crabbcatjohn
Verified Member
I think i speak for all of us that were involved in this tournament from start to finish saying we had a great time! Thanks to everybody who helped out from start to finish. Thanks to Bill Rowsey, Todd, Chuck, John L. , Jeanne L. , Dustin and Matt. I know i was kinda of the guy who was put out front on this, but it took a whole group of us to put this all this together. The amount of time and money spent to make this simple 16 player event a success was second to none!
Special thanks to Bill Rowsey. Your a lot of fun and a great room owner sir!!! Just get more of those BIGGER buckets of High Life next time sir! lol
A few things for your consideration and feedback.
The format: 3/2 races and using the Grady rule. I really liked the 3/2 races opposed to the 3/3 we have been accustomed too. The reason being we got done early both days. Lets face it. Over half of our entries in these are generally retired folks or people over 60. Why we continue to make ourselves suffer playing in iron man events in the regular members tournament is beyond me. Getting done both days by 8:00 pm with most matches ending before 6:00 pm really made this fun instead of a grind. I think most of us stayed around to mingle or match up after the last matches of the day and that was certainly fun!!! In the greater pool community, running a tournament into well after 12 am every single time on Sunday is considered a poorly organized event. JMO. Any feedback pros/cons on the 3/2 races by the players in our Southaven event would be appreciated.
Grady rule: We chose not to use the Grady rule on the B side unless at the end of 2 hours only one game had been played. With the race to 2 it was never needed... We never used it during a game, only when a game was started AFTER the 2 hour time limit. As for the winners side it only came into play once or maybe twice although several matches were over the time limit and into that format. We never had a match go over 3 hours at this one. Feedback by the players on using this would be appreciated.
Banks: Having a open bank event let us mingle with the locals more and was a good thing for us AND the owners. We had a big crowd of sweaters for the banks watching their locals match up against us! But with the lack of participation by our members(8 of 20) i'm thinking next time we should have a OPEN single elimination race to 2 one pocket instead of banks. It might be a better choice. I am certainly proud our members that came in 2nd and 4th in the banks. It was a tough field of locals for sure. It took the best over all player in Memphis to best our top guy... Feed back on a open mini before each members tournament would be appreciated.
I want to thank everybody who complimented me on my play/finish as well as my tournament director/auctioneer duties. It was a very difficult task to juggle indeed! Also a huge thanks to the players who had enough faith in us and our format, that they would spend their time and money to come hang out with us and sell it out almost immediately !!! Thanks everybody!!!
Special thanks to Bill Rowsey. Your a lot of fun and a great room owner sir!!! Just get more of those BIGGER buckets of High Life next time sir! lol
A few things for your consideration and feedback.
The format: 3/2 races and using the Grady rule. I really liked the 3/2 races opposed to the 3/3 we have been accustomed too. The reason being we got done early both days. Lets face it. Over half of our entries in these are generally retired folks or people over 60. Why we continue to make ourselves suffer playing in iron man events in the regular members tournament is beyond me. Getting done both days by 8:00 pm with most matches ending before 6:00 pm really made this fun instead of a grind. I think most of us stayed around to mingle or match up after the last matches of the day and that was certainly fun!!! In the greater pool community, running a tournament into well after 12 am every single time on Sunday is considered a poorly organized event. JMO. Any feedback pros/cons on the 3/2 races by the players in our Southaven event would be appreciated.
Grady rule: We chose not to use the Grady rule on the B side unless at the end of 2 hours only one game had been played. With the race to 2 it was never needed... We never used it during a game, only when a game was started AFTER the 2 hour time limit. As for the winners side it only came into play once or maybe twice although several matches were over the time limit and into that format. We never had a match go over 3 hours at this one. Feedback by the players on using this would be appreciated.
Banks: Having a open bank event let us mingle with the locals more and was a good thing for us AND the owners. We had a big crowd of sweaters for the banks watching their locals match up against us! But with the lack of participation by our members(8 of 20) i'm thinking next time we should have a OPEN single elimination race to 2 one pocket instead of banks. It might be a better choice. I am certainly proud our members that came in 2nd and 4th in the banks. It was a tough field of locals for sure. It took the best over all player in Memphis to best our top guy... Feed back on a open mini before each members tournament would be appreciated.
I want to thank everybody who complimented me on my play/finish as well as my tournament director/auctioneer duties. It was a very difficult task to juggle indeed! Also a huge thanks to the players who had enough faith in us and our format, that they would spend their time and money to come hang out with us and sell it out almost immediately !!! Thanks everybody!!!
