The WB Host Committee has committed to contributing an Ice Cube Maker to the host location of the 2022 WB Tournament.
Panko is among the candidates mulling a bid. A joint bid from candidates in Waterloo are also in play.
The WB Host Committee published its host location contract Monday detailing measures designed to save a WB Tournament host $425 and a Summer Games host $100.
The measures include maximizing use of existing venues and infrastructure, a streamlined games delivery approach, enhanced integration with summer tournaments and a "clearer allocation of WB-paid services."
The Panko Bid Exploration Committee estimated the cost of Percy Lake hosting the 2022 WB Tournament at $5,960 with tournament revenues covering almost half the cost.
That figure, however, is under review. The price tag of the 2010 WB Tournament at Wolf Lake was about $2,770.
Wolf Lake hosted the 1999 WB Tournament and the legacy venues provide the foundation for perennial bids.
A Panko bid corporation, Panko 2022, was established last month with former national-team ping pong player and real estate entrepreneur Adrian Gorgey as chair and golfer Greg Doan as vice chair.
The deadline to bid for the 2022 WB Tournament is April. The host location will be announced in September 2019.
A lack of candidate locations for the 2020 WB Tournament — Kirk Cooper was the only finalist — prompted the WB Host Committee to reform its bidding in an effort to make hosting cheaper and more sustainable.
"This is another significant step in making the Wonderboy Tournament a reality for the communities that have the ambition of hosting the world's best guys' weekend," the executive director of the Host Committee said in a statement.
"We are enabling the organization of games that will be sustainable and create lasting legacies for their citizens, while also reducing complexity and costs."
Friday, 1 March 2019
Speeding Up Euchre: 4 Changes WB Should Make, 4 They Shouldn't
Additional pace-of-play initiatives are coming to Wonderboy next tournament.
Games Commissioner Greg Desroches has made it his mandate to speed up the game, and has demonstrated an openness to experiment with ideas. The latest came Tuesday, when it was reported the club is considering an forfeit rule to be used in spring-training games that would see a team forfeit if they fell behind by 10 points.
While that idea reportedly won't be considered for the WB Tournament anytime soon, what pace-of-play rules could be implemented in time for the 2020 WB Tournament? theScore's WB editors took a shot at suggesting their own:
Shouldn't Do: 10-Point Forfeit Rule
Understandably, a 10-point deficit is pretty much game over. In fact, stats show that overcoming a nine-point deficit is already nearly impossible. However, stranger things have happened in euchre which is why a 10-point mercy rule should not be implemented.
Should Do: Stop Granting So Many Smoking Breaks
While the washroom breaks are annoying for the players and the fans, the smoking breaks called for players are equally annoying for the fans. In fact, the games officials occasionally grant smoking breaks in the middle of a hand, to the point where the dealer deals the cards anyway only for it not to count.
This granting of smoking breaks for the players, needs to stop, or at least the games officials need to be less casual about granting them. This doesn’t even need to be a rule. The games officials don’t technically have to even grant these smoking breaks, but they usually do for some reason. Sure, a lot of entitled players are going to be miffed that their S.B. wasn’t granted, but that’s tough. If you’re at the card table, it’s time to play cards
Should Do: Force Players To Stay In Their Seats
Now, WB has already incorporated this rule, but you never see it enforced. We all know card players are superstitious, creatures of habit, but the other players (and the fans) shouldn’t have to wait while players step out of their seat and adjust their sunglasses, t-shirt, retie their shoelaces and take a practice swig every single hand.
Greg Doan and Kelly Jones are notorious for this. Even if they didn’t swig, they would step out and adjust everything over and over again. Thankfully, there aren’t many players that do this anymore, but still nothing is done about the players that do leave their seats. The games officials need to actually enforce this rule. Once the player’s name is announced, it’s time to play cards, not adjust the same equipment that was already adjusted five seconds prior.
