I originally posted this in the Country Club Corner, but then realised it probably should have been posted here, so apologies for the duplicate post ;-)
In light of the general dissatisfaction with WGT's Clash events, I would like to propose an alternative for your consideration and discussion.
There does seem to be a very good appetite for Inter-CC matches, but it also seems to be somewhat disjointed, with lots of individual competitions being run, and I'm wondering if it could be formalised, into an Inter-CC League, or something similar?
In an ideal world, this is a suggestion that I would prefer to put forward for WGT to organise, but as we have all seen, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, so that's a non-starter.
However, there are some mightily talented guys around here, and if one (or more) was willing to take it on, it could become a really good way ahead I think. Just looking at the way previous competitions eg the Time Zones League, or the current Grand Prix are working out, makes me think there would be a good response for this.
I visualise a football league type of thing, with perhaps 12 CCs per division. This would give 11 home and 11 away matches per season. If 2 weeks were allowed per match, this would give us a 44 week season, with a couple of months respite in between, to get things organised for the next season. I'm thinking that maybe the Home Team could set the venues and type of match, so each CC can play to their strengths, and have some degree of home advantage.
As the matches would all be known in advance, whilst one was being played, the CC Coordinators could be arranging the next, so it all rolled over seamlessly from fortnight to fortnight.
Well that's it in a nutshell, so what do you think? Could this be the basis for a workable alternative to the Clashes?
I should add that I wouldn't be capable of running this myself, nor do I have the answers to every question that might get raised - just putting an idea forward though :-)
Cheers,
Steve