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UKOPS Player of the festival

Sky_SamTSky_SamT Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 984
edited December 2014 in Poker Chat

Hi All,

After UKOPS XI we received a lot of feedback from you guys saying that you would like a player of the festival type competition for the UKOPS festivals. For UKOPS XII that is exactly what we are going to do.

 

The Player of the Festival will win themselves a seat at the UKPC in February. This competition will be run on the forum and thank you to the volunteers that have already said they are happy to do this. We have an idea of the way this leaderboard will run but in true community spirit we wanted to get some feedback from you guys about how the points in this competition are allocated.

 

Player of the festival points will be on offer in every UKOPS event on the schedule. We have an idea of how the points should be allocated, taking into account:

 

-  Finishing Position

- Buy in 

- Number of runners

 

We now want to throw this open to you guys to make suggestions based on the above. We want to make it as simple as possible so that our willing volunteers are not working all hours trying to keep the leaderboard up to date, so please let us know what you think.

 

We will have a look at all feedback and finalise the details of this in the next week or so.

 

Thanks

Sam

 

 

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  • BigHawk89BigHawk89 Member Posts: 627
    edited December 2014
    Different tiers would be good, separate leaderboards for mains, minis and sides events.
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  • poppy765poppy765 Member Posts: 1,521
    edited December 2014
    Sounds good, think having five mini leagues for the different buyin tiers would be best-
     then consolidate the results for the overall winner! 
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  • CraigSG1CraigSG1 Member Posts: 1,832
    edited December 2014
    I think you should clearly and quite blantantly rip off Slipwaters points system/league structure. :)

    It was, afterall, a group effort on deciding how it was run so the efforts already been made.
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  • liamboi11liamboi11 Member Posts: 2,141
    edited December 2014
    could make it 2 tiers for example

    Buyins from £3.30-£22
    Buyins £55+

    and do a similar points system to the main/mini leaderboard

    a few tweaks can obviuosly be made but think this could work :)
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  • jordz16jordz16 Member Posts: 2,253
    edited December 2014
    well it sounds like there is only one seat available so why not just use slipwaters leaderboard style.. im sure the lower buy ins will have a softer field but also it will get so many more runners that it will be just as hard to make the top 10 as it would be in a high roller so should just keep it simple
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater Member Posts: 3,660
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival:
    well it sounds like there is only one seat available so why not just use slipwaters leaderboard style.. im sure the lower buy ins will have a softer field but also it will get so many more runners that it will be just as hard to make the top 10 as it would be in a high roller so should just keep it simple
    Posted by jordz16
    Because it's mines, innit? ;)
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  • HITMAN_RVHITMAN_RV Member Posts: 8,688
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival:
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival : Because it's mines, innit? ;)
    Posted by Slipwater
    Brian, why not post up your structure of points, tables etc.
    was good!!
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  • TeddyBloatTeddyBloat Member Posts: 1,419
    edited December 2014
    think you should definately take up slipwater on his offer of running this competition, he should definately do different awards for buy ins etc.

    pity TOTP no longer runs, as it will be a lot of work alongside his excellent leaderboard thread.

    wp slip...
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater Member Posts: 3,660
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival:
    think you should definately take up slipwater on his offer of running this competition, he should definately do different awards for buy ins etc. pity TOTP no longer runs, as it will be a lot of work alongside his excellent leaderboard thread. wp slip...
    Posted by TeddyBloat
    Hahaha, very funny.

    Er, no, wait a minute...
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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited December 2014


    a tweek please to make it SIMPLE

    1 point if cashing
    2 points if FT
    3 points if third
    4 points second
    5 points first

    the benefits are numerous.  easy to calculate, easy to see what needs to be done.  but mainly, the competition remains alive for longer and for many more players

    Simplicity is the key. 

    PS.  The range of scores should be narrow.  ie 1 to 5
    PPS,   The relationship between points should not be polarising.  ie not 20 points to the winner.




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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,707
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival:
    a tweek please to make it SIMPLE 1 point if cashing 2 points if FT 3 points if third 4 points second 5 points first the benefits are numerous.  easy to calculate, easy to see what needs to be done.  but mainly, the competition remains alive for longer and for many more players Simplicity is the key.  PS.  The range of scores should be narrow.  ie 1 to 5 PPS,   The relationship between points should not be polarising.  ie not 20 points to the winner.
    Posted by aussie09
    Absolutely.

