Quoted from ryanwanger:I came here to ask the same question that Spraynard asked 2 weeks ago.
The tournament went like this:
I felt like I played okay during pingolf, but not great, and wasn't confident that I'd make the cut. 36 strokes was the cutoff and I had a 34, so I'm in. (Just as stevevt predicted in point #2 above).
Played Zach Sharpe in the first round (best of 3 match) of the double elimination. He picked Congo, and won. I picked Space Time, because it's an older game and he shot a 6 on it the night before. I got crushed. Turns out he's good at that game and just had a bad game the night before.
Losers bracket matched me against Trent Augenstein, another player much better than me. He picked Congo and had a pretty bad/unlucky game. Mine was worse. I picked Kismet, because it seemed like a luck-fest (it was part of pingolf the night before). His outlane drain on ball 5 won the game, though neither of us even reached par from the night before.
So...if I had to do it again, would I make the same choices? Honestly, I don't know. It certainly would have been more rewarding to pick a modern machine, and then win. And lots of good players put up lots of mediocre scores all weekend. But, maybe if I had squeaked by in Kismet, I'd have a different opinion?
Timmy had a similar start. For those that didn't follow the other Lyons Thread. Timmy my son whom just turned 15, 2 weeks ago, played in the Lyons Spring Classic and in the IFPA nationals. We drove in from Alabama to play. Timmy drew Trent Augustine first round and won both games staright to advance in the winners baracket. Only to have to play Zach Sharpe. Timmy almost took it to game five. He at least got 1 win which was awesome considering. He lost his next match in the 3rd round versus Will Mckinney. They went the distance though, and was only decided by 1 or 2 million on SM. All in all a great match. He got to play his qualifying round with Keith Elwin, Jen Pevler and Nathan ( excuse me if I spelled anyone's name wrong ). It was a Awesome weekend!! We enjoyed it quite a bit. We love to travel to tournaments and play and meet new people. We also got to meet Rotor Dave and his family and the Palmers Jeff, Nancy and their 15 year old son Atticus whom was there to play in the IFPA Nationals as well. It is great to see the youth movement in these tournaments. This is where the pinball future is.
Really like this thread!!