Who was the first MARP player to suggest a MARP tournament? The answer is pretty surprising, as is the post that sprung the idea...

Let's see who gets this first :)

Q.T.Quazar

oh, btw, a little personal tidbit I found on the msg board today, just to show you what my interests were this time last year, QRS.

# of submissions

08 01 99 5. Q.T. Quazar - 246 (note: wow! and he just got here!)

09 13 99 1. Q.T. Quazar - 622 - 25.7

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 07, 2000

Answers

Hahah QT i see that you were quite buzy playing games last year :)

And my guess to your question is.. YOU!

Cheers

QRS

-- QRS (qrs@telia.com), July 07, 2000.

Sorry, QRS. I hadn't even joined MARP when the first tournament started; in fact, I came into it around 2 weeks after its start date, I think. Anyone else have a guess? :)

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 07, 2000.

My answer would be BBH - that's the first post in the tournament section in February 1999. It didn't start it, but it was a start.

Chris Parsley sparked the discussion again - which got gasoline from myself about four months later.

GB9

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), July 07, 2000.

Sorry Pete, but you're wrong as well, although you're much closer than QRS :) Isn't it sad that our own tournament director doesn't know where the idea came from? LOL...

Two down... anyone else want to give this a shot?

Smiles, Q.T.Quazar

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 07, 2000.

Uhhh...Stig Remnes?

:p

JoustGod

-- JoustGod (pinballwiz1@msn.com), July 07, 2000.

See, now I'm really disappointed at you for not getting it, JG. You should know who it was if anyone does.

3 down, who's next?

Q.T.Quazar

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 07, 2000.

Brian Johnstone.....aka...BeeJay ?

-- AL (alexweir@indigo.ie), July 07, 2000.

Wrong...aka...mauvaise response.

4 down. Anyone else take a stab?

Q.T.Quazar

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 07, 2000.

That was a joke....

:p

JoustGod

-- JoustGod (pinballwiz1@msn.com), July 07, 2000.

Either Chris Parsley or JoustGod, I think

-- A person guessing... (maybeyouwillfindoutsomeday@isitright.com), July 08, 2000.

Maybe, but unfortunately it isn't either of them.

Q.T.Quazar

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 08, 2000.

Too easy. It's Notman addressing a leaderboard calculation of someone...

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), July 08, 2000.

Congratulations Chad, nailed it in one. I was reading through some of JoustGod's statistics the other day, and I came across that interesting tidbit. It sounded like one of those "Why didn't I think of that moments" as soon as NotMan made the suggestion.

NotMan, of course, went on to play in T1, annoying many players with his Lock n' Chase skills, and then subsequently disappeared from MARP.

Q.T.Quazar

and to all you MARP veterans who actually read the post when it first came out, I'm very, very disappointed in you. particularly the player who WROTE the post...hehehe... :P

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 08, 2000.

Heh! I knew the answer was, but I was going to let anybody answer that one! Congrat to Chad! Yep (It was too easy)!

I did made the first suggestion about it, but Lord BBH did made the first comment about first MARP Tourney back (Feb. '99). Well! I wasn't sure if the tourney was going to be held or not, due Zwaxy was very busy to keep this site going from crashing alot! I wasn't sure how Zwaxy is going to do it or not until Gameboy came along! Congrat to Gameboy for making it happen! I wish that I should have kept playing on Tourney since the first one!

So Q-ball! I didn't disappear and I'm still here! I didn't have time to play newer games than classics, due other things in my life! Hopefully, I'll be back soon! So better watch out JG! Oh I see that Q-ball did some interesting point-leeching on Mikie! Go for a million pts! It's shouldn't be that hard! :)

P.S. Sorry for a long post!

Notman

-- Notman (notman99@yahoo.com), July 09, 2000.