Title Bout Quarantine League
Posted: 12 Apr 2020, 00:39
As I was looking for more things to do with my time off these days, I thought I would fire up the long dormant game, Title Bout Championship Boxing just for something a little different.
For those who don't know, TBCB was a computer sim based on the Title Bout Board game made by the Trunzo brothers years ago. It's a pretty decent sim in its most stable incarnation, and in my opinion it was abandoned far too quickly and could have been made to be so much better. Yet, it was not to be, and version 2.5 is all we will ever have, as I say, good, but could have been so much better.
I thought an 8 man tournament seemed the way to go. Now, I could have put together the 8 best fighters from any era in there for, I don't know, the bazillionth time, but the game comes with 11000 fighters, so I thought why not get a little nostalgia going and pick out a few middling names and see what kind of results we get. So, I present, a REALISTIC tournament simulation, yes, all the big names scoffed, and here we have 8 solid, if somewhat unspectacular, 140 pounders who were willing to get in there...
The quarterfinals are:
Juan Coggi vs Mike Dallas Jr.
Johnny Bumphus vs Gary Hinton
Juan Urango vs Karim Mayfield
Lamont Peterson vs Brandon Rios
All the fighters are rated as in their prime, but they will vary as to how often they come in in top shape based on their penchant for doing so in reality. I had the losers continue to match up, so I ended up with a winner all the way through 8th place. I know we often disagree on the greatest, but does anyone want to take a crack at how they see this one going down?
For those who don't know, TBCB was a computer sim based on the Title Bout Board game made by the Trunzo brothers years ago. It's a pretty decent sim in its most stable incarnation, and in my opinion it was abandoned far too quickly and could have been made to be so much better. Yet, it was not to be, and version 2.5 is all we will ever have, as I say, good, but could have been so much better.
I thought an 8 man tournament seemed the way to go. Now, I could have put together the 8 best fighters from any era in there for, I don't know, the bazillionth time, but the game comes with 11000 fighters, so I thought why not get a little nostalgia going and pick out a few middling names and see what kind of results we get. So, I present, a REALISTIC tournament simulation, yes, all the big names scoffed, and here we have 8 solid, if somewhat unspectacular, 140 pounders who were willing to get in there...
The quarterfinals are:
Juan Coggi vs Mike Dallas Jr.
Johnny Bumphus vs Gary Hinton
Juan Urango vs Karim Mayfield
Lamont Peterson vs Brandon Rios
All the fighters are rated as in their prime, but they will vary as to how often they come in in top shape based on their penchant for doing so in reality. I had the losers continue to match up, so I ended up with a winner all the way through 8th place. I know we often disagree on the greatest, but does anyone want to take a crack at how they see this one going down?