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Re: New kind of tournament

• Davgelb 15 Posts

  Mon, Jan 28 2013 12:28 PM

  Well, I checked the list of FAQ and suggestions and didn't see this one (although I bet it's been thought about before) so here goes. 

  I suggest that there should be a variation on the CTTH tournament play involving the "Potential Best" stat.  In other words, a Potential Best CTTH tournament where the player with the best PB score is the winner.  Obviously, the first two or three holes would probably be replayed for maximum score value but as with any CTTH play, they would not count unless all 9 holes were played. 

  The winning score certainly wouldn't be zero, but who knows?  It could be 1.34 or something like that.  If there is a tie for first place, then the person with 2 aces beats the person with only 1 ace.  Doesn't matter which holes they had the hole-out on.  Both players had 2 aces?  Then the next lowest score is the tie-breaker.  Again, doesn't matter which hole it was on - a score of 0.26 beats 0.27. 

  Every course could be used and variations in wind speed or green speed or pin location for each tournament on each course would increase the variations available for a whole new set of competitions.

  And to some degree, it allows players at all levels of ability to play on an equal footing.

  Any thoughts?

• Adalanar 282 Posts

  Mon, Jan 28 2013 2:59 PM

  I like the idea but not for unlimited rounds - you get something like 2-4 rounds max and best score per hole counts.

   

  Cheers

• borntobesting 9,775 Posts

  Mon, Jan 28 2013 4:16 PM

  Davgelb:

  Well, I checked the list of FAQ and suggestions and didn't see this one (although I bet it's been thought about before) so here goes. 

  I suggest that there should be a variation on the CTTH tournament play involving the "Potential Best" stat.  In other words, a Potential Best CTTH tournament where the player with the best PB score is the winner.  Obviously, the first two or three holes would probably be replayed for maximum score value but as with any CTTH play, they would not count unless all 9 holes were played. 

  The winning score certainly wouldn't be zero, but who knows?  It could be 1.34 or something like that.  If there is a tie for first place, then the person with 2 aces beats the person with only 1 ace.  Doesn't matter which holes they had the hole-out on.  Both players had 2 aces?  Then the next lowest score is the tie-breaker.  Again, doesn't matter which hole it was on - a score of 0.26 beats 0.27. 

  Every course could be used and variations in wind speed or green speed or pin location for each tournament on each course would increase the variations available for a whole new set of competitions.

  And to some degree, it allows players at all levels of ability to play on an equal footing.

  Any thoughts?

  Not a good idea. Because many of the top players have so many aces that their potential best might be 0 on several of the courses. 

• Davgelb 15 Posts

  Mon, Jan 28 2013 5:29 PM

  Is that really likely?  You make it sound as if the top players score aces every day that they play,  I don't know if that's true, but if it is, this game needs some serious revisions.  Still, I think it could be tweaked into flights, as in any club tournament, based on rating.  And if the winning score turned out to be 1.14, well, so what?  The same advantage exists across any of the tournaments for the top players.  All I'm suggesting is a new format.

• borntobesting 9,775 Posts

  Tue, Jan 29 2013 3:52 AM

  Davgelb:

  Is that really likely?  You make it sound as if the top players score aces every day that they play,  I don't know if that's true, but if it is, this game needs some serious revisions.  Still, I think it could be tweaked into flights, as in any club tournament, based on rating.  And if the winning score turned out to be 1.14, well, so what?  The same advantage exists across any of the tournaments for the top players.  All I'm suggesting is a new format.

  Yes some of the top players have played these CTTH courses so often that they have them down to a science. Because the CTTH courses the hole never changes the only thing that does is the winds and green speeds and they quickly adjust to those.

• Davgelb 15 Posts

  Tue, Jan 29 2013 6:01 AM

  Again, if that's the case, then it's true of any course and tournament.  I'm just looking for a a little variety in the format, considering how slowly new courses are introduced. 

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Tue, Jan 29 2013 6:58 AM

  If It isn't broke, DON'T FIX IT!

• Davgelb 15 Posts

  Tue, Jan 29 2013 8:26 AM

  Wow!  Heckuva reaction.  I guess when new pin placements were introduced. Chris, you really went into a panic attack. 

  Anyway, I really was looking for a reaction from the people who run this site.  To quote them, "Hi everyone, thanks for all the suggestions and ideas you contribute. We read these forums every day..."

  If only three people responded to my suggestion in two days, I guess this isn't much of a forum for discussion, but I still hope my idea will provoke some kind of variation on the tournament formats, even if mine is too hard to implement for some reason.

• devonnnnn 1,085 Posts

  Tue, Jan 29 2013 8:55 AM

  chrisironsbones:

  If It isn't broke, DON'T FIX IT!

  This. I like the way CTTH is now. Good suggestion but I dont see it working well