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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 275340" data-attributes="member: 134">The reason for wiping them is that there are scores posted under conditions that no longer are available to current players. Technically, any time a table has been newly tuned that entire board should be cleared. People that spent marathon sessions posting absurd scores, those actually discourage people from caring about leaderboards precisely because they are so out of reach. Pinball thrives on competition. Those posting max scores stop playing entirely, because why bother, and everybody else gives up trying. The Pinball Tournaments app resets every 2 days, and every time it does I get a renewed sense of striving for the top spot.Instead of worrying about some legacy score from someone that is no longer actively playing, how about we care about active players and encouraging active competition among everyone? You want to archive scores by year, go for it as that would also encourage competition (I've been #1 on this table for 2 years running!). I used to follow the boards, used to care about climbing on certain ones. Eventually it just felt like a futile exercise so I stopped. And then I slowly stopped playing tables. And then I found competition in Zen with their user tournaments and that's where my attention goes. Stagnation is the death of a game, and I don't want TPA to wallow in it. Anyway, that's been and always will be my argument. Certain minds at FarSight seem to think there will be backlash over a board reset by those top leaders on the board. I say come defend your title, show you can do it again. Quit being a Billy Mitchell.</blockquote>

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