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Originally Posted by omar 1. I am assuming that out of your 30 players last year, you have some that play nearly every time and others that play only occasionally. So, is your ToC leaderboard simply based on a point system where you get X points for where you place in the weekly tounrney's? Thus, if you don't make the weekly tourney, you get zero points? (Like our Chiptalk tourneys) |
Right. We only played from April through November last year. We had 35 tournaments, and about one third of the players played in 6 or less tournaments. We had a core of six that played in 22+ tournaments, and the rest fell in-between (6-20).
Last year I ended up going with total prize money won for rankings, with total points from your best 15 tournaments as a tie-breaker. I don't think it would have made a difference last year if I switched the ranking order around. Plus I'm not using where you place in the season standings to determine chip counts, just who gets in the ToC.
Here's a thread that has some ideas about a points structure/formula.
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2. I like your general format, in that you have 2 rounds to determine the final table chip stacks. Thus, a bad beat or 2 doesn't necessarily knock you out of the ToC.
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Yeah, I liked the format when I saw it on FSN. Glad TiVo caught it for me. The chip percentages were based on 8 players, so I had to tweak them for 9.
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3. Did you use a dedicated dealer dealer for the ToC?
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We did not. We've gotten pretty effecient using a two-deck self dealing system. And a $900 total pot isn't enough for me to think about getting a dealer for 3 SnG's. It would be nice, don't get me wrong, but not something I'm really considering at this time.
Still, I'll probably make the rounds last longer this year. Maybe 30 minutes for the first two rounds, and 40 minutes for the final round. We'll see.
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4. What was the breakdown of your starting chip stacks for the T5000 and T10000 rounds?
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I don't remember, but I probably did 20 green/20 black/5 purple for T5000.
For the T10000, I made up a quick excel spreadsheet to calculate total chips for me, based off of the starting stack amounts. This was before I had my ASM's, so I didn't have anything for T5000 chips. Everyone started with 10 or 12 greens, 16-25 blacks and 6-16 purples. Then I also gave out 10 greys each (T1000) to the two chip leaders.
As a different point of reference, I'm having a 16 man T10000 tournament on July 9th, and each person is starting with 12 green, 7 black, 4 purple, 2 orange and 1 chocolate.
