We have our Doubles First session Winners!
1st place "Born to Lose" Dan Yano and Randy Hawver
2nd place "Double Vision" Josh Goldsmith and Amanda Mann
3rd place "Hill&J" Roy Hill and Rob Notgrass
4th place "Minnesota Things" James Richardson and Matthew Travis
5th place "Double Trouble" Matthew Vore and Shane Hollifield
All of you will receive an invite to play in the End of Session Tournament, to be held September 5th, please try to be there as early as possible, at least by 6 PM, but earlier if possible. There is a $10 green fee per player. If we cannot finish then we will return the following Thursday for the finals (no additional green fees). After calculation of the final income for the session and costs, I have determined the Payouts are the following:
1st Place $1000
2nd Place $600
3rd Place $400
We will be doing true Double Elimination, with a modified FargoRate R5 Hot. We will be taking the average of both players and then using FargoRate's race calculator to determine the race to. If you are even in Fargo then you will race to 5. If there is a large gap in rating then you will have a higher race. I will limit it to max of 7 games on the A side and max of 5 games on B side.
As a reminder, next session will include the following changes:
Due to Fargo's not changing we will have 3 rounds. First round 1 player plays the other 2 plays in a single game each. Second round, the other player plays the other team members in a single game each. Due to time constraints the 3rd round will only be 5 games of Doubles.
We are limited to 4 tables, but we have quite a few new teams. I am working on a way to allow for 2 time slots. At least one of the teams will always want to play at 8 PM. I will provide further details on this soon. Depending on how far we get into the matches September 7th we will either start the new session September 12th or the 19th. I am considering 16 weeks but I have no finalized this yet, with holidays this puts us into January end time. As another reminder, BCA is a sanctioning league, every year in January we have to pay again for all players. Meaning we will need $25 in January for all players playing in the league.
I wish everyone luck!