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You make it sound like this is an uncommon occurance? 
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Do NOT pick the game you played best on if you did extremely well on it in qualifiers and you're top seed picking the first game for the finals. Odds are you're gonna barf. Had a friend learn that the hard way at the last tourney I went to...he was first seed and I was 5th. I had been doing horrible on it all night, he ROLLED it, then barfed on it. I did pretty badly on it, per the standard of the night, but awesome on the second game (different pin) and placed 2nd overall, lol. =\
New PROTIPS from my #5 place finish last night:
If you are #1 seed, don't play the same EM three times in a row no matter how good you did the first four times you played it.
Don't pay your buddy's entrance fee unless you are prepared to lose to them on said EM.
Don't expect that the guy that got the GAME OVER tilt on that EM the two games prior will do it a third time.
DO choose to play first and pick up the 2 million point jackpot on Taxi that's been rolling all night and not been collected by anyone when it's your turn, especially when average scores are hovering around a million on the game, thereby completely burying your competition with little chance of them catching up since the jackpot resets to 500k.
Quoted from LesManley:I thought this same thing playing Taxi in a tournament last year. On ball 1, I hit a 4 million jackpot, plus another 600k one after that. I have to admit I thought it was game over. I knew the guy I was playing against was good and he just kept chopping wood. He got a couple jackpots under a million, started hitting the ramps back and forth for the million and was rocking on expresslane too. He came back and was beating me 6.1 million to 5.5 million after ball 2. I ended up getting him with 6.3 million for a final score, mostly thanks to valuable skill shots on the last ball, but I couldn't believe he came back without a super big jackpot.
It's possible, sure, but the plunger on the one we were playing on was pretty much shot to crap and barely got the ball to the spinout most of the time. I tried to get the ramps going as well just to bury them for sure, but couldn't ever do it. Thought one of the other guys would catch up but never did.
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