A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT THIS WEBSITE .

pdb1
13,361 Posts
Mon, Oct 24 2016 11:13 PM
 For those of you that are not clear about the difference between our WGT CC , WGT CC Forum  And our Awesome Bonus Website . 

  Our focus at this point in time is almost entirely here in this WGT CC / WGT CC Forum . 

  Everything I / we talk about and do is of and about trying to build and improve and maintain all this WGT stuff . 

  The website https://www.valleyofthesuncc.com/ . I created . Is an incredible website / forum that has many things to offer that are user friendly with options not available in WGT . 

  The original plan was to try and incorporate some of that cool stuff into our CC . ( long story ) . It became obvious that that was going to be a battle that I / we were not ready for . 

  It would have had to have been a completely voluntary and cooperative effort by all . That proved to be something bigger and harder than we / our members were willing to undertake . I wasn't about to try and demand and make members to comply . 

  The CC was very active  when I first introduced the website . Within a couple months I started to host a series of 20 multi player week end tournaments called " THE VALLEY OF THE SUN KICK ASS TOURS WEEK END FUN IN THE SUN " . Through http://challonge.com/ . A website that provides auto generated brackets for all kinds of sports . And was the original reason it was necessary for everyone to register in the site with their WGT username .http://challonge.com/ and WGT have a common link through the usernames for Challonge invites and emails . Very convenient . 

  These tournaments were a tough format for some to follow . But we still pulled them off successfully for several months in the first half of 2015  

  These brackets were played in our website in the live embedded brackets . With the use of our chat room in the website . All participants could see the brackets as they changed rounds and match ups until the finals . And a Supreme Champion would be named .

 click here to see the website page and the brackets and the chat they were played in 

  https://www.valleyofthesuncc.com/portal?pid=4

  click here for more information

 https://www.valleyofthesuncc.com/portal?pid=3

  After a good run . The tournaments came to a screeching halt when the WGT " invisilble invite " glitch overtook us and made it impossible to invite or receive invites for many players . 

  After that the website and it's activity slowed considerably . Until virtually no one to speak of ever came there for chatting in the chat room . Which was and still could be a very good place to stop in and see who was there , leave a message to someone or anyone . That you were going to be on and wanting to play . The chatroom was a place you could click to in a second no matter what you were doing . You could be playing  a round and just click over to it . See some one you knew or wanted to play a match with ( usually by chance I admit ) . But when it was more active . it was more likely to happen . 

  I tried to encourage and promote the site and all it GR8 features . But it became evident that it was too much to ask . That it was probably enough to get our WGT CC to be active . The website was a whole different commitment . And was not going to happen . 

  That was a tough pill for me to swallow . I had put a considerable amount of work into the venture . I had no choice but to back away and put those plans on the back burner . 

  That was fine . Because just keeping a WGT CC together is a very difficult job in itself . 

  So to this day . Even though the website is still full of very helpful information . And is still a part of this CC . It is only a bonus and available to our CC members , members from other CC's , members not belonging to CC's , and some that don't even belong to WGT . 

  It is not required to use it .

  Some of us still use it to record  our Desert BLITZ  scores .A successful format I created in the website  . 

  I do use it for the recording of stats , records , wins , scorecards , personal bests , trophies , tutorials , how to's . Related to every player and tons of stuff that comes from all over the place . 

  So now I ask and require that all CC members only register there with their WGT username for my purposes and needs for the WGT CC . 

  After a one time registration there . Nothing else is required of you there . It is totally up to you whether you visit it or utilize any of it . 

 

  Paul