Addn'l Idea for Heads Up Tourney

[Zybomb]

So unless I misunderstand, there can only be 1 person who "wins" each player, thus all players would either have 0 people betting on them, or 1 person (not including themselves if they chose a 50/50 split)

The problem that may arise here is there may only be bets on 5 players for example. Say everyone thinks the same 5 players will win, so 5 people have them, and now no one wants to bet on any of the other players because they dont believe they'll take it down. At the same time they arent THAT confident in an individual player that the bidding gets extremely high, so it may leave with a very small pot and few participants.

I think a bracket style betting would be better, with increased points for each round. That way everyone can participate, the fee will be flat (whatever sounds good to the people interested) Everyone interested could fill out a bracket and any tie breakers, should there be a tie, would be determined by which bettor advanced furthest in the tournament.

Id be up for either way though

More opinions?

[Aequitas58]

I would want to do either the bracket OR the calcutta. Both seems a little crazy, especially considering this is the first tournament.

In response to Zy's comment about the people who go w/out bidders, what you do is auction off "blocks" of people. This frequently happens at pool tournaments.

Say, for example, there are 7 people who aren't bid on. Group those 7 into "one" and start the bidding. Shit, I'll throw $1 or $3 on a group like that just for odds sake. Play progresses as normal. If there is an unusual number of players who are not bid on (half or MORE than half the field) then we can group the players into 2-3 blocks, w/ 5-6 people in each.

[Penguinfan]

If nobody buys a certain player then that player owns himself for free. This rarely happens in a golf outing as you can pick up players for the minimum bid (which sometimes there is not one) at the last minute.

In a game such as this it would be nuts not to own a player for 1.00 as anyone may win this thing.

[Penguinfan]

Lou,

We posted at nearly the same time, I have seen it done that way in a pool tournament as well. I have not in a golf outing, though I don't see why it couldn't be.

[Aequitas58]

Yea, I see that we overcrossed... just seems unfair to me. Golf outing is one thing... everyone knows each other, all friends (I hope - LOL), this is different. Much more like a pool hall situation.

[Aequitas58]

I definitely don't agree w/ this.

The calcutta is open to those people who want to participate. If someone doesn't want to participate, they don't an interest in the (calcutta) prizepool.

If there are players betting on others, and then there are a few new members who aren't bet on, they shouldn't get themselves for free. They invested no money into the calcutta pool, and IMO, they aren't deserving of everyone else's money.

It's a windfall.

Like I said, I THINK the best option is the "player block" bid situation. What do other people think about this?

Anyone else?

[PShabi]

Blocking the players that aren't bid on sounds reasonable.