[Sawys]

Hi.

Congratulations to DKF the team winner !

Congratulations to TIF the individual winner !

I appreciated this tourney and i was happy to fix my own goals according to the score submitted by other players.

Even if there were some minor troubles, i decided to put a 5/5 note for the idea and the format of this tournament. This is the first time i participate in a tournament where no beat'em all or fighting game are selected and i'm happy of this ^^

In my mind, the points to cleared in the next session are :

1/ Limit the number of games comparing to the delay of the tournament (1 month and 24 games are too much). In comparison, in 2006, during the italy vs france challenge, we had 10 games on 2 months (and 10 players) and the level were really high because we had time to learn the 5 games the 2 teams have chosen. In IGBY tournament there are really high skill from the players who knows the games before but i think the other one had no chance to raise their level until the best gamers but there are suprises from everyone here.

2/ Verify before the beginning if the games chosen could be leachable, marathoning or if there is problem known.

3/ Use the same version of emulator (based on the RU version) to avoid problems of dipswitches which can change between versions (i think particularily in bombjack where some players have submitted early scores in july with maybe incorrect settings - if you used mame 0.106 default settings, they are easier than RU (0.135) and later versions)

4/ Let participate only known users of each site.

5/ Do a large diffusion to invite the maximum of site like spanish players (retrovicio), italian players (arcade-extreme), french players like me (arcadehits.net) and the reference in this domain Marp. If twingalaxies revive, why not propose to the forum members to participate. Too, shmup.com is a site specialised but members could be interested in the participation because they know mame.

Personnal statistics :
For this contest, on 23 games i submitted scores on 19 games and 17 enterred in the 5th best of the site.
I've beaten 11 of my personnal best, that's the reason i think a tourney is bringing us the energy to elevate our skill.
A little note. I didn't want to play some of games but i forced me when i saw i could do a not too bad score for the team and finally i was proud to play and raise my skill.

The last word : Great IGBY, Great Coordinators and Great Players make this tourney a very pleasant moment.

Thank you for all !