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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 193102" data-attributes="member: 134">You mean FarSight's tourneys?They give you a week to play 8 tables as many times as you wish. Top scorer scores 100 points, 2nd 90, 3rd 85. Everyone else's points vary from that point, depending on how many are actually recording scores. You wind up with things like 65.2 and bumping up to 67 points requiring you to best your own score by quite a lot. It's a slog fest. The top 5 people overall always seem miles ahead of anyone else, which really kills the fun.Then FarSight put in 20 minute time limits on tables, which helped stop the crazy high scores for people who could spend hours on one play through. Still, there are those that know the tricks to getting quick scores, and they still had a week to grind for it.One other thing FarSight tourneys do is separate everyone into three tiers; gold, silver, bronze. This was based initially off the first tournament, top 25 going gold, top 100(?) going silver, everyone else being put into bronze. Thereafter, bottom 10% of gold would fall back into silver while top 10% of silver would join gold. I don't know what it was for bronze. My own personal experience, I got into gold on the PS3 first time. Playing against only 25 other people was great, except I quickly realized I was never gonna vie for the top spots. Instead it became all about not losing my position in gold. I played 3 or 4 more tournaments before I just didn't find that fun at all. By proxy, I heard of how fierce it was in bronze and silver to move into the next tiers. The top scores in silver were often much higher than those posted in gold. I had fun with the first few tournaments, and if they finally come to PC, I'll probably do a couple. It is nice having the game keep everyone in line with the rules of play.My reasoning for how the BlahCade Tournament of the Month is being set up is to encourage maximum fun. Point totals will never feel completely out of reach, especially when you are essentially only competing with 3 other people in your heat. I like the idea of winning small, because it promotes more winners, which keeps everyone feeling good. You may not have won that table outright, but you still scored as many points as the person that did. If you tie with that person across all the tables, well they will be the overall victor for their higher tables scores. But they don't seem out of reach, do they? Better yet, with only 2 plays per table, they might completely bork their turns, and suddenly you can leap over them. It's my favorite thing when I play in my monthly league. My league actually goes one step further...Our top ten players are assigned an 'A' categorization with everyone else being 'B'. If you beat an 'A' player, you get an extra point. Just last month there was a guy that had a terrible game and came in 4th in our heat, so the other 3 of us all scored an extra point. That's what keeps you coming back. Actually no, it's the pinball but still. In the grand scheme of the season, I have no prayer of catching up or even making the top 10. But it sure felt real good to know I was able to topple a guy once.So this is why I keep saying, have fun, don't get crazy competitive, be honest. There is plenty of victory to go around!</blockquote>

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