Ace Pot questions

[Sharky]

I would like to get others opinions on an ace pot scenerio. Druid Hill has a weekly best (choice) disc triples every Thursday night. $3 entry + optional $1 ace pot. The ace pot was over $250 recently but it was cleaned out a couple of weeks ago when a player who had put in the buck hit an ace. Last night two teams tied at -17 and went to a sudden death playoff. On hole 2 a player hits an ace! The same player who hit the ace pot ace two weeks earlier!! End of playoff, and the ace pot was paid to the acee. My question should an ace pot be paid out if hit during a play off?

Absolutely!!!!

No. Don't pay out the ace in a playoff. Not everyone is in a playoff, so it shouldn't be paid out.

[Sharky]

Everyone had the chance to be there.

[aerohead]

The sarasota skypilots don't pay it out in playoff for the reason above. I know first hand.
three way playoff for the last money spots. the card on hole two went 1, 2, 3.

[coda_hatfield]

I would that would be unfair to everyone else because you get to play more holes that everyone else and have more chances at an ace. So no they should not get the ace money because it was not during the actual round.

[prairie_dawg]

I agree with Jim. If everybody is not playing, the Ace pot is off the table in my events. Final Nine Aces do not count towards getting the Ace pot unless all players are in the final nine.

Set the rules up front and stick by them.

If no rules on Ace pots are discussed then it is totally open to controversy later.

[Jake L]

We do NOT pay aces in playoffs,
first, we generally play a different set of pads for playoffs,
second, not everyone is in playoffs
third, The playoff is to determine winner, not part of score!

[exczar]

I also am of the opinion that you do not pay out for aces not shot during regulation play, and a playoff is not regulation.

[seewhere]

NO

[axldog]

I would say YES! IMO, a playoff or final 9 are still part of the tournament round, and should count towards the ACE pool.

[prairie_dawg]

Steven,

What tourneys do you run. I want to play in those as long as I make the finals

[gang4010]

Sharky - IMO - the naysayers are most correct. Ace pots should be awarded for play during a given number of holes that EVERYBODY gets to play. Giving it out for playoffs gives a select few extra chances - and it's not very fair. One solution may be to have a consolation ace prize under those circumstances - $20-$30 bucks maybe? Or perhaps 10-20% of the ace pot?

There is certainly room for creative awards under such circumstances. But you should strive to have the ace pot available to everybody for the same # of holes.

[gnduke]

No.

Ace pot should be decided in regulation play by all concerned parties.

We recently had a rare occurance in TX where there were flighted Ace pots. Only one flight hit their Ace pot, the other flight donated their pot to the other flight Ace pot winner during the awards ceremony. By popular vote.

[axldog]

What do you guys do if someone ACEs a CTP hole? Do they get both the ACE pot & the CTP prize?

[exczar]

It depends where the ace disc winds up in the basket. A leaner on the ground is touching the pin. An ace disc may not be, therefore the leaner is truly "Closer to the Pin".

But, usually, an ace is considered as close as you can get, and cannot be tied (or beaten) by a disc that did not ace.

[Moderator005]

It depends where the ace disc winds up in the basket. A leaner on the ground is touching the pin. An ace disc may not be, therefore the leaner is truly "Closer to the Pin".

But, usually, an ace is considered as close as you can get, and cannot be tied (or beaten) by a disc that did not ace.

That is absurd. If someone won a CTP because their disc was on the ground touching the pole while my disc was an ACE that ended up in the basket but not touching the pole, I would scream bloody murder.

This is not a PDGA event. This is a local event which has been running for what...15 years? Before, there would only be about 20-30 people on a good week. This is a completely casual event. It has gotten larger over the years. There are NO RULES TO DATE REGARDING THE PAYOUT OF THE ACE POT. Therefore, until rules are made and agreed upon, there is no question on whether he should have been paid or not. Just because some of the bigger guns could not ace either week does not mean that a player who does should be punished. Especially when he put his money in with everyone else. Make the rules then you can have this discussion.

[Jake L]

That is absurd. If someone won a CTP because their disc was on the ground touching the pole while my disc was an ACE that ended up in the basket but not touching the pole, I would scream bloody murder.

The person who aces a CTP hole, will grab the mark, put down their name, and write ACE next to it! Anyone disputing this would be run out of town on a rail! But I agree with the logic that a leaner could be "closer to the pin" than an ace.

[neonnoodle]

Jim's right. It should only be for rounds where everyone has a chance at it, kind of like sidebet pools.

*Unless it's like DE that pays $100 for each ace during PDGAs! Schweetizzle!!!

[gang4010]

Big Papa - sorrydude - I think years and years of (for the most part) standard ways to award ace pots governs here (or should). Ace pots should be for everybody playing the same number of holes period. If you want to give a prize for an ace during a final, or a playoff - fine - it should be a special condition sort of prize. But getting more shots than the field to ace - and then getting paid for it sets a bad precedent.

This just happened to me. Ace on the only CTP during league play and as chance would have it, I had donated the CTP prize that week.

BTW this was also my first ace.

[ozdisc]

We have a situation here in Texas where one designated hole is worth a large amount while all the other holes are the normal ace pot. If a player hits the big ace on that certain hole then they get the big money but not the other paid in money. If they want both then they are extremley greedy. The reason for this...

The big ace is worth $25,000

[rocknrog]

Ace pots are for aces during an event, playoffs are during the event, pay out the money.... reward the good shot! GEZ!

[dannyreeves]

I disagree because nobody else had a chance to throw that hole.

[exczar]

I knew my answer would ruffle some feathers. Not exactly a troll, but had a similar effect.

Moral: TD needs to state that an Ace is better than any other shot for CTP, and what is the probability that someone would get an Ace then someone would get a leaner? More likely that 2 people would get aces (oh no, which ace is closer to the pin ?!? )

I say nay as well.

[hawkgammon]

I'm in the minority here in that I agree that Matt should have been paid. Ex. If a football team has three overtime games a year, and a running back rushes for an additional 150 yards in those three overtime periods, those stats count towards his yearly total. The OT is considered part of the game as was the regulation time. A playoff in a tourney would seem to be the same thing. Whatever happens counts.

Either way Jake/Paul need to formalize this whole Ace Pot deal since it has grown bigger, and Matt's killing it.

[Pizza God]

I recently ran a 4 round tournament with a cut for the final round. I made it clear at the players meeting that to win the ace pot you had to ace in the 1st 3 rounds. Any aces in the final 18 holes would win you a WTG and a pat on the back.

(there was only one ace durring the tournament. James McCain won $570 for his blind ace

HELL NO!!!

Unless everyone who had joined the acepot, said it was OK, it should not be payed out, in a friggin playoff.