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22:02 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
Yeah but which game type every 6 week? its easy to tell that arcade on snooker is far more easier than the rest.

Not really as simple as that over here apart from fluke ball (9us)
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22:02 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
Yeah 1 every month i think is a good idea :)

i have a few people on side that will promote it every few days , its the few days leading up to the tournament that count the most because as you all said it may be forgotten about with it being 6 weeks till the next one ...

Im happy with that layout

Early rounds - best of 3
Last 16 - best of 5
Last 8 - best of 5
Last 4 - best of 7
Final - best of 9

but would that not run to long if say we get 8us :/

I think best of 2 up untill qaurter final would be best and then you decide how many we have from there on
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22:03 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
Once a fortnight would be great also but I don't see what the problem would be with once a week....... obviously we'd need to see what sort of interest it got first...... but people didn't lose interest when we had the UK marathon at the same time every night. There wasn't many on during the day then half an hour before it started the amount would double or even treble.


Like I said here earlier, interest wasn't lost when we had UK marathons every night. Fair enough we didn't get the numbers snooker had last night but sometimes we had 70+ and not just one night.
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22:08 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
4-6 weeks is a good length of time, the whole point of this is that it is special because it's rare. Could do something like the first Sunday of every month at 9pm UK time (or 3rd Sunday to make it this weekend coming ).

As for what type, personally I feel you can't use speed or random tournys because it's over too quickly. I think if you use 9 ball or 8uk you would probably need to go to a marathon to get the best out of those game types because of the nature of those two games. 8us marathon would be the best option I feel (and I prefer 8uk and 9 ball). It's the least likely to have luck involved, you can't really say you didn't have a chance to prove yourself after a race to 3 or more. If you don't get a chance in that then you'd have been beaten by a great player in exceptional form.

Though I kinda feel like the whole point of what wood was doing over on snooker was almost like a form of protest. Players want tournaments with big numbers not a lot of tournaments with little numbers. Nowadays, I don't see any value in tournament wins. There used to be a time when they had a big value. It seems to me like it's giving great value back to winning a tournament, like it is a proper achievement instead of beating a few nobodies and the occassional big name. I would like that to be considered and use one of the most popular time slots like snooker did.
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22:09 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
NB: I'm not including straight or arcade because I feel these don't really represent pool the same. An arcade tournament like this wouldn't really be considered that much of a merit because of how easy it is to win/fluke and I don't think straight would have a chance of maxing out a tourny which I feel the others would
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22:10 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
Not sure why everyone is discussing the frequency of these. Needs to be proven to be worked before this can go along. If the layout and a time/date is set (I'm thinking Sunday 10th November @ 9pm) then I will gladly help sort this/promote.

As I said though, I think 9ball will be the easiest and quickest to do it on, but in my opinion the only other option is UK8
poolbiird
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22:15 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
4-6 weeks is a good length of time, the whole point of this is that it is special because it's rare.


Is that the whole point of it though? Isn't the whole point to get more members online? Or am I the only one with that in mind lol
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22:19 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
This my suggestion

1st (chosen day) of every month

first Saturday of every month would be

2/11/13 (8us)
4/12/13 (9us)
4/01/14 (uk)
1/02/14 (8us)
1/03/14 (9us)
5/04/14 (uk)

1 a moth perfect, 1 every 6 weeks too long, and having 1 of each type a month wouldn't keep the interest.

Monthly over 4/6 weekly better, just so you can refer to yourself as the eg: May Once In a Lifetime champ
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22:21 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
4-6 weeks is a good length of time, the whole point of this is that it is special because it's rare.


Is that the whole point of it though? Isn't the whole point to get more members online? Or am I the only one with that in mind lol


long term, monthly better, weekly would start off high interest then in 3 months, back to normal
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22:21 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
Im thinking Sunday 3rd November at 9pm , All i need to know is what game type people would prefer and then i can arange it with spinner to be set up and put into play

Im thinking about making a start to this and deciding 8uk marathon to start with and then if thats a great sucess then we can make it in order for every month :)
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22:27 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
4-6 weeks is a good length of time, the whole point of this is that it is special because it's rare.


