Hoopastank
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I have always been a fan of the player who wins the winner side having to get beat twice. I am going to try this win by 2 for sure! Thanks!
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What are your favorite tournament formats?
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I have always been a fan of the player who wins the winner side having to get beat twice. I am going to try this win by 2 for sure! Thanks!
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Just to be clear, I am referring to a single match. For example if the score is 10 to 10 in a race to 11 the winner will now have to go to 12 and so on. No hill hill ever.
Hoopastank
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Yes absolutely, Sorry I should have been more clear on what I was stating as for a Final race. I was thinking of that in my head just didn't get to my fingers to type
How many times do u see a Super Bowl come down to one play or a basketball teams come down to one shot, or a baseball game come down to one pitch.
I understand what u are saying but it happens in a lot of other sports.
All the above with Winner Breaks... Double Elimination 9 foot & Bar Box. We used to play the Winner's Side on the 9 footers & the One -Loss Side on the Bar Boxes...
Hoopastank
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Rotation games only, make it 60 seconds for one pocket.
I have had to put players on a shot clock in tournaments before. We usually don't until we see the match getting longer or holding things up. This is something I would be wiling to try from the get go though. Thanks!
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Did the players like the one loss side on the Bar Boxes?
One way to get the weaker players involved is to spread out the prize money. Far too many tournaments concentrate all the payouts on the top few finishers, which means that the same handful of people win every week while the others are lucky to get back their entry fee. There should be payouts for the top third of the field, which would give more players incentive to take part.
Since Magic Racks are standard in most big tournaments, I can't see the problem with them. But if people insist on using the wooden racks, at the very least there should be a 30 second time limit for finalizing the rack. Of course much of the problem with loose racks comes from the failure to replace the spots on a regular basis, which winds up wearing a groove in them. How much would it cost to replace those spots once a week on those tournament tables?
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I do my best to get at least 30% of the field paid, even if the bottom get the entry fee back. It depends on the add in and how many players show up. The last tournament I did we had 64 players and I pad the top 16. Entry fee was 75 ,16th got back $105.00
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The room we play out of replaces the spots before every tournament so about once a month. We have not used the magic racks, just the Diamond Rack that have come with the tables. One thought I have had is to rack the 9 or 10 ball on the spot, have you played in a tournament with this option? what are your thoughts?
That's a good idea too. That's the way TENNIS is played. That would (might) be welcomed by all & -put Hill-Hill in the History Books.
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9 & 10 Ball
I like watching 9 &10 Ball matches on 9 &10 foot Diamond tables between top tier players that display good sportsmanship and professional behavior.
I like a race to at least 11 games with a winner breaks format and a referee racking with a Delta Elite rack and the 9 racked on the spot.
Watching 14.1 and On Pocket game is boring to me, but I do like playing One Pocket.
The World Pool Championships if I got the name right is a favorite of mine. Watching a bunch of the best from other countries competing is always fun to me and some supper shots are made. It is a team event that I like.
I like watching 9 &10 Ball matches on 9 &10 foot Diamond tables between top tier players that display good sportsmanship and professional behavior.
I like a race to at least 11 games with a winner breaks format and a referee racking with a Delta Elite rack and the 9 racked on the spot.
Watching 14.1 and On Pocket game is boring to me, but I do like playing One Pocket.
The World Pool Championships if I got the name right is a favorite of mine. Watching a bunch of the best from other countries competing is always fun to me and some supper shots are made. It is a team event that I like.
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He can clarify if I am misunderstanding him but I think what he means is a doubles/partners tournament, as in teams of two. But instead of choosing who your partner is, you have a blind draw to assign who all the paired teams will be (obviously you need to have an even number of players signed up to be able to do this, so if you end up with an odd number of signups and can't get one more person to play so that you have an even number, then the last guy who signed up just doesn't get to play). And instead of scotch doubles, where the teammates alternate for every single shot, he prefers it where each teammate continues to shoot until they miss, and then when it is your teams turn again, then the other teammate shoots until they miss. In his preferred format teammates will be alternating turns rather than alternating shots as would be the case if it were a scotch doubles format.
Under this regular doubles format, if you are using winner breaks, you have to set the rule about what happens when a team wins a game. Does the same person that sunk the winning ball then start off breaking the next rack, because you consider it that their turn never ended, or do you consider a game being won the end of a turn and now the other teammate will be breaking the next game, or do you make it the choice of the team who they will have start off and break because you consider the new game to be a new start. None of these is wrong and I have seen it done all three ways, you just have to make sure to decide what the rule will be for your event so that everybody is doing it the same way and there are no arguments.
You also have to decide for the team that lost the last rack, when they finally get to shoot again in the next rack (or whenever it is), do they have to keep the same rotation they left off with, or do they get to pick who goes first again since it is a new game. Again, I have seen it done both ways.