Quoted from Zaxxis:It's a nice show ran by nice people
Was not even remotely saying otherwise...that had nothing to do with it. My wife and I have family in Louisville. It's a place I would frankly like to live, if for no other reason than to eat at Moby Dick until I die of a coronary. We keep trying to find a way to get up there for the Expo but the timing never works out becuase we don't want to blow all our vacation for the year in the first three months with Lousiville being early march, then TPF right after that, and my kid's spring break right in the middle?
I don't know the format there, I haven't looked to be honest, but I know that very rarely do I have time to "hang out with friends" at something like Texas Pinball Festival. Even when you put up a monster score, I'm still watching the boards like a hawk and trying to requalify in other divisions when it's pump and dump. Maybe you guys have a more social-friendly format, which is always my personal preference.
Kinda feel like we got pooched with PAPA trying to have a circuit event at Pinballz. They had little interest in accommodating what PAPA really needed as far as I heard....didn't want to move games, location had to stay open to regular cx's etc.. seemed like it was about advertising their business more than it was about having a prestigious tournament circuit event, ya know? Anwyays...that's the past.
I find it interesting that one of our local guys made a spreadsheet showing that TX will be the 2nd or 3rd most difficult field in the SCS this year, depending on the last person's choice of state...but it still seems like WE can't pull together enough organization to host a "major". It's just crazy, that's all. I don't think that distance or ability of them to broadcast should matter at all, frankly. If it does, then there's no reason they should get a higher base value at all, because that has nothing to do with pinball skill.
I don't know if it's been answered, and this isn't really the place for it, so I'll just ask for a response on this as a yes or no, but do "majors" like PAPA and IFPA get a higher value right off the top under WPPR 5.0, or is that going away and they're going to be rated like every other tournament based on who attends and format?