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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 70177" data-attributes="member: 152">Try it. I'm serious, play each of the tournament tables once each back-to-back and see if you can get a good score on all eight tables in one attempt. Take as many attempts as you want, but no mixing scores between sets.You will find it's much easier to grind one table at a time than all eight at once because in the former case, after you do well on a table you no longer need to play it. Your progress is saved, as it were. So a player with poor skills and lots of time can just play Table A until he gets his miracle game, then Table B until miracle, Table C and so forth. Whereas if you have to take your scores all-or-none, you're faced with the task of trying to play 8 consistently good games in a row. A player with poor skills is not going to be able to do this no matter how much time he has (or at least until all that practice makes him a better player!) because he is not consistent enough to do it by skill, and the odds are massively against him getting lucky 8 times in row - or even on any 5 or 6 of the 8 tables.Part of the reason that 1-ball challenge is so fun is that because good players occasionally have bad games, it puts all of us on relatively equal footing - which is fine for friendly lighthearted competition. But for more "serious" tournaments, I'd like to think that my results are indicative of my actual skill level and not solely of whether I had good fortune on my one and only attempt.</blockquote>

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