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Situation Last Night
- Thread starter Samiel
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I don’t mind calcuttas and I used to always buy half of myself but over the last 3 years or so it’s gotten very hard to break even. There’s a race to 2 8 ball tournament that I go to on rare occasions. I usually sell for 300-350. Guess what 3 place usually pays. Yep somewhere right around 300. So I have to get at least 3 place every time I play or I lose money. Anymore I just pay entry fee and play for tournament money. Even when I don’t make the money I’m only out $20 for a night of playing pool.
One way to shorten the auction time is to start with a silent auction. Put up bidding sheets for each player (or group) before the doors open. (Some names will be preliminary/uncertain.) Bidders can write their bids on each sheet. When the entries are finalized, give them 10 more minutes for the silent auction. Then start the live auction. Each bidder gets no more than one bid per player. Or maybe two bids.
But I think the people who run tournaments aren't interested in speed. They seem to see nothing wrong with ending at 3 in the morning.
We had a recent tournament in my area…they held the auction online….no hold-up for play…..and much more money.
problem with online in most states in the u.s. it is no legal to have a calcutta.
but a good idea where it is.
but speeding up all aspect of a tournament is paramount to its continued success. no one wants to wait hours for their next match especially at a place you may not like hanging out.
or having a calcutta take up lots of time. then it should be held before anyone has to show up as a player if he wants.
simple start on time, have all tables with a constant match going, and give a short time for players to show up. and slow players told to play fast or be disqualified or no longer invited to those tournaments.
but a good idea where it is.
but speeding up all aspect of a tournament is paramount to its continued success. no one wants to wait hours for their next match especially at a place you may not like hanging out.
or having a calcutta take up lots of time. then it should be held before anyone has to show up as a player if he wants.
simple start on time, have all tables with a constant match going, and give a short time for players to show up. and slow players told to play fast or be disqualified or no longer invited to those tournaments.
A good auctioneer controls the pace of a calcutta and from what I have seen the last ten percent bid takes up the vast majority of time. I prefer "going once, going twiiice, BANG! The hammer comes down. I believe you can get ninety percent of the money in half the time. Don't really need to tell people how the player performed in preschool tournaments.
Something that was called a calcutta that I didn't understand, all entrants had to have the same amount bid. If you wanted to add more money on the favorite you had to cover all of the dogs too that nobody else wanted too. Bids went back to the last full round at the end of bidding. Seemed to work, they had been doing things like that for years. I would just like to understand it better because it might be useful.
Hu
Something that was called a calcutta that I didn't understand, all entrants had to have the same amount bid. If you wanted to add more money on the favorite you had to cover all of the dogs too that nobody else wanted too. Bids went back to the last full round at the end of bidding. Seemed to work, they had been doing things like that for years. I would just like to understand it better because it might be useful.
Hu
tomatoshooter
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Just some back of the envelope math, 64 matches total, but once they're are fewer than 16 players left, the tables will not be fully utilized. So seven rounds as fast as we can get them on the tables and four rounds after that, eleven rounds total. At 1:15 a round, that's 14 hours. If the Calcutta doesn't run over, that's 6 am.
Everybody does that, not just pool, all events.They want the event to be bigger and better but they just make it bigger and worser. It takes so much more energy to move the traffic through that you have to shorten the sets, making the events worse.
Just do 4 groups of 8,, a decent length race, then let the others play tomorrow.
big tournaments is one thing but local small ones where the buy in is 100 or less should be run in two days or make it a one day 8 hour tournament that goes fast.
and unless its a handicapped tournament races should be real short so many have a chance and not just the top few players.
and unless its a handicapped tournament races should be real short so many have a chance and not just the top few players.