Gatsby
a.k.a Bary Glack
Seems like pandora's box has been opened here!
Speaking from my point of view, Emerson got off to a bad start in our centre when last year's team was hand picked by an unnamed person. This lead to many people getting their nose out of joint. As this event was completely new to us, the majority of people did not even know it was on until people came back from competing. This has lead to problems getting one or two bowlers this year who have "cracked em" over what happened last year. As a result, we do not have our strongest team - the bowlers that are going are extremely keen though.
As i mentioned earlier in these forums, we only had six bowlers at our roll off and we would have been prime candidates for the draft system. However, we decided to select our seventh bowler rather than use the draft. We felt it was better to give one of our up and coming bowlers the experience of bowling. Whilst this may disadvantage us this year it is hoped it will be short term pain long term gain. (He could also thrive on the experience and bowl his brains out which is what we are hoping.)
The bye is a whole saga in itself. Pro's and con's (in my opinion) are that some people would argue it is hard to get motivated to bowl against a bye. Teams would also use their weakest team members in these games to help ensure they get their minimum number of games. Bowling the bye in game 1 is an advantage to that team because they basically get 1 game practice that other teams don't get. If you bowl the bye do you automatically get the points or do you have to win against a token score eg 175? Do you get 7 points or 4 etc?
Pro's are that every team would bowl five games then have a break and bowl five more. At the moment you might be one game on, then one off three on - break for lunch two on, one off etc. It is an advantage to have the bye last as it gives you a bigger break for lunch. I personally favour the idea of bowling against the bye and as long as the draw is set the same way every year (eg the team that finished last in the division bowls against the bye first game etc) then it will end up being fair for everyone.
I have been involved in Country cup for quite a few years and i love the concept of Emerson. It means you get to bowl in different Centres against different people than Country cup - and we still get a bus trip! I would like to think that all criticisms of Emerson are being made in an attempt to improve the event. I don't think people are bagging the concept - just trying to suggest ways of improving it. The people in this forum are only a minority and our opinions may not always agree with the majority but this is a great way of thrashing things out.
Stepping down from my soapbox.....
Gary Black
PS -- Carmers -- did you really post your last entry at 3am? -- i was loudly snoring at that time of day.
Speaking from my point of view, Emerson got off to a bad start in our centre when last year's team was hand picked by an unnamed person. This lead to many people getting their nose out of joint. As this event was completely new to us, the majority of people did not even know it was on until people came back from competing. This has lead to problems getting one or two bowlers this year who have "cracked em" over what happened last year. As a result, we do not have our strongest team - the bowlers that are going are extremely keen though.
As i mentioned earlier in these forums, we only had six bowlers at our roll off and we would have been prime candidates for the draft system. However, we decided to select our seventh bowler rather than use the draft. We felt it was better to give one of our up and coming bowlers the experience of bowling. Whilst this may disadvantage us this year it is hoped it will be short term pain long term gain. (He could also thrive on the experience and bowl his brains out which is what we are hoping.)
The bye is a whole saga in itself. Pro's and con's (in my opinion) are that some people would argue it is hard to get motivated to bowl against a bye. Teams would also use their weakest team members in these games to help ensure they get their minimum number of games. Bowling the bye in game 1 is an advantage to that team because they basically get 1 game practice that other teams don't get. If you bowl the bye do you automatically get the points or do you have to win against a token score eg 175? Do you get 7 points or 4 etc?
Pro's are that every team would bowl five games then have a break and bowl five more. At the moment you might be one game on, then one off three on - break for lunch two on, one off etc. It is an advantage to have the bye last as it gives you a bigger break for lunch. I personally favour the idea of bowling against the bye and as long as the draw is set the same way every year (eg the team that finished last in the division bowls against the bye first game etc) then it will end up being fair for everyone.
I have been involved in Country cup for quite a few years and i love the concept of Emerson. It means you get to bowl in different Centres against different people than Country cup - and we still get a bus trip! I would like to think that all criticisms of Emerson are being made in an attempt to improve the event. I don't think people are bagging the concept - just trying to suggest ways of improving it. The people in this forum are only a minority and our opinions may not always agree with the majority but this is a great way of thrashing things out.
Stepping down from my soapbox.....
Gary Black
PS -- Carmers -- did you really post your last entry at 3am? -- i was loudly snoring at that time of day.
