Heads up

[RyG]

There doing something similar on the UKStudentPoker forums too, ill report back on it...

[Junior Senior]

I used to play in a squash league, which was ladder based.  You could challenge anyone 3 rungs up the ladder and if you won you moved above them and they moved down a place. - its a good format but you have to start with initial rankings to get your ladder placings. After a while it sorts itself out and you get a good ladder / rankings system.

[Colchester Kev]

Squash league ffs ... i knew he was posh

set up a pie eating league and you get my attention

[Robert HM]

Squash league ffs ... i knew he was posh

set up a pie eating league and you get my attention

Now you're talking. Consider yourself challenged errrr, in the nicest way of course.

[TightEnd]

you'd both lose.

to me

[RyG]

Man i really HATE those ladder things, never used to get a challenge accepted in the old tennis ladder down the local club, was ridiculous had all the egos trying to protect their position while the people who didnt care ( the good players) cud never get a game 

[Sheriff Fatman]

I've played in a Heads Up League via 'another forum' which was a team event - it was good fun!

Basically, interested parties signed up and were drafted by about 10 team captains into teams of 5.  Each week a league fixture was played by each team and the top 4 teams at the end of the league played a knockout stage to determine the winners.  Top 4 teams all got cash back.

Good points:
Plenty of heads up practice for a fixed buy-in as each player got several games.
League format reduced the short-term luck factor.
Team structure was fun.
We negotiated with a site to provide league-specific tables for games to be played on.

Bad points:
Not that many - other than some players initial enthusiasm waned and they stopped organising their games so there were a few 'walkover' results.

IIRC we all put in $50 each for this one.  The winning team got $150 each back but the intention of the league all along was to give players practice and in that respect it was very valuable.

Food for thought, perhaps.

Sheriff

[Colchester Kev]

Food for thought, perhaps.

Sheriff

That should read ... Pies for food

[Sheriff Fatman]

That should read ... Pies for food

People keep telling me that I ate them all! 

Sheriff

[The Dundonian]

I like the idea whatever the format!

[Colchester Kev]

I like chicken and mushroom pies ... hollands pies are best, closely followed by pukka pies

[tikay]

Heads up comp between blondeites? Great idea.

League Table for blondeites. Great idea.

Getting money transferred from person to person? Nightmare City.

The truth is, we need more help, blonde is growing rapidly, & it's overwhelming me, & those that are helping out, Ironside for example. Until we earn more money, we can't aford to hire more staff - it's important to get the fundamentals right.

So, a blonde League - if someone can administer it, fine, ditto the Heads-Up thing. But to avoid a "fre-for-all", with different folks all scrambling to set these things up, it really has to go through a centrl point to gain "official" blonde approval.

I am very much in favour, but just too busy right now to be able to organise & run these things.

Suggestions?

Ouir own "skin"? Watch this space. It's in the Grand Plan, & much progress has been made, ( more than you'd imagine) but it has to be just right. So many of the newer cardrooms are, quite frankly, not up to scratch. We'd rather not do it than do it badly.

And if & when we do announce a blonde online card-room, consider the commercial ramifications on our current partners......

Buit blonde will be here for a while, in more imaginative & wide reaching ways than you'd ever imagine. We've been busy beavers these last few months, & there are all sorts of things happening.

Remember, as Red-Dog says, blondes have more fun.

[dan]

transfering money would be a nightmare i agree. what if we all paid a fee to enter a league say £10/£20 and this was paid to 1 person for arguements sake say tikay.(i am not saying it has to be tikay as i know he is very busy with other things this is just an example) and 100 people enter thats obvoiusly £1000 in the prize pool prizes for top 5 people in the league 'at the end of the season'. it could be played on a 10 cent basis so the win/loss would be hardly anything. fixtures could be drawn at random or the 1st fixtures could be at random to get people a ranking then the ladder system would come into effect

[tikay]

Thanks Dan - but how do we transfer cash around the site?

[dan]

you wouldnt everybody would have to pay an upfront entry fee to whoever is in charge maybe by cheque or bank transfer. would that not work?