After a promising start to the season, our second meeting upped the ante even further with a record turnout of 14 members. Our newest joiners were Mackenzie’s friend Jen and Lexi’s kids, Marnie and Beatrice. This was Jen’s first pinball competition but she came in second for the night. Congrats! But that means she is going to end up in the top group next time so, uh, good luck with that. Marnie was another high-finishing novice, and currently has edged yours truly out in the league standings by one point.
We had our usual fun making the newer players play their side tournament “rater” games on The Flip Side, my American Girl pinball machine. Or maybe I should say letting them play, since some of the players who really don’t need to be rated keep wanting to do it too. I’m a little surprised – I’d let them play it for fun for free, but if they do it for the tournament I gotta collect a buck for the IFPA! Tim won the honors on it this time.
Now that we’ve had two meetings we can actually see the “correct” standings for players with their one drop night (instead of everyone being tied for first place). This should make it quicker to get the correct Swiss pairings for the next night, which held things up a little bit at the start of the last tournament. I did a bit of experimenting and I believe it randomly breaks ties when choosing groups for tied players.
See you soon for our next meet!
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