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[pdfview]Metro Grand Masters - Darts Open, Saturday 31st August 2013.

Only £10 entrance fee.

ENTER ONLINE HERE - http://www.metrograndmasters.weebly.com

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Metro Inns - http://www.metroinns.co.uk/

Set to be the biggest independent open on the 2013 Darting calender with the winner taking home £3,000 and the Runner Up £1,000. This Is guaranteed!
Prizes paid up to the last 32 dependent on entries.

Doors open from 9-30am, Registration by 11-30.
Toe to the oche 12noon

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Metro Inns, Macklin Street, Derby, DE1 1LF

Booking code to follow to receive £10 off rooms at Metro Inns - MGMdarts


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Great prize fund, hope it gets loads of entries. :)
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Cheers for all the support, RT's and entries so far, still 6 months away but filling up nicely!


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Spaces really filling up now,
have also just got the prize fund upto £7,000 with the help of £500 added for any 9 darters.

you can enter now on www.metrograndmasters.weebly.com

Only £10 with a guaranteed £3,000 and £1,000 for the winner / runner up respectively!!!
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*UPDATE* - Don't forget to pre register if you are planning to come on the 31st August but pay on the day. Will keep the price at £10!

If not pre registered it will be £12!

do it here..... http://metrograndmasters.weebly.com/pre-register.html

7 weeks on Sunday

Cheers!!!
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Spaces starting to fill up now that only just over 4 weeks away!
Don't forget to enter online or pre register at

www.metrograndmasters.weebly.com
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Filling up lovely now, over 120 entered and on pre reg list.... Just over 2 weeks away, dont forget to register or enter here .....

www.metrograndmasters.weebly.com
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10 Day Countdown! Approaching 140 pre-reg & entries now!
Dont miss out.... do it here now .... http://www.metrograndmasters.weebly.com

Only £10 entry (£12 0n the day without pre-reg)

£3,000 Winner - £1,000 Runner Up - £500 9 Dart Pot - GUARANTEED !!!

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Only 3 days to go!!
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Among the entries were Dennis Smith, Colin Osborne, James Richardson, Scott Rand, Chris Mason, Mark Walsh, Wayne Jones, Robbie Green, Mark Hylton, Micheal Smith, Jamie Caven.

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foggy wrote:Among the entries were Dennis Smith, Colin Osborne, James Richardson, Scott Rand, Chris Mason, Mark Walsh, Wayne Jones, Robbie Green, Mark Hylton, Micheal Smith, Jamie Caven.

Event Won by Jamie Caven
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From elsewhere - Jabba beat Rick Sudale in the final 6-1 - couldn't see any other results

There were 170 entries and the prizes for losing semi finalists down ended up as £150 losing semis, £70 losing quarters and £25 last 16. The top two prizes were guaranteed so stayed as they were.
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mc1958 wrote:From elsewhere - Jabba beat Rick Sudale in the final 6-1 - couldn't see any other results

There were 170 entries and the prizes for losing semi finalists down ended up as £150 losing semis, £70 losing quarters and £25 last 16. The top two prizes were guaranteed so stayed as they were.
Yeah it just said "subject to entrys" which basically meant no matter how many played they could cut the payouts, a lot of miffed players over that one!
Beer was £3.60 in the room and £2.85 downstairs, was this standard for the function room or did they put it up for this event?
Reg closed at 11.30am and the first games called after 1pm, i was told the organisers waited for some local players to arrive which is bad but at least that might explain such a long delay, no actual explanation was given.
Boards looked new but were cheap and were knackered after a couple of games, oches moved and the stands themselves rocked violently when darts were retrieved/markers wiped the boards.

The comp itself was well run apart from the delayed start.
From various conversations i think many will not return, myself included.
"it's the same trolls spouting the same crap every other post.... you have to be some kind of sad act to watch nearly 8 hours of darts a day for 9 days just to post about how crap it is"

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ifm wrote:
mc1958 wrote:From elsewhere - Jabba beat Rick Sudale in the final 6-1 - couldn't see any other results

There were 170 entries and the prizes for losing semi finalists down ended up as £150 losing semis, £70 losing quarters and £25 last 16. The top two prizes were guaranteed so stayed as they were.
Yeah it just said "subject to entrys" which basically meant no matter how many played they could cut the payouts, a lot of miffed players over that one!
Beer was £3.60 in the room and £2.85 downstairs, was this standard for the function room or did they put it up for this event?
Reg closed at 11.30am and the first games called after 1pm, i was told the organisers waited for some local players to arrive which is bad but at least that might explain such a long delay, no actual explanation was given.
Boards looked new but were cheap and were knackered after a couple of games, oches moved and the stands themselves rocked violently when darts were retrieved/markers wiped the boards.

