I see VINYL TWINS with virgin score
Guilty as charged - TWO seats
Looked in earlier, can't connect at
32Red, can at All Slots.
Reports of severe lag are worrying, hell it's ONLY 9000 PLAYERS, and many are NOT playing all at once. What kind of "third class" servers do MGS use for these tournaments, and is this cost-cutting the reason behind so many of the other issues with these tournaments.
The other tournaments are running pretty much as normal (in terms of numbers, maybe not speed), and I would have thought MGS would have used a new, and separate, server for the Grand Slam, after which they could have used it to increase the general server pool.
Hi Gamblex,
These are players who have not yet played a Multi Player Slots tournament and hence don't have an Alias. Not sure why operators would give seats to players who haven't played multi-player before, but hey-hum.
Most will probably go unused!
Mark
Desparation I expect. Same sense of panic that prompted the sale of tickets that were initially advertised as "cannot be bought" at 150, and then 75. It seems now that the remainder are simply being dumped to active players at the casino, even though they are not necessarily multi-player tournament users. It may also be due to the separating of aliases between casinos, with players yet to create these separated aliases.
Now, some 3 hours after the start, there is already a player with a top score of 62,656 and he is still doing rebuys.
With this coinage (starting round 9,000 coins + 3x continues, 4,500 coins each = 22,500 coins in total) average result would be about 15 to 20 tousands. This means even with 30,000 hit (5 scatters or 5 wilds or 4 wilds during free spins) you are 12,500 - 17,500 coins short.
2nd have 56,900 and 3rd 47,074. Is it possible that all three of them got 30,000 hits?
Anyway, Vinyl predictions about who hits 30,000 win the tournaments went down and now, as I can see it, the one who with the holly grail of Tomb Raider - 90,000 cions hit (five scatters during free spins) can actually start thinking what she/he will do with 1 mill if ended right way.
Well, it's over before it even got going. It may not be worth actively chasing such scores on such a LOW VARIANCE game. You are looking for VERY RARE hits to even stand a CHANCE, let alone a GOOD chance.
It is a bit of a shock to see so MANY scores this high so SOON. It all depends on how many players have already played, and how often. With such a large field, you WILL see the rarer high scores. It changes my thoughts on strategy though, as I would be looking for a far bigger start now that the scores to beat are so high. I will also be looking at the lower prize range, and basing my strategy on at least getting one of those. The lower the prize, the less worth there is in chasing.
Microgaming may also suffer, as scores this high after a mere 3 hours may put players off from rebuying, especially players who know the slot well (and how RARE those scores are to achieve), and have limited bankroll.