Idea's to improve the NFFC experience - for little expense.
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 4:46 am
Billy, what we know is the 12-team format for our Online Championship event last year was an unbridled success. We planned for 300 teams and ended up with more than 500. So the decision to go to a 12-team format for that event was clearly correct on our part.
What the future holds remains to be seen. You're correct about the increased competition. No one at this time knows how all of that will shake out. But I think it would have been foolish on our part to disband the 12-team format for the Online Championship due to competition when you consider how successful it was for us last year. Why should we be the ones to buckle when a competitor enters the landscape with a similar game? Should events occur that lead us to re-consider the 12-team format for the Online Championship going forward we'll do that but at this time it makes no sense in my opinion (and I'm not speaking for Greg or Ryan) to make a severe change to our event merely because a competitor has chosen to duplicate what we offer.
Should the 12-team format remain successful for us with the Online Championship then the questions become - 1) Can we also offer a 14-team format that will make business sense and 2) If we do offer a 14-team format, will we be able to introduce a successful second format or will that merely take participants from the 12-team format and essentially split the numbers?
If it's the latter, then it wouldn't make good business sense for us and I think you would agree with that. So right now, we have a successful event with the Online Championship. There's no reason at this time to make radical changes to it. What we need to discuss is whether a 14-team format can run alongside that and not rob from its strength. That's what you need to tell us. We don't want to create a 14-team event, only to have it just take our signups from the 12-team event. What you need to tell us is you're interested in the 14-team event but either in addition to the 12-team event or because you're someone who isn't playing the 12-team Online Championship but like that format.
Make sense?
What the future holds remains to be seen. You're correct about the increased competition. No one at this time knows how all of that will shake out. But I think it would have been foolish on our part to disband the 12-team format for the Online Championship due to competition when you consider how successful it was for us last year. Why should we be the ones to buckle when a competitor enters the landscape with a similar game? Should events occur that lead us to re-consider the 12-team format for the Online Championship going forward we'll do that but at this time it makes no sense in my opinion (and I'm not speaking for Greg or Ryan) to make a severe change to our event merely because a competitor has chosen to duplicate what we offer.
Should the 12-team format remain successful for us with the Online Championship then the questions become - 1) Can we also offer a 14-team format that will make business sense and 2) If we do offer a 14-team format, will we be able to introduce a successful second format or will that merely take participants from the 12-team format and essentially split the numbers?
If it's the latter, then it wouldn't make good business sense for us and I think you would agree with that. So right now, we have a successful event with the Online Championship. There's no reason at this time to make radical changes to it. What we need to discuss is whether a 14-team format can run alongside that and not rob from its strength. That's what you need to tell us. We don't want to create a 14-team event, only to have it just take our signups from the 12-team event. What you need to tell us is you're interested in the 14-team event but either in addition to the 12-team event or because you're someone who isn't playing the 12-team Online Championship but like that format.
Make sense?