Post by giacomo on Aug 27, 2009 21:14:16 GMT -5
After much discussion, postings and votings (thank you all for your input!) we are ready to present the structure for Season 3. Here's the plan:
Tourneys
There will be 6 tourneys over 6 weeks, beginning at 8AM CDT Monday, August 31, 2009, and ending at midnight CDT Sunday October 11, 2009. There will be 1 tournament specified for each week of the Season, but the tournaments may be played at any time during the season and in any order the member chooses. A tourney is comprised of two official rounds. An official round occurs when the official password is used to access a posted match. There are no replays of a round, so each official round counts without exception.
Each tournament will be offered in two styles of play, AM and PRO, with corresponding leaderboards. All members may play freely in either or both styles for every tourney. When the Season has concluded the 8 top ranking PRO leaderboard members will advance to the PRO matchplay finals. Any of the 8 PRO leaderboard members who also appear on the AM leaderboard will be placed, in order of appearance, at the bottom of the AM leaderboard. The remaining 8 highest AM leaderboard members will then advance to the AM matchplay finals. Final Season rankings will be determined by weighting the regular season rank 2/3 and the matchplay rank 1/3. Matchplay will run for 2 weeks, with the Season ending on October 25, 2009.
Settings
The following settings will be in force during Season 3:
Miscellaneous
Let me or any of the admins know if you have questions. See you Monday on the links!
G.
Tourneys
There will be 6 tourneys over 6 weeks, beginning at 8AM CDT Monday, August 31, 2009, and ending at midnight CDT Sunday October 11, 2009. There will be 1 tournament specified for each week of the Season, but the tournaments may be played at any time during the season and in any order the member chooses. A tourney is comprised of two official rounds. An official round occurs when the official password is used to access a posted match. There are no replays of a round, so each official round counts without exception.
Each tournament will be offered in two styles of play, AM and PRO, with corresponding leaderboards. All members may play freely in either or both styles for every tourney. When the Season has concluded the 8 top ranking PRO leaderboard members will advance to the PRO matchplay finals. Any of the 8 PRO leaderboard members who also appear on the AM leaderboard will be placed, in order of appearance, at the bottom of the AM leaderboard. The remaining 8 highest AM leaderboard members will then advance to the AM matchplay finals. Final Season rankings will be determined by weighting the regular season rank 2/3 and the matchplay rank 1/3. Matchplay will run for 2 weeks, with the Season ending on October 25, 2009.
Settings
The following settings will be in force during Season 3:
- All matches are Unranked.
- Any putting style will apply to all tournaments, AM and PRO
- Members may use their personal profile or any stock profile they wish for 5 of the 6 regular season tourneys. One tourney will have a designated stock profile that all members must use.
- Courses will be selected randomly from the entire list of courses, minus the courses used during the 4 regular tourneys of Season 2.
- Online settings such as green speed, fairway speed, rough length, weather and wind will be selected randomly. However, if rain is selected once, it will not be selected again; and rain will be excluded from selection for the tourney selected for stock profile. All such settings will apply to both AM and PRO styles for each tourney.
- For the stock profile tourney, the profile selected will be done separately for AM and PRO styles. The AM stock profile will be selected from a pool of no less than 5 high performing pros. The PRO stock profile will be selected from a pool of no less than 5 low performing EA created profiles.
- AM local Options settings are Standard swing, AHOs on, Spin On, Putt Preview On, Putt Meter On (normal settings).
- PRO local Options settings are Advanced swing, AHOs off, Spin Off, Putt Preview Off, Putt Meter On. Advanced swing must be re-established online at the start of each round before teeing off on the first tee by pressing + and changing to Advanced swing in Options while on the tee. Each member is responsible for having the correct settings throughout the entire match. If a member discovers that his/her settings are incorrect during a match, the member is obligated to complete the match but to take a penalty of 6 strokes. In the tradition of golf, each member is responsible for his/her own compliance.
Miscellaneous
- You may practice a tourney and the different settings as much as you like. It is recommended that you use the Practice thread and the password wiigap to set up practice rounds with other WiiGA members.
- There is no makeup week. All 6 tourneys must be completed in either or both styles by October 11 to count in the standings.
- Season 3 will be concluded on October 25. Season 4 will begin on October 26.
- All 6 tournament specifications for both AM and PRO styles will be posted by 8 AM CDT Monday morning, August 31.
- We encourage members to augment Season 3 by setting up their own tourney events in the Laboratory.
- HAVE FUN!!!
Let me or any of the admins know if you have questions. See you Monday on the links!
G.