AlaskanDame:
“ 1) The bogey glitch!! (although, this past showdown, I have not seen anyone complain yet and I have 3 that forfeited on me and no glitch);”
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Oh, the glitch still exists. People are just tired of mentioning it. Dead horses come to mind. I’ve had a couple of my members be unable to get through round 2 this time because of the glitch. They would like to see showdowns played only against others who are also in the showdown to at least give opponents an incentive to keep playing after a bad shot. When matched against level 38 pros in Paris, well, you know. You take the risk of badly done forfeits or quirky loading issues, And even if the glitch doesn’t happen, it’s no fun whomping them.
Yes it definitely still exists... because they haven't said they've fixed it yet! Like Gary, I haven't played a showdown in quite a while too for exactly the same reason (as well as it being far too slow - I can play 18 holes in around 25 minutes, so I hate wasting time taking 75+ minutes for the equivalent of 36 holes, particularly as you can't even change cameras or do something contructive with the dead time whilst your opponent is taking forever to play!). And there are many others who have boycotted it as well until the glitch gets fixed. I've been told by Nico a month or two ago that they've found the problem. He's also told me that they have one developer dedicated full time to fixing this problem. But seeing as we've not had any fix yet I don't know how truthful those comments were.
AlaskanDame - you can't have showdown players playing against just other showdown players for the following reasons:
1) There may be an odd number of players; although most groups are the full 100 players, there will almost certainly be (at least) one group that is not full, and that one could have an odd number of players in it.
2) A lot of players either enter and don't play, don't finish the full quota of holes, or forfeit because it's not going well.
3) There may not be any other showdown players available when someone wants to play.
4) Although all players will play the same sets of holes, they don't all play the sets in the same order, so someone might be waiting to play, say, 3 holes on Bethpage, but there may not be any showdown players available who still need to play those same holes. With my programming hat on, I think this would be a nightmare to try and implement.
The ONLY way to get rid of this glitch for certain it to make the showdowns single player. But WGT won't do that because it would mean taking them out of the coins rooms. They could, of course, add single player option to coins rooms (you obviously wouldn't be playing for coins!), but they don't want to do that either.
Look on the bright side... there will be another 100 new jumpers added to the game in 2024. SMH.