I'm sick of no tournies in town here, theres over 100,000 people in two cities and no weekly tournament, which is pathetic, just had the one monthly tourney, a wopping 5 people showed up. If i want to play in a tourney i have to drive out of town to the smaller towns, one which has a long up and running weekly partners tourney, with 1% population as lafayette. This is one of the reasons i stopped playing, i'm used to a lot more tournaments. My home town has one if not the best tourneys in southern indiana from september to april, and a big tourney to close out the year (population 4000).
I'm wandering how should i seek out bars to start up a tourney, or should i try to get a guy i know and do an independent tourney with nothing added, at this point i don't really care i just want a descent tourney. Theres not really a "pool hall" in either city, one place has 20 tables but he will in no way/shape/form host a pool tourney, one guy said he would run it who frequents the bar and knows the owner, he declinded. I played in a tourney last weekend, $10 entry $0 added bar paid all of the quarters, i seem to like this format, this could be one possiblity.
Am i wrong in assuming that most if not all bars would like the idea of a pool tourney on one of their slower nights even? One thing that has happened is one dominant player has killed a lot of past tournies. If I could get something going i have seen where tournaments will ban winners for a 2 week period or something like that, maybe the first place finisher is banned for 2 weeks whoever gets second is banned for one week. I have known bars back home that have banned specific players from their tournies, this is humerous because i thought here that i might get banned for dominating some tournies but they never ban anyone. I think a tourney should be fair and at least half the field should have a shot at winning it or i wouldn't blame them for not coming back.
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I'm wandering how should i seek out bars to start up a tourney, or should i try to get a guy i know and do an independent tourney with nothing added, at this point i don't really care i just want a descent tourney. Theres not really a "pool hall" in either city, one place has 20 tables but he will in no way/shape/form host a pool tourney, one guy said he would run it who frequents the bar and knows the owner, he declinded. I played in a tourney last weekend, $10 entry $0 added bar paid all of the quarters, i seem to like this format, this could be one possiblity.
Am i wrong in assuming that most if not all bars would like the idea of a pool tourney on one of their slower nights even? One thing that has happened is one dominant player has killed a lot of past tournies. If I could get something going i have seen where tournaments will ban winners for a 2 week period or something like that, maybe the first place finisher is banned for 2 weeks whoever gets second is banned for one week. I have known bars back home that have banned specific players from their tournies, this is humerous because i thought here that i might get banned for dominating some tournies but they never ban anyone. I think a tourney should be fair and at least half the field should have a shot at winning it or i wouldn't blame them for not coming back.
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