A review of the Gobblet tourney Kongrats to all the money winners

[homerwannabee]

Well basically EVERYONE was a money winner who submitted a score.  Yep, that's all you needed to do.   

Now thoughts on the tourney.  Although I didn't get the 30 people who submitted scores like I wanted, I was over the moon happy with the new super high scores.   Jason V getting 569,900 is simply     Barra getting a new all time high at an incredible 797,100 is    George Strain getting over 500k is    And Wags missing out on 500k is  , but him topping Richard's former record score of 473k with 491,100 is     
GillKong, getting 318,100 is still hecka cool! 
Chrispy, Dknetter, and world Galaga champ JDGalaga getting over 200k is 
Everyone else submitting a score is 

As for those who registered, but didn't enter a score.  Sorry, no soup for you.  You actually have to submit a score to get some money.

Glad people enjoyed the tournament.  Next time around I'm thinking about a couple of changes to make it an even better tournament.  Kongrats to all who participated!

So now for the prize money.

1. Barra $30
2. JasonV91 $29
3. George strain $28
4. Steve Wagner $27
5. gillkong $26
6. Chrispy $25
7. Dknetter $24
8. jdgalaga $23
9. Shatty $22
10. DaLar $21
11. Creech $20
12. Scoundrl $19
13. FootofGod $18
14. nwnike $17
15. Synappz $16
16. xelnia $15
17. MitchMitchell $14
18. Evan04 $13
19. bensweeneyonbass $12
20. pickachublast10 $11

So please message me your email address so that I can PayPal you the winnings right away.  If you don't have a PayPal account, please message me your address so I can send you a money order.

[rayfinkel]

awesome stuff, guys! cool tourney, george!

[TheSunshineFund]

Fun tourney thanks George.  Learned a lot about the game using these settings.  Congrats to all.

Cheers.

[dknetter]

A fun tournament - it coincided well for me just having just done the 1M on easy. Thanks for running it! It's both a fun and frustrating game imo, but I really like that there's not a focus on any repetitive point pressing.

[xelnia]

Congrats everyone! I'll go through all the scores soon and put them on the DK3 HSL (IF THEY QUALIFY  ).

[dknetter]

So I joked in chat that I though it'd be funny if my 7yo beat Xelnia in the tournament, as at the time Jeremy had posted the lowest score and didn't look to be submitting anything further. Anyway, Jeremy turned around and donated his winnings to my son. Grayden was already super excited about the $11, so the added $15 definitely made his week!





It's a DK3 tournament picture. A little tough to read, but it says "Thank you Jeremy/Xel-nia" - he ran out of room on that line Thanks man, very nice of you!

[QAOP Spaceman]

Well done George on the tourney, literally putting your money where your big mouth is 

Hats off to all the winners, and well done young Grayden

[xelnia]

It's a DK3 tournament picture. A little tough to read, but it says "Thank you Jeremy/Xel-nia" - he ran out of room on that line Thanks man, very nice of you!

 

[ChrisP]

I didn't go into a mad grind for this tourney, but I did play at least a fair amount and was surprised how hard it was to crack even 300K. Almost did it many times, but couldn't quite put it together. I felt that a breakthrough was coming very, very soon, but time ran out, so 280K it is.

This tourney exposed just how many holes there are in my bugfighting tactics! On all previous DK3 play on marathon settings, I have been grossly reliant on the "underachiever strat" (drop the superspray on the greenhouse, grab on the blue board and blast through, play the gray board until dying/spawning the next superspray, drop the superspray on the greenhouse... etc.)

The fact of the matter is , the underachiever strat essentially removes the blue boards from the game entirely, while making the gray boards easier because you can die. Dying resets Kong and the worms to their start positions, thus making any remaining bugs much easier to clean up than they would be if you had to do it all on the same life, which leads to hardship late in the board with Kong dangling and worms in the way everywhere. With extras every 30K, you can slack off and die all over the place and still get 1M+.

5-man, you can't do that. It made me realize that I never really learned the tactics necessary to be able to consistently complete a full blue or grey board without a death. So I was like, "wow, I actually kind of suck" and worked on my tactics. Then I tried a default-settings run a couple days ago and was shredding it, so RBS soon? I dunno, wait and see.

Tourney also reminded me that DK3 is pretty good! The game has great controls/physics. It's as frustrating as any other game, but it's a blast to play just because of how well put-together it is. For all CAGs in the "gallery shooter" genre, it belongs in the top 5, and it's certainly the best shooter Nintendo ever did.

[GILLYKONG]

Thanks George it was slot of fun. First I've ever done 5 man. I'll do better next time.

[Barra]

Awesome tournament, thanks for putting it on George! We definitely need more DK3 tournaments, not just once every 4 years

Personally, while I'm happy with a PB, I felt really, really close to a big breakthrough game. It did pump me mentally though, I was done playing even before I had to go away for the weekend. It's been a big year gaming-wise and I think I need a few months break from all CAG before seriously coming back to this one.

Looks like two mates have claimed the beat Dwayne bounty. I'll make contact regarding payment.

Also is 2021 shaping up to be the year of the RBS?! Gstrain, JV and skycruiser primed for D3 RBS! and Wags, ChrisP, and gillayy on D1 (maybe D3 too or whatever!). Riley can go for the D4 RBS 
Get themmmMMMMMMM

[Scoundrl]

Good Tournament George. I wish I had played more! I do plan to play more DK3, not pulling the boardset until I can make 300k.

I appreciate you paying out to 30 places, very cool. That said, I'd like to add $100 tp my winnings and donate it to a gamer in need this year. Does anyone know anyone in our community that could really use a hand this holiday season?

-Ken

[homerwannabee]

Good Tournament George. I wish I had played more! I do plan to play more DK3, not pulling the boardset until I can make 300k.

I appreciate you paying out to 30 places, very cool. That said, I'd like to add $100 tp my winnings and donate it to a gamer in need this year. Does anyone know anyone in our community that could really use a hand this holiday season?

-Ken

Well, not exactly a gamer, but a gamer's (Carrie Sidecki) sister has a go fund me after being put in the hospital  for 18 days because of Covid 19.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-amy-swidecki-with-her-bills?sharetype=teams&member=7241996&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=p_na%20share-sheet&pc_code=fb_co_dashboard_a&rcid=af092c1504f94f8284969ff49cc3b469&fbclid=IwAR2Rj1T-fLzBDsTXu6MsfvfgW8uM1ML2qVW65gsgYfuHtg0MBi8RLiZb1js

[xelnia]

Gobblet scores have been added to the DK3 HSL (minus shatty [vanilla MAME] and Mitch [MAME video, no INP]). Congrats everyone!

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It's a DK3 tournament picture. A little tough to read, but it says "Thank you Jeremy/Xel-nia" - he ran out of room on that line Thanks man, very nice of you!

This is Excellent.  Well deserved on all fronts