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Anyone for an ArmchairGM 8-ball Pool Tournament?

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by user Alex Holowczak

On Yahoo!, I discovered a game section yesterday. One of which, is 8-ball pool.

I figured that ArmchairGM could have its very own 8-ball Pool tournament on Yahoo.

It can work as either a knockout tournament or a Round Robin, or even a chess-style Swiss if needs be. The matches can even be over many frames, the more the merrier, I think in order to get the best player winning. I would happily organise all of that. If it is a knockout, we can even use the templates already in place for knockout tournaments.

I also thought that this could count toward the ArmchairGM Fantasy Sports 2007 thing, with all the other things that we play counted in towards it.

Entry would be unlimited, and matches can be arranged between players in a match at their convenience. As long as the whole thing is completed by the end of 2007! This could cause me problems, living in a timezone 5 to 8 hours infront of you, you may need to wake up early if you have to play me!

You can even have lots of people watching if you so desire!

Entry

If you would like to enter this competition, click here and type your username, along with the flag of your nation in the way I have. Copy the way I do it for the flag, and three tildas will work for your name. The flag is important, so that, e.g. if there are 2 users from Britain, or any other country for that matter, they can be drawn together to avoid time difference.

  1. Image:MiniEnglandFlag.jpg Alex Holowczak

Comments

Please comment things like the style of tournament you would like, and the length of matches in terms of frames. N.B. Not all the frames in a match need to be played at once! It can be played over many evenings if you so wish.

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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
1080 days ago
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I like the idea of a knockout. If it isn't a base 2 number, give some players byes (by luck of draw). With the top 6 getting points in terms of contributing towards the Fantasy thing, when we get to the Quarter Finals, there would need to be playoffs to get to 5th & 6th place. Similarly, there would be a 3rd & 4th place playoff.

In terms of match length, depending on numbers, I think we should have a lot of frames per match, but getting longer as you go through. So, e.g. in the first Round or two, play best of 25 (i.e. first to 13) but over a few evenings. By the final, increase the match length to something like 49 (first to 25). We have all 2007, so there's no hurry.

However, if only about 10 enter, then I'd plump for a Round Robin. The playoffs for 3rd to 6th would then be unnecessary. The matches should still be about best of 11 or something like that.
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JoebookRed-Shirting
1076 days ago
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Alex -- I think this is a good idea, but the timing isn't right... Let's revisit this after the holidays, because I'd be interested.
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