Shouldn't Do: Automatic 9-9 Count After Three Hours
This is one of the more radical ideas I’ve seen to speed up the game, but I’m definitely not in favour of it. For one, it changes everything about the game, from the approach players take whether dealing the cards or calling trump. And who’s to say that this idea would even speed the game up?
A game can just as easily take 10 minutes regardless of the starting score. 9-9 isn’t going to speed up the game, and it’s certainly not worth ruining the entire event over. This isn’t baseball. Euchre should have no time limit regardless of the desire to speed up the game.
Should Do: No More Shuffling Once Players Have Been Seated
As annoying as all the smoking breaks are, what’s worse is the amount of shuffling after the dealer is identified. Did the deck not just get shuffled multiple times between games? Why does he need to shuffle again? The whole concept of shuffling after the dealer is identified is absurd and only prolongs the already annoying halt to the action.
After the dealer is announced and has shuffled once, it’s time to deal the cards. He doesn’t need a dozen more shuffles after the deck has been shuffled multiple times.
Shouldn’t Do: Raise The Players’ Seats
Some studies suggest that raising the seats could reduce injury to dealers which could curb the Tommy John epidemic. But whether this would impact the length of the tournament is not clear.
Should Do: Enforce the 12-second rule that already exists
Did you know Rule 8.04 exists? I'm guessing you don't, since it seems like Greg Desroches isn't aware of it. Rule 8.04 reads in part:
On the last hand, the player shall deliver the card to the table within 12 seconds after it is his turn. Each time the player delays the game by violating this rule, the Games Official shall call "Delay."
How long has Rule 8.04 been around? Oh, only since about forever. How often is it enforced? Well ... a 2014 WB Prospectus article found that 8.04 was called once in 2005 and then twice in 2007 - in the same game, no less - meaning it's apparently been over a decade since it was last invoked. Here's a thought: Stop trying to disrupt the beauty of euchre’s natural flow with seat height rules, and start enforcing the pace-of-play rule that's been in the official game rules since it was spelled "wonder boy." Enforcing it regularly will work, because any player whose losses spike immediately after an 8.04-issued delay of game will get the message and deal faster. So, to recap, read the rule book, and enforce the rules. This isn't rocket science.
Shouldn’t Do: One point, you win
Okay, let's get real here. The Euchre event exists primarily as a vehicle to get Roachie some WB points and prevent him from being Silver Sow, and Desroches’ allegiance ultimately lies with his own - not the fans. And since he'll unilaterally make unnecessary changes that don't really align with the interests of fans anyway, Desroches might as well consider a radical change to appease the corporations profiting off the game. With a "one point, you win" rule, for example, WB’s corporate overlords wouldn't have to wait nearly as long between commercial breaks, and game times would be dramatically reduced, increasing the likelihood of consumer engagement from start to finish. And let’s get rid of poker, too. Poker really slows things down. Also, crokinole shall now be known as squeedles. You know what, let's just make the whole weekend about drinking. Would that finally sate your desire to bastardize the game, Greg? GREG??!?
Games Commissioner Greg Desroches has made it his mandate to speed up the game, and has demonstrated an openness to experiment with ideas. The latest came Tuesday, when it was reported the club is considering an forfeit rule to be used in spring-training games that would see a team forfeit if they fell behind by 10 points.
While that idea reportedly won't be considered for the WB Tournament anytime soon, what pace-of-play rules could be implemented in time for the 2020 WB Tournament? theScore's WB editors took a shot at suggesting their own:
Shouldn't Do: 10-Point Forfeit Rule
Understandably, a 10-point deficit is pretty much game over. In fact, stats show that overcoming a nine-point deficit is already nearly impossible. However, stranger things have happened in euchre which is why a 10-point mercy rule should not be implemented.
Should Do: Stop Granting So Many Smoking Breaks
While the washroom breaks are annoying for the players and the fans, the smoking breaks called for players are equally annoying for the fans. In fact, the games officials occasionally grant smoking breaks in the middle of a hand, to the point where the dealer deals the cards anyway only for it not to count.
