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Post by Giraffe72 on Nov 11, 2022 4:59:22 GMT -5
Except a significant portion won't complete all 4 rounds. Agree, last two rounds appear to be tougher based on reports (at least R3 for sure with the rain and we have not yet seen high wind, which is in the weather report), so I bet that number goes up significantly. Also, Doyley has previously said +20 should be safe. Not a guarantee obviously, but a lot of experience talking there. Humm yup I haven't taken in account that some won't complete. I guess that someone shooting a +29 on first round will give up and if some players forget to play the round 3 and 4 of Platinium sometimes, it will happen to alot! haha And how a player will do in round 3 and 4 compared to Round 1 and 2 is heavy speculations. Round 2 is easy, that's a fact. Round 3 have rain... and I would add so what? It's not a big game changer imo. Round 4 have medium wind, but pin locations is tougher If I recall correclty. Round 1 should be the worst of all for a player having difficulty shooting Par at master right now. This is an Elite course difficulty and I can imagine that some CC players of last year and new players this year did have a little shocker in the first round. MyCareer and old CC courses arent preparing you well for all these running out fairways and constant ajustement for the lie of this course. It takes more than 1 round to get used to this, but I can imagine they will be at least more aware in round 3 and 4 that hitting middle of the fairway is no garantee that your next shot is from the fairway. Btw... the weather report lie, lie and lie every weeks!! 😝 Round 2 was comfortably my worst round and round 4 was my best, fact is it's a course where any round can bite you if you get out of position. I agree about career mode being no preparation for these rounds though, that's always been the case. |
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Post by paddyjk19 on Nov 11, 2022 5:20:43 GMT -5
Getting ahead of myself, but I must say I am less than enthused after playing the courses slated for week 1. I am headed likely for Kinetic or maybe Elite tour, both of those courses are cakewalks. I went -10 on both hardly paying attention. I was hopeful that this season would introduce more course challenge, as the qualifying event did, and not just a point and shoot week in and out. 50 yard flat fairways, no hazards, easily approachable greens. Meh, so the first week might be a shootout. There'll be a variety of conditions and difficulty over the season. I've been in Kinetic before and know the scheduling is excellent. Not sure who's doing Elite these days but I'd expect the same. These guys know what they're doing. Maybe the schedulers will see that post and put Sasquehannock in for week 3. Maybe their tears will slow the greens up a bit |
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Post by hmammoth on Nov 11, 2022 5:32:51 GMT -5
Getting ahead of myself, but I must say I am less than enthused after playing the courses slated for week 1. I am headed likely for Kinetic or maybe Elite tour, both of those courses are cakewalks. I went -10 on both hardly paying attention. I was hopeful that this season would introduce more course challenge, as the qualifying event did, and not just a point and shoot week in and out. 50 yard flat fairways, no hazards, easily approachable greens. A little bit more on scheduling the start of a new game. It takes a little time to get to the right level of course difficulty for each tour. When a new game comes out, we don't know what type of scores people for each tour will be scoring, and the scores they are shooting change week by week as people learn the best way to play. Scheduling for a new season in a new game starts well before qualification. We had to have the first batch of courses done before q school even started and doing this before seeing the scores people shoot, or watching players play on twitch means getting the difficulty level for each tour is a guessing game to a degree. For me on Kinetic, I have chosen a variety of courses and settings that after watching people play on them and seeing the scores that people shoot will give me a better idea of what will suit. This takes time, I also have to make sure that each course used and settings picked is fair to all skill levels of the players on Kinetic, again something that is a learning process. Schedulers do not cater for any one person or any one skill level, we have to make sure that everyone on the tour can enjoy each week. this is even harder on the challenge circuit where there are so many different skill levels. At the start of a new season, this sometimes means erring on the side of caution rather than jumping in with overly difficult courses. On top of that, after each mass q school event, people end up on tours that might not be for them, a bad round could see a kinetic level player in the challenge circuit, an unusually good qualification can see a player on the pro tours when they might suit the challenge circuit better. This also takes time to sort out, with promotions and demotions, there is a promotion even very early in the season which will help this a bit but nothing is instant. If you find the Kinetic and Elite easy at the start of the season, it should not take to long for you to be promoted out of them, but again it wont be instant, patience is needed for the tours balance to get better, patience is needed for us schedulers to understand how each tours plays in a game that is just a month old. When courses are picked for a tour, it takes time, a course is not picked and scheduled the next day. If I select a course for the kinetic today, you will not see it on tour for at least four weeks, but normally around 6 weeks. Hours upon hours of testing and playing goes into putting a course on tour, and we are doing this with out seeing any scores on each tour that we schedule for, without the knowledge of saying seeing what 3 months of tour play looks like. The scores I am shooting now and different from the scores I was shooting just two weeks ago, even looking at q school scores, the scores needed to make kinetic on Monday are vastly different from the scores needed today. I said on the Kinetic forums earlier this week, I need people to be patient with me as I learn, it is the same for all other schedulers. On top of that, I cant pick courses where the difficultly level suits just the top 20 players, there will be 140, 150 players on kinetic each week and courses selected need to be accessible for all. So I ask everyone to give it time, hopefully you will all find your way to the tours that suits you best and remember, the tours are not just about you, there are a couple of thousand other people who need to be taken into considerations as well. |
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Post by prowse00 on Nov 11, 2022 5:46:47 GMT -5
Well said hmammothFor what its worth, I think next weeks Kinetic course will be just fine. |
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Post by BillySastard976 on Nov 11, 2022 6:15:41 GMT -5
I registered but my scores aren't showing. I also did the third party access thing.
