One Pocket Timing

as long as the house, and the players dont care, and those paying to watch dont care, then take all the time for the tournament as needed.

but in reality, if some group that is integrel to the future of the tournament is complaining then you need to act. and in most cases that is the situation.
 
Baby Huey said:
A couple of points:
- the field was increased to about 43 players. the actual number participating was about 36-7 players. several of the early signups had to cancel out for various reasons. if the field had been left at 32 players we might have had only 27 or so players. extra players not a factor. as a side note; the Sands Regency Tournaments regularly had 300+ players. So, the pro's didn't like having the shortstops knock a few of them out and forced a reduced field. that event went the way of the DoDo Bird. The hotel added good money to the Regency events for years.......goodby
- there were 10 tables available. the minimum age was 65 years AND we had players in their 80's playing so some of us have complained about slow play-----give me a break.
- re: the Varner Wedge, it takes two willing participants to play that game.
- thx for Bogies hosting the event and adding nice money and zero green fee's regardless of the complaints. thx for Ray Hanson streaming and his handling of the Calcutta (almost 20K.) in total 12K prize money and 20K calcutta was not too shabby for old geezers to play for.
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Venue was great and hats off to Cory and Ray!

The few slow players, not so much, and it has nothing to do with skill sets.

In my experience there are different standards between what you might do privately and how you do things in public. Ferinstance: you want to eat dinner at home in your undies and belch; talk while you watch a movie; or take fooooorever to shoot pool, goferit.

But fortunately, most folks realize that when participating in an event in public due consideration should be given to the folks you’re sharing the event with.

IOWs, if you’re gambling mano a mano, do what you want (and what your opponent can stand and let you get away with).

But in a tournament players should give due consideration to the folks they’re sharing it with and play at a reasonable pace. To do otherwise is selfish and just makes everyone else’s experience miserable.

Lou Figueroa
 
maha said:
as long as the house, and the players dont care, and those paying to watch dont care, then take all the time for the tournament as needed.

but in reality, if some group that is integrel to the future of the tournament is complaining then you need to act. and in most cases that is the situation.
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lol what group? a handful of people on the forum
half that dont even play in it
hardly integrel to the future of anything
 
one of the groups i just mentioned. if any of those three groups stops coming then the tournament will die out.
 
maha said:
one of the groups i just mentioned. if any of those three groups stops coming then the tournament will die out.
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again, less than a handful

most of the guys there, as i seen with my eyes for years, love being there and come back year after year
 
The only possible fair solution is a chess clock. I really don't see why that isn't the standard already as it is with any long thinking game, even Scrabble.

Each player starts with 60 minutes. You sit down, punch the clock, your opponent gets a delay of say 30 seconds before their clock starts ticking. They take their turn at the table, sit down, punch the clock. You run out of time, you lose.

They can also enforce things like requiring 20 shots in 60 minutes.

Anything else which doesn't give players equal time can incentives players to play slow just to invoke other rules if they feel those rules give them an advantage.
 
Ray Hanson was most considerate of the players in terms of scheduling matches. Our matches started at !PM. They could have started much earlier. Pre-match practice was not policed. The players took liberal time warming up on their scheduled tables. This added some to the lengthy match times. Being and older age group, comfort breaks were liberal. My point is this is a more laid back event with a lot of kibitzing and aches and pains stories and how the kids are doing. It clearly is a one of a kind affair that is unique to tournaments. It's so much fun to be in this group of oldies that I hope it continues.
 
Slow play by guys, old or young, is a cancer on the tournament form of 1pocket -- a total killer of a beautiful game.

TDs need to get their scalpels ready and excise the abnormal cells (just a couple of players) so the majority can enjoy the game or it's going to die as a tournament event.

Lou Figueroa
 
this is why so many pool rooms go out of business. pool players, and pool room owners, and those who hire a t.d. which isnt qualified
doom themselves.
they are either too stupid or not smart enough to see even the simple things to make something work.
a good business person can instantly see what doesnt work.
 
maha said:
this is why so many pool rooms go out of business. pool players, and pool room owners, and those who hire a t.d. which isnt qualified
doom themselves.
they are either too stupid or not smart enough to see even the simple things to make something work.
a good business person can instantly see what doesnt work.
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That’s a bit much
The tournament is 9 years running
The pool room bogies has been open for over 30 years

You should be on day time network tv with all that drama
 
TCC Bogies and this senior trnmnt probably are the exception to what Maha quoted. But you can rest assured viewer #'s won't go up with being the norm.

I would bet if you put a shot clock on Varner he could play just as well. Baby Huey may not.
 
senior tournaments are more for the camaraderie than for the winning of the tournament. so taking longer as long as the extra time doesn't ruin the experience doesn't matter to most.
those that are too good for the general players that come for the easy money, should not be invited or handicapped so they don't take off all the money each year. that isn't fair. or kindly ask them not to come and just play in the open events.
and as in any tournament players that don't keep things moving need to be dealt with.
 
maha said:
senior tournaments are more for the camaraderie than for the winning of the tournament. so taking longer as long as the extra time doesn't ruin the experience doesn't matter to most.
those that are too good for the general players that come for the easy money, should not be invited or handicapped so they don't take off all the money each year. that isn't fair. or kindly ask them not to come and just play in the open events.
and as in any tournament players that don't keep things moving need to be dealt with.
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The only thing that ruins the experience is waiting for a 7 hour match to finish or paying money to watch it. Hell, I can’t even watch it for free, and I’ll never pay to watch that crap.
 
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