PSN August Tournament Results

[Byte]

Amazing tournament this month; many different PSN IDs in the Table Top-3 standings. As well as a surprise: TOUGE_KILLER was not competing this time, which means we have a new #1 All Time Rank: thepindo

GOLD LEVEL Final Tournament Results:

Chopin6868 ........ 700.00
Kissell2010 ....... 691.00
celfaradelege ..... 681.00
Sir_Moovenstein ... 666.00
Krakehz ........... 650.00
MADMDA ............ 628.00
Fromduc ........... 611.00
willdollarbill08 .. 606.00
Mr-Bouzouki ....... 597.00
zztritium03xx ..... 589.00

Top-10 All Time Rank:

thepindo ........... 1,664
TOUGE_KILLER ....... 1,646
Mr-Bouzouki ........ 1,572
Stonehedge16 ....... 1,540
Sir_Moovenstein .... 1,538
Zoop25 ............. 1,525
Caps_Lock420 ....... 1,494
tongowefli ......... 1,462
willdollarbill08 ... 1,451
Krakehz ............ 1,402

Gold Level Top-3 Table Standings:
(Scores captured about an hour and a half before tournament end, so may have changed considerably)

PIN*BOT
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Sir_Moovenstein ............. 17,992,410
Chopin6868 .................. 16,061,290
Kissell2010 ................. 15,929,390

Black Knight
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Kissell2010 .................. 8,480,870
celfaradelege ................ 6,445,190
MADMDA ....................... 6,439,500

Black Hole
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smotpoker42088 ............... 7.036,610
LeafNation1 .................. 6,112,480
solidsnake1022 ............... 6,066,010

Twilight Zone
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celfaradelege ............ 2,177,294,260
Zoop25 ................... 2,120,687,050
smotpoker42088 ........... 1,994,844,200

White Water
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Chopin6868 ............... 3,854,008,800
celfaradelege ............ 3.272,234,330
MADMDA ................... 2,440,882,440

Flight 2000
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Sir_Moovenstein .............. 8,408,310
Fromduc ...................... 7,926,150
Kissell2010 .................. 7,718,410

Black Knight 2000
=================
celfaradelege ............... 23,487,130
Caps_Lock420 ................ 22,965,000
Chopin6868 .................. 22,178,440

WHO dunnit
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Krakehz ................. 15,691,226,040
Chopin6868 .............. 15,501,777,330
Fromduc ................. 14,855,968,470

 

[Tann]

I found that this tourney was tougher than usual (as I don't own all the tables, I didn't play too much for this tourney though). A lot of new players which put some great scores too. And hard tables too (F2K makes me mad). Whatever, I saved my place in this tier.

Congrats to Chopin6868 and thepindo.

NB: 825 new players for the PSN tourney (July all-time ranking: 3453 players, August: 4278). Good!

 

[Morg]

I got home from work just in time to collect the Silver scores before it closed. I made it by only about 6 minutes, so they should be fairly accurate.

So... for any who might be interested:

Pin*bot
1	Elvis-PARRA-EELS	15,940,040
2	TheGazettE_2002		15,152,350
3	speed_stock		13,930,830
4	Cave-Out		13,610,830
5	mallraider75		13,403,850

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Black Knight
1	djchrille		8,340,160
2	speed_stock		7,908,170
3	DiscerningKing		6,610,100
4	RedK-Steel		6,588,410
5	KBJAXMAN		5,655,410

--------

Black Hole
1	djchrille		5,531,480
2	M-F-B			4,197,610
3	bobbydeb62		4,117,000
4	speed_stock		3,816,060
5	PronouncedRhythm	3,392,240

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Twilight Zone
1	demosx9			1,978,923,160
2	Elvis-PARRA-EELS	1,935,864,920
3	speed_stock		1,901,977,470
4	PronouncedRhythm	1,789,324,420
5	ThePinkMeerkat		1,715,677,170

--------

White Water
1	ThePinkMeerkat		1,786,607,300
2	speed_stock		1,494,712,530
3	djchrille		1,389,981,320
4	taykukowski		1,234,653,670
5	Cave-Out		1,069,644,890

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Flight 2000
1	djchrille		7,608,370
2	Cave-Out		6,482,480
3	speed_stock		5,652,250
4	thissystemblows		4,793,460
5	wwry13			4,513,570

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Black Knight 2000
1	speed_stock		25,396,600
2	TheGazettE_2002		20,436,040
3	wwry13			17,902,400
4	djchrille		15,912,550
5	jimboy164		13,048,250

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WHO dunnit
1	FatPelican		15,694,005,560
2	jimboy164		14,783,242,070
3	Elvis-PARRA-EELS	11,763,914,950
4	speed_stock		11,314,107,460
5	M-F-B			10,973,299,710