Edit: I Know I enabled third party access but it was set to off now I've just looked. Its now on, hopefully my scores will now show?
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Post by Cecil Harvey on Nov 11, 2022 6:22:56 GMT -5
I registered but my scores aren't showing. I also did the third party access thing. Edit: I Know I enabled third party access but it was set to off now I've just looked. Its now on, hopefully my scores will now show?Others having been seeing this glitch of the 3rd party option turning back off as well. I believe the scores will pull at the next 15 minute TGCT score sweep now that it's turned back on.
(Edit) If not, then these links are for troubleshooting, and how to contact Admin if the troubleshooting does not help:
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Post by Roberto Busatto on Nov 11, 2022 6:35:57 GMT -5
Just a silly question... why I had rain in round 3 and 4 ? Maybe the italian wheather is different ? A rant from a poor "+19" CC-K Player Ciao  Roberto |
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Post by Cecil Harvey on Nov 11, 2022 6:38:06 GMT -5
Just a silly question... why I had rain in round 3 and 4 ? Maybe the italian wheather is different ? A rant from a poor "+19" CC-K Player Ciao Roberto Rain was meant to be there in Rd 3. I think some had rain in Rd 4 and some did not, which is an odd glitch. |
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Post by TimB on Nov 11, 2022 6:44:19 GMT -5
Just a silly question... why I had rain in round 3 and 4 ? Maybe the italian wheather is different ? A rant from a poor "+19" CC-K Player Ciao Roberto There was/ still is a way for those who haven't played round 4. When done round 3. Back out, don't start 4'th round. Go to local play, play one hole of a different course. Go back to event and load up round 4. <---According to Doyley from a few days ago I did all that but still had rain in round 4. Because stupid me and early morning fog forgot the part about playing one hole of the other course. I backed out, went to local play, picked another course. Left and went back to round 4 to rain. lol And Hi Roberto. |
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Post by BillySastard976 on Nov 11, 2022 6:45:28 GMT -5
I registered but my scores aren't showing. I also did the third party access thing. Edit: I Know I enabled third party access but it was set to off now I've just looked. Its now on, hopefully my scores will now show?Others having been seeing this glitch of the 3rd party option turning back off as well. I believe the scores will pull at the next 15 minute TGCT score sweep now that it's turned back on.
(Edit) If not, then these links are for troubleshooting, and how to contact Admin if the troubleshooting does not help:
Ok, thanks very much. Yes its now worked. |
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Post by twofor22 on Nov 11, 2022 8:08:17 GMT -5
I had no rain in round 4 but I played it 2 days after round 3 which may have had something to do with it 😅 didn't bloody help my score though 😑
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Post by Doyley on Nov 11, 2022 9:33:40 GMT -5
I had no rain in round 4 but I played it 2 days after round 3 which may have had something to do with it 😅 didn't bloody help my score though 😑 Restarting game fixes the bug too. The bug is that whatever the weather setting is, if set specifically, will carry over to the next round if its set to default - and you don't restart or load up another course between those rounds. R3 rainy R4 default It's been elevated to hb but since it was also in 2k21 it may not be fixed. We didn't use rain last season so it wasn't easy to see/remember this big existed. |
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Post by Blade on Nov 11, 2022 10:11:14 GMT -5
Since some folks like the graph of the scores, as we head into the weekend, here is the plot of the 81% of players with four completed rounds posted.
Line is pretty straight to +30 or +35 and that is about 1600-1650 people. With other scores added in, I am guessing that may be the high end of getting a card (but again, I have no say).
If a lot of people add 4 rounds this weekend (we are still about 800 rounds below what 2K21 brought to qualification), obviously that would change things.
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Post by rob4590 on Nov 11, 2022 10:16:40 GMT -5
Scott - are promo / demo marks staying the same as last season? (3 to promote, 5 to demote) Top & bottom 7.5 and 15% to receive 1 and 2?
How will they work in the new Platinum?
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Post by fadgewacker on Nov 11, 2022 10:20:59 GMT -5
I had no rain in round 4 but I played it 2 days after round 3 which may have had something to do with it 😅 didn't bloody help my score though 😑 Restarting game fixes the bug too. The bug is that whatever the weather setting is, if set specifically, will carry over to the next round if its set to default - and you don't restart or load up another course between those rounds. R3 rainy R4 default It's been elevated to hb but since it was also in 2k21 it may not be fixed. We didn't use rain last season so it wasn't easy to see/remember this big existed. Yup, I restarted. No rain R4... shouldn't have bothered as I was better in the rain. |
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