SamSpayed: So I guess I just don't get why the Showdowns have to be in coin rooms at all.
I can't argue with that.
My idea was based on which option I thought would be easier. My gut says that it would be less work to implement the bot than to switch the entire Showdown setup to single play tournaments. My gut could be wrong.
The only explanation that I can think of for using the coin rooms is that we end up playing 3 or 6 different courses consisting of 3 holes each, rather than 9 or 18 holes on the same course. I kind of like the variety.
A cynic might think that WGT simply wants to take their 20% cut of the coins. Maybe ... but what do they do with all of these coins? All it does it remove them from the total coin universe and probably hurts those Pros and Masters who we're matched against in the Veteran division a lot more than it hurts us.
I figured ... ok ... if they're bound and determined to use the coin rooms, then replacing the real opponents with a bot is a sensible solution because the bot would be unable to rage quit.