And the players moving up to gold:

Overall
1	speed_stock		704.14
2	djchrille		692.26
3	Elvis-PARRA-EELS	679.75
4	RedK-Steel		659.32
5	games_blond		633.05
6	wwry13			630.03
7	re-animator69		620.12
8	Guinnessgulper		619.26
9	M-F-B			616.51
10	hajue1964		614.09
11	ihateyousomuch		612.37
12	jimboy164		607.03
13	KBJAXMAN		596.43
14	ccl78			589.97
15	bernse			586.95
16	MESH-UGGAH		582.22
17	buzztimemike		575.32
18	rudy_tunes		574.89
19	thissystemblows		570.58

198 total

The silver winner managed to get into the top 5 on every table this time around.

After I finished recording the overall standings I switched to view my score, and it returned no results. All of the other lists were blank after that. So you cannot stay in the tournament menu and check on them indefinitely, they all clear about 10 minutes after it ends.

I took position 20 on both Black Hole(2nd attempt) and Flight 2000, and 31st on Black Knight, so very pleased with that. If only I was any good at Twilight Zone and White Water I might have had a decent result despite missing the S3 tables. I know I could have been better on Black Hole and Pin*Bot, but I set my personal best scores on a couple others. As it was I wound up 100th overall. Not too bad considering I only had a couple hours to play between life and schedules and a lot of time spent trying to repair my PS3 hard disk and then getting a new one. Probably didn't get more than 5 games on each table except TZ which I still only had 290 million. I just can't figure that table out.


On a side note... do we know why Black Hole seems to be the only table that has a tournament difficulty setting?

EDIT: The forum returned an error of some sort with this post, not sure what I did wrong.

 

[Tann]

On a side note... do we know why Black Hole seems to be the only table that has a tournament difficulty setting?

Because the first tournaments didn't have the time-limit rule. So, the extra-balls were deactivated on BH (otherwise you could have play forever).

Now, with time limit, it is no more relevant (although, in 20 minutes on BH, it's very hard to lose 3 balls and have a game over! )

 

[Morg]

Because the first tournaments didn't have the time-limit rule. So, the extra-balls were deactivated on BH (otherwise you could have play forever).

Now, with time limit, it is no more relevant (although, in 20 minutes on BH, it's very hard to lose 3 balls and have a game over! )

Well that was my first thought, but they had lots of tournaments with no time limits and released lots of other tables you could play for hours during that time. Disabling extra balls on SS or BoP for example would have probably been welcomed by a lot of people better than me. Even I can start to get bored on some of them when I'm doing well.

 

[Byte]

Thanks [MENTION=4258]Morg[/MENTION] for putting up the silver results.

Quickly looking at the Silver results and comparing them to Gold, the 1st place on Pin*Bot Silver would have sufficed for a 3rd place in the Gold Tier which means that we'll see some new names (Class of August 2014) right up there in the Table Top-10s next tournament. Soon we're going to really have to work for it just to "stay afloat" in Gold, so to speak.

 

[Byte]

After I finished recording the overall standings I switched to view my score, and it returned no results. All of the other lists were blank after that. So you cannot stay in the tournament menu and check on them indefinitely, they all clear about 10 minutes after it ends.

It would appear that the system stops accepting scores (or just does not count them) when the tournament ends (08/29/2014 22:24PM GMT this time) then waits for the next regular update/tabulation which will then be a special "Tournament Ended" mode, filling the Final Standings, All Time Rank tables and clearing the tournament ones. The 10 minutes sounds about right, I've had to wait longer for my score to show up.

Maybe [MENTION=3799]FlippyFloppy[/MENTION] can explain how it really works, how/if scores that are "posted" seconds before the deadline are treated, and if there's any way the system can be patched on their back-end and in the next client update so we can continue to see the table scores after the tournament ended.

 

[Morg]

I thought about the possibility that a final update might come later. Tried checking the overall standings to confirm that nothing changed but now it's telling me there are no results. When I got into silver I posted the score that got me in within about 5 minutes of the end, but it did update immediately that time. Sometimes it doesn't update things for quite a while in these last few tournaments, at least while they are open.

 

[fromduc]

Pretty happy of this #7 spot for the time of play i had and the table selection, i did well on 2 of my top tables (F2K and WD) and really bad on tables i almost never played (BH, BK, BK2K). Didnt have time enough to make a strong whirlpool challenge on WW, and i didnt do enough on tables where the timed tournament mode changes strongly the strategy (TZ i imagine, didnt play this one that much, and especially PinBot).

Should be worst for the next one as i wont be at home most of the week, so my goal is a top 5 in October, yop 3 if Touge Killer is really retired