Which of my games is best suited for a noob tournament?

I just added a poll. It would only allow me 9 options, so I dropped SWE1. Keep 'em coming, guys.

#6 11 years ago

DUG

dug

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12y 101K 2,238

RFM

#7 11 years ago

DIE

underlord

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STTNG cuz of shorter ball times. 50 folks waiting for a marathon game on LOTR or TZ to finish isn't very fun. Besides, STTNG is a non-players game but the drains take the ball times away. IE: high scores, quick modes, short ball times.

#8 11 years ago

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MagicMako

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Sewell, NJ

12y 55,100 710 4 20

I think a lot will depend on the settings of the games, I recently had a small noob non-pinhead tournament with my friends and I wanted to make sure everyone had fun, so I closed the outlanes down and turned the software settings to easy, ie Mist lit after 1 loop on BSD and a 15 sec ball save (lol), and multiball start at the scoop or either ramp on WCS 94. Since these people never play pinball it was still challenging but they had a great time.

#9 11 years ago

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gweempose

Quoted from underlord:
STTNG cuz of shorter ball times. 50 folks waiting for a marathon game on LOTR or TZ to finish isn't very fun.

I completely understand what you're saying, but I don't agree with you about TZ. I don't think your average non-pinhead will have very long games on TZ. I think it's probably a bad choice for other reasons, though. It's just a really confusing game to step up to if you've never played it before.

#10 11 years ago

DIE

underlord

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RFM is a horse and pony show, albeit a fun game, but SDTM is a big problem for noobs. I had many people walk up to mine loving the game features, playing it, then saying they didn't like it, too hard, weren't sure what to do, etc., then game got ignored.

#11 11 years ago

DIE

underlord

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OP
Quoted from gweempose:
I completely understand what you're saying, but I don't agree with you about TZ. I don't think your average non-pinhead will have very long games on TZ. I think it's probably a bad choice for other reasons, though. It's just a really confusing game to step up to if you've never played it before.

Your right, TZ rules are funky. Very intimidating. I did have a few noobs doing great on the game, too great! Others just watched for 10 minutes and got bored. Slower ball movement due to stop and go on TZ.

#12 11 years ago

DIE

underlord

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Btw Gweempose, did you get all your SC tokens I sent?

#13 11 years ago

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gweempose

Quoted from underlord:
Btw Gweempose, did you get all your SC tokens I sent?

I never actually got around to counting them, but I did receive the package. Thanks!

#14 11 years ago

NAM

kwiKimart

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San Diego, CA

12y 90,650 10,693 3 71

RFM and TOTAN.

#15 11 years ago

NEO

CaptainNeo

Tommy is a great choice because it's easy to understand but difficult to do. I've used TOTAN as a tournament game, and it's a little complicated for people to grasp that arn't pinball people. Same with TZ. Games that non pinball people loved, when I was running tourny's were Starship troopers, and MM/ AFM. Since the rules are written for a 5 year old. Everyone can easily see what you have to do with little explaination and away you go.

#16 11 years ago

NEO

CaptainNeo

for ease tho, RFM is your best bet.

#17 11 years ago

OOF

Erik

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Franklin, TN

12y 117K 7,715

LOTR if the settings are stock, otherwise TOTAN. LOTR was always a big hit at my house with non-pinheads until I loaded one of those harder setting packs on it and disabled the random balrog popout mode. Suddenly no one liked it but me

_{Post edited by Erik : oops not rfm}

#18 11 years ago

DEY

absocountry2

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Wasilla, AK

13y 82,050 7,424 29 72

The pin that will work all night.

You could use two pins and run them together on a third pin when you get it narrowed do to a few people

#19 11 years ago

NEO

CaptainNeo

I think LOTR is too complicated for non pinheads and doesn't have that WOW factor to it, until you really dig into it. TOTAN has that wow factor, but there is so much going on, and the way it tells you what shots to go for, are a little hard for everyone to grasp. RFM is straight forward. Funny, entertaining and easy to grasp.

#20 11 years ago

CAL

Wickedquickss

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Louisville, KY

12y 32,650 915 1 11

I voted for STTNG.....50 people outtabe done in 2 hrs with that title.....if you went LOTR's you would need 2 weeks due to it's high ball times

#21 11 years ago

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gweempose

Update:

I decided to go with TOTAN. It worked out well, and I think people had a lot of fun. The winner had a score of 6.9 billion. The lowest score of the night was around 250,000. Most importantly, the tournament got people into the pin room, so all my games saw a good amount of action last night. Many of the people were saying that they forgot how much fun pinball can be.

#22 11 years ago

NEO

CaptainNeo

7 billion on totan? WTF! You have Caylee at your party? Thought it was a tournament for newbs. My highest score was 187 million, and that was a hard accomplishment. SHIT!

#23 11 years ago

RND

RawleyD

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Roanoke, VA

14y 67,650 3,243 36

I'm sure you mean 6.9 million. lol

#24 11 years ago

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gweempose

Quoted from RawleyD:
I'm sure you mean 6.9 million. lol

Indeed ... lol. My personal high is only around 90 million.

#25 11 years ago

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Shoot_Again

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Vancouver, WA

12y 83,400 8,453 2

I think for noobs RFM is the most straight forward rules and a lot of fun.

#26 11 years ago

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gweempose