May Regional SIX Tournament

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Very interesting to see yet another regional Six tournament so soon after the most recent one.

I find it more than a lil interesting to find that one lone North Dakota site is included amongst those in the Arizona region. :roll:

Also, included in the California region are two sites from FTEXAS.

<--and, sorry, LEWSER, but once again Nevada is left out...

Falcon · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:56 am

Does anyone know why these are not set up to include all the sites in their region? Or at least those that have not previously won a tournament in the past year? I can see exempting some of the top sites nationally to give others a chance, but many sites are excluded that are not very active or have won no tournaments. For example. I checked the "Canada" listing, and none of the 40+ Boston Pizzas (all in Canada) are included.

zog741 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:12 am

In this tournament, there are no places in Connecticut involved. The nearest place that is part of the tournament is in Springfield, Massachusetts, although it is in the Texas/Oklahoma league!

-- RWM

stevej84 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:46 am

Falcon wrote:

Does anyone know why these are not set up to include all the sites in their region? Or at least those that have not previously won a tournament in the past year? I can see exempting some of the top sites nationally to give others a chance, but many sites are excluded that are not very active or have won no tournaments. For example. I checked the "Canada" listing, and none of the 40+ Boston Pizzas (all in Canada) are included.

here is what I was told when I was asked same the question once:

"The marketing representatives chose the sites that are included for regional tournaments. They often deliberately try to focus on new sites or less active sites."

Add by Edit: The tourney includes most (if not all) of the East Side Marios locations that still have trivia..and there is a separate Firkin only tourney with 11 sites in May as well..and a Boston Pizza Showdown tournament..maybe they feel they have enough Can-con

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Well, after taking a much longer look at the regions and the sites included, all USA regions except for the Land Of Lincoln region seem to have at least one misplaced site:

Peach State, 44, including 1 FL
Wisconsin, 33 including 3 GA
Empire State, 48 including 2 NC
The Florida, 50 including 6 NY
Ohio, 39 including 1 MD & 3 Horribly Site-Poor Golden State
Mid Atlantic, 25 including 2 WV (*)
New England, 28 including 1 MI
Midwest, 50 including 1 ID, 1 OH
Motown, 41 including 3 WI
Arizona, 45 including 1 MN, 2 ND
Horribly Site-Poor Golden State, 53 including 4 FTX
Rocky Mountain, 50 including 2 PA, 1 NJ
Sunshine State, 39 including 3 AL, 1 ON
South FTX/LA, 41 including 1 TN
Spring Spectacular (NC/SC), 51 including 1 LA
OK/FTX, 52 including 1 KY, 1 FL, 2 MA
AR/MS/AL/TN, 49 including 1 CO
IN/KS/MO, 22 including 1 AZ
NJ/PA, 40 including 2 FL

(*) While the two WV sites may not be misplaced, I have a hard time accepting WV as a Mid-Atlantic state. :roll:

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

West Virginia is often tossed into the Mid-Atlantic region for a variety of different competitions. Guess no one else wants to deal with us.

cards · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:48 am **Posts:** 553

tiefly wrote:

West Virginia is often tossed into the Mid-Atlantic region for a variety of different competitions. Guess no one else wants to deal with us.

Well at least you got two, Kentucky only has one. :roll:

cards · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:48 am **Posts:** 553

cards wrote:

tiefly wrote:

West Virginia is often tossed into the Mid-Atlantic region for a variety of different competitions. Guess no one else wants to deal with us.

Well at least you got two, Kentucky only has one. :roll:

Just checked, that location dropped trivia. Kentucky has none!!!!

Bigsky · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:28 pm **Posts:** 120

The whole northwest was mostly forgotten also - WA, OR, WY, and MT are missing with a token one location in Idaho in the competition.

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:41 pm

The bars in the St Louis area that listed in the Land of Lincoln and the IN/KS/MO leagues rarely plays SIX at ALL!!! Where's Baxters, The Edge in the IL side and Laclede Street, Side Pockets and Tilted Kilt on the MO side???? C'MON!!!!

lewser · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:25 pm **Posts:** 1028

MitchWolf wrote:

:shock:

The bars in the St Louis area that listed in the Land of Lincoln and the IN/KS/MO leagues rarely plays SIX at ALL!!! Where's Baxters, The Edge in the IL side and Laclede Street, Side Pockets and Tilted Kilt on the MO side???? C'MON!!!!

We have NEVER been included, you at least have been in one. Aces & Eights=zero chances

Rhino · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:40 pm **Posts:** 633

lewser wrote:

MitchWolf wrote:

:shock:

The bars in the St Louis area that listed in the Land of Lincoln and the IN/KS/MO leagues rarely plays SIX at ALL!!! Where's Baxters, The Edge in the IL side and Laclede Street, Side Pockets and Tilted Kilt on the MO side???? C'MON!!!!

We have NEVER been included, you at least have been in one. Aces & Eights=zero chances

Which rather blows apart the rationalizations in both directions. A competitive bar with a strong team is NOT chosen in your case, but in mine the presence of a competitive bar with a strong team means nobody else has a chance. On a good day with a bit of help from the wife (who normally competes against me) I might stand a shot against the second tier NY teams especially if they have some off days, but by no figment of the imagination does either my place or anywhere else stand a chance against the perennial heavyweights in NYC wherever they choose to assemble. Of course if they tried to exclude the heavyweights entirely they could simply move base a little way down the road to another local option, so not much point here excluding the big guys. Wonder why they do in your neck of the woods then?

scannon · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:00 pm

cards wrote:

tiefly wrote:

West Virginia is often tossed into the Mid-Atlantic region for a variety of different competitions. Guess no one else wants to deal with us.

Well at least you got two, Kentucky only has one. :roll:

Just checked, that location dropped trivia. Kentucky has none!!!!

Same thing in Cincinnati ... no Blue Goose, but Win Place and Show that removed the game a month and half ago is included (and in the Midwest league, rather than the Ohio league)! Incredible.

Falcon · **Posted:** Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:28 pm

stevej84 wrote:

Falcon wrote:

Does anyone know why these are not set up to include all the sites in their region? Or at least those that have not previously won a tournament in the past year? I can see exempting some of the top sites nationally to give others a chance, but many sites are excluded that are not very active or have won no tournaments. For example. I checked the "Canada" listing, and none of the 40+ Boston Pizzas (all in Canada) are included.

here is what I was told when I was asked same the question once:

"The marketing representatives chose the sites that are included for regional tournaments. They often deliberately try to focus on new sites or less active sites."

Add by Edit: The tourney includes most (if not all) of the East Side Marios locations that still have trivia..and there is a separate Firkin only tourney with 11 sites in May as well..and a Boston Pizza Showdown tournament..maybe they feel they have enough Can-con

Well the other answers seem to indicate that the regional reps are rather hazy on the limits of their regions and on what sites are active, if that's how they are chosen. I hope that you are correct on the BP Showdown Tournament. I saw it advertised at our site yesterday, but the rules on the webpage specify that it is only for the sites in the U.S. (mostly Boston Gourmet Pizzas), and the list of participating sites includes only the 16 in the U.S. of A.

IDJIT5500 · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:02 pm **Posts:** 404

congratulations to the mezzanine for having the top overall score in this tournament. you were the best team in the tournament and you proved it. nice job.

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2232

IDJIT5500 wrote:

congratulations to the mezzanine for having the top overall score in this tournament. you were the best team in the tournament and you proved it. nice job.

And while we're at it, congrats to you for laying waste utterly to the Ohio League by doubling-up the score of the second place team.

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