I started the other thread and then realized that I was not specific enough to garner more responses to I started this thread so that members here have a more clear idea of what I am trying to determine. It has been over 30 years or about when the handicap system was being introduced that I stopped playing pool, but decided this past December that I wanted to start playing again. Where I am currently located there is not much to choose from as far as places to play pool at, and of course they all push to have handicap tournaments to get people in the doors serve them beer and hold a 9 ball handicap tournament.
So I would like to know what the process should be to establish someone's initial handicap to compete in the tournaments?
Or is it left to the whim of the tournament director to come up with some number to assign a player, which in the case of this particular location everyone is rated very high then has to try and get it adjusted.
Along with the other questions I asked in the first thread, now this is not some major tournament but weekly so that a person can get out and compete, but I have seen where they do this to all new comers to the location to only drive the individual players away, just my ramblings, but as I mentioned there is not to much to select from other than more places with bar boxes. There is only 2 rooms with in 40 or 50 miles that have 1 9 footer in the place.
So I would like to know what the process should be to establish someone's initial handicap to compete in the tournaments?
Or is it left to the whim of the tournament director to come up with some number to assign a player, which in the case of this particular location everyone is rated very high then has to try and get it adjusted.
Along with the other questions I asked in the first thread, now this is not some major tournament but weekly so that a person can get out and compete, but I have seen where they do this to all new comers to the location to only drive the individual players away, just my ramblings, but as I mentioned there is not to much to select from other than more places with bar boxes. There is only 2 rooms with in 40 or 50 miles that have 1 9 footer in the place.