The World Pac-Man Tour
 

The year is 1980. Video games are taking over the world and the most exciting by far is Pac-Man. Join me as I, Joey Joseph, embark on a magical journey and join the World Pac-Man tour.

Names are randomly generated, scores are randomly generated between 33,000 and 200,000.

Lower scoring players will drop out and be replaced from tournament to tournament.

Depending on your placement in a previous tournament you will receive bonuses to your score in the next tournament as a way to try and obtain some sort of hierarchy of quality.

These points can be distributed throughout the tourney as need be.

I just realized I'll be doing more math than Pac-Man playing. Oh well, let's see how it goes.

1980 World Pac-Man Tour Schedule
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January 5th: Norfolk Invitational
January 19th: Gulf Coast Open
January 27th: Omaha Pac-Man Championship
February 10th: California Gold Open
February 23rd: Hawaiin Tropic Pac-Man Invitational
March: 9th: United States Pac-Man Championships
March 22nd: Calgary Open
April 12th: Detroit Gold Open
April 27th: Seattle Players Invitational
May 10th: Canadian Grand Prix
May 24th: London Open
June 1st: Munich Gold
June 14th: New York City Pac-Man Open
June 29th: Philadelphia Championship Open
July 19th: Europen Pac-Man Championships
August 3rd: South African Open
August 10th: Sydney Gold
August 23rd: Asian World Pac-Man Open
September 14th: World Pac-Man Championships (Rotating Host)

This is going to be cool

Gah, completely forgot about this. Right after I posted this I got the weird issue and couldn't get to the site for a week. Will almost certainly start this sometime soon.

Norfolk Invitational, January 5th 1980

Entries: 50

Format: Each round is 3 games cumulative
1st Round will reduce field to 35 players
2nd Round will reduce field to 20 players
3rd Round will reduce field to 8 players
Quarter Finals, Semi finals, Finals.

Prize Pool: $100,000
Quarter finalists will earn $2,500
Semi finalists will earn $10,000
Runner Up will earn $20,000
Champion will earn $50,000

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

Championship


Finals Standings Earnings

Not a good start for me at all. I scored 46,120 in my first game which put me in a major hole, and things just got worse from there. My 2nd game was a disastrous 24,670. I still had hope of making the cutoff with a huge 3rd game but could only manage 71,380. Oh well, can't win em all. On to New Orleans for the Gulf Coast Open.

This is just an excuse to play a lot of Pac-Man, right?

SI

Actually I'm not playing a lot of Pac-Man at all, which is kind of defeating the whole purpose. I'm doing a ton of cutting and pasting though, if that sounds like fun.

Gulf Coast Open, New Orleans, January 19th 1980

Entries: 70
Format: Each round is 3 games cumulative
1st Round will reduce field to 50 players
2nd Round will reduce field to 32 players
3rd Round will reduce field to 16 players
4th Round will reduce field to 8 Players
Quarter Finals, Semi finals, Finals.

Prize Pool: $150,000
Quarter finalists will earn $5,000
Semi finalists will earn $15,000
Runner Up will earn $25,000
Champion will earn $75,000


Round 1
Chad Stephens 598809
Zane Fuller 585783
Lester Jensen 582875
Emmett Hendricks 585236
Elmer Gilbert 580014
Rob Kelley 574493
Lenny Sheppard 564103
Morgan Chang 541825
Anthony O'neill 539493
Rodrigo Ashley 537430
Curtis Best 530908
Galen Blankenship 500907
Billie Hanson 506979
Giovanni Henry 499562
Mac Hill 494605
Cornell Evans 471980
Jerri Duran 469546
Bryon Carroll 456964
Josh Schroeder 456113
Antony Fuentes 439465
Jerri Newton 437943
Kip Reilly 437714
Willie Peck 427956
Harrison Gomez 427347
Keith Raymond 398638
Tony Barnes 395746
Isiah Zimmerman 387305
Jeremiah Holman 385169
Phil Millard 370070
Eddie Wilbert 369435
Anderson Vega 365616
Juan Mcmillan 359750
Osvaldo Giles 352337
Aaron Fritz 329916
Salvatore Cooper 311849
Abe Hendricks 317655
Trey Hendricks 317108
Donald Jarvis 314254
Sterling Church 313766
Woodrow Gay 308564
Michael Alexander 303229
Jerald Vang 302173
Wilburn Buck 284817
Morgan Guthrie 284535
Sherman Wade 276413
Mel Hester 274820
Clayton Morse 274277
Ronald Cantrell 260519
Eli Melendez 237222
Tracy Mccray 237998
51. Wilmer Arnold 236660
52. Earnest Bell 234326
53. Joey Joseph 230480
54. Olen Medina 228096
55. Anderson Holloway 216827
56. Toni Waller 216647
57. Andre Powell 215527
58. Guy Rush 198074
59. Tomas Willis 196415
60. Garry Bruce 193402
61. Jerald Kerr 171330
62. Dick Kane 170299
63. Fred Aguirre 156607
64. Raphael Sweeney 156067
65. Dudley Fowler 155374
66. Keith Ray Chambers 150832
67. Alvin Terrell 150689
68. Galen Morgan 121303
69. Sheldon Wallace 110586
70. Gil Noble 109088

