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Many venues have a tournament each
week. There are ways you can spice up the tournaments and keep the
players coming back.
You might hold the tournament for four weeks and then have a playoff
of the weekly champions. You could have a bonus for anyone winning
two or three weeks in a row. Also, you could award points for first
through fourth and determine a point champion after a set number
of weeks.
Again, use your imagination and talk to the players and see what
interests them. Keep in mind that your tournament should be fair
for all levels of players.
Ingenious tournament directors are always trying to find ways to
encourage more participation in tournaments. Some added attractions
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• A portion
of the prize money (usually 10%) is set aside as pot money or each
player contributes additional money as pot money.
• The numbers from zero (0) to nine (9) are written on separate
pieces of paper or on bottle caps.
• All players report their outing to the tournament director,
which is then listed. Single digit outings (0 to 9) are listed with
a zero before the outing. Hence, an outing of 5 is listed as “0-5”
and so forth. Players who out 100 and up report the last two digits
only. Hence, an outing of 136 is listed as “3-6” and
so forth.
• Before the start of the championship round, the mystery
out is drawn using the pieces of paper or bottle caps prepared beforehand.
• The first number, corresponding to the tens digit is drawn
and announced. The names of the players who have a chance at the
mystery out are then announced.
• The number is returned and the second digit, corresponding
to the ones digit is drawn and announced.
• If a player goes out from the combination selected, he wins
the pot. The players gets 70% of the pot while his partner when
he made the out gets 30%. If there is more than one winner, the
pot is divided according to the number of winners with the same
70-30 sharing scheme between partners.
• If no player wins, the pot money could be carried over for
the next week or a new combination is drawn until someone wins.
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