[POLL] When do you show up to a tournament?

What time do you arrive to a tournament?

  • 3 or more hours in advance

    Votes: 9 17.0%

  • 2 hours

    Votes: 11 20.8%

  • 1 hour

    Votes: 28 52.8%

  • Right on time, or a little after.

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • Total voters
    53
BeiberLvr

BeiberLvr

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This is for people that don't have a table at home.

Say there's a weekly tournament that starts at 7pm. At what time do you normally arrive?
 
Early, at least an hour before the Calcutta;)


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Most of the tournaments that I have played in over the past couple of years start up to 3 hours later than posted. So, I have been showing up at start time to get my hour of speed practice in before it starts. I must preface this by saying that I like to pre-pay so I don't have to worry about my spot.
 
Usually if i have not been to the place to feel out the tables I'd like to get 1-2 hours of running racks so i can roughly guess how much the cushions/speed/pockets vary from what i am accustomed to then it'll be easier to adjust from and much more predictable .
Then i go for a drink , relax and focus on my mental aspects .
 
Too much practice can also be detrimental. Just enough to lube up the stroke and feel the tables. Too much practice (before a tournament) can start to wear you down mentally and toward the end of the night, your thoughts become cloudy. Thats the way it is for me anyway.
 
Somewhat irrelevant...but this is one of my pet peeves, is tournaments that don't start on time. Especially, if its a weekly tournament. It then gets worse and worse, because people know its going to start late, so then they come late, and then the tournament starts later and later and later each week and people come in later and later...viscous circle
 
if it starts at 7

I'll be right on time, or a little after, because by the time I get off work, shower, & change, its gonna be TIGHT. . . .
But I do phone the T.D. well before start time.
 
I have a table at home and still get there early. I want to play on the table I'm competing on not the one I have at home.
 
Start on time!!!

ridinda9 said:
I'll be right on time, or a little after, because by the time I get off work, shower, & change, its gonna be TIGHT. . . .
But I do phone the T.D. well before start time.
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I couldn't agree with you more.

I know of a weekly tournament that used to start at 8:00, and after a few years, was beginning at 11:00!! Knew of another (monthly) event that was scheduled for noon, but didn't start till after 3:00 and consequently ran to after closing, with a number of players dropping out because they had to get up in the morning for work.

I ran many tourneys between 1967 and 1995, and was a stickler for starting them on time. Sometimes pissed people off, but the majority thanked me and kept on coming back.
 
Tournament directors need to start on time and stop making exceptions for players for tournaments that are weekly.


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Donny Lutz said:
I couldn't agree with you more.

I know of a weekly tournament that used to start at 8:00, and after a few years, was beginning at 11:00!! Knew of another (monthly) event that was scheduled for noon, but didn't start till after 3:00 and consequently ran to after closing, with a number of players dropping out because they had to get up in the morning for work.

I ran many tourneys between 1967 and 1995, and was a stickler for starting them on time. Sometimes pissed people off, but the majority thanked me and kept on coming back.
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That really amazes me, people getting pissed off because you start your tournament on time!!:confused:
 
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