LP stars MTT Challenge!

Hello. If we have enough interest, I'd like to organise an (un)"official" LP mtt challenge for the month of july, which is sort of similar to, but less complicated than, the one run at 2+2. what the hell is this, i hear you ask?

Well, the jist is this. A number of teams are formed from everyone who wants to participate. These teams have captains, and the captains pick their members from the draft of all players who registered an interest in participating. Once we have x teams of y players per team, we all play a ton of MTTs in the month of July, and the team that does the best at the end of the month, in terms of TLB points, wins.

The 2+2 MTT challenge had many more complex rules, which can be found here. It's a good system for scoring that rewards performance more than which team played the most (mass 20+2 180 man sngs anyone?), however it's overcomplicated for our much smaller site, so instead we'll just impose a rule that only TLB points won from scheduled tournaments (tourneys->regular in stars menu) are allowed to count, so it doesn't become a competition to see who can grind out the most multitable SNGs.

To make it interesting, each team has to put up i dunno say 500$ into the prize pool for their signup, and at the end, the team that wins scoops and shares out the lot.

So, I'm just creating this to see how many people would be interested in possibly playing in something like this. Given enough interest I'll (with the help of some guys like bigballs/mig) think about actually organising this and deciding what works best with regards to players per team/number of teams/signup fee/other exact parameters for rules

If you're interested in taking part, and able to put in time playing lots and lots of mtts (as well as have sufficient bankroll to be comfortably able to do so), and want to spend your july partaking in a friendly team based competition with your fellow LP posters, please reply here with the following:

1) how interested and eager you are to take part in something like this
2) how many hours a day you estimate you will play poker in July
3) a rough indication of the sort of buyins of tournaments you can easily afford to play
4) roughly how much are you willing, and do you think is a reasonable amount, to put up for the event? (ie contribute to the prize pool)

The answers to questions 1 and 2 are the most important for the success of this competition, but it'll be useful for me to know the ratio of higher buyin players to lower buyin players as well when deciding what works best for things like the number of teams and number of players per team.

And finally,

5) if you're a higher buyin player, would you be happy with the possibility of being a team captain?

I hope we can get a good amount of interested people for this soon, so we can pick captains, # per team, entry fee per team, and begin the drafting process before July starts. Reply away!






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Rules update

-There will be 4 teams of 5 players.
-The signup fee for each team is $500.
-The TLB points from top 20 scores of a team will count.
-Each team member has to put forward at least 2 scores (they will be counted as 0 if a member fails to make 2 scores). There is no maximum to the amount of a team's top20 scores that can come from one player, but the minimum per player is 2.


Captains

travis
TwistedEcho
casinocasino


Players for draft so far

Mig
fira
Tr3CooL
Ket
teej1985
DarkXprt
chrusher97
JonnyCosMo
TalentedTom
Floofy
PoorUser
BigBalls
BigRed0000
artpoker
wolfheart
hansen
Baal
Pokerintheface

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What if you're a higher buyin player but you suck at mtts like bigballs? Do you still get to be a captain?

or mig. we all know he sux at MTT

1) VERY
2) MANY
3) im happy to play in all the bigger buyin stuff as well as the smaller buyin ones- basically whatever's going
4) like maybe 200, more if need be.
I forgot to mention, although all teams pay the same (still undecided) entry, individuals within a team can take different pieces of the action, and if that team wins the challenge, the amount the individuals of that team win from the competition's prize pool will be proportional to the amount of the team's entry they put up individually

5) hell no. i think captains should be the big name tournament players here. i sincerely hope people like mig/elky/raszi/twistedecho will volunteer to be the team captains. im a cash game donkey who will spend july learning mtts while playing as many as possible.

I'd help run this with you - maybe some nice admin could give us a section on the left for MTT CHALLENGE or something, and make us temporary mods for that section for the month? Obviously that would depend on this having a high level of interest.

Another way we did it on 2+2 (i was in the challenge) was the team captains paid the fees, and then it was up to the team to sort out who pays what % of that, obviously with the idea if that team wins, the payouts would be paid back going on the %% they paid in.

I'd happily be a captain also!

I like the idea of the captain paying the fees then the team will split up the action between them.

Oh and assuming i have my internet all sorted (moving house end of month) i'll prob play like 300 mtts over the month

this sounds like fun i'd like to give it a shot even though i will be playing mostly cash games this month, playing 1-2 MTT's at any time is cool with me, i can afford the 20+2 ones pretty easily :o

i can probably play 3-6 hours a day maybe more if i'm feeling gay

blegh July no playing time but a second edition in winter and im in

Whichever team had naz would need a handicap.

im high right now so ill read it later

but whatever it is i want in

Travis volunteers as captain.

So echo and travis are captains so far.

On June 09 2006 17:10 Mig wrote: Travis volunteers as captain. So echo and travis are captains so far.

you'll be a captain too surely?

i'd be interested in this but no matter how much $$ i put up in the competition, i couldn't force myself to play the amount of MTTs i'd need to win

meh... maybe

i dunno

yea fine count me in... see how many people u get

what the hell is this, i hear you ask?
lol ket for comedian!

count with me anyway ^^

count me in
1)meh nothin better to do
2)30h+
3)any
4)$500?
5)im not fam00se enough

FUCK
I'll BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY THE WHOLE MONTH OF JULY
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CHANGE TO AUGUST!!! (or do another one in august!)
bleh i probably wont make a difference anyways

i wanna enroll

I would like to play, but Im away the entire summer, maybe again in November/December and I would probably play.