My apologies in advance if you already know how the point distribution thing works . . .
As Dropshot mentioned before - a head to head thing like this is GREAT for "regular" boints - like you can throw an fairly easy to organize head to head low buy in event. Winner gets 6.? boints and some cash. You can throw up to 4 of these in one year at the same location and the boints are cumulative. If one person wins all 4, they get 27 boints for that event . . . for that year. If you get 10th at all 4 events, they'll still add up to *something*. This is cool, cuz once people see that they're ranked and can move up the ranks simply by attending it encourages them to keep coming back. This is what are weekly tournaments are set up as, and from the sound of it, your kickoff tournament would fall in this category. Here's a good example of what the breakdown looks like -
http://www.pinballrankings.com/view_tou ... 2011-06-07When you have something that's considered a "major" event (cascadia, ground kontrol, slabtown, nw pinball show, pizza depot tournament in the bay area etc), it's 27+ boints to the winner and on down. What characterizes this as a major event, I'm not exactly sure, but generally, they are of a bigger scale (larger buy in, longer playtime, bigger payouts, higher stakes etc). Here's a good example of what that breakdown of what that looks like -
http://www.pinballrankings.com/view_tou ... 2011-05-28We are definitely spoiled with weekly tourneys up here, which is why my earlier comments about people not coming down there for this first one may have seemed pessimistic. Again, I could easily be wrong. However - there is definitely a local "major" tournament hole at the end of July early August. No doubt that lots of portland players would come down for that. Next big thing on the books (I think) is Cascadia which ain't till October, unless Dropshot cooks something up for September.
Oh and thanks again to Gavin/Hayden/Eric Merchant for pushing some serious pinball in Eugene. It'll be awesome to have some more local(ish) events on the horizon.
Noah