for points in Franky MB.  Reason #57 why pinball is awesome: I feel like a know a table very well, but there's always something I don't know which is probably important.  It's hard to know everything about a DMD table.MM: 360M for #3, in two plays.  I think I played this table stupidly in its previous tourney (only 288M), but I did better this time, and tried only for BftK.  I started it with 2:51 left, and didn't win it, but also didn't drain until the end of the game, and got a 131M bonus.  I wanted to try this table again & try to win BftK, but now I'm glad I didn't, so I can go for it next time.EatPM: 75M for #3, in three full plays, many restarts though.  Not much to say about this one... I missed a couple of 3M's (ouch, I know) and that's a third of the difference between me & Tarek now.WWater: 3019M for #4, in three full plays, but many restarts again.  I'm gradually getting better about hitting the lock standups and starting a 4th (and a 5th, I think) multiball, but I didn't play them well, they were short and I usually had only 2X jackpot, with one 5X going.  I don't know when is best to stop getting Rafts and building the jackpot, but I don't think I'm too far off.  I used Whirlpool Challenge to build jackpot, and don't know if that's good.  Tourney White Water is complex for me.FH: 120M for #5, in very many plays, at least ten.  This is the only table that really frustrated me, I just couldn't find the jackpot shot, and I did try a few PAF recommendations, and played it on both DX9 and DX11.  I kept hoping that getting the 1M's in Quick MB is a decent way to score (at my skill level), but I'm pretty sure I was really fooling myself.  I don't even know if those Rudy hits in QMB count toward the end-of-ball bonus, which I need to know.Farsight has been nice the last few months, giving us great WMS/Williams tables, and not making us play quite so many of the other (probably) low-selling tables that they had been doing.  Hopefully this will continue, oh wait who am I kidding, I can't wait to play tourney HH/Victory/SpSh some more.  I probably just jinxed it.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" />  But Farsight: c'mon and put PotO, CentPk, Fireball, ElDor, and (especially) Judge Dredd in a tourney soon, please.</blockquote>

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