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Master in 15 days/Fair play

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Tue, Mar 25 2014 12:42 PM (7 replies)
  • johnrg
    215 Posts
    Mon, Mar 24 2014 5:49 AM

    There have been several posts about tiering up during a tournament and personally don't have a problem for one level. However WGT need to look at the extremes; this month one player has joined and progressed to Master in 15 days. Although there maybe natural talent, I am suspicious given the changes in tees and green speeds to overcome (accuracy over 93%).

    My concern is that this player has concentrated on a few tournaments with over 40 games each on GolfN and Olympic B9 (over 20 of the latter in two days) and is high on the Hack leaderboard. This is simply not fair and demoralising to the lower levels. Weekly tournaments aren't really a problem it's the longer ones. Maybe for the longer "Unlimited Tournaments" then one should appear on the board of your correct level forfeiting earlier levels if you have changed more than one level.

    Indeed Is there a need for "unlimited tournaments"? should they become "limited" i.e. 3-4 attempts max. If an individual is that keen there are always practise or even ranked games still using up WGT balls before  a real tournament. After all in real life how many goes do you get?

    As for these "specialists" should WGT consider adding another criteria before a tier change, especially in the middle ranks. Before  earning the right to be called Master should you have earned gold on at least 12 of the(14) courses (8 for Tour Pro and 8 Silver for Pro)?

    I appreciate WGT are working hard to produce a great site but in the interest of continual improvement, please iron out some of these anomalies or it will become yet another gamers site.

     

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Mon, Mar 24 2014 10:42 AM

    I have yet to see a "true" prodigy on this site...ever.

  • RonCarr
    243 Posts
    Mon, Mar 24 2014 10:49 AM

    Yes looks like he is a pure natural,and very talented in the game..I agree with you makes me not mad but sad and kinda stupid,have thousands of rounds and never play that well, consistently..I would like to see no one advance unless 500 ranked rounds and all rounds count..Also a time clock of 30 seconds for all tourneys..I play by the seat of my pants,and very seldom need more than 15 seconds a shot.. Probably why i suck at the game but love it..lol..Just my thoughts.. Ron

  • DaveStrock
    919 Posts
    Mon, Mar 24 2014 11:14 AM

    Roncarr,hope your wife/girlfriend doesn't agree on your 30 second proposal LOL I know the majority of players don't...I agree that advancing is way to easy these days but it's all about the money,the faster a player advances the more money they spend on better equipment in order to be competitive....

  • raycin1019
    377 Posts
    Tue, Mar 25 2014 5:53 AM

    Twice this month i have seen "Hackers" who only joined this month.. like just a couple of weeks... and they were shooting in the high 50's using free balls and equipment.  I forwarded their names to WGTIcon and asked that they be looked at, and in both cases, when i search the WGT community for their names 2-3 hours later, they were gone (they were there when i searched before i sent a message to Icon.  so at least in those two cases, WGT responded quickly and appropriately.

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Tue, Mar 25 2014 7:04 AM

    15 days and ranking in tourny's on Olympic back 9?

    As always this can be explained quite easily using a dash of Paulton logic.

    The player in question MUST be -

     

     

                                

     

    What a tune!!

     

  • CanineSupervisor
    1,882 Posts
    Tue, Mar 25 2014 7:47 AM

    PaulTon:

    As always this can be explained quite easily using a dash of Paulton logic.

    The player in question MUST be -

    ROFLMAO !!!!

  • lvietri
    3,326 Posts
    Tue, Mar 25 2014 12:42 PM

    SweetiePie:
    I have yet to see a "true" prodigy on this site...ever.

    Only Icon my dear .. Only Icon :)

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