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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 213896" data-attributes="member: 134">Oh, I hear you. There were times when the alignment of how I got continents was just perfect. I'd start Europe, immediately light and start South America, and then get NA, Africa, or Antarctica. I could swear one time I even had Asia in that mix, but my memory might be playing tricks as I don't know if you can stack 4. All I know was that in about 3 minutes I had collected everything. Unfortunately that happened to be the game where things were going a little too well and I started Atlantis too. All would have been fine except then I botched collecting 2x on my final continent tour and what should have been a 190 mil score limped in at 170 (the final one I posted).I know I sound bitter. I'm actually not and kinda have to just laugh. I'll go into it in our next podcast to be sure, where the tone of my voice will make all the difference. I was just at league night yesterday, where I utterly fell flat on my face and couldn't do well on (Un)Funhouse, Addams Family, Party Zone, or Cactus Canyon Continued. Only on Creature did I take a commanding win like I should have with a group of tables I've been able to play in TPA. Then there was Buccaneer, an EM, that got revenge on me for all the grief I throw to that genre. Anyway, while there nursing my ego, one of the guys was telling us of his pinball savant ways and how the first pro tournament he ever entered he was paired with Josh Sharpe and proceeded to beat him, or when he scored a 'perfect 12' within 2 years of starting which was unheard of. This guy can easily best me, and has in the past, on most occasions and I respect his ability and often marvel at it. There have been occasions though where I've watched his game fall apart and I get the points over him, and it is sweet. I don't for a minute think to elevate myself, but I take the small victory.That is ultimately what the prime difference between the official TPA tourneys are and the TotM is. The law of averages is going to have the cream rise to the top every time in TPA. All players like me can hope for is that one freak game that nets us a score 9 times out of 10 we'd never come close to. With TotM, which is based on my league, the law of averages is heavily reduced. A freak score isn't needed because the top players probably won't post their best scores either. The margin between the two is much closer, which gives (maybe falsely) the sense that anyone can win. So even though it won't do me any favors for the TPA tourneys, in order for it to be fun to me I'm just going to do what I mentioned earlier and only play a limited number of times. Otherwise it'll drive me nuts for a week again.</blockquote>

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