Deanrover Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Hi. Could you please let me know what you would want from a piad tourney, considering that many free tourneys are available. For example, would you expect prize money, and if so, how would you expect it to be distributed?Would you appreciate hand analysis from a genuine expert? How detailed would you expect this to be? How about Masterpoints? What if a World Class pair were playing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I would be leary of playing in an on-line tournment with a cash prize. Not that I wouldn't, but well, we all understand the problem with cheating if there was such an incentive. I would be willing to pay for events with post-event hand analysis, these could be posted on the web somewhere immediately after the event. For matchpoints, I guess I would be willing to pay if a friend wanted me too so they could win some. Playing against topnotch (I almost said topflight) competition is always desirable, and if the right people are playing, would surely be worth some modest fees to be whipped by the best as opposed to just losing to an average field like I usually do. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I'd like to second Ben's comments. From my perspective, the single most "valuable" feature that tournament providers could offer would be "value added" analysis of the hands. Ideally, this information would be offered in real time, immediately after the tournament finished. In turn, this would require that the Director analyze hands in advance in order to make educated guesses regarding how the bidding/play might proceed. In addition, I would like to be able to get summary results in a more convenient format. For example, I'd love it if the hand record included a frequency distribution documenting the different contracts played, along with associated IMPS/MPs. I wouldn't mind seeing some "basic" analysis of my own results: For example, a listing of all boards in which my board score was more than one standard deviation away from the mean. I will explictly note that I actively dislike "theme" tournaments in which the boards are preselected from based on some kind of selective criteria. I understand that this often makes it easier to create content, however, I think that it has too great a potential to bias results. I have no interest in paying for Matchpoints.I have no interest in competing in Internet based tournaments with cash prizes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Do you guys mean matchpoints or masterpoints? Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 masterpoints I am sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanrover Posted February 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 The cheating problem is obvious, so we are thinking of have individual tournaments with no kibitzers and User Ids masked. This should stop pretty much all cheating. What would you think of this? As for prizes, what would you think of a 90 minute long session (of bridge) with Fred as a prize? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trpltrbl Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 What will fred do? Wash my car and play some rubberbridge :huh: It is a nice suggestion but people that win generally are already fairly good payers. It might be a good idea for and beginner/intermediate tourney. Mike :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzkikr Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 My Views on this differ according to the type of tournie. Some incentives might be the following as well. Paid play: restrict event to level type i.e. Novices/intermediates, intermediates/advanced, advanced/experts. experts/world class. That way the fields are broken up where players are playing against their own level. I think that if people want to reach up then thats fine but people fishing down is wrong. What you should be running is as the others have suggested a learning base for novice/intermediate players where they can play in the tournie they get a copy of their hands the auction and there play ( can be found online but should be separate from their general hands they have played) and then a list of what everyone else played in for each board so they can see what others are doing. Along with this there should be a panel of experts/worldclass who give a overview of what people should be bidding and why as well as a deep finesse analasys of each hand. I mean the reason i think all this is this is a great way to earn revenues and to better the players. Having stronger and more competent fields in the future should be the aim here. As for the other groupings there is only one fair format and that is an individual. you cant run any other format that would wouldnt be as abused. You can make them a relatively big event and offer cash incentives i.e. free entry to the next one for the top 16 players(pending on size of event of course) a cash prize to 1,2 3 and even send out a small plarque to the winner... now this is all just thrown out there becasue it all depends. it depends on the number of players and the amount to generate. one thing i know for sure i wouldnt pay to play in anything less than 28 boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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