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Why no love for New Mexico Foos tourney 
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pinalyzer Administrator Posts: 122
1/4/2016
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Hello,
I just had to say that New Mexico has supported many foos tourneys in Arizona by traveling and playing in AZ tourneys, but we have our first tourney in many years and no one from Arizona is coming. It used to be a for sure thing, we support your tournament and you support ours.
What are some thoughts on this?
John
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chambie Moderator Posts: 755
1/4/2016
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Hi John - I think that there are several issues. First and foremost the tourney you guys are doing does not have any specific prize structure listed, and also the events are kind of sketchy. There is no specific events for different ratings as well, which may have scared away the low ranked players. Another issue is that we have so much foos here now there needs to be a pretty good incentive to travel to a remote location and play foos. The notice was also pretty short, it is good to usually have tournies scheduled at least two months in advance. Lastly we have our big SuperDoubles event the week after. When we listed the tourney I did not know yours was the weekend prior as I got notice of your event about 5 days after we posted ours.
I personally wanted to come to this event but it did not work out in my schedule. I really appreciate all the support from NM over the years and hope you guys will continue to come to our events. Hopefully you guys can incorporate some of my suggestions in your next event. Best of luck this weekend.
Brad
edited by chambie on 1/4/2016
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Quarter Horse Posts: 41
1/4/2016
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This forum message is the first I've heard of a New Mexico tourney. How was it advertised here in Phoenix? Getting the word out to the players might also be part of the problem...
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pinalyzer Administrator Posts: 122
1/5/2016
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Thanks for the responses.
Yeah, we figured a month and a half was a little short notice but we want to renew the regions supporting each other. Also I should have posted the event here. Not sure why I didn't. Posted on Foosballboard and Co foos website. Just figured most were friends on our facebook page. If you haven't yet, like our facebook for updates and what is happening here in Albuquerque. We converse there not on a website forum. https://www.facebook.com/AlbuquerqueFoosball/
The details on the payouts are vague and for the most part it is for prizes, actual valuable memorabilia and trophies. Also all that pre register get a very cool Albuquerque Foosball t-shirt. With the venue it will have over 30,000 folks walking by and spectating as we are also in a prime spot for playing. The Albuquerque ComicCon is the largest indoor event in New Mexico. So we hope to grow interest in the game as we will also be having a dedicated area for beginners only with mini tourneys of 3 teams for prizes. Not traditional but still a chance to prove and test your foos skills with your New Mexico neighbors that have supported Arizona tourneys fairly consistently. So every few years or so we like to have people come here. We travel to Durango for the Snow down, we travel to El Paso for their tourneys, we travel to Phoenix for their tourneys, we travel to Dallas for their Tx state. We usually go about 6 strong at a minimum.
Not trying to be harsh, just saying, lets get the support back on the radar for each other's tourneys.
You all in Phoenix really have shown how to make it happen and I am always amazed at the foos scene that has developed and prospered there in the desert.
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