Fruit Machine Chat

10-20 machines in a central location on freeplay; £10 entry; national champs on all the major games. Good idea?

[quote="roberto la vigna"]10-20 machines in a central location on freeplay]

Sounds entertaining Bob, and I would definitely show up if only for fun - but I suspect the real boys wouldn't want to raise their heads above the parapet in that way! Also I think it would have to be cash play wouldn't it, otherwise it might be like a no-money game of poker i.e. a bit pointless.

grecian wrote:Sounds entertaining Bob, and I would definitely show up if only for fun - but I suspect the real boys wouldn't want to raise their heads above the parapet in that way! Also I think it would have to be cash play wouldn't it, otherwise it might be like a no-money game of poker i.e. a bit pointless.

Surely they would wear Mexican wrestler-style disguises, as most of them do already?

Winnings would come out of the entry fee pot, rather than from the machines. After all, each game would be spanked pretty early on, leaving little or nothing for subsequent plays.

I think you'd arrange it as follows:

You have X competitors. Each competitor has his / her own Paragon, ItBox, GamesNet, Inde:go and Open, with the standard factory setting for that cabinet (in terms of selection and generosity of games). (The machines would be provided by the manufacturers, who'd be sponsoring.) Each cabinet would be set so it had a realistically high hopper (i.e. none of this £50 nonsense on an ItBox).

Each competitor is given £5 and three hours to maximise his or her returns from the five machines. Any pattern of play / focus on particular games is permitted. Re-investment of winnings would, of course, be allowed, although if a player spunked his or her bank away early doors they would be out.

Winner is simply the player with the biggest pot at the end of the three hours.

grecian wrote:Each competitor is given £5 and three hours to maximise his or her returns from the five machines. Any pattern of play / focus on particular games is permitted.

Perhaps have your set-up as the main event, with separate entry-fee tournaments for individual games.

Unless there is some large sum of money involved that isn't coming from the constestants pockets I don't think any serious players would be interested.

quizard wrote:Unless there is some large sum of money involved that isn't coming from the constestants pockets I don't think any serious players would be interested.

Absolutely spot on.

I believe many years ago somebody appeared on The Word emptying an Adders and Ladders - I can't understand why someone would want to draw attention to themselves and their profession in such a manner.

In any case it could ultimately boil down to whose speciality game offered the fastest winning rate, not necessarily who was the best pro.

Well, pros would have to weigh up whether to blow their cover or have others get bragging rights - whatever they would be worth.

'I believe many years ago somebody appeared on The Word emptying an Adders and Ladders'
It wasnt the word it was the last resort hosted by Johnathon Ross,'guest star' Paddy Spooner who wore a balaclava.Incidentally news reports have called Ross a comedian- the only thing remotely funny about him is his mispronunciation of the letter 'R'. I believe he should be subjected to a branding. He's a ranker and for my opinion on Spooner see my posts about no-mates as Quizmaster I believe accurately refers.

roberto la vigna wrote:Well, pros would have to weigh up whether to blow their cover or have others get bragging rights - whatever they would be worth.

Er..you're welcome to the bragging rights Bob.

All the above is very true - the serious professionals have no interest in bragging rights and indeed seem to me actively to prefer as low a profile as possible. My idea of the structure of a championship event was strictly hypothetical as I quite understand none of the big players would want to attend!

there is a lot more to being a good pro than simply learning the questions- there is research/planning route/assessing the playability of certain games/maximising the use of available time/ learning one game thoroughly or a range of games with less depth/ finding flaws in games etc . Being the best at a game doesnt interest me, making a living does.

well perhaps it should be strictly amateur than a la the halycon days of the olympics, rugby union etc

[quote="roberto la vigna"]10-20 machines in a central location on freeplay]

The best wouldn't even participate - who would want to highlight an angle on a game, or even start to encourage people to sniff around a game that some pro has has just demonstrated stratospheric scores on?

Might work on out of circulation games though.

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