Nachdem die Gamesfair.com -Plattform sehr veraltet war, entdeckte ich über Pilottapp.cy und ich sehe, dass es nicht so viele Menschen gibt wie früher.
Gibt es eine andere Online -Plattform oder Pilotta -Gruppen, die mir nicht bekannt ist?
In den letzten Jahren scheint es schwer zu spielen
https://pilottapp.cy
Von AllozBoss
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A piece of Cyprus I didn’t know about. Thank you.
Would be more popular if you didn’t need a degree to understand wtf is happening.
When I was a kid I would sit around when my Dad with my uncles would play pilotta so I could learn how the game works.
The only thing I remember was incoherent yelling and table slamming.
Suffice to say I dont know pilotta today.
When ATI closed down the game died.
Completely anecdotal I know, but up until 2016-17 practically everyone in UCY was playing pilotta on the cafeterias. At the same time, I can’t remember going to the army as a reserve and not spending half of my night playing.
Zorbas then bought and closed all the cafeterias at UCY before reopening them 1 year later. By that time, there were a lot less people playing and coincidentally I was moved to a different army camp during that time where nobody played.
It’s interesting as pilotta was very recently the most popular card game in Cyprus. As someonene who is friends with many coffee shop owners, they changed their opening hours in the mid 2010s to allow pilotta players to basically play all night. In fact there were many places that made their names by allowing pilotta to thrive in them, but now you’ll rarely see people playing even the „usual“ places.
If I had to make one guess, I would say that the pilotta „boom“ coincided with the caffes‘ boom. There were a lot of people going to coffee shops every day and they used to spend half their day there. Since covid, fewer people do so (still a lot, but fewer) and more people prefer takeaway/deliveries. Add to that the newer generations prefering online meetups rarher than in-person ones, and combine it with the major „pilota hubs“ like universities/army etc playing less and less, and you can paint the picture of why the game is losing popularity.
Pilotta was probably facing a gradual decline over the years but more recently I think the pilotta culture is partly taken over by tichu. If you go to Any cafe around the UCY you’ll see students playing tichu.
Other factors to a lesser extent probably are:
1. more mainstream appeal of video games/mobile phone games
2. casinos
In Cyprus College circa 1995 we were playing in the cafeteria day and night. Half tables were playing and the rest of the people were sitting around the tables watching/coaching.
I still remember when someone „etsakkan ton asso“ the sound of his hand hitting the table brought a complete silence with everyone turning to see what happened 🤣🤣
I miss those times!!!
What interesting is the older generation of Cypriots here in the UK seem to prefer spastra/ppastra, not sure when pilotta became the more popular game
A lot of people still play, although I’m not sure it’s still popular amongst teenagers.
I can confidently guesstimate that more than half of men over 30 play pilotta at least once a month