The national Beer Pong League

"jhughes44"

I like your idea as well, but what makes someone a TOTAL rookie? What do you consider a kid that's been playing on regulation tables since he was 19, and has become as good as the recognized 'pros', but no one knows who he is...He could come out and fire a perfect tourney right off the bat.
 

"jhughes44"

I had a thought about how to run tournaments to keep the crowds a'coming. Sooo...it seems like there is a general consensus that people stop coming because the same teams always win blah...blah...blah. Well, what if instead of having a single code for an entry to the Series there were eight codes needed to sign up. Stay with me here.
 
Now that we have eight codes per one entry to the Series we can divide them up at tourneys. Let's say we give four codes (1/2 of what is needed to enter the world series) to each player on the winning team. This leaves 8 codes left to give out. For second you could give each player two codes (1/4 of a satty) and some cash, and then also give the players from the third place team two codes each.
 
This does two main things:
1. A lot of "amateur" teams get on a streak and make it near the top, but have trouble actually finishing with the win, so they can win a partial entry. This way they will feel like they accomplished something and are closer to getting their trip (which they are).
2. A person that has got third in a tournament will have 1/4 of entry, thereby increasing their will to keep going to tourneys and complete the entry.
 
I obviously realize that there is a lot to consider in starting a system like this, such as when people come down to the end of the year with only two codes. In a scenario like this we can assign values to the codes that will decrease your entry fee by 1/8 of the total price (per code). Of course, each code increases in value as the price increases during the year.
 
I have a lot more to say on the subject and there are a ton of things that need considered, but I think with a well thought out system this could attract more regular players.
 
Some of the other ideas on here I don't think will work in the long run. For instance, there are too many good players to just eliminate teams that have won from playing with each other again. Awesome! Foster can't play with Austin again cause they already won one...so then Foster just picks up Kessler and wins another one, and so on and so forth.
 
I'm just throwing this out there to see if it sparks any interest, or if I completely missed something that would make this fail miserably...I'm sure the brilliant minds that post on the bpong forums will have run circles around the goods/bads of this by the end of tomorrow.
 
Note: I realize in the above scenario that codes would only need to be split into 1/4 values, however, I thought going with the 8 way split would give the people that run the tournaments more freedom to divvy them up how they see fit (different size tourney's, different buy-in amounts, etc.).

"powerhouse4life"

has it ever been discussed about forming another major tourney sometime in the middle of the year with a different rule set to please some of the more casual/amateur players? example id say 90 percent of players start out learning with playing a no elbow rule. You use the same foot bar extender idea as someone mentioned before. I have encountered a lot of different teams that are outstanding pure shooters that are too skeptical at playing with the current rules because they dont like change. if the concern of keeping more amateur players into it is the focus then this might be something worth discussing. another thing that was brought up was changing the rebuttle rules. you could have 2 cups left and if the first player hits and the second misses its over, again 90 percent of players start playing with a rebuttle "shoot till you miss"(while alternating partner shots) scenario (1st shooter makes, 2nd misses then 1st shooter goes again). maybe implement this into this tourney and then see how it goes. if it does well then maybe ammend it into the actual world series. another rules that falls into that basic 101 of learning is choosing when you can rerack. only it can only be racked into forms that would lay consistant inside the pyramid i.e. 3 cup tri, 6 tri 4 cup diamond, 2 cups offset. plug that in there as well because more amateur teams are used to that as well. and other wise keep it same ws rollback rules and etc...so basically make it more adaptable to "house party" rules simplified to the very minimum.