The comp itself was well run apart from the delayed start.
From various conversations i think many will not return, myself included.
The function room is leased by the hotel and downstairs bar is owned by the hotel
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mc1958 wrote:From elsewhere - Jabba beat Rick Sudale in the final 6-1 - couldn't see any other results

There were 170 entries and the prizes for losing semi finalists down ended up as £150 losing semis, £70 losing quarters and £25 last 16. The top two prizes were guaranteed so stayed as they were.
Yeah it just said "subject to entry's" which basically meant no matter how many played they could cut the payouts, a lot of miffed players over that one!
Beer was £3.60 in the room and £2.85 downstairs, was this standard for the function room or did they put it up for this event?
Reg closed at 11.30am and the first games called after 1pm, i was told the organisers waited for some local players to arrive which is bad but at least that might explain such a long delay, no actual explanation was given.
Boards looked new but were cheap and were knackered after a couple of games, oches moved and the stands themselves rocked violently when darts were retrieved/markers wiped the boards.

The comp itself was well run apart from the delayed start.
From various conversations i think many will not return, myself included.

Just too clear up few things in this....

Room isn't actually owned by the hotel, as MDA has stated it is leased so different to the hotels actual bar. I do agree that £3.60 is expensive thou!

Not to sure who said that delayed start was because I was waiting for local players to turn up... this is untrue. Was simply a delay with the draw... double checking that all names were in was a major factor... naively the draw was done manually.... going forward and in hindsight computer based draw is the way to go.

With regards to the prize fund for semi finalists etc.. it was subject to entrys... if we had 256 entrys there would've been an extra £900 to put into the pot. This would've significantly increased the prizes below 2nd. But almost £5,000 was still payed out yesterday.

Sorry too here that 'many will not return', have heard some great feed back, all feedback is taken on board to help improve further events. I want to make it a great tournament with a great prize fund.
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MetroGrandMasters wrote:
ifm wrote:
mc1958 wrote:From elsewhere - Jabba beat Rick Sudale in the final 6-1 - couldn't see any other results

There were 170 entries and the prizes for losing semi finalists down ended up as £150 losing semis, £70 losing quarters and £25 last 16. The top two prizes were guaranteed so stayed as they were.
Yeah it just said "subject to entry's" which basically meant no matter how many played they could cut the payouts, a lot of miffed players over that one!
Beer was £3.60 in the room and £2.85 downstairs, was this standard for the function room or did they put it up for this event?
Reg closed at 11.30am and the first games called after 1pm, i was told the organisers waited for some local players to arrive which is bad but at least that might explain such a long delay, no actual explanation was given.
Boards looked new but were cheap and were knackered after a couple of games, oches moved and the stands themselves rocked violently when darts were retrieved/markers wiped the boards.

The comp itself was well run apart from the delayed start.
From various conversations i think many will not return, myself included.

Just too clear up few things in this....

Room isn't actually owned by the hotel, as MDA has stated it is leased so different to the hotels actual bar. I do agree that £3.60 is expensive thou!

Not to sure who said that delayed start was because I was waiting for local players to turn up... this is untrue. Was simply a delay with the draw... double checking that all names were in was a major factor... naively the draw was done manually.... going forward and in hindsight computer based draw is the way to go.

With regards to the prize fund for semi finalists etc.. it was subject to entrys... if we had 256 entrys there would've been an extra £900 to put into the pot. This would've significantly increased the prizes below 2nd. But almost £5,000 was still payed out yesterday.

Sorry too here that 'many will not return', have heard some great feed back, all feedback is taken on board to help improve further events. I want to make it a great tournament with a great prize fund.
Keep putting on 3k top prize and I will guarantee they will return well done on a great event
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Cheers Matt,
Was the first one so going to be few teething problems.
Had some great feeddback and hoping to repeat it next year!

got all results here .... https://www.facebook.com/metrogrand.mas ... 549&type=3
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MetroGrandMasters wrote:Cheers Matt,
Was the first one so going to be few teething problems.
Had some great feeddback and hoping to repeat it next year!

got all results here .... https://www.facebook.com/metrogrand.mas ... 549&type=3
As i said it was very well run but there were definite issues.

It was a massive drop in prize money in all spots, something unfortunately you see far too much of of late, organisers believe a guaranteed top prize attracts more people when in reality it doesn't work as a rule.
There are many examples of this.
Interestingly i actual believe the biggest pulling factor was £100 for last 16, if you think about it there are relatively few who believe they can win the big money but most will believe they can win their board.

Having 16 boards was a massive thumbs up for me, so often you see comps drag on into the night because organisers underestimate the amount of time games can last.
It was very tight in there, i doubt it could cope with 256 entrants and guests.
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i was also at this event, now forgive me for being naive, but if there was 170 entries at £10 a time, surely that makes £1700 prize fund to be split between the semis, last 8 and last 16. from what has been put up on here so far with regards prize money, £780 was paid to those positions, where did the other £920 go.
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hodgy0212 wrote:i was also at this event, now forgive me for being naive, but if there was 170 entries at £10 a time, surely that makes £1700 prize fund to be split between the semis, last 8 and last 16. from what has been put up on here so far with regards prize money, £780 was paid to those positions, where did the other £920 go.
Into the other prize money mate, there was also the £1,000 for runner up to take into consideration and the £3,000!

Also there are expenses to take into account i.e. the 20 x stands that were hired. So the actual outlay isn't just the prize money that was paid out. There is a few more variables.

Hope this answers your question.... cheers
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