My vote is for "as-is" or "bragging rights only", I'm with 2WL we could do a separate high pot smaller tourney if there is enough interest.

Bump!

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I think we will probably go without buy-ins as it appears to be the only thing that will work.

We can do 50 buy-in per person, as everyone can afford this (or will be able to before the tournament is over -- 35 + 50 < 100 ).

I will PM some people tonight and we can get games going.

Sounds good. Thanks Lando for pushing the envelope -- maybe we can separate runs at higher pots, with the winners across pots meeting in a champions round -- everyone participates and get's their gamble-on to a level which makes them happy. SD may have trouble finding takers at the 5,000@ pot table though...

Lando - my suggestion is for a next time, of course! Looking forward to kicking this off!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. We appreciate the effort.

Be interested to hear the scoring system for advancement. That way I can go ahead and fill out my Tournament Bracket.

Round 1 & 2 - Solo victory is worth 13 , draw worth 12 divided by number of players sharing in the draw. Survives and defeats worth nil. Tie-break in order - # of solos, # of draws, # of total centres (draws only).

Round 3 - Solo victory worth 1 point. Draws, survives and defeats worth nil. Tie break - total # of centres (draws and survives). Second tie-break fewest # of survives.

Points are not carried over to the next round, correct?

Top 7 scores from A&B move on to play each other and top 7 from C&D move onto play each other, or top 14 from entire group move on and new groups are developed for the next round accordingly?

Actually, top scores from A & D move on to play as do top scores from B & C.

The top 3 players from each group move on. Then, the highest scoring 4th from each apir of groups will get the 7th spot.

That sounds the most fair.

Not to disrespect anyone who is playing in this tourney, but I am THRILLED that Czech is NOT in either my group or in the two groups that I am in to advance. In the few games that we played together, I remember him as being the best player on the board every time. And we played with some pretty good players. Whew!

Bump

Initial groupings will be as follows:

Group A: Split, gen. lee, stressedlines, trooth, yebellz, brianofboru, Chaqa
Group B: Czech, ava, fulhamish, Mapu, pjmansfield, josunice, Speakertoalens
Group C: CSteinhardt, fairfax, jesuspetry, alexnesta, Your Humble Narrator, y2kbtk, Draugnar
Group D: Lando, 2ndwhiteline, nigeebaby, jcbryan, jimgov, rdrivera, the ministerofwar



@Jim - as the top seed in our group I feel disrespected (kidding). I think all the groups are pretty tough. The last time I was with jcbryan in a GB tourney he solo'd 3/3 first round games. Never seen anything like it.

I haven't played with many of the top players, so I am not in a position as to determine who is the best. All I am saying is that I KNOW, first hand, how good Czech is. And he is scary good. If you are better than him...crap. I'm in trouble.

Predictions anyone:
-First top seed eliminated?
-Lowest GR/seed to make it to the finals?
-Winner?
-How many solos wins it?
Total solos for entire tournament (49 games)?

I haven't paid attention to the format and such, but I'll make some winner predictions:

Overall winner: either SplitDiplomat or CSteinhardt (it will be a close one, but I think CSteinhardt will edge SD very very narrowly)

Second tier of winners: Lando, Czech

Fairfax is riding a serious hot streak, so my money is on him.

Ill answer my own questions,
Fist top seed out, I've got CSteinhardt going out round 1
Lowest seed in the finals, my money is on YHN
Winner...Gen. Lee...well if I have to pick someone else I'd go with fairfax as well.
Can't imagine there's more than 1 solo in the finals.
I've got 16 total solos...which is alot

Holy cow! 16 solos out of, what, 49 games? With this murderers row playing? That would be a lot.

lol zultar you can't just pick the top 4 seeds - where are your sleeper picks?

Fist top seed out - Split, so I don't have to face him ;-P
Lowest seed in the finals - rdrivera
Winner - 2ndWL
Total solos - 14

Did you actually make a bracket, Gen.?

I have messaged people to create games, so things should be happening now.

I'm in all 7. Lets get it on.

Fist top seed out - Lando, so he can focus on keeping the tournament running smoothly
Lowest seed in the finals - rdrivera
Winner - CSteinhardt
Total solos - 11

Yeah I made a mock bracket lol

Group A invites are out let's get it on.

Jimgov, every tourney I play there are always more solos than I would expect so I took what I thought would happen and bumped it up.

Anyone from B or C who wants to set up games feel free to do so, please send the following with it:

By joining these games you are agreeing to pay 50 into a WTA pot for the tournament now or when it becomes available.

The following is the scoring for the first round:

Solo victory is worth 13 , draw worth 12 divided by number of players sharing in the draw. Survives and defeats worth nil. Tie-break in order - # of solos, # of draws, # of total centres (draws only).

There will not be a shuffling of powers in the first round.

Any questions comments or concerns please post them now.

I am humbled to be playing with these great gunboaters .... I hope I can get a few autographs

Wait. What? They're giving out autographs?

I'm going to treat them like tennis stars and ask them if they can scribble their initials on my big luminous green balls