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Re: March tourney prizes - Golfsmith or credits?

• cyl6 347 Posts

  Tue, Mar 1 2011 1:49 PM

  I'm just piling on here, but I agree. Those were the only 2 tournaments that I looked forward to playing every month. Now? I can't get excited over the prospect of more credits. For the people on this thread, I think the lure of credits has pretty much dimmed. We need bigger prizes. I'd pay 1000 credits or more to enter a tournament that actually had a real prize. The credits are essentially, under the current redemption system, worthless.

• ThreeSpot 476 Posts

  Tue, Mar 1 2011 2:01 PM

  WGTicon:

  Let me get on this right away and make sure rules are same as prizes:)

   

  You might also want to check on the skill-based gaming eligibility. I believe I've been eligible for the premium tournaments that offered Golfsmith prizes in the past, but not the ones where the prize is credits. However, it appears I am now eligible for these 2 tournaments even though the prize is now credits, even though I am still not eligible for RG or the premium weekly multi where the prizes are also credits.

   

   

• nickolijj 277 Posts

  Tue, Mar 1 2011 2:18 PM

  I couldn't agree more. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if there were more "real" items available in the elite collection. Just something to do with our credits. With it's current items, and the lack of gift card prizes, we're stuck slaving away for months trying to build our bankroll back up for another gift card. Sigh. Is Congressional uploaded yet?...... :(

• craiger85 47 Posts

  Tue, Mar 1 2011 3:56 PM

  I'm also piling on, but it is disappointing that this month's prizes are credit-only. I think with the real prizes, it gave that extra motivation to pay for the premium tourneys but also provides a potential distraction. I don't know about everyone else, but too many times where I've been near the top of the multi-rounds I start thinking about the prize more than the round and completely collapse. I feel like this would happen less with credit prizes than with gift cards.

  Of course, then I started wondering whether WGT is in the process of building a war chest for something big, and are cutting back on prizes to help fund this...

• pricehcs 288 Posts

  Tue, Mar 1 2011 6:24 PM

  

   

  More room on the pile?  Agree with Craiger, this takes the choke factor out significantly in these tourneys (of which I tend to be a frequent victim of :-).  I hope it is indicative of something bigger and better to be introduced for credit redemption, as opposed to a small piece of business cash flow management strategy...

• speedyschic 948 Posts

  Tue, Mar 1 2011 9:33 PM

  Well.... It looks like an experiment by WGT to see how many of the "true" legends they could get to respond in the same thread..... Man.. if somebody dropped a bomb in here the leader boards would be wide open!!

• TWOMINUSONE 2,580 Posts

  Wed, Mar 2 2011 4:14 AM

  speedyschic:

  Well.... It looks like an experiment by WGT to see how many of the "true" legends they could get to respond in the same thread..... Man.. if somebody dropped a bomb in here the leader boards would be wide open!!

  Im on it, lol.

• BacardiAndCoke 449 Posts

  Sat, Mar 5 2011 1:19 AM

  I know this is a totally different angle at a simlair problem, but as im sure you aware once being a master yourselfs long time ago credits aren't easily makeable for everyone, and asmuch as i agree there should be real prize and credit prizes avalible my problem is if your going to have credits pay it out better especially the lower tiers ;-)
  me i just dont like the way in a master ready go you get 4000 credits shared between 30 people yet in the monthly comps that its 47500 paid out between 3 people, surely if your going to drop "real" prizes and are going to pay out credits  surely you could cut the 1st prize down and payout more places especially in the lower tiers like master where im sure 5000 credits would make a big difference to most masters or below

  1st 5000
  2nd 4500
  3rd 4000
  4th 3500
  5th 3000
  6th-10th 2500
  11th-20th 1250

  Plus more like me are likely to play as we have a better chance of winning some credits to get our callaways with ;-) plus if i did have a dream round and won i could still but 60 callaways ;-)

  Just my thoughts

  Jessica