New Club Rule

[damonshort]

CE-Valkyrie (08-18-2003 10:01 a.m.):

Yestarday, all club officials & ops met. We discussed several issues such as adding & dropping events, an Illinois Tour Series, memberships, & rules.



NEW RULE

- This will go into effect for best shot leagues starting Fall League

- This will also start for the September Safari Event



*This excludes Tournaments*

Anyone wanting to play in Leagues or a Safari Event can pay a $2.00 entry fee. This fee will get them on a card. If they place in a payout place, the prize or cash will not be collected by this individual.

this may have come up in the meeting:



suppose in a Safari event, the 'no-prize' player finishes ahead of a 'full-fare' player, e.g.



Full-fare Player A 1st

no-prize B 2nd

Full-fare Player C 3rd



Does Player C get 8 points or 9?



It actually does make a difference!



I don't have any problem with the no-prize concept, but I'm not sure how I feel about this situation...

[damonshort]

CE-Valkyrie (08-18-2003 06:54 p.m.):

For the Safari, player C would get 9 points.



If player B would finish first, he would not win the disc. The disc would go to the 2nd place finisher. That 2nd place finisher would actually get ten points.



So in reality, that player is actually not there in terms of points no matter where he/she finishes.

thanks for the clarification; makes sense

[damonshort]

Seems reasonable to me too (ctp, ace pool – they're really separate categories).



I didn't bring this up Sunday because it really didn't occur to me til yesterday, but there's a little wrinkle to the $2 rule for leagues that might cause a little controversy at some point. Not that anyone here is opposed to controversy, but...



I suppose I'm usually among the players around the middle of the pack; that is, there are times when I probably should play in the 'upper pool' for doubles (a couple of times I have, but not many). I've wussed out on this the past few weeks as I was really in the hunt for overall points.



Since I actually placed in the summer league, it's perfectly reasonable to expect me to play in the upper pool on a regular basis, or at least when a floater is needed. However, from my POV, I've got next to no chance of cashing with a partner who's (theoretically) worse than I am, so I'm always going to take that $2 option when I'm playing upper. $2, or even a couple more for ctp/ace, is cheap entertainment, but paying full fare on a regular basis for me to play Upper is a gamble not worth taking. By the same token, if I *do* pay full fare and then a floater is needed or Upper, I'm not going to want to volunteer.



I'm thinking that I'm not the only who'll take this route; consequently, the overall payouts are going to be less, and for some reason I think some people won't like it.



Don't get me wrong – I completely support the $2 option, but I can see where the more mercenary among us are still going to have a problem with it. I probably won't make fall league that regularly anyhow as there are some other aspects of my life I need to attend to, but I figured it'd be worthwhile (though maybe not helpful ;) ) to toss this out.