2004 King of the Zoo Schedule Set

[eMarkM]

Everyone's input has been great in formulating the schedule for 2004. I think the advice that a bi-monthly schedule is too much, as I proposed in my other thread, is probably correct. I do fear people will lose interest with too many tourneys. I also fear I'll lose my mind sending out passwords on a more or less continuous basis. So I'm junking the bi-monthly schedule idea.

I've also debated putting the various scheduling proposals to vote. I've decided against it. I can't put everything to vote, sometimes I'm going to have to make an executive decision. Basically, I would have put three proposals out that would have been 1) HE only, 2) the 12 match mixed games that I put in my original proposal thread, and 3) the one I present below. I feel most would vote for #3 anyway, so I think a vote unnecessary. You're going to get your 12 HE tourneys and we'll have one of every other event in the 18 event schedule below. So I feel it's a decent compromise. All dates are set below so mark your calendars. I haven't coordinated this with Stars yet, but I plan on having all the events set up for the whole year, if they'll allow it. I emailed Stars support and I'm supposed to hear from Lee Jones on this.

2004 King of the Zoo schedule
All tourneys will remain on Thursday nights starting at 9PM ET as before. The schedule doesn't really follow a "first Thur of every month" format and are now dispersed through various months, but basically every third Thursday. Buy-ins for HE events will remain $33 and the "other" events will be $22 as keeping with the precedents set last year. Here then is the schedule:

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Date Buyin Game
Jan 8 $33 No Limit Hold’em
Jan 29 $22 Pot Limit Omaha/8
Feb 19 $33 Pot Limit Hold’em
Mar 11 $33 Limit Hold’em
Apr 1 $22 Stud
Apr 22 $33 No Limit Hold’em
May 13 $33 Pot Limit Hold’em
Jun 3 $22 Pot Limit Omaha
Jun 24 $33 Limit Hold’em
Jul 15 $33 No Limit Hold’em
Jul 29 $22 Limit Omaha/8
Aug 19 $33 Pot Limit Hold’em
Sep 9 $22 NLHE – Heads up
Sep 30 $33 Limit Hold’em
Oct 21 $33 No Limit Hold’em
Nov 11 $22 Stud/8
Dec 2 $33 Pot Limit Hold’em
Dec 16 $55 No Limit Hold’em Championship
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Getting Passwords
One admin headache I see is PMing each and everyone of you the password every few weeks. While I've toned down the schedule it's still going to mean a lot of PMs sent on my part. To ease this burden, I'm going to ask anyone who wants to be part of KotZ '04 to give me an email address I can use so I can send out the password en masse to a mailing list. I will be going through profiles to get what addresses people have posted, but for those who don't have addresses in your profile, I will be PMing you for it. Or you can send it to me now if it's not in your profile. Also send me your Stars ID (though I'll be getting Simon's current list). Also let me know if you do not wish your Stars Id to be revealed on the board as I'll likely compile some final table reports for the upcoming events.

I know some of you are reluctant to give your address out, but I can promise you that in sending out KotZ info to the list, I will be using the BCC field so as not to reveal your address to other participants. If you still do not want give it to me, we can do it by the PM method, but I really would like to see 100% compliance on this as it would really make things much eaiser for me. If we do PM, it would be your responsibility to ask me for the password explicitly as I won't be using this format for sending KotZ info unless specifically asked. New members, of course, need to PM me or send email to my new Kotz admin email address, kotz_td@yahoo.com, to be added to the list and will need the requisite 25 posts needed to qualify (I also reserve the right to refuse you entry if I think you're a total troll).

An email list will also serve nicely as a reminder every few weeks to up coming KotZ events. Of course, if for whatever reason you decide to stop receiving my KotZ emails, I will take you off the distribution list. For the first event, I will probably send it by PM, but for future events you'll want to give me your address for the distribution list.

Championship Points
We will still debate what the formula will be for determining a winner and what various awards will be granted. I haven't given this too much thought yet. I am open to proposals and I would like to have our formula set by the end of January.

Happy New Year Everyone. And good luck in the up coming year of KING OF THE ZOO!!

[curtains]

hi email me the passwords at gregshahade@yahoo.com please. Ill try to play in as many as possible, but usually its difficult. Thanks! Also try to get stars to let people start with more chips and longer round times (and a bigger time bank)....when I ran an event they didnt seem to mind too much.

[eMarkM]

Oh, excellent idea!

[eMarkM]

Lee Jones contacted me, and of course, Stars would be more than happy to host the tournaments. I will schedule the first one and distribute the password via PM for this first event. In the meantime, I'll be creating an email distribution for future events.

I've been thinking of curtains idea to bump up the levels to 30 minutes and the starting chips to 2500 as they do for their major events (i.e., if Stars has no problem with it). I love the idea, but it occurred to me that this naturally would make the events last longer. These things are full of a lot of tight players and they last long enough as it is. So this one I think I will leave to a vote. You can post your vote here, or PM me. Only those who have particpated in at least one KotZ event last year can vote and each vote is weighted by the number of events you've played. We'll make the first event a regular Stars tourney with 15 min levels and 1500 in chips, but this vote will apply to future events. Voting will be open until January 15th. Here are your choices:

A) Keep it the way it is: 15 min levels, 1500 starting chips (last event will be 2500 chips and 30 min lvls)
B) Kick it up a notch: all events w/ 30 min levels, 2500 starting chips
C) Bump up HE only: I couldn't stand to play Stud that long

[ohkanada]

Schedule looks great.

As far as rounds go, I like longer rounds. So I guess I would vote for B or C.

I don't see a big advantage of going from 1500 to 2500. Make it 20 or 25 minute rounds with 1500 and I would be happy.

Ken Poklitar

[William]

Great schedule, My choices in order of preference are: C, A, and B

Happy new year everybody [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Please don't make the levels any longer than 20 minutes. Some of us have to go to work the next morning. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

I agree with Ken. 20 minute rounds, 1500 chips.

[mrbaseball]

As much as I would love bigger starting stacks and longer limits I have to agree. As it is these thing go past my typical bedtime.

[Myrtle]

How about starting them @ either 7pm or 8pm EDT?

Damn!!! Can't make the Jan 8th tourn!! Can you mive it back a week to the 15th?