What better way to spend this quarantine than looking at pong statistics? Today, I am going to return again to the idea of "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR) for pong. You may recall a couple of years ago we touched on this topic, but calculating WAR on the level of the team. You can read the two installments on team WAR here:
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We played four "official" (i.e., stat-tracking-worthy) games on the Friday of Summer Slam, outside the tourney matches. The fourth was an all-time classic - more on that one to come.
In the meantime, the other three produced some fun moments. Check em out:
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I hosted a pong tournament, monikered Summer Slam, in June. If you don't already know what pong is and want to catch up, good luck!. You're behind by, ballpark, 20 blogs and podcasts.
For everyone else: Let's get started.
Format & Outcome
Six teams entered, competing round-robin to qualify for a single-elimination 
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In this latest episode of the Pong Pod, Ezra, Bullets and I wrap up our mechanics discussion by focusing on serving form specifically, and then talk about how - in light of how infrequent we actually have the opportunity to play - one could actually implement positive, permanent changes to one's mechanics.
Important note: We're asking 
In the fifth installment of the Pong Pod, Ezra, Bullets and I discuss how one can improve his/her odds of winning at pong - tackling that topic specifically from the angle of what we feel proper mechanics and training regimes might look like.
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Also of note is the new paddle Bullets designed, which we referenced 
Welcome to the third installment of our weekly monthly whenever-we-feel-like-ly podcat, the Pong Pod! This is actually part ONE of an extra-special two-part podcat, since we talked for so long you might have thought we were playing water pong.
In case you missed our first two episodes, you can listen to them on SoundCloud: in Episode 1, Live 
If I think about this website's library, I invariably land on one particular topic that's woefully underrepresented. It's sort of like, when you got a fever, and there's only one prescription.
It's time, once again, for Pong analytics. Welcome to Nognarok.
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The format for this spring's beer pong tourney was different than prior -
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