Babzilla33:Solution: Get rid of the H2H coin rooms and make the showdowns single play just like any other tournament. There is absolutely no reason why players on two different ends of the level and tier spectrum should have to play against each other.
Getting rid of the coin rooms for the Showdowns might actually require some work.
Allow me to suggest some simple logic that would continue to use the coin room.
WGT ... feel free to use this idea.
if user clicks Showdown button to enter coin room
do not search for opponent
instead, assign a "dummy" opponent* to play
as soon as the game has been initialized, the "dummy" gets
disqualified (e.g. set the number of used timeouts to 2)
the Showdown player plays the 3 holes as usual**
figure out some way to handle the coins (e.g. return the
entry fee back to the player, whatever)
else
search for opponent and play the game exactly as it's working
now
* You would probably require more than one "dummy" opponent to avoid having the same "dummy" in two or more games at once.
** To the best of my knowledge, when we're able to finish all 3 holes, the bogey bug does not happen even if our opponent quit.
In my opinion, this logic would be very easy to implement.
I (as a Tour Champion) take absolutely no pleasure in crushing a Pro or Tour Pro and taking coins from them that they need a lot more than I do. Not surprisingly, they don't like to get crushed either ... so they quit in a rage, causing the bogey bug.
Showdowns are all about strokes, not how many games or coins you win.