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So called " Top Club rankings" ( what a joke)

• tuxedo2 5,293 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:09 PM

  Lets see how many responses I get  PMSL

  I have a few things to say about the so called "Top Ten Ranked Clubs" 

  Call me naive but I thought that joining a Country Club on WGT or even in the real world would be to play in country club tournaments, after all why join?

  The above mention TEN have a horrific participation rate when it comes to members actually playing ANY of their own club events, if fact many of the owners promote and tell members to just earn as many XP points as you can and it seems like they could care less about member participation in their own tournaments!

  On average all of them have less than 20% of their membership actually complete any of their own club tournaments, and one of them hasn't even played a club event in three months! giving them 0%.....

  The lowest participation club (ranked #1 according to WGT) has a 9% completion rate! and the highest participation club (ranked #2) has a pathetic 21% of the membership who actually complete  the club tournaments.

  So what if they have have 200+ members! 22 -54 of them ACTUALLY play in your clubs tournaments, but you are the " Top Ten Clubs" on WGT (Heeee,hee,hee)

  Sure earning so many important XP points gets you a few "perks" but in reality it is nothing more that a ridiculous ego trip either for the "owners" or the membership, and off course lets not forget earning $$$ for WGT  as you use up balls.

  Footnote: Yes I have way too much free time ;)  however while watching The Players Championship yesterday I figured this out and anyone interested in the statistics of this feel free to message me/friend me and I would be happy to share this information.

  Let the fireworks begin.....

  

• IRISHPUNK 4,019 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:21 PM

  

• chris2345 528 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:21 PM

  Failed already :(

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:23 PM

  I agree, i would not want my club like that and thats why i stress it in my adverts and to members when they join, and the reason i ask members who have not played club comps, the reason why they have joined. 

  One ex member asked me why he had to, and that he liked playing strangers from around the world, fine by me but why had he not played 1 game against a fellow member, could not answer and left, bye bye.

  I dont care if they play all our comps but i set that many, then surely something interests them. Same with forum, "hello i am....... i dont like using forums but i will be reading it", i would be happy with that,

  Now i say each to their own and the big clubs are fine to do as they please but WGT are rewarding XP use as its a great show of profit in ball use (ooooer), and thats the business they in

  Bubbs

  EDIT I may add that theres is some great big clubs out there who prefer cc v cc stuff, which i admire

• IRISHPUNK 4,019 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:27 PM

  I'd like to know Grande Oaks "completion rate", please sir.  Feel free to let it rip right here in the forum.  I have no shame as i'd love to dust off some of our dead weight.  Career earnings be damned.  I think that's a joke too.  Some of the "top clubs" having people with high earnings that haven't played in 1, 2 or 3 years.   Some of the players... maybe the group wants to remain loyal to them (deaths, etc...) but deep down I have to think it's just a vanity play by them. Or atleast some of the stagmant players being allowed to remain on the rosters, should I say.  Not all of them.  

• MichaelStroke 2,066 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:39 PM

  Since I pretty much never do stroke, my CC tournament completion rate would be close to 0 as well.  I prefer to play CC matches, CC alt shot, inter-CC match challenges, etc.

  I think it's pretty naive to believe that there's only one reason to join a CC.

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:44 PM

  IRISHPUNK:

  

  LOL, yeah this may be a goooooood read, im gonna take off my "email me replies to this post", as my phone may go ape sh!t at work tomorrow

  

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 2:54 PM

  That ranking list is a load of keich,  ( pronounced key + ch ,as in loch, with that Scottish ch as if yer clearing yer throat)

  CC XP and passes is a load of jobby.

  WGT's CC clashes (super passes, say what??) are a load of toley.

  There are other Scots words for it, probably more than the innuits have for snow.  

  Any person or club who thinks topping that list gives them some kind of kudos in the wider wgt community is an idiot and gets pointed and laughed at.

  I can't tell you what I really think, ^^^  that's me being very, very kind. 

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 3:01 PM

  IRISHPUNK:

  

  0h my ! A clip of Mr Softee (Freezie) you know, that killer that Richard Kuklinski did the job on...

• chris2345 528 Posts

  Mon, May 11 2015 3:18 PM

  MichaelStroke:

  Since I pretty much never do stroke, my CC tournament completion rate would be close to 0 as well.  I prefer to play CC matches, CC alt shot, inter-CC match challenges, etc.

  I think it's pretty naive to believe that there's only one reason to join a CC.

  Top ranking player here....Top 5 it seems

  Unless the rankings are a joke, and he's just a blow hard.