Tournament formats for group play

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Pinball! Pinball! Pinball! Tournament report and format discussion

Last weekend I had the chance to play in the most… unique… of the annual tournaments on offer in Japan: Pinball! Pinball! Pinball! at Neverland, Toyoda, Tokyo prefecture, Japan. Grand prize: A pinball. I’m not sure why. There appears to be a funny story somewhere here, but it’s in Japanese. Format Rules: Head-to-head match play on few enough machines that there’s at least a player or two waiting at all times: I think the ideal number is ceil(N/2)-1. At the end of each game, the winner gets …

Amazing race is everyone plays the same game and the lowest score is knocked out. Players who are not currently the lowest score can move on to the next game.