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Improved CC play

• aussiegad 1,595 Posts

  Thu, Sep 15 2011 4:53 PM

  Our CC is now running handicap tourney's so all the CC members can compete against each other (as well as the normal money tourney's). What get's & keeps the Hack's & Amateurs (as well as other tiers) coming back is that they can compete against the better players & still win prizes which ultimately encourages them to go on & become better players. There is nothing more encouraging to a Hack or Amateur than actually winning something, it's a great feeling.

  The hard part for our CC is getting donations from members to use for prizes because without the prizes members just aren't that interested in competing & if they are not competing they are just CC dead wood. We need to encourage membership & participation but that is very hard to do when there are only a few in the CC's that can donate prizes & that's usually at their own expense.

  As said in previous posts, not only do the CC's generate great income for WGT through their tourney's, they also encourage & help develop better players who go on to buy bigger & better equipment as well as spending vast amounts of dough on the countless number of balls worn down or lost to the weeds & water over the years.

  Giving the CC's back a percentage of their earnings for the purpose of providing them with prizes for these types of tourney's, or even giving them prizes (which won't cost WGT anything) for tourney's can only be beneficial to WGT.

  Just my 2 bobs worth.

   

   

• supranoz 310 Posts

  Thu, Sep 15 2011 5:21 PM

  Go for it tessa no one wants to listen get more sense talking to me dog. i still paly with hacks and amats and try to encourage them and give them pointers if possible I am no expert but i was down there and no one helped me until now with our members of our club all pass on tips. The WGT need to wake up and listen!!!!!!!!!!!! to what members are saying.

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Thu, Sep 15 2011 10:06 PM

  aussiegad:

  Just my 2 bobs worth.

   

  That was worth more than 2 bob mate.

  I am sure this is the biggest contention within CC owners.

  How to encourage more participation in the club and eliminate all the deadwood.

  Let alone the ability to select multiple people for - removal - massaging  messaging.. etc

  With some kind of support from WGT, all Clubs would be enhanced and far more active.

  Active clubs = active players = intrest = WGT revenue.

  20% of club earning would be nice to inject back into the club.

  Selling old irons, drivers etc to lower ranked club members at a discount with part of those proceed to WGT and a part back to the club..

  Yeah.. but.. we'll end up with  another 'putter pal.. or something equally as superfluous.

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 3:42 AM

  This is becoming tiresome.

  I come to WGT to play a game and enjoy my Country Club and to interact in our forums.

  I find i end up doing basic club functions, opening multiple tabs, sending  a copied message out' creating new club forum threads - in the hope that the triplicate emails from WGT arent ignored, all time consuuming BS that could be implemented by a few basic enhancements to Club Owners tools.

  I'd really like to nominate a couple of Vice Presidents to help, but NO... no option.

  I can pay 100's of credits to increase the size of my club FROM MY OWN POCKET. But can I administer the club?

  So today.. i check on a couple of our club tourneys, doing what our members would expect...  

  Only to find that one tourney has been entered by those NOT ELIGIBLE because of their TIER

  We have several Tourneys going , ALL plainly Labelled for the TIER , we have to because Tourney description format text box is up the ***.

  We cannot create a tourney by Tier..  

  Cant have nice sweet names for our tourneys because WE ARE COMPELLED to put the RULES in the TOURNEY NAME.

   I find i have to send out messages to members - 1 by 1. 

  BECAUSE THERE IS NO MASS MESSAGE SELECT

  to inform them that the Tourney they entered  was set for a Tier other than their own and they are disqualified.  Great news for a club member huh?

  That the PRIZE FUNDED OUT OF OUR OWN POCKETS and not SUBSIDISED IN ANYWAY by CLUB EARNINGS or WGT will be awarded.

  BECAUSE WE CANNOT SET UP CLUB TOURNIES BY TIER.

   

  I just wonder how those Club Owners who may not be as PC familiar as I with large clubs, get around all this sh1t

  WGT ICon? 

  Why havent you popped up you head in this thread?

  Whats the progress of these BASIC requests?

  DO YOU actually have any REAL input into the DEVELOPMENT of WGT?

  Or are you just a forum face for them experiencing the same frustrations?

  Spit it out.

  Maybe we should hammer your inbox
  http://www.wgt.com/user/profile.aspx?UserID=2148157

   

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 11:44 AM

  hI

  thanks for keeping this thread alive. I have used it to make a list of features the community wanted for the country clubs. I hope soon there will be more additions and once I have some details, I'll be sure to pass it along.

  -wgticon

• PeterHopper 1,315 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 12:43 PM

  Please keep us posted.

   

  I like the ideas posted on this page. Tier tournaments and a small cut of the earnings pot to set up prizes.

   

  For the meantime I may have to set up a handicap system. Although TBF my club is very small.

   

  Plus, I'd still love to be part of TWO clubs. One as the owner and a more active one as a participant. Not multiple memberships, just two. Ic an see how silly someone being a member of 20 clubs might be.

  PLEEEEEEAAAASSE. Pretty please with suger, cream and icing on top.

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 3:55 PM

  WGTicon:

  thanks for keeping this thread alive

  Thanks for responding WGTi.

  We are looking forward to some CC enhancements for Christmas :)

  Perhaps the Devs could throw us a bone with some small new CC newness.

  The ability to create Tier Level CC Tourneys would be Super!

  and .. then.. one day...   when we have everything we need. 

  You could automate a system in which our CC Avatar/ Icon is shown as a sleeve patch on players Avatars.

  :)

• tezzastheman 1,266 Posts

  Mon, Oct 3 2011 4:29 AM

  Hey WGT! wouldnt you like more people to get addicted to wgt, and spend hundreds of dollars like I have? Well its easy, simply support CC's, and the dedicated members of said clubs will do the work for you. you know the drill

• supranoz 310 Posts

  Mon, Oct 3 2011 4:18 PM

  Drill we are the soldiers there supposed to look after us if they dont people will and already have had enough and left. I hae spent a lot of money on this game and are really getting pissed off with little return. You say try the surveys for credits if you are lucky and get past first base you might get 75 / 150/ 450 credits the vidoes arent  worth watching. Wake up and listen to the diggers!!!!!! Give something back to your loyal members that feed your pocket!!

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Thu, Nov 10 2011 1:35 AM

  Bump

   

  Any news WGTICON on any progress for better CC options?