Awesome that there are no events representing the region that… I think 1/4th of the circuit finalists this year are from? Guess that is how it worked out, but whatever.
Congrats to the Dutch Pinball Masters & Borås Pinball Open for being the first European competitions on the Circuit! I think it’s fun that it’s not limited to North America anymore.
The locations are not really balanced, and looking at potential dates the ones in the “middle” of the US are around the same month too.
That’s 9 event out of 16 on the east coast, and none less than a 1000 miles from Seattle. great for us
This is a case where a better voting system could’ve helped. I don’t just mean authentication of voters, but also using something other than ‘single vote, first 8 past the post’, which is almost the worst voting system possible.
There was certainly a lot of drumming-up-votes from various TOs, and less so from others, as @heyrocker mentioned. This is likely not the optimal way to measure what ‘the PAPA-circuit-visiting public’ wants :-(.
(Side note: does anyone prefer graphical emoji? Bah)
You aren’t really paying too close of attention if you think it “works”. Or you really just like the two party, “I hate the other guys” type of politics.
Perhaps a conference type system that divides the country in regions (sorry Europe, being Americentric now) would work. Have voting for each region where the top two events make it. Then have an overall voting for the remaining events or just have PAPA appointments based on logistics and overall reputation. That being said, basing event planning primarily around what is fair is usually recipe for disaster and never satisfies everyone.
Yes, 9 events within 500 miles of … Pittsburgh. None anywhere in the NW. In fact, if you plot which major city to live in to have the most events near you, it’s Pittsburgh even without the 3 Pittsburgh events!
that could make for a good math problem Bowen Considering the amount of circuit within a 500 miles radius of Pittsburgh and Seattle next year compare to this, how will it affect proportion of west/east coast player making the circuit final?
Right; that was based on @hisokajp talking about having no Circuit events within a 1000-mile radius of Seattle (which … turns out there are 3, in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Denver).
But yeah. 1 Circuit event per continent for 2017, sounds good.
emoji? Bah)
