Hello.
I have been asked to start hosting weekly or every other weekly pool tournaments in our local town pool hall.
We haven't had any interest in tournaments for more than a year. Simply because we don't have enough players who would show up.
Now, some younger players have asked why there are no tournaments, and the owner of the club contacted me and asked if I could start running them.
I would very much like that, but there are some problems.
[*]Simply not enough players in a town of ~45000 people
[*]The players that used to play pool, have no interest in tournaments, or actually, in pool. They prefer poker
[*]The younger group of players are not even close up to bar with competing, for example, against me and a handful of other players who will be taking part in the tournaments.
I and others who play regulary are not A players by any means, but we can still break and run out a rack or two in a race to 11, for example.
I believe the owner is not going to be seeking to make money off of the tournaments.
What would be the suggestions you'd make to the owner? I have a meeting with him in a few hours.
For example, entry fee? Prizes - 1/2 of tournament pot cash between 1-3 and free playing hours credit?
How to promote tournaments except facebook? I belive I could promote it at the local college... What else?
How to find and negotiate local small businesses into being sponsors? For example, local pizza place could offer a pizza as a first place prize? But why would they do it? Name the tournament after them?
I have ideas like those but I need more.
How to make the newer players keep coming back after they get whitewashed 0-3 the first time?
One possibility is a handicap system, but that wont work I think, anyway. It's really difficult to assign handicaps, and there will always be arguments etc.
Please, some ideas would really be appreciated.
Thank you!
I have been asked to start hosting weekly or every other weekly pool tournaments in our local town pool hall.
We haven't had any interest in tournaments for more than a year. Simply because we don't have enough players who would show up.
Now, some younger players have asked why there are no tournaments, and the owner of the club contacted me and asked if I could start running them.
I would very much like that, but there are some problems.
[*]Simply not enough players in a town of ~45000 people
[*]The players that used to play pool, have no interest in tournaments, or actually, in pool. They prefer poker
[*]The younger group of players are not even close up to bar with competing, for example, against me and a handful of other players who will be taking part in the tournaments.
I and others who play regulary are not A players by any means, but we can still break and run out a rack or two in a race to 11, for example.
I believe the owner is not going to be seeking to make money off of the tournaments.
What would be the suggestions you'd make to the owner? I have a meeting with him in a few hours.
For example, entry fee? Prizes - 1/2 of tournament pot cash between 1-3 and free playing hours credit?
How to promote tournaments except facebook? I belive I could promote it at the local college... What else?
How to find and negotiate local small businesses into being sponsors? For example, local pizza place could offer a pizza as a first place prize? But why would they do it? Name the tournament after them?
I have ideas like those but I need more.
How to make the newer players keep coming back after they get whitewashed 0-3 the first time?
One possibility is a handicap system, but that wont work I think, anyway. It's really difficult to assign handicaps, and there will always be arguments etc.
Please, some ideas would really be appreciated.
Thank you!
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