Snookers Providence RI - 9-Ball - $5000.00 Guaranteed First Place

Hey Ray- I think Dave from Boston made a great suggestion on the other thread. But in the end, if you ask pool players for their opinion on how something should be run the answer is always the same. The way that favors them winning. so, unless you are partial to hearing a lot of whining, I'd just do it the way you think is best!

Bob
 
Dave in Boston said:
Ray I agree BUT.....

There is a major differance between now and thirty years ago. First of all the cost of living is incredible higher now, so people have to work mutliple jobs or what ever to survive so that practice time is limited.

Second of all 30 years ago there were places to play everywhere and the cost to play was significantly cheaper.

But I do agree for 20 bucks this tournament was amazing, told you this in person and will tell you agian. Great job.

I hear a lot from the higher players on this subject and they all say the same as you. And to a point I agree with you but not everyone can have the time, money or even talent to become an "A" player so are those individuals supposed to be punished? Are they to give up pool totally and not support it? If This is true then you might as well close the pool halls and stop the tours now because only 1 out of 20 is going to be able to compete.
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Yes, not everyone can have the time and money to become an A player - Give up pool and not support it? No, but in this era we give those players a pretty go spot in tournaments and we only had about 10 players show up to watch a $5000.00 match, so they are still not supporting it - Why weren't there 50 or 60 C players watching - Can't be because they couldn't afford it, it was free
 
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doitforthegame said:
Hey Ray- I think Dave from Boston made a great suggestion on the other thread. But in the end, if you ask pool players for their opinion on how something should be run the answer is always the same. The way that favors them winning. so, unless you are partial to hearing a lot of whining, I'd just do it the way you think is best!

Bob
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Bob, the question was asked for a reason - Just waiting for some replies to give my response
 
Snooker's RI said:
Let's say we try for the 50/50 split - How can we do it?
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I think the easiest way would be to Keep using handicaps, and make shorter races, but that may be a hard sell. The better player usually wins in a longer race, in a shorter race, anything can happen.

Roughly how do the matches on Wednesday night word out, It's just a 1 game difference at most right 5-4?
 
5-4 race on the A side - with 32 players or more the B side is reduced by 1 - tonights first place pays $201.00 and paying 8 spots
 
i didnt play , but i think the format is good it just could use a little tweak to give the lower players betters odds to upset a better player, possibly shortening the b and c players to "a"=8 , "b"=6 and "c" =5 , i think this would make it closer as long as everyone is rated correctly everyone would be happy. As a "b" player , i'm not a favorite against any of those "a" players with a 8-6 race. gotta play my but off and catch some rolls lol. by just extending the "a" players total doesnt help ,JMO
 
Snooker's RI said:
Results from the RR Challenge

When A's played B's - A's won 23 matches B's won 15 matches
When A's played C's - A's won 9 matches C's won 2 matches
When B's played C's - B's won 10 matches C's won 7 matches

The rest of the matches were classes playing each other
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The only matches that might need a tweek would be A's vs C's by looking at the stats - Day two saw 10 hill matches out of the first 12
 
From the other thread Ressurecting Pool

Yesterday, 02:08 PM

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I think the best way to do it, specially for this event since you are basically already doing it. Is to seed the tournament until everyone is in the cash.

So you had everyone qualify in there respective divisions, so have the pre-money portion of the tournament run the same way (specially since you have the same amount of people in each division already) as your qaulifiers. So have all the A's play each other and B's etc etc until everyone has cashed. So you will basically have something like 6 undefeated (2 from each class) and 10 - 12 in the one losse side (3 or 4 from each class) then you redraw and mix everyone up. This way everyone is playing the same level of people to get to the money.

I think this is a very fair way of going about it. Everyone has a shot at the money and you will not be class heavy in the money. You will have the same number of people cashing from each division. What level of money from then on out is based off your play against everyone from that point on

David
 
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