Accumulative fund for club tournaments

However, billiard is a gambling game. Having played for some time “just for fun” you start feeling “the taste” of pocketing a ball. The majority of amateurs start playing with each other “for a time” or “for a beer”. As time goes by the desire to play with other (more skilled) rival appears so the money interest emerges. Of cause, commercial matches brings certain “trembling” and add adrenaline, but the financial side of the question in commercial matches can effect a boomerang effect in club’s movement development.

To avoid (or partially to lower) its negative consequences allows the conduction of the tournaments in the club between permanent visitors. The optimal entry fee is to be chosen for the tournament participation that represents the prize fund and is played between the winners (for example, between the first, second and third places). For the stronger players, the prize fund becomes stimulus to a victory, and for the weaker players it’s a chance to overcome the strongest one’s, to learn how to play and to obtain the certain protection from large money losses. Billiard – is not a casino, everything depends on players, but there is no less passion in it and sometimes it’s too difficult to stop in time. Billiard tournaments put such restrictions.

But how to involve players for the regular participation in tournaments and how to guarantee to the permanent (not even the strongest ones) at least any financial compensation? It’s possible to create accumulative fund that is partly formed by the participant’s entry fees, but is gathered during the certain quantity of tournaments and is played between the best players according to a ranking. For example, two dozen of middle-level players come to your club and sometimes high-level players come whose only purpose is to take prize fund. Irregular participation of such professional players doesn’t allow them to be among the leaders but permits the club players to raise their skills in billiard. As to the permanent participants, having the higher lines of the club ranking, they obtain the possibility to play accumulative fund between them. But it’s likely the strongest players will not be allowed to participate in draws due to their irregular participation and low place in club ranking.

At least the accumulative fund creation stimulates the amateur to participate in the tournament. The sum of the fund after a couple of months can considerably exceed the amount of the one-time tournaments. In other words the money of the players doesn’t go to the “casual” professionals, who dropped into club for a single tournament, but remains for the play off among the club players. It gives an opportunity not to use “handicap” that couldn’t stop “a dark horse” from gaining whole tournament’s prize fund but can allow the club participants to feel there real skills playing “as equals”. Not very big price funds in some sense repulse the professional players – one should constantly participate in club tournaments to accumulate points for club ranking. It’s mostly not interesting for such players. But while playing really big money of accumulative fund club amateurs can feel a great surge of adrenalin. Anyway tournament arrangement is necessary for any club even though it makes its only aim to earn money. Even permanent visitors as time goes by will leave you club in the nearest club of “sport” direction. It’s because the desire to compete, to struggle and to win is laid in every person at the lowest level. It’s quite possible that somewhere there a passion to billiard is also written.