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"March Madness" 2 Player Best Ball Starter Clubs Uneven Lies Open

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Sun, Mar 10 2013 3:51 PM

  I will let you folks know very shortly. I am deciding what to do in fairness to the ones who have played.

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Sun, Mar 10 2013 4:02 PM

  Wassermänner are playing - should be ready soon.

• Phaxda 145 Posts

  Sun, Mar 10 2013 4:23 PM

  A couple of things: BFGHD, my sincere and public apologies for not making our preplanned time to play yesterday. A lot hit the fan at once. I will be logged in for a bit this evening, but I know it does not look good. I will refrain from any team play tourneys going forward--it's just massively hard to get planned time these days. 

  Second, I had no idea I stole another team's name buy suggesting adding "Unbalanced" as another U in UUH--my wife totally suggested it out of the blue. A weird coincidence indeed.

  Good luck to all in the tourney and I am really sorry again, BFGHD. I should have said no from the beginning so you could find a reliable partner. 

  I hope those who I have gotten to know through the starter club events will still be willing to play with me in the future. I hate feeling ungentlemanly like this in a gentleman's game.

  Apologies also to mnshiner who has worked very hard to organize the tourney. 

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• PUHOLINO 1,189 Posts

  Sun, Mar 10 2013 4:28 PM

  Phaxda:

  A couple of things: BFGHD, my sincere and public apologies for not making our preplanned time to play yesterday

   

  Perhaps he could still play the the round on his own and try his luck with his own score? Or you could both do solo rounds and submitted them (a bit late for that now though)?

• 621 Posts

  Sun, Mar 10 2013 8:53 PM

  

  My p and i are playin ours now....he had something come up and had to push are tee time back a little. Hope they are going off wgt time.  Im little slow with posting and screenshots so hope its right when we are done. If its too late will someone post on my wall or something.

  so this is the green and the unevens box for me..shows wind, green speed, and unevens box. Will send the rest when i can shortly. and my p will also. This is from f9

   

  Scorecards are sent to you sir and sorry we had to wait til last minute. I appreciate everyone who played in this and thank you for your hard work also. Have i told anyone that i hate starters lately lol. This is fun as i always like going back to the old days. Nothing special in the round just trying to stay out of the bad stuff....Score could be 5 over or 5 under never know. 

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Mon, Mar 11 2013 2:02 AM

  I had everything sent to me at once trying to catch up. Here are the screenshots from team Wassermanner.

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  I am trying to get everything updated as fast as I can.

  MizzyMan's screenshots have been posted on page 13.

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Mon, Mar 11 2013 2:34 AM

  Here is the way it stands for Round 2 which by the way is Royal St. Georges
  Mode: Practice
  Tees: White
  Holes: Default
  Winds: Moderate
  Greens: Fast
  Uneven Lies.

  The Unbeatables have already played their round and I have received everything from them.

  The Whinning Pussies vs. good kush
  Unbeatables vs. Cuppers
  Bremskloetze vs. Uneven Liars

  The problem is no one played in Maulwurftöter's bracket which leaves Hans and MizzyMan empty handed so to speak. What I would like to do is pair up the "Dreamteam" which had a really good score in the first round against them if there isn't any objections. Post here if you have any other thoughts please.

  The bracket has been updated and I am getting ready to post all scorecards that I have received on the website. They should be available in about an hour from this post.

  Just a quick re-cap of Round 1.

  Lowest total team score was "Uneven Liars" with a 64 followed by Maulwurftöter with a 65 which means no single player or team won CerinoDevito's offer of:
  *Sleeve of GB's to both members of any pair that can shoot -10 on CCC in their tourney round handed in.**
  
  *** 1000 credits to any single player in a pair that can shoot -10 on their own ball***

  I am wondering now if Corwyn has gray hair after putting on two of these things.

• Corwyn 2,410 Posts

  Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:07 AM

  mnshiner:

  I am wondering now if Corwyn has gray hair after putting on two of these things.

  Oh yes! Many gray hairs... lol.

  The most frustrating part of this kind of tourney is wondering if the participants will remember to "get 'em played." I always go in thinking there's no way I'm going to spend the time reminding people via wallposts etc... and then in the end I do relent and do just that. But with a pairs tourney, it really shouldn't be necessary: you have to expect players to be able to make arrangements with each other, and you have to assume that compatible playing time availability is already a given when they paired up. 

  I think short of extending the deadline, and sending out lots of reminders, you've done just the right thing here. It's a 4-week competition: it looks as if week 1 has made it clear which teams can really commit, and it's much better to have fewer players that are truly committed, than a large field that needs a lot of cajoling to play.

  mnshiner:

  The problem is no one played in Maulwurftöter's bracket which leaves Hans and MizzyMan empty handed so to speak. What I would like to do is pair up the "Dreamteam" which had a really good score in the first round against them if there isn't any objections.

  This sounds like a great solution to me. It rewards the best-scoring losing team with another chance (but against the favorites!).

  Shiner: you might want to say what your plan is now for the loser's bracket, since there are only 2 other teams that submitted losing 1st-round scores (I'm unsure about status of Birdierabbits?).

  Might I suggest that you create a new 'bracket' next week with those two teams, Unbalanced and Wassermanner, and the four 2nd round losers: you could either find a way to make it work with 6 teams, e.g. all 6 play last 2 courses, and 'losers bracket' prizes go to teams with best aggregate scores; OR,  ask Unbalanced and Wassermanner to play RSG 2nd Round as well, and then create an elimination losers bracket of 4 teams based on the best 4 scores out of the 6 losing teams (the two 1st round losers, and the 4 2nd round losers).

  That's my 2 cents: you're doing a great job, btw, in difficult circumstances!

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Mon, Mar 11 2013 10:24 AM

  We're still here *winks*!

  Due to internal issues we have conceded the 1st round match. Alas, we did not quit the tournament and want to continue in the losers' bracket.

  Please count us in!