courteneyfish:never clear the deadwood, so it looks like the earnings are a lot higher than they really are?
Hi Courteney,
Please tell me you really don't believe we keep members in our club to make earnings look higher than they really are ? I'm sure I mis understood you.
Our club measure of success has nothing at all to do with earnings. If it was we would have merged with some other clubs who have suggested it and/or accepted everyone who wanted to join over the 3 years we have been together.
Truth is ... we could care less if or how well our members play WGT. This is evident if you look at our entire club roster - not just the WGT stars. (However I have to admit ... we have been lucky that Sam, Shah, Lee, Mike, Dan and Jake to name a few have all been winners of big prizes. Lots of practice goes into creating that luck.)
One of the things all of our members know is .. Dev's will never ever kick anyone out of the club just because they decide to stop playing WGT. Our CClub and the IRC Channel is a place they can come back to whenever they decide to start playing again. In fact we've had several folks come back just for a game or 2 after a year or more absence for various personal reasons. They know they have a home. This may be one of the reasons no one has ever quit Dev's also (other than 2 or 3 who have retired from the game but knows they are always welcome back.).
We also have members who don't even play WGT any more but come back to chat in IRC or participate in other Club activities such as Fantasy Football or Poker games we do. We have a lot of non WGT activities in our club. In fact we rarely do WGT CC tournaments.
Personally I've met 1/2 dozen of the folks to play real golf. Others in our club have gotten together for golf also --- and more meetings are planned. I know everyone personally and they are a good bunch of folks. Our folks meet, chat, talk and know each other. That's what our CC is about.
As Shrude says somewhere in this thread - each club has to determine on their own how they measure the success of their club. (he's a lot smarter than I thought) (kidding) Since all CC's are run differently and have different objectives --- I guess each and every club can call themselves #1. And ---- there is nothing wrong with that.
By the way --- our IRC channel chat room is always open to anyone who wants to come and chat, play a game or 2, and perhaps get some tips to improve their game. Just look on my profile page for instructions on how to access it. It's been open since early 2008 ish (that I can figure - maybe even 2007) ... and is how our CC got started --- from the folks who are chatting there all the time.