Is that the whole point of it though? Isn't the whole point to get more members online? Or am I the only one with that in mind lol


long term, monthly better, weekly would start off high interest then in 3 months, back to normal


I don't agree, we didn't have that problem before
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22:27 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
tbh, I don't think it will make too much difference to numbers, as done monthly, everyone will want a piece wether its preferred type or not.

But i'd say 9 ball marathon slightly best shot,

A for speed
B, as there are a lot of haters of the uk table
C get some more colonial cousins from across the pond back online, seems its 75% uk, 10% other Europe 10% us/Canada 5% other (as a rough guess)
Nowhere near the us interest there should be on this site
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22:28 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
spinner

Can we set it up for the 3rd of November at 9pm please and it to be set in the format like this please

Early rounds - best of 3
Last 16 - best of 5
Last 8 - best of 5
Last 4 - best of 7
Final - best of 9
zantetsukenz
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22:30 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
4-6 weeks is a good length of time, the whole point of this is that it is special because it's rare.


Is that the whole point of it though? Isn't the whole point to get more members online? Or am I the only one with that in mind lol


And the way to get more members on is to make it special, that's why the this tournament is trying to recreate something which hasn't happened for a while. A tournament worth winning.

It's all fine and dandy having more members online, but if they aren't playing then it's pointless. If you create something worth playing for, then regardless of what those members do after you can regard it as successful if it's a special tournament. More of a difference of wording, but there is an actual difference.

We might not be able to get the same amount of members playing, but we can get the most out of those that do play in creating an epic tournament.
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22:32 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
tbh, I don't think it will make too much difference to numbers, as done monthly, everyone will want a piece wether its preferred type or not.

But i'd say 9 ball marathon slightly best shot,

A for speed
B, as there are a lot of haters of the uk table
C get some more colonial cousins from across the pond back online, seems its 75% uk, 10% other Europe 10% us/Canada 5% other (as a rough guess)
Nowhere near the us interest there should be on this
site


Not really as its far too easy to fluke on 9ball
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22:35 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
spinner

Can we set it up for the 3rd of November at 9pm please and it to be set in the format like this please

Early rounds - best of 3
Last 16 - best of 5
Last 8 - best of 5
Last 4 - best of 7
Final - best of 9



This format looks good if your playing 9us, anyhting else would take too long i predict, u want something that doesnt take too long but is competitive at the same time...
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22:37 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
It will be different each month pete , this time its 8uk marathon and next month it will be 9us and then 8us the following month

Plans are in place to get it sorted and running now
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22:38 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
Once a fortnight would be great also but I don't see what the problem would be with once a week....... obviously we'd need to see what sort of interest it got first...... but people didn't lose interest when we had the UK marathon at the same time every night. There wasn't many on during the day then half an hour before it started the amount would double or even treble.


Like I said here earlier, interest wasn't lost when we had UK marathons every night. Fair enough we didn't get the numbers snooker had last night but sometimes we had 70+ and not just one night.


I may be wrong but the first or second night we actually got the full 128 entrants too... the good old days.
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22:40 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
tbh, I don't think it will make too much difference to numbers, as done monthly, everyone will want a piece wether its preferred type or not.

But i'd say 9 ball marathon slightly best shot,

A for speed
B, as there are a lot of haters of the uk table
C get some more colonial cousins from across the pond back online, seems its 75% uk, 10% other Europe 10% us/Canada 5% other (as a rough guess)
Nowhere near the us interest there should be on this
site


Not really as its far too easy to fluke on 9ball


true, but said format is over a lot of frames to reduce this chance, but even so, this is a drawing point for the lower ranked players that may feel they have a chance of progressing far with the odd fluke :)
poolbiird
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23:02 Mon 14 Oct 13 (BST)  [Link]  
Once a fortnight would be great also but I don't see what the problem would be with once a week....... obviously we'd need to see what sort of interest it got first...... but people didn't lose interest when we had the UK marathon at the same time every night. There wasn't many on during the day then half an hour before it started the amount would double or even treble.


Like I said here earlier, interest wasn't lost when we had UK marathons every night. Fair enough we didn't get the numbers snooker had last night but sometimes we had 70+ and not just one night.


I may be wrong but the first or second night we actually got the full 128 entrants too... the good old days.


Exactly and it didn't just last a few months.

Like I've already said though, we'd need to see what interest we get with the first ones then I reckon people will be asking for it to be more often anyway..... regardless of what people may think now.
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