Round 2
Jerri Newton 597451
Clayton Morse 594572
Galen Blankenship 584607
Lenny Sheppard 582574
Sherman Wade 574148
Tony Barnes 557758
Donald Jarvis 556157
Emmett Hendricks 569746
Rob Kelley 539740
Josh Schroeder 522598
Jerald Vang 520406
Woodrow Gay 506407
Curtis Best 502128
Giovanni Henry 477632
Bryon Carroll 463538
Anthony O'neill 457240
Salvatore Cooper 450777
Rodrigo Ashley 449448
Willie Peck 448738
Morgan Chang 439402
Lester Jensen 397553
Eli Melendez 391738
Zane Fuller 391179
Elmer Gilbert 389036
Juan Mcmillan 387256
Harrison Gomez 385220
Mel Hester 361137
Wilburn Buck 344447
Isiah Zimmerman 328253
Phil Millard 316377
Billie Hanson 304579
Jeremiah Holman 294307
33. Trey Hendricks 293372
34. Osvaldo Giles 282926
35. Ronald Cantrell 281170
36. Sterling Church 260650
37. Michael Alexander 232460
38. Jerri Duran 232911
39. Abe Hendricks 228322
40. Cornell Evans 225161
41. Antony Fuentes 190049
42. Eddie Wilbert 182035
43. Anderson Vega 174534
44. Chad Stephens 167096
45. Kip Reilly 139982
46. Keith Raymond 135890
47. Tracy Mccray 130027
48. Aaron Fritz 111458
49. Morgan Guthrie 105212
50. Mac Hill 101735

Round 3
Josh Schroeder 580375
Emmett Hendricks 572193
Elmer Gilbert 560760
Lester Jensen 525276
Wilburn Buck 520260
Zane Fuller 520106
Mel Hester 517705
Rob Kelley 443693
Clayton Morse 440645
Jerri Newton 429728
Juan Mcmillan 426507
Tony Barnes 413229
Giovanni Henry 400097
Lenny Sheppard 386649
Isiah Zimmerman 381375
Curtis Best 337521
17. Woodrow Gay 326245
18. Phil Millard 306470
19. Willie Peck 278546
20. Bryon Carroll 257070
21. Eli Melendez 225811
22. Galen Blankenship 210325
23. Jeremiah Holman 200685
24. Salvatore Cooper 195705
25. Billie Hanson 181101
26. Rodrigo Ashley 174502
27. Anthony O'neill 167663
28. Morgan Chang 160014
29. Donald Jarvis 133504
30. Jerald Vang 125974
31. Sherman Wade 112545
32. Harrison Gomez 102727

Round 4
Mel Hester 527570
Tony Barnes 515222
Rob Kelley 499665
Emmett Hendricks 446363
Giovanni Henry 428142
Curtis Best 402856
Zane Fuller 391396
Juan Mcmillan 328014
09. Elmer Gilbert 324068
10. Clayton Morse 273358
11. Isiah Zimmerman 271149
12. Lester Jensen 265883
13. Wilburn Buck 228248
14. Josh Schroeder 141420
15. Lenny Sheppard 124806
16. Jerri Newton 104842

Quarter-Finals
Tony Barnes 588591
Curtis Best 545390
Emmett Hendricks 483454
Giovanni Henry 459584
05. Mel Hester 336414
06. Zane Fuller 257002
07. Juan Mcmillan 235393
08. Rob Kelley 213852

Semi-Finals
Emmett Hendricks 449440
Giovanni Henry 171222
03. Curtis Best 150000
04. Tony Barnes 104513

Championship
Emmett Hendricks 586782
Giovanni Henry 530959

Finals Standings Earnings Total


Another horrible start as I garnered just 27,100 points in my first game. Faced with becoming a laughing stock I stepped up my game on my 2nd turn and scored 118,240. On the verge of making the cut, I came up just short in game 3 with 86,130. Hopefully a nice corn on the cob dinner will help me in Omaha. I can't keep getting knocked out in the 1st round.