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What’s The Point?

• jeffdos924 1,085 Posts

  Fri, Jan 4 2013 1:35 PM

   

    I don't believe I missed the point at all.

   Your words :

  Oldstir:

  Finally got to 1st Place in a Sweeps late Thursday night for the first time ever and gosh, what a surprise, a Legend took over First Place before I even woke up today! lol

  Man o man; what part of “making tournaments, challenges and sweeps Fair For Everyone, does anybody not understand”? :) Or, to put it another way; what part of “making it an Equal Playing Field so Everyone can have Fun and at least have A Chance to win a tournament, challenge or sweeps, does anybody not understand”? lol I know many people grumble about this all the time but nothing changes.

   You are complaining that you, a TM, ground your way to a meaningless first place in a  random drawing SWEEPS.. only to lose that meaningless position to a Legend who almost certainly used the same iron set to grind out a better score from the exact same tees as you did.

  Oh, the unfairness of it all!!!!  Maybe Legends should have to play CTTH courses with holes that are 25-30 yrds longer than TM's? 40 yrds longer than pros, etc.? It wouldn't matter a bit n those friggin' sweeps tourneys anyway .... 5 random winners from thousands of entrants.

   You got bettered by someone who played on the same, even playing field that you did...  it's that simple.

• Buggyyy 1,963 Posts

  Fri, Jan 4 2013 1:50 PM

  Last time I checked, CTTH games were all played from the same locations regardless of tier. Who gives a *** about sweepstakes. How much more equal can you get?

• Oldstir 434 Posts

  Fri, Jan 4 2013 11:40 PM

  alosso:

  Oldstir:

  Sorry but you missed the point of the topic entirely too however I appreciate the responses from all 3 of "you". :)

  You became Legend. You're unhappy with that. This I understood clearly.

  Alas, what's your further point which the others seemlingly missed?

  (being but a poor foreign boy...

  I'm only a TM, not Legend so you haven't understood anything clearly and you either understand the topic or you don't.  No biggy. :)

   

• Oldstir 434 Posts

  Fri, Jan 4 2013 11:49 PM

  jeffdos924:

   

    I don't believe I missed the point at all.

   Your words :

  Oldstir:

  Finally got to 1st Place in a Sweeps late Thursday night for the first time ever and gosh, what a surprise, a Legend took over First Place before I even woke up today! lol

  Man o man; what part of “making tournaments, challenges and sweeps Fair For Everyone, does anybody not understand”? :) Or, to put it another way; what part of “making it an Equal Playing Field so Everyone can have Fun and at least have A Chance to win a tournament, challenge or sweeps, does anybody not understand”? lol I know many people grumble about this all the time but nothing changes.

   

   You are complaining that you, a TM, ground your way to a meaningless first place in a  random drawing SWEEPS.. only to lose that meaningless position to a Legend who almost certainly used the same iron set to grind out a better score from the exact same tees as you did.

  Oh, the unfairness of it all!!!!  Maybe Legends should have to play CTTH courses with holes that are 25-30 yrds longer than TM's? 40 yrds longer than pros, etc.? It wouldn't matter a bit n those friggin' sweeps tourneys anyway .... 5 random winners from thousands of entrants.

   You got bettered by someone who played on the same, even playing field that you did...  it's that simple.

  Sorry won't argue with you. :)  Just playing on the same course, has nothing to do with the adage: "making it an even playing field".  It's not rocket Science either.  lol

   

• Oldstir 434 Posts

  Sat, Jan 5 2013 12:04 AM

  Buggyyy:

  Last time I checked, CTTH games were all played from the same locations regardless of tier. Who gives a *** about sweepstakes. How much more equal can you get?

  You either understand the topic or you don't.  Anyway, WGT will decide the topic's legitimacy and are also welcomed to remove it if they wish. :)  My apologies that it appears my topic is too complex?  So I'll consider it CLOSED and won't be responding further. :)

   

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Sat, Jan 5 2013 1:08 AM

  Oldstir:

  Buggyyy:

  Last time I checked, CTTH games were all played from the same locations regardless of tier. Who gives a *** about sweepstakes. How much more equal can you get?

  You either understand the topic or you don't.  Anyway, WGT will decide the topic's legitimacy and are also welcomed to remove it if they wish. :)  My apologies that it appears my topic is too complex?  So I'll consider it CLOSED and won't be responding further. :)

   

  I'm not really fussed at what clubs or golf balls people use.....  They are allowed to have em.

  I think the point the OP was saying is...   he would like to have Tiered based comps he can enter and not have somebody in a higher Tier win and yes there is those types of comps aswell.

  Apart from the R/Go's most of the Comps you can check the leaderboard before you enter to see if it's a free for all or Tiered based. This is good also to check the leading scores...lol.    Which doesn't bother me either.    For me...  seeing a very low score, it's telling me it's on shorter tees too, if it's stroke :)

  -Roger

• TarheelsRule 5,607 Posts

  Mon, Jan 21 2013 10:34 AM

  Maybe since everyone who commented missed your point, you didn't do a great job of explaining your point or people think you made no point.

  If you are so intent on being beaten by a better player, only play tournaments that are tier specific, you have that option.  I know from my experience with you that you almost always boot better players from your games, not the credit games but all of them.  It's your choice to do so but in the world that you think of, it seems that everyone has to be exactly the same, tier, level, clubs, balls, etc. 

  That can never happen and even if it did there would still be players better than others.  For example my average is low 60's.  I'm a horrible putter so I'm better at blitz that many players who are 3 to 5 strokes better than me in stroke play.  Those same players beat me at stroke play.  There can't be an even playing field unless everyone has the same equipment, tees and talent.

  In terms of the weekly tournaments that are random.  I rarely play in those but if I do I don't really care about the score, the winner is picked by random drawing.  Post a score and leave you have an equal chance of winning.

• borntobesting 9,775 Posts

  Mon, Jan 21 2013 11:05 AM

  jeffdos924:

  If it was a SWEEPS, it makes no difference if you are in 1st place or 10,000th place. Both players have exaclty the same odds of winning a prize because it's a random drawing

  That was the point I was going to make. It doesn't matter how well or badly you play because it is a random drawing. I don't know how many times I have seen a post from someone who had the best score in a SWEEPS complaining  about not winning when they were first. 

• TeeWade 1,216 Posts

  Mon, Jan 21 2013 11:09 AM

       Its the same old routine he always uses. States his view........get his ass handed to him on a silver platter........EVERYONE doesn't get it and its played over and over.  Why even bother.

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Mon, Jan 21 2013 11:19 AM

  These random drawing tournaments are a very simple concept. Post a score and cross your fingers.

  The idea is to have fun! : )