Tourneys
Topic: tournament organising

Evening folks. I am putting together a fun little 3-event tournament for some friends, and wanted someones advice. I want to know approximately how long the following may take.

56 games of 8 or 9 ball (race to 3)
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14 games of 8/9 ball race to 5 (will be 7 of each)

looking at doing it over bank holiday weekend, but not counting Saturday, so mainly 1 full evening (8-1/2) and one full day (1ish-same) playing on the one table

should be good fun, as having Pro Evo also and a game of Poker at the end, but want to know how feasible it is.

any ideas?

cheers


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Due to economic constraints. The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off

In a race to 3 8 ball your probably looking at around 20-30mins per match (depending on the skill of the players that are playing). over 56 matches this is between 18.5 hours and 28 hours of pool.

Race to 5's could be anything from 40 mins to 1 hour so your looking at an additional 9 - 14 hours depending again on the skill of the players involved.

This may not be deadly accurate because obviously it depends if each match goes hill hill or is a whitewash, but these are based on hill-hill matches so it could be slightly less than this.

Hope this helps

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Average but competant player you are looking at 5 mins per rack 9 ball and about 7 mins 8 ball. Increase this by 50% for beginners and by 100% if they are really hopeless.

If you want to arrange something where you have a better control over time have them play fixed number of racks rather than race to x then work out the winners by rack difference. If doing this award an extra point (rack) for winning the match.

great. Thank you for the input. that gives me a frame in which to work. hopefully will be fine, will maybe shave off one of the bits i was planning on doing.

thanks again