Nice. George took some pics of our team as well. I'm wearing a baseball cap.

We missed you Johnbart! EZE was sadly not able to make it either, maybe next year!?!?

I am actually pretty surprised with the lack of online attention this event has seen this year. 35 players, 12 classics, multiple multiple world record holders going head to head... Oh well, more for us ;-)

I didn't do as well this time compared to last year -- hell, I didn't even qualify for my team this year -- but I didn't think I'd be able to make this event so I didn't practice at all, and this year was largely games I had played very little before or not at all. I think I'm most proud of my 11th place finish (out of 35 players) on Pole Position II, a game I had played maybe twice before in my life. Also finished 11th on Phoenix, which is a minor miracle. And I was right in the middle of the pack on Hyper Sports, a game I had never even seen played much less played myself. Every new event on that game was a surprise to me. What's it gonna be now? Oh, skeet shooting! lol

Was also stoked to more than double my personal bests on both Dig Dug and Phoenix. Phoenix was this year's red-headed step child, the brunt of jokes about how people were forced to play it. ("No one has ever said before now, 'Stop hogging the Phoenix machine.'" lol!) I think Phoenix is just misunderstood. Actually, I think people bagged on Donkey Kong Junior a lot harder, now that I think about it.

Disappointed I didn't do better on Elevator Action. I didn't even reach half of my personal best on that one. And holy shit am I bad at Missile Command.

I think I had even more fun this time than at last year's event. My only complaint is that it's over so quickly! Wish we could do 4-5 hours on Friday night as well. I feel like we had less visiting time this year with everyone working so hard at putting up scores. I think minimizing the number of 1-hour games is a smart move.

Hey Duc. The final results are linked in the first post in this thread. Aurcade lists the rankings backward in the site tournament page so if you are going by that then read it from bottom to top.

The link i posted has all the stats you'll want to see listed in top down order.

Our location won a good battle with Richies and Pinball Wizards came up a little short but I suspect they will do better next time with more players onboard sooner so they can play the games before the contest.

We allow emulation on a few games to widen the prospective field of locations. We could pic fewer games but thats not really what we are after, we want as many games as we can squeeze in at as many locations as can participate. If Doc can bring in 100% of the list in original hardware thats awesome but its beyond the means of most of the game rooms that have expressed interest. As for quality of emulation, we would not let anything in that did not emulate properly (no missile command with a mouse for example) so I dont believe it has played even a marginal role in the outcome of the event.

-Ken

I'm excited for Ken to do ALL the legwork in the all of BOTA vs MAME challenge yet to come, I'm flying out to Kencade to play for sure. :)

Ken, how is BOTA scored? Is it:

1- the sum of the ranks of the top 8 players on each team (as you have on your website)

OR

2- the sum of the ranks of the top 8 players on each game for each team (it seems like the aurcade website does it that way)?

I noticed my ranks are different on the websites that's why I was wondering. It affects strategy a little bit too.

I like that system. It prevents specialists as you say and more importantly every team member is important. Whether or not you beat Don on Dig Dug is just as important as whether or not I beat Ross on Mappy.

I'd like to see a summary of team scores by game, but I'm not going to do it.

I think Ross means how each team against each other on a specific game. For instance I bet Kencade kicked butt on Alpine Ski or Knucklez kicked butt on Elevator Action etc.

Yeah that's the stuff, thanks Ken.

In this format, whenever one team can dominate the top ten of a specific game it severely punishes the other teams. I might have guessed that was going to happen for the Kencade on Galaxian and Missile Command, but the point gaps on PP2 and Pac Jr. come as a big surprise.

Edited to clarify: Kencade performing well on Galaxian and MC wasn't a surprise because the majority of the team just naturally plays and enjoys those games, whereas I don't think the same can be said for PP2 or Pac Jr.