glen Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 I suggest that the 8 pm (eastern) SPEEDBALL start right at 8 pm - late players can join the regular 8:06 pairs game (still called the 8 pm tourney) or the individual. This would allow players to finish by 9 pm, in order to watch CSI (Thursday) or other popular shows that start at 9 pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Do you think if they took out the 2's and 3's that the speedball would be faster? B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 The speedballs currently run 12 bds x 5 mins per bd, for exactly 60 minutes.We currently allow a 5 min gap between tourneys so the schedule is: 7:00 PM 8:059:10 (starting Sun night)10:15 the creep wasnt so visible with 7/8 but it can't really be hidden once the 9s & 10s begin We've been toying with speeding up the speedballs a little further, to bring them down to 56 minutes. Not clear we can or that the players will want it.Another thought is to run them every 1.5 hours; another to run them on the hour ( but this prevents you from playing 2 successive Ts). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 This would allow players to finish by 9 pm, in order to watch CSI (Thursday) or other popular shows that start at 9 pm. Alternatively, you can use the VCR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 This would allow players to finish by 9 pm, in order to watch CSI (Thursday) or other popular shows that start at 9 pm. Alternatively, you can use the VCR. Get with the times dear Helene. B) Now we either say "You could always Tivo it." (U.S.)Or "You could always use Sky+." (Europe) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted January 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 The speedballs currently run 12 bds x 5 mins per bd, for exactly 60 minutes. We currently allow a 5 min gap between tourneys, so the schedule is:7:00 PM 8:059:10 (starting Sun night)10:15 What about (times eastern): 6:45 pm7:50 pm8:55 pm10:00 pm Now the 2nd and 4th speedball start times are a fair bit different than the regular 8:06 and 10:15 games, and provides a better fill-in-the-gaps to the schedule. For players in the regular 6:30 game, they will usually be finished by 7:50 or should not be playing in the speedball. The 10 has a nice 11 pm finishing time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Now it says speedballs at 7, 8, 9, and 10 - is the 56 minute format being tried? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 No. It was just easier to say 7, 8, 9, and 10PM than to say 7, 8:05, 9:10, and 10:15. sorry for the confusion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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