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For those with curious minds, here is a full report of our special event 14.1 challenge at Amsterdam, NY.
We had 14 players show up, I was hoping for a few more but was happy to have the support for the event from these players.
I got to the room at noon and they were ALL already there waiting for me LOL....
A players meeting to go over the format and rules ( I used all ball fouls) and we were off at 12:30 for the first round of buy-in's. Players had up to 4 buy-in's to use at $12 each to try and reach the final 8 single elim tournamnt, I used 75 points instead of 100 points for the final 8, worked out much better.. I got my cue out and quickly figured out how tough those Diamonds are for straight pool.........yikes!
I managed to get myself on the bubble in 8th place in the opening buy-in...lots of questions coming my way when I was playing but managed to do that anyhow. The second round of buy-in's comes and everyone that didn't make the top 8 is trying to knock me off that 8th spot. I buy-in again as well to try and get up the later, this time I land in the second slot in the top 8 after the second round of qualifiers...so now I am going to just sit...Chuck Hill bought back in as well after also being somewhere near 5th in the opening round and he put himself in 1st spot this time around...so he now sits as well. ...
The others are in a fierce battle with 2 buy-in's left knocking each other out of those 7th & 8th spots...the format was a bunch of fun!
At 3pm I call last call to use your buyin's that may be left...(you have to set a time for last call I realized). At last call 3 guys buy back and 1 of them misses getting in by 1 ball!
So the final 8 are set and we are off at 3:30 or so playing single elim 75 points. I seeded the field, top spot played 8th, 2nd spot played 7th etc...etc....The guys that missed the final 8 I ran a second chance single elim to 50 points for a cash prize for 1st place only...they all played in it and were happy to be able to keep playing (1 guy did leave before that started though). Ed Picallo, the guy that missed the final 8 by 1 ball, won that second chance tournament.
The top 8 tournament was a blast, and nobody wanted to give up anything! Thats the way it should be. The whole event including the final 8 tournament was over about 9pm! With everyone playing all day. This is the way 14.1 events should go in the future, people are home at a reasonable hour and had plenty of playing time, as opposed to the double elim standard format that keeps you there until 3am. So 12:30 to 9pm the whole thing wrapped up, and it wouldn't have mattered if 10 more players showed, the format would still happen in the same amount of time basically, as long as there are enough tables. The only drawback that occured was the $12 buy-in (including table time) was set to low and created only a small prize pool, but it really didn't matter, 14.1 enthusiasts enjoyed the day!
In the end yesterday, some guy from massachusetts made a comeback from being down 30+/- balls in the finals against one of Albany's best Tom Acciavatti. Gongrats to Tom and everyone that played!
Results:
1st - Kevin Vidal $100
2nd - Tom Acciavatti $50
3rd/4th - Chuck Hill - Paul Picard $25 ea.
5th/6th/7th/8th - John Babravich - Rob Francoeur - Walter Rogowsky - Don Raiano
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