Nationals Results and Impressions

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Permalink Reply by Will Stranks on October 5, 2009 at 10:32pm

32 open doubles teams and 58 players in open singles.

Everyone really liked the format, I didn't hear any complaints on the group stage format. Maybe having a way to separate the players that go unbeated could be found. In singles Matt B was the number one seed and Tony and Ryan were in the same bracket (with Kane also) and that was a pretty unfortunate.

The sponsors I am going to talk to tomorrow... we'll see what they think. We were hoping for about 100 players.

The venue was probably the biggest hit - everyone loved it. Tony Spredeman said it was the best venue he had played in and that he was impressed. Everyone had fun, the tournament came off way better than I had even hoped and most people said it was there favorite tournament ever.

I think the format really did make the difference in the end, everyone gets to play lots of foosball and every game is important.

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Permalink Reply by Todd Williams on October 6, 2009 at 7:42am

Congrats on some great work Will !!

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Permalink Reply by Sean on October 6, 2009 at 10:46am

Absolutely a great job Will, big kudos to you and your team. I think the turn-out would have been at least 25% greater if the economy wasn't impacting players.

I think the format was very good, round-robin lets rookies get some experience playing higher-ranked players, and all the teams get a warm-up. Then seperate brackets allows all the teams to get down to business... if time permits, I'd suggest 3/5 in A side in the future, with win by 2 each 5th game.

The venue was set-up great, table locations, sitting areas, lighting.. all top-notch. My only complaint would be that the service (for drinks and food) was not up to par (half the time I got the impression their staff was either new, confused, or undermanned).

All in all a great job, and I hope this becomes a long tradition going forward.

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Permalink Reply by Todd Williams on October 7, 2009 at 6:39am

getting good reviews elsewhere too...

http://foosballboard.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4522&highlight=

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Permalink Reply by Will Stranks on October 7, 2009 at 2:04pm

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/ssj/edm_messages.htm

This is the western message board that most people use, there is lots of information on there about the event also

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