New Tournament Types! - Cumulative Kills

Rack 'em up!

The more the merrier with Cumulative Kills Tournaments

Maybe you're not a world-class sharpshooter like Big Buck Legends Jerad Berg, Alex Derhohannesian, Steve Guenther or Michael Jastrzembski. Maybe you just love having a pitcher of beer with friends and playin a few rounds of Big Buck with your 5 favorite sexy barmaids hunting party. Well, Cumulative Kills Tournaments are for you!

Cumulative Kills Tournaments keep track of your total cumulative bucks killed over the course of the tournament. You don't need to get a zillion points, just keep racking up kills. Each time you play a cumulative kills tournament game, all your bucks killed are added to your running total. The more you play, the higher your total. Don't worry if you miss a critter or two, just keep rackin' the bucks up!

There's no such thing as a bad day to hunt!

So play more, shoot more & win more with cumulative kills tournaments.

This year the 2009 Big Buck Safari World Championship Qualifying Tournament will be a cumulative kills style tournament. Click here to find out what region you are in, and where to start playing!

New Tournament Types! - King of the Hill

Are you tired of competing against the top Big Buck players in the nation?
Do you feel like you have no chance of winning a prize?

If so, then Play Mechanix has introduced the perfect Big Buck tournament for you.
Play Mechanix has created a new style of tournament called 'King of the Hill'.
In a 'King of the Hill' style tournament, you don't compete against every player in the country, you only compete against the other players at your favorite location.

Perhaps you don't feel you stand a chance against some of the crackshots from across the country, but you know you can beat the stiffs at your own watering hole. Well this is the tournament for you. In a 'King of the Hill' tournament, the top score from each location wins a prize.

So if 5 people play a 'King of the Hill' tournament at your bar, the top player on that machine will win a prize.

Now you can't run all over town and get a first place score on every machine, because you can only win at one location (whatever location has your highest place).

Now everyone has a shot at winning a prize!

King of the Hill Tournaments:

Greater Minneapolis / St. Paul Area - Click HERE for locations

2009 World Championships - Coming Soon!

Keep watching....

The 2009 World Championships are coming up for Big Buck Hunter® Pro and Big Buck Safari®.

The Regional Online Qualifying Tournaments start on August 1st and run through August 29th.

There will be a separate World Championship for each game title and there is a top prize of $10,000 each.

There will be a grand total of over $70,000 given away throughout the tournaments.

The country will be broken down into 8 regions and the tournaments will kickoff on August 1st with Online Regional Qualifying Tournaments.

Stay tuned for more for details!!

Need Money for Valentines Day?

Does your girl demand the best?

Are you wondering how you're going to come up with the scratch for Valentine's Day?

If you're looking to come up big this Valentine's Day, but are a little light on cash... have no fear!

Not only will we help you with free dating advice... but now we also help you put some wonk in your wallet.

There are 9 separate Big Buck Hunter Pro or Big Buck Safari Tournaments currently running, with almost $7000 available in cash and prizes. Now you can really turn her head with all your Big Buck Bling. That's right, ...goodbye loser...hello lover.

Here are some tournaments currently running:

SuperBuxx Tournament(Big Buck Hunter Pro - National Tournament)
[Now running on every online Big Buck Hunter Pro game (excl. North Dakota)]

Caribou Challenge Tournament (Big Buck Hunter Pro)

Locations:

Minnesota
Billy's - St. Paul, MN
Buffalo Bar & Grill, Buffalo, MN
Carbone's Pizza & Pub - Rosemount, MN
Decoy's Grill & Bar - Hopkins, MN
Decoy's Grill & Bar - White Bear Lake, MN
Firehouse Lounge - Circle Pines, MN
Flaherty's - Arden Hills, MN
Goby's - St Paul, MN
Groveland Tap - St Paul, MN
Grumpy's Bar & Grill - Roseville, MN
Grumpy's - Roseville, MN
Mad Jack's Sports Cafe - Vadnais Hts, MN
Major's Sports Cafe - Blaine, MN
Major's Sports Cafe - Bloomington, MN
Major's Sports Cafe - Golden Valley, MN
Major's Sports Cafe - Inver Grove Hts, MN
McCann's - St. Cloud, MN
McHughs - Savage, MN
Moe's - Coon Rapids, MN
Outpost Bar & Grille - Ramsey, MN
Panino Bros - Apple Valley, MN
Spectator's - Ham Lake, MN
The Nook - St. Paul, MN
Throwbacks Grille & Bar - Woodbury, MN
Ugly Mug - Minneapolis, MN
Texas
Clicks Oltorf - Austin, TX
Wisconsin
Circle B Recreation - Cedarburg, WI
Pastyme - Oshkosh, WI
Joe's Sample House - Oshkosh, WI
King Pin Bowl & Ale - West Bend, WI
King Pin Lanes - Campbellsport, WI
Thirsty Marlin's - Waupun, WI
Illinois
KC's Cabin - Spring Grove, IL
Merkles - Chicago, IL
Rand Roadhouse - Des Plaines, IL
Sideouts - Island Lake, IL
Wings Etc - Crystal Lake, IL
Wool Street - Cary, IL

Best Shot Wins Tournament (Big Buck Hunter Pro)

Locations

Al's Cafe - Bethel Park, PA
Elrama Tavern - Elrama, PA
Bullpen Bar & Grill - Avella, PA
Keystone Clubhouse - New Alexandria, PA
Trio Lounge - Washington, PA
Cains - Dormont, PA

CJ'2 2nd Big Buck Tournament (Big Buck Hunter Pro)

