Southern Ontario Challenge Match!
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For discussion of a potential challenge match with teams (4 man/woman?) from each of the respective geographies, Kitchener, Waterloo, London, Guelph, Milton, Bradford (for you Joe), etc. Let's hear your ideas as to format, buy-in, etc... I would propose hosting the 1st one in Milton and then perhaps cycling it around to different locations similar to the Canadian Open.. LOL, maybe we could sell the TV rights?
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"I think we have the makings of a special team match shaping up here, perhaps in the New Year? I will talk to the Milton gang and see if we can perhaps host the 1st one. Maybe get some of our experienced tournament hosts to assist with the setup/organization? Rob, Brent, et al? We'll need to come up with some sort of format. I have a local small condo meeting room that would probably hold 40-50 ppl, rectangular tables/chairs that we can get for a nominal fee.... Perhaps we should start a new thread to get this going in rather than hijack this one?"
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WHAT DO YOU SAY GUYS???
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Johnny adams
Kevin farrell
Steve block
Brian bell.
I think teams of 4 woudl be awesome. i also think kitchener and waterloo will have to have different teams. we coudlnt just have 4 guys from kitchener. we woudl have to have kitchener 1, Kitchener 2, etc... same with waterloo, or any city with more than one team.
now, all we need to do is figure out a structure and soem reasonable buy-in's to make a "team" event a working theory.
Johnny
*cough Mark, Mario, Johnnie, Rob, Ty *cough cough
everyone wants you when you're THAT amazing at poker. *cough, cough**
On a side note: Â Have you seen the movie Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe? Â Yeah, I laughed everytime I saw that Faun....you guys are the spitting image of eachother. Â Deathly attractive!
If anyone could find a picture of him that would be awesome...
stp
Let's get the ball rolling.
stp
Anyways off the top of my head I can give you 4 Captains.
Compuease - Team Other
Rob - Team Waterloo
Myself Team Guelph
STP - Team Kitchener
Jeff as for timing - Â I would imagine with some semi aggressive blinds the SNGs would last 2 1/2 Hours = 9 Hours for 4
A couple breaks (dinner etc) Â = 2 Hours
Heads Up = 1 Hour
I could easily come up with a Kitchener team, I'll start thinking of it right now. Can I take the Cambridge players too? I'll have fun with this until someone else wants to be elected....
These are guys from Kitchener off the top of my head, not necessarily 'the team' though.
Mark "DrTyore"
Trevor "Beanie"
Jenn "KangaX5"
Jeff Roth "teach"
Neil Mcvicar "Sloth"
Brad "Pinhead"
Wow, I can think of about a million players in Waterloo. Why don't all of you Kitchener players PM or post if you'd be interested in something like this and I can add you to the list.
stp
One day to crown a champion?, or point based over a time period of x number of months....then you have a definate result which region is the best...by the way, i'll support MILTON!!!
-ali
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That is if they are all willing to do this? The format sounds great, but like Beanie said, logistically it will be difficult. I guess I have to go out and learn me some new games.... sheesh.
-ali
Can I qualify for Team Toronto too since thats where I live before uni?
for anyone who played robs tournament of champions, we all knwo how amazing everything about it was. the structure, buy-in, length, intensity, etc..
I figure a series of sit n go's that qualifys 2 players from each table to a "Finalie" tournament with the same idea.
lets say for example we get (idealy) 8 teams of 8. and through my exceptional math skills, we can see that this would make for a tournament of 64.
1. Kitchener 1
2. Kitchener 2
3. waterloo 1
4. waterloo 2
5. Cambridge
6. milton
7. Toronto
8. Guelph
each table of 8 is a SnG with the top 2 players moving on to the finalie tournament of 16 players. in the Sng's no players from the same team will sit at the same table. each team will be evenly distributed over the 8 tables.
Here's the team strategy part.  the 8 team captains each draw a card, ace to 8. the ace is first and the 8 is last. tables are numbered 1 through 8 obviously and which ever team captain is the ace sits his or her team on tables 1 thorugh 8. whichever team draws the 2 gets to match which ever player on their team to the table they see fit to their players strengts and weeknesses. For example, i see a tight agressive player such as shannon, i woudl chose either my strongest or my weakest player depending on our strategy. and the captain who gets card 3 gets to make the even tougher decision now that their are 2 players at that table. you guys get the point, and i think this adds a whole new dynamic to the game. pretty cool if you ask me.
here's where it gets tricky. the buy-ins and payouts:
$20/person for the SnG's. this makes a total prizepool of $160 for each table. $60 form each table will be set aside and this will be explained later. the last $100 will be divided 50/50 between the last 2 men/women left at each table.Â
for each player who makes it to the 16 person final, the buy-in will be $40. this makes the pot $640 for the last 16 players. the payout for the last 16 players will be a 50/30/20 payout.
NOW! for the $480 taken from the SnG's we could either throw it into the final prizepool for the last 16 players and make the payout to the top 6 or 7, or we could go the rout for the top team.
we make that $480 the prize for the top team to split evenly. we assign points to the SnG's and the final tournament and which ever team makes the most points gets to evenly split the prize between themselves.Â
ALONG WITH THE TITLE OF "TEAM CHAMPIONS BABY!!!"
As for location, my fater has a shop big enough for us to hold this tournament and it woudl be free, unless anyonme can come up with a better place. This shop is located in Paris, so i dont knwo if it;'s too far for everyoen to get there.
During breaks teams may get togather to talk strategy and hwo to play other teams.
teams can make different names for themselves (shannons team can call themsleves "the wonderfully terrible poker players with bad gas" team for example.)Â Shannon you knwo i love you buddy.
so everyone respond with your thoughts.
i think the buy-ins are pretty reasonable considering each SnG is pretty much a satellite into the final tournament.
the final tournament woudl have 10 000 in chips and the SnG's woudl start with 1500 or 1000 depending on input.
thanks guys
Johnny
I think maybe we can take this even further and have the 8 tables being hosted at 3 or 4 venues at the same time, and then have the final table somewhere.
The regulars host I can think of are Rob, Sandro, Trev, and Greg (starting in Jan) - Sorry guys for throwing your names out there without your consent
Maybe we can have one weekend where the 8 tables will play on Saturday, and the Sunday we will have the final.
ok man, im playing, you know i love you, but yeah be our team captain, and im sure good things will come of it.
Go Cambridge Go!!!
Brian
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Cambridge - Lamb_of_john
Kitchener - stpboy
Toronto - MDSGuy
Milton - compuease
London - witchdoctor
Guelph - ?
Waterloo - ?
Other - ?
Love John's idea, and would favour top team (points) being the big winner. Otherwise, it seems like it would simply be a shootout where the players are non-randomly assigned, and I think the "team" factor really makes this interesting. Can't wait though - this sounds like a blast!