by ROM on Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:15 pm
Eric, feel free to post the results when you have them. Also, if you have stuff put together to give to IFPA, you can send that to me (master.cob at gmail). If you have questions about what to put together, just ask me or bounceback. If you need full names from some of us, I can probably get those. If you don't want to bother with any of this, I understand.
I think it went really well. Thanks for putting it together. I like having a qualifying round like that. It's cool because it firmly establishes the order we're supposed to play in in the main round. We play different people, different machines, and the person we play is based on rank. Nice structure! Do you think this is going to be a regular thing?
Also, as an aside, I think that anyone and everyone who smokes cigarettes inside crowded, stuffy places like this is, in some respects, a disrespectful asshole. Just because you can smoke wherever you want doesn't mean it's not a dickhead thing to do. Eric stated at the beginning that playing air hockey during the tournament is super annoying and distracting. Well, I think that's nothing compared with having to play with stinging eyes, throat, and smelly ass clothes. Smoke in a corner, not in everyone's faces. I don't care if I sound like a whiner, and I'm not blaming my sad loss on this, but I am so sick of this total lack of sympathy on all your parts. Show some fucking respect for everyone who doesn't smoke and doesn't want lungs full of your smoke - I just want to play pinball, and it sucks that I can't do it without feeling like shit during and afterward just because of your joker addiction. We can blame the bars all we want, but the bottom line is that it's not the bars blowing this crap all over the place. I can't wait until Jan. '09 when the state law forces you to respect others.
Vibe Police