Locations

O Callaghans - Rochester, NY
Boulevard - Rochester, NY
Woody's II - Rochester, NY
Tipsy McStaggers - Rochester, NY
JW Prepp's - Rochester, NY

Jungle Jam Tournament (Big Buck Safari - National Tournament)

[Now running on every online Big Buck Safari game (excl. North Dakota) ]

Buckin' Safari-Style Tournament (Big Buck Safari)

Locations

Mackenzies - Minneapolis, MN
Majors Sports Cafe - Albertville, MN
Throwbacks Grille & Bar - Woodbury, MN
Moe's - Mounds View, MN
Grumpys Bar - Minneapolis, MN
Sneaky Pete's Bar & Grill - Minneapolis, MN
Mayslacks Music Lounge - Minneapolis, MN
Panino Brothers - Apple Valley, MN

Mighty Cow Slayer Tournament (Big Buck Safari)
Locations

Bog - Portland, OR
Hungry Tiger 2 - Portland, OR
Rialto - Portland, OR
Rialto - Tigard, OR
Shanghai Tunnel - Portland, OR

Ice House Safari Challenge (Big Buck Safari)
Locations

Ice House Sports Bar - Omaha, NE

Philly Safari Challenge (Big Buck Safari)
Locations

Philly - La Vista, NE

Dude...the money's practically yours.

New Cabela's Tournament

Now running at select Cabela's across the country is the Cabela's Quest Tournament. You've played Big Buck for fun, now play it for cool Cabela's loot.

Winner's get Cabela's gift cards of varying demonimations.

Here's a list of participating locations:

Cabela's - Boise, ID

Cabela's - Buda, TX

Cabela's - Dundee, MI

Cabela's - East Hartford, CT

Cabela's - Ft. Worth, TX

Cabela's - Glendale, AZ

Cabela's - Gonzales, AL

Cabela's - Hamburg, PA

Cabela's - Hammond, IN

Cabela's - Hazelwood, MO

Cabela's - Hoffman Estates, IL

Cabela's - Kansas City, KS

Cabela's - Kearney, NE

Cabela's - La Vista, NE

Cabela's - Lacey, WA

Cabela's - Lehi, UT

Cabela's - Mitchell, SD

Cabela's - Owatonna, MN

Cabela's - Post Falls, ID

Cabela's - Richfield, WI

Cabela's - Rogers, MN

Cabela's - Sidney, NE

Cabela's - Wheeling, WV

Now, remember, you have to wait til the tournament ends before walking off with your Cabela's loot.

Sizing up a Tournament

Can't decide to play a tournament or not?

Frozen in indecision?

Here's some ways to help you decide:

1) Check the prizes:

On the 'Select A Tournament' screen, you can see the prizes by pulling the pump on the shotgun. Check the loot. Visualize you winning the loot. Be the ball, Danny.

2) Check the dates

Usually the dates are listed somewhere on the tournament graphics. If the tournament has been going for awhile, you can size your self up against the other players.

3) Check the price

Typically the prices for tournaments are around this:

1 Trek - $3, 2 Treks - $4, 3 Treks - $5

A 2-Trek tournament is a pretty good deal for $4, considering that 2 Online Treks normally costs $3. So for a dollar more you've got a shot at the prize pool.

Plus, you've got to help support the operator who's running the tournament. If you show him that there's a strong base of Big Buck players ready to play, he'll keep bringing the tournaments, and new game updates. Let's show the operators that Big Buck Players are the best kind of players in the world!

Mastering Site Versions

Site Versions - Just Like Alternate Realities (only better)

Ever notice how you can pick the same site each day and it seems to play out slightly differently? One time the buck might come from the right, and if you pick the same sight the next day, the same buck might come from the left. Hows come? What gives?
The answer is there are 4 different versions of each site. What’s the benefit of having different versions of sites? No doubt the biggest reason is so players can’t memorize all of them. Also, if 4 people start up a 4-player game, and they all chose the same site, no one will see the exact same version. That way there’s no advantage to going first or last. No one will see the exact same version as a previous player.

Tournament Site Versions - Groundhog Day
Versions work slightly different in tournament games. Versions are a little more predictable in tournament games. In a tournament game, choosing sites in the same order will always resort in the same site versions coming up. In other words, if you play 2 tournament games in a row, as long as you chose the sites in the same order, you will always see the same site versions. Like one big Déjà vu. As long as you repeat the same order, the same versions will always appear – just like groundhog day. This can be quite beneficial to an astute player. A player can experiment with different site orders to find the highest scoring versions. One site version might have more possible points than another version of the same site. Look for things like number of critters available, long distance shots, and ease of play. A few rounds of experimentation might reveal a set of versions that offer 500 – 1000 more possible points that another. That could result in a 10-place improvement in tournament standings. Also, if you know the exact versions of the sites that are going to come up, you can practice! You can learn how get your accuracy up by reducing your shot count. That could result in a few hundred more points. In the national tournament, adding a thousand points to your score could result in several hundred bucks in your pocket!

Tournament Site Versions - Day by Day

There is one giant caveat in regards to tournament site order. The site order changes everyday! That means the site order versions that come up one day will be different from the site order versions that come up another day. Each day is a fresh and new. What that means is that one day might allow you to find a site order that gives you some extra points, and as long as you play the sites in that order you will see the same versions ALL DAY LONG. But the next day the versions will be different. That means one day might allow a higher scoring order than the next day.
Confusing, but worth the effort.
The best thing one player can give to another player is information. “Hey brother, if you play the sites in order (4-2-1-5-3) you can get some really choice site versions today.” Now that’s love! So if you find a site order that allows some sweet point potentials…share the love. Tell a friend.