DCC buyback option

[PaulieB]

That's a tough beat though, if you are in the final match (with no buy back left) and beat your opponent, then he uses his buy back and comes back and wins it all.

It would feel like you should of been the winner, you won the final match first after all, heh. :smile:

 

[stick8]

Dcc

Last year Henny drew Mika and lost from the hill after scrathching on the break. Henny was the last player with a buyback left. He redrew Mika the next round and beat him on the TV table.

It's cheaper to play 9 ball ($160) than purchasing a pass($185) for the whole tourny. I wish I could be off for the whole week. Maybe one year.

That is what i did the2 yr i went , it was in KY and it was cheaper to play than to get pass-- won my 1st match both times but lost my 2nd. but am old man and will say it is the best tourny i have ever been 2. STICK [71] GOD I MISS MR WHIDDENTON

 

[JDB]

That's a tough beat though, if you are in the final match (with no buy back left) and beat your opponent, then he uses his buy back and comes back and wins it all.

It would feel like you should of been the winner, you won the final match first after all, heh. :smile:

LOL; how is that different than "true" double elimination? If you are in the final match with no buyback; that means you lost earlier. However, if your opponent still has a buyback, that means he did not lose earlier.

How is that not fair?

 

[UrackmIcrackm]

LOL; how is that different than "true" double elimination? If you are in the final match with no buyback; that means you lost earlier. However, if your opponent still has a buyback, that means he did not lose earlier.

How is that not fair?

Exactly.

The problem lies in tournaments moving away from a true double elim to a single extended race for the finals. They've been doing it for so long now that we're going to start seeing people that have never seen or heard of a true double.

 

[lfigueroa]

As long as the drawings are done out in the open with people watching i don't see any problem . Any tournament that can produce the number of players that DCC does should be applauded and emulated .

Well, for me, this is one thing about the DCC that I have a gripe with: they don't do the draw out in the open. For the last several years it has come out of a black box -- a computer program.

Since they started using it, I've said it was wrong (not to say there's any skulduggery going on), just that something like the draw for a major tournament should be totally transparent.

Lou Figueroa

 

[TheCueHunter]

The more i understand this format the more i like it. only one person has a chance at a bye per round vs. the bracket system where sometimes more than half the field gets byes. It also increases the prize pool quite a bit with all the buybacks. I guess the only other question i have is why dont people use this format more often.

The buy backs go to pay the all around champion payouts, none of the buy back money goes into the tourny. But I will say that this year was absolutely the best run year ever. I have played in the banks for 7 years and this year was run the smoothest. The new software worked great, and you actually had a time frame in which to come back, and the round was always drawn at that time.

Oh, they had the matches in the rooms also which last year they didnt and that made it impossible to be in the tourny room all the time, because of the crowd

 

[PaulieB]

Didn't say it wasn't fair and I also realize it's the same as a true double elim.

I was just thinking I would feel crappy if I won the first match of the finals and then lost the 2nd match due to the buy back(or the double elimination format). Having to beat the guy twice, I'd rather just lose the first match than tease myself.

Fortunately, I'm never going to have to worry about that, as I would never even see the finals of my own basement tournament, nevermind the DCC!