    I must have seen scores of "Leaderboards" in my time, mainly in "Live Poker" Festivals. As a generality, one big win kills the fun, & Leaderboard, stone dead.      
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  • FlashFlushFlashFlush Member Posts: 4,494
    edited December 2014
    I think I'd prefer Slipwater's leaderboard to Aussies. Some of the UKOPS XI events were paying out as much as 70+ runners. So to get 1 point for 70th and then only 2 points for 6th and 3 points for 3rd seems a bit unfair.

    You could take Slipwater's league and then for the £55 games multiply the points by 1.1 and the £110 games by 1.2. I don't think that makes it overly complicated does it? Gives a main event winner 36 points as opposed to a side event winner 30.

    Something different would need to be done with the HR as this will obviously have a far smaller field than any other game.
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  • poppy765poppy765 Member Posts: 1,521
    edited December 2014
    The way I see it, the lower the buy in- the more runners, which makes a micro win more impressive.
    Giving more points for higher buyins is the opposite of that.
    I thought this was an inclusive community competition?
    I'd much rather see the prize go to a plucky low stakes player rather than a high roller because it would mean more to them.

    I don't think it's unreasonable to at least start on a level playing field.
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  • poppy765poppy765 Member Posts: 1,521
    edited December 2014
    FWIW I think aussie's system is bang on.
    It would make it a closely fought race and encourage people to play extra tournaments.

    (If the winner of the high roller is grumbling that their 5 figure payout should have come with more points then they have definitely lost perspective...)
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  • TalonTalon Member Posts: 1,621
    edited December 2014

     To put it simply.

     We all know that the winner of this will be someone who is very well rolled because they will be able to play in a lot more events than most. Most of the players on the site who will want to have a crack at these tournaments would never even dream of being able to play in the high roller.

     So any point system that gives more points to the higher rolled players only makes it even less of a competition than it could be.

     Only remotely fair way of doing it is to make all tournaments worth the same points. Dont know how to structure it to make it good but can not see the point in loading it in favour of a selctive group
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  • jordz16jordz16 Member Posts: 2,253
    edited December 2014
    this isnt what i would choose but.....

    what if you just calculated everyones 5 finishes nearest the win? then the lowest score at the end of the week wins? keeps it interesting for a lot longer, and is just an alternative as point based leaderboards will always cause disagreements 

    plus the more events you play the better chance you have but at the same time no one is exempt from having a chance. 
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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited December 2014


    Le Tour De Skypoker

    Yellow Jersey = Overall best = Most money won
    Green Jersey = Points Winner = Cash=1, FT=2, 3rd=3, 2nd=4, Win=5
    White Jersey = Newcomer = Points and joined skypoker after 1/1/20xx
    Polka "Poker" Dot Jersey = King of the Mountain = Heads taken
    Skypoker Blue Hoodie and UKOPS bracelet = Stage Winner = Tournament Winner



     


     
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  • poppy765poppy765 Member Posts: 1,521
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival:
    this isnt what i would choose but..... what if you just calculated everyones 5 finishes nearest the win? then the lowest score at the end of the week wins? keeps it interesting for a lot longer, and is just an alternative as point based leaderboards will always cause disagreements  plus the more events you play the better chance you have but at the same time no one is exempt from having a chance. 
    Posted by jordz16
    It is always gonna be difficult to reach a group consensus, 
    this sounds inclusive and closer to the 'player of the festival' concept than most points based systems. 
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  • FlashFlushFlashFlush Member Posts: 4,494
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival:
    The way I see it, the lower the buy in- the more runners, which makes a micro win more impressive. Giving more points for higher buyins is the opposite of that. I thought this was an inclusive community competition? I'd much rather see the prize go to a plucky low stakes player rather than a high roller because it would mean more to them. I don't think it's unreasonable to at least start on a level playing field.
    Posted by poppy765
    The only reason I suggested that was because the OP said they wanted buy ins factored into the leaderboard. That's why I said only 1.1 and 1.2 as it only makes a small difference. I'd be happy for it to all be lumped together and everyone get the same points... Next question is though, if we did agree to go with Slip's points is paying top 20 enough, due to the larger fields?
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  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,620
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: UKOPS Player of the festival:
    Le Tour De Skypoker Yellow Jersey = Overall best = Most money won Green Jersey = Points Winner = Cash=1, FT=2, 3rd=3, 2nd=4, Win=5 White Jersey = Newcomer = Points and joined skypoker after 1/1/20xx Polka "Poker" Dot Jersey = King of the Mountain = Heads taken Skypoker Blue Hoodie and UKOPS bracelet = Stage Winner = Tournament Winner    
    Posted by aussie09

    Lanterne Rouge =  Bubble boy/girl  in  Highroller.
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