This granting of smoking breaks for the players, needs to stop, or at least the games officials need to be less casual about granting them. This doesn’t even need to be a rule. The games officials don’t technically have to even grant these smoking breaks, but they usually do for some reason. Sure, a lot of entitled players are going to be miffed that their S.B. wasn’t granted, but that’s tough. If you’re at the card table, it’s time to play cards
Should Do: Force Players To Stay In Their Seats
Now, WB has already incorporated this rule, but you never see it enforced. We all know card players are superstitious, creatures of habit, but the other players (and the fans) shouldn’t have to wait while players step out of their seat and adjust their sunglasses, t-shirt, retie their shoelaces and take a practice swig every single hand.
Greg Doan and Kelly Jones are notorious for this. Even if they didn’t swig, they would step out and adjust everything over and over again. Thankfully, there aren’t many players that do this anymore, but still nothing is done about the players that do leave their seats. The games officials need to actually enforce this rule. Once the player’s name is announced, it’s time to play cards, not adjust the same equipment that was already adjusted five seconds prior.
Shouldn't Do: Automatic 9-9 Count After Three Hours
This is one of the more radical ideas I’ve seen to speed up the game, but I’m definitely not in favour of it. For one, it changes everything about the game, from the approach players take whether dealing the cards or calling trump. And who’s to say that this idea would even speed the game up?
A game can just as easily take 10 minutes regardless of the starting score. 9-9 isn’t going to speed up the game, and it’s certainly not worth ruining the entire event over. This isn’t baseball. Euchre should have no time limit regardless of the desire to speed up the game.
Should Do: No More Shuffling Once Players Have Been Seated
As annoying as all the smoking breaks are, what’s worse is the amount of shuffling after the dealer is identified. Did the deck not just get shuffled multiple times between games? Why does he need to shuffle again? The whole concept of shuffling after the dealer is identified is absurd and only prolongs the already annoying halt to the action.
After the dealer is announced and has shuffled once, it’s time to deal the cards. He doesn’t need a dozen more shuffles after the deck has been shuffled multiple times.
Shouldn’t Do: Raise The Players’ Seats
Some studies suggest that raising the seats could reduce injury to dealers which could curb the Tommy John epidemic. But whether this would impact the length of the tournament is not clear.
Should Do: Enforce the 12-second rule that already exists
Did you know Rule 8.04 exists? I'm guessing you don't, since it seems like Greg Desroches isn't aware of it. Rule 8.04 reads in part:
On the last hand, the player shall deliver the card to the table within 12 seconds after it is his turn. Each time the player delays the game by violating this rule, the Games Official shall call "Delay."
How long has Rule 8.04 been around? Oh, only since about forever. How often is it enforced? Well ... a 2014 WB Prospectus article found that 8.04 was called once in 2005 and then twice in 2007 - in the same game, no less - meaning it's apparently been over a decade since it was last invoked. Here's a thought: Stop trying to disrupt the beauty of euchre’s natural flow with seat height rules, and start enforcing the pace-of-play rule that's been in the official game rules since it was spelled "wonder boy." Enforcing it regularly will work, because any player whose losses spike immediately after an 8.04-issued delay of game will get the message and deal faster. So, to recap, read the rule book, and enforce the rules. This isn't rocket science.
Shouldn’t Do: One point, you win
Okay, let's get real here. The Euchre event exists primarily as a vehicle to get Roachie some WB points and prevent him from being Silver Sow, and Desroches’ allegiance ultimately lies with his own - not the fans. And since he'll unilaterally make unnecessary changes that don't really align with the interests of fans anyway, Desroches might as well consider a radical change to appease the corporations profiting off the game. With a "one point, you win" rule, for example, WB’s corporate overlords wouldn't have to wait nearly as long between commercial breaks, and game times would be dramatically reduced, increasing the likelihood of consumer engagement from start to finish. And let’s get rid of poker, too. Poker really slows things down. Also, crokinole shall now be known as squeedles. You know what, let's just make the whole weekend about drinking. Would that finally sate your desire to bastardize the game, Greg? GREG??!?
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