Interesting Tournament Format, Your Thoughts?

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jbayx

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Bar table 9 ball, race to 3 winner breaks. $100 entry fee

Each player would receive 5 chips for their entry fee, each set loss would cost the player one of their chips. The draw would be just like a regular tournament to get things started. Players would then play one set (race to 3, winner breaks) All matches for the round must be completed before the next round starts. Each round, all of the names are thrown back in the hat and a new draw takes place along with the new round. As the tournament progresses, players that lose their 5 chips would be eliminated. When it gets to the final two players, they would continue play until one runs out of chips and a winner is crowned.

The chips are just a tangible item for the players to hang on to. The eliminations are tracked at the tournament desk.
 
I like the idea but depending on the number of entries 5 chips is a fairly large number. With just two players it could last for 9 sets of race to 3.
 
Yeah I think quintuple elimination with redraws every round could take a lot of time. Cool that you're trying to think outside of the box though.
 
Lots of "chip tournaments" are run all over the country. Every one of them uses the 5 chip/match model, but all of them are races to one, not 3. I've run chip tournaments with 80 players and 8 tables, and with a race to one it took 10 hrs to complete. $100 is too big an entry fee...Mine have been $10 entry.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
 
Long time to play it.

jbayx said:
Bar table 9 ball, race to 3 winner breaks. $100 entry fee

Each player would receive 5 chips for their entry fee, each set loss would cost the player one of their chips. The draw would be just like a regular tournament to get things started. Players would then play one set (race to 3, winner breaks) All matches for the round must be completed before the next round starts. Each round, all of the names are thrown back in the hat and a new draw takes place along with the new round. As the tournament progresses, players that lose their 5 chips would be eliminated. When it gets to the final two players, they would continue play until one runs out of chips and a winner is crowned.

The chips are just a tangible item for the players to hang on to. The eliminations are tracked at the tournament desk.
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I don't remember the calculations I used but if you do something like that with 100 dollar entry I still cant imagine you will pack them in. Get it down to 40/50 with 5 chips and you will get a lot of business but you had better allow several days to run it which is going to put you starting on Friday no doubt.

I like the format, and the amount of matches but you will need a lot of time in lieu of tables.
 
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