The Storm's response was a little bit exaggerated, but not way off the mark. The leagues we've run in the past have definitely fun, but the turnouts weren't quite as strong as I hoped. One suggestion I would have if we do a MTT style league (where we all play together for $5 buy ins or whatever) would be to only play once per week. I think with less events, more people will make time for them. I used to think that with more events to choose from, it would be ok if people missed some (we only used the top 6 finishes out of 20 events total - something like that), but now I think one night per week - same night, every week - would be better.
I'm curious to hear your ring game suggestion... not sure how that would work. Remember, expected win rates aren't exactly consistent through the different levels, so we'd need to normalize them somehow. I really don't know how we'd do that... and we wouldn't be playing together, which is kind of the whole point. Otherwise, it's just an elaborate prop bet.
FYI - We've had three leagues before. Here is a link to , in case you'd like to see how it was set up, the results, and so on. We've also had , and our own forum . These were pretty cool. We even and made side bets on those.
Lastly, I love the idea of doing absolutely anything that would get us some new, solid members here... but we have to remember that there is a fine line between inviting people here, promoting some special event, and spamming. I think bunny got banned from 2+2 for posting about the TP Open last week. Complete BS, IMO. I mean, people link to 2+2 from here every day, but if someone from here posts there about a tourney we are having - oh no! Ban stack!!!
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