Thoughts on the members tourney

Jeff sparks said:

IMHO
The dates for having the tourney need to be decided first, don't they? Then getting permission to play in a certain pool room on those dates should be next, right? I mean why bother with a poll of pool rooms that might not welcome us!

If enough members are serious again this year, ( at least 32 ) and this event is really going to happen, we must know the dates on which it is to be held, so the members can decide if they can attend... Correct? Then we need willing hosts, room owners that will welcome us and our tournament... Then we should be able to get a real count on members who would play in the tournament, if their room of choice won the final poll of the 2 or 3 rooms that welcomed our tournament... Sound about right?

So, who are the LSJohn's this year, and will take on the responsibilities of organizing this event, setting the dates, and finding receptive room owners?

Nothing happens until somebody goes to work... Who's are you dis year???

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mhilton777 said:

The date definitely needs to be set to make sure it works for a room owner's schedule. Myself and my beautiful wife Lizz can definitely take charge of running the tourney as we have already offered to do so. Wherever it is, I look forward to seeing you again Mr. Sparks!!!

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NH Steve said:

Well as the onepocket.org administrator it falls on me when an executive decision needs to be made, so here it is -- mhilton777 and his beautiful wife will be the treasurer and tournament director. I will work closely with them of course.



So this is settled, and thank you very much for your generous volunteering -- on top of the event shirts you have already taken on!!

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mhilton777 said:

The date definitely needs to be set to make sure it works for a room owner's schedule. Myself and my beautiful wife Lizz can definitely take charge of running the tourney as we have already offered to do so. Wherever it is, I look forward to seeing you again Mr. Sparks!!!

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Scrzbill said:

Do we call Milton, Mr Milton? I believe that if Mr Milton would contact some rooms to play, that would be choice number one. Malarkeys in Tacoma has enough tables to do a tournament and he is set up to stream. California Billiards is probably the nicest room in the country and he would be open. Lenny has four rooms in Phoenix. Tacoma and Phoenix have rooms that are reasonable. Find a room where the tournament can be held and when it can be held. If it is held on the West Coast, you will find plenty of players. I will not fly to the east coast for a two day tournament. That means four days for those playing from the Best coast. Two days of flying, two days to play.

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crabbcatjohn said:

As mentioned before we need a date poll first. I would do a quick survey thread of dates people would prefer. Put a time limit on the survey. Suggest your preferred time periods in the survey in two week intervals. No additional dates will be accepted after survey thread expires. Take the dates suggested in the thread and start a poll. Vote as many of the poll dates as will work for you. Put a time limit on the poll.

Cities /states that have spoken up. We seem to get new suggestions every few days so sooner or later we will have to have a viable final poll that lists all our options. Its my understanding this is designed as a verified members only tournament and we have to draw enough members to have one.
SO far as i have seen it;
California, Phoneix, Pa., Chicago, Ohio, NOLA, Minn. Do a final survey/poll same as above
I suggest limiting the options you can vote for at 2 if that's possible on this poll, that would give us a general region people are willing to travel too. I would suggest you ask people not to vote on a area if they can't make it on the dates chosen.

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NH Steve said:

Can't do two but can definitely do multiple choice.

As much as I think some of the polls that have been posted so far maybe seem inadequate once our members start delving more into them, I think they all serve a purpose for preliminary preference.

A lot is going to come down to the particular room owner -- they may have some date preferences themselves for example. Or different dates might change their green fee needs because of how busy the room might already be without us, for another example.

The next time we do a room poll, I think it needs to be multiple choice, and each room owner has to have already been contacted so we have a clear understanding of what that location will mean in terms of dates, green fees, tables -- and of course that the room owner is willing to host us!! I think different members here who know the room management that they want to advocate for could contact that room and see what they say about the idea of hosting us. If it doesn't come through for them this year, there is always next year and the year after that.

I don't think we need 16 tables as an absolute -- we did not have that at Lacy's and there were plenty of tables for both tournament and match-ups.

I also think we should commit to the idea of moving this event around the country if we can find the hosts and we can fill the field (32). It's only fair to our diverse membership. No offense to Lacy's or the next room to host us, because Lacy's was definitely a great host room!!!

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