Greene King Competition

[monkey]

This is a list of the local pubs who are entered into the Tournament;



The Milton Arms

The Grapes

The Man on the Moon

The Rock

The Bird in Hand (not a capl pub but could be closer for some)



Tournament format is as follows:



Stage 1: In house tournament. Each entrant pays £5 which guarantees them 5 £1 off vouchers for drinks, they are entered into a group. Each player in the group plays each other once, a game is considered best of 4 frames. The winners move through to the final stage. Once in the final stage you are guaranteed to be in the next round, but there will be an in house final to decide who takes which pub prizes. The process will be the same as before. The winner of the in house final becomes the captain for the next round. This stage is played between the 4th of Feb and 31st of March



Stage 2: The pub team which was formed at the end of round 1 will play against a local team over two legs, home and away. The players will play someone from the other team over 4 frames, with 1 point being awarded for a win. The winners over 2 legs will move onto stage 3. This stage is played between 8th and 28th of April.



Stage 3: Regional finals. This will take place at the Greengage in Bury St Edmunds. There will be 8 teams in the regional final, and it will be a knockout format, same as before best of 4 frames, with draws being decided by the best players on each team. This stage is played on the 8th of May.



Stage 4: The winner of stage 3 will be going to Blackpool to take part in the Golden 8 Ball Finals at the Norbreck Castle Hotel. The accommodation and breakfast and dinner is paid for all players in the final, which will start on the 21st of June. Each player on the team will be entered into the team and individual events with potential winnings of £10,000 on offer for the team event.

This is most of the details, if people want to know more, come in to the pubs and see and sign up!

I believe it is played to Blackball Rules.

[Rich Wharton]

A few things which immediately stand out.

1. Is this a singles comp or a team comp? I think it's a singles comp which then transforms into a team comp, but this begs the question: Why? Wouldn't it be easier to just pay £25 (or whatever £5 x the number of players in a team is) and enter a team?
Also: it seems there is a further individual event later on. Strange.

2. "Best of four frames". This seems to allow for a draw. If it is a team comp, then what happens if all matches are drawn? If this means "Race to 4" then it begins to make sense, but....

3. What are the "in-house pub prizes"?

4. How many people are going to be in each team? I might be mis-reading Stage 1, but I don't see this being specified.

[controller]

the last time i was this confused was at the end of the last episode of "Soap"

[tekno81]

All good points by Rich Wharton

[monkey]

Yo

I was a little confused too but just assumed it was me. I have reposted just as it was sent to me. As it says please contact the pub for more info.

[dobbin]

Pub gets as many people as they can to sign up. Max 32. They are drawn in to 4 groups. Each player in a group plays 4 frames against the other players in their group. 1 point per frame won. Winner of each group, ie most frames won, becomes part of that pubs team of 4. The 4 group winners have a round Robin again of 4 frames against the other 3 group winners to see who is team captain and who wins the pub prize which is a percentage of the entry fees.

While all this is going on, you get £1 off a pint, for 5 pints.

Now that the pub has it's team sorted it will be drawn against another local pub and so on until the area has one winning pub team.

That team then goes off to play in Blackpool.

Simples!

Any questions?

[welshyboyo]

Is it just me or is this extremely optimistic in how many frames of pool can be played in a night in a single table venue?
Assuming the full 32 entrants, each group will consist of:
6 matches of 4 frames = 24 frames
. So, for the group stages there are:
4 x 24 = 96 frames
. Final stage is another group of the same format meaning
96 + 24 frames = 120 frames
. Equivalent to 10 nights' worth of CAPL pool!

Even if each group is scheduled for a separate night that's still 24 frames an evening.

[dobbin]

10 nights of pool players in a pub....who knows but that might be why Greene King are putting up the prize money and running the competition in their pubs.

I'm more concerned about drawing Sav in my group and the frames being completed before work the next day.