Let the man speak for himself, muchacho.
$1000 entry tourney at Chester's in OKC -- anyone go?
- Thread starter Bob Jewett
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Tournament director quit a week before the event. John Barton stepped in and ran it but wasn’t really prepared To do so. They ended up using several venues and the one venue from what I hear must have had the old diamonds with overly bouncy rails. Some players posted on there own fb pages about playing salotto matches to keep there ratings in check, unconfirmed rumor. The winner is a school teacher and as far as I know had no complaints about his rating. Nice payday.
And apparently some contention between the Oklahoma players and Arizona players. Thinking Arizona players are underrated
He already spoke for himself, and quite clearly
Salotto matches are listed as public for Fargo. Should be able to confirm if people were dogging Salotto matches if you know which players to look at
Then from what I’m hearing someone has some confirming to do. But they are only rumors though.
I would have played (and lost my 1k) but don’t have 400 matches in Fargo. Outside of the leagues, most of the sub 600 tournaments around here don’t report to Fargo.
I hope there are more of these events
How do you have "sub 600 tournaments", tournaments that require a certain Fargo threshold, but don't report to Fargo?!
That right there is pretty screwed up…
tomatoshooter
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I was kind of hoping for a good scandal.
I don't have a lot of games in the system, but, just looking at my matches, there's nothing to suggest that the Fargorate projections are inaccurate. Sometimes I play a higher rated player tough, and sometimes I get my ass stomped, but things generally play close and average very close to the Fargo prediction.
tomatoshooter
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Call it a "B" player tournament? There are 4 weekly tournaments that I compete in semi regularly. I think half of them report. Some are more casual. Places will have both, even with the same TD. The thing about having a "B" tournament instead of calling it U-600 is you don't need a certain robustness and that may be more inviting to less experienced players. I do agree that especially if you are holding a more "legitimate" tournament, and are basing things on Fargo, it seems pretty freeloadery to not report.
I totally understand the complaint if the conditions sucked but what are the odds they'd have 3 local rooms with identical conditions. ...and of course if they attempted to run it all in one spot. The players would have complained about how long it took...lol
I know you weren't the one complaining. Just quoting for sake of context.
No way that entry fee gets 10 players in my neck of the woods. Even with probably 6M in close proximity.
I spent some time playing around there. Used to match up with a guy named David Parker. Lots of nice places to play in that area!
Yes, good point! I suppose if you play too well, too often, you aren’t allowed back.
Tomatoshooter explained it better in his answer.
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Most Arizona players think they're underrated.
inside joke...?
I know they pulled from all over the country. We had three from Florida.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown by state of where they came from.
That would be a tough one to go two and out on!
I know two from florida had some really nice guys put up most of the money for them.
I have also heard round-abouts, about people using Salotto to game their handicaps. Don't think it was a good idea to allow a 3rd party app with no oversight enter match results into a national handicap system. If people were honest, sure it would work great, more data. But there is a shortage of honest people that do the right thing vs the easy thing that suits them.
Since you can't view other people's Fargo game results, there is no way for a person to know if their opponent (or anyone else) has used Salotto.