Las Vegas Saturday Main Event League Selection Show
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 8:26 am
Good morning everyone. We are two weeks away from many of you flying to Las Vegas and just a little more than two weeks before hosting live events at Park MGM in Las Vegas. I can't wait to see everyone.
Today I have an announcement about our Saturday, March 22nd, 11 am Las Vegas Main Event leagues. As you know, this is our marquee event of the weekend as we'll have 8 full leagues drafting at once at Park MGM. It's going to be a ton of fun.
We'll kick things off at 10:50 am with the introduction of our NFBC Hall of Famers and past national champions, while introducing five defending NFBC national champions who will be with us that day. One of them is Clark Olson, the defending Main Event champion and our newest NFBC Hall of Fame inductee!! That will be a great start to the day.
The only drawback to hosting at Park MGM this year is that we don't have one big ballroom like we had last year at the Mirage. The Mirage closed, as you know, and space was incredibly tight for that weekend in Las Vegas, with Park MGM having great but not perfect space. We will have 8 ballrooms all on the first floor of the Park MGM Convention Center, but there will be a wall separating three leagues from another three leagues with two leagues across the hall. The buffet will be in the middle for all to choose and everyone will have access to see all of the boards at the conclusion, but unfortunately we'll be slightly split up. Again, space is tough in Vegas these days, but you will still be able to hear multiple leagues drafting at once.
Anyway, here's the news I want to present today. This Saturday Main Event time slot is really the only time when we have multiple live Mains going at once, so we want to be as transparent as possible with the draft selection process. So for this time slot only, here's what we're going to do:
** I will host a League Selection show on our High Stakes Fantasy Network YouTube channel on Sunday, March 16th at 2 pm ET. I will have poker chips with names of everyone signed up by that date randomly mixed in a bin and I will pick them out one by one live for all to see on YouTube. I will have a graphic that will show every selection for League 1 as they happen, for League 2, etc. until all full leagues are picked. This will be live on Sunday, March 16th. Every league will be seen as picked randomly live on YouTube. This has the potential to be a lot of fun....as long as I do it right!!!
** Now the draft spot selection is another issue. The only way I could then determine the draft spots after randomly picking the leagues is to manually go on everyone's team pages and manually do this. It would push up the KDS deadline one day to Sunday at 8 am ET and everyone would have to lock in their KDS choices at that time, again one day early. Is that okay?
** I'd probably need to take a break after the League Selection Show to manually run KDS and then come back on after an hour or so to announce the Draft Spot Selection Show for each league. It's doable, but not easy. We'd then email everyone their draft spots that afternoon and they'd have six days to prepare for those draft spots. Is that okay?
** The big problem is that these leagues are set up to electronically run KDS for each league on Monday at 11 am PT. So people would get that email the next day and see different draft spots than what we told them the day before. We'd also then manually have to go into each league and change to the correct draft spots, which we can do, but again has to be done manually.
I guess we'd just have to tell people to ignore that Monday email and really email everyone each day with their actual draft spots that we ran live on YouTube. Again, would that be too confusing? Would it make things worse? Or is seeing the Draft Selections Live on Sunday better?
I'll have Mike Massotto with me on YouTube commenting about the league selections and players, so we'll make it fun. We can have up to 10 guests on with us as well if anyone wants to join us for some commentary!! But again, I'm worried about the confusion of the Monday email and about me manually looking up 120 KDS preferences on Sunday, but I'll do it if everyone thinks this process is the most transparent and enjoyable.
I'm looking for feedback on this process because this is completely new and could be confusing to some, while very enjoyable for others. I've already emailed everyone in this league with this idea and I'm waiting for feedback from them. But feel free to post positive or negative thoughts to this process and I'll finalize everything before I fly to New Jersey next Thursday. Thanks all and good luck in all your leagues this year.
Today I have an announcement about our Saturday, March 22nd, 11 am Las Vegas Main Event leagues. As you know, this is our marquee event of the weekend as we'll have 8 full leagues drafting at once at Park MGM. It's going to be a ton of fun.
We'll kick things off at 10:50 am with the introduction of our NFBC Hall of Famers and past national champions, while introducing five defending NFBC national champions who will be with us that day. One of them is Clark Olson, the defending Main Event champion and our newest NFBC Hall of Fame inductee!! That will be a great start to the day.
The only drawback to hosting at Park MGM this year is that we don't have one big ballroom like we had last year at the Mirage. The Mirage closed, as you know, and space was incredibly tight for that weekend in Las Vegas, with Park MGM having great but not perfect space. We will have 8 ballrooms all on the first floor of the Park MGM Convention Center, but there will be a wall separating three leagues from another three leagues with two leagues across the hall. The buffet will be in the middle for all to choose and everyone will have access to see all of the boards at the conclusion, but unfortunately we'll be slightly split up. Again, space is tough in Vegas these days, but you will still be able to hear multiple leagues drafting at once.
Anyway, here's the news I want to present today. This Saturday Main Event time slot is really the only time when we have multiple live Mains going at once, so we want to be as transparent as possible with the draft selection process. So for this time slot only, here's what we're going to do:
** I will host a League Selection show on our High Stakes Fantasy Network YouTube channel on Sunday, March 16th at 2 pm ET. I will have poker chips with names of everyone signed up by that date randomly mixed in a bin and I will pick them out one by one live for all to see on YouTube. I will have a graphic that will show every selection for League 1 as they happen, for League 2, etc. until all full leagues are picked. This will be live on Sunday, March 16th. Every league will be seen as picked randomly live on YouTube. This has the potential to be a lot of fun....as long as I do it right!!!
** Now the draft spot selection is another issue. The only way I could then determine the draft spots after randomly picking the leagues is to manually go on everyone's team pages and manually do this. It would push up the KDS deadline one day to Sunday at 8 am ET and everyone would have to lock in their KDS choices at that time, again one day early. Is that okay?
** I'd probably need to take a break after the League Selection Show to manually run KDS and then come back on after an hour or so to announce the Draft Spot Selection Show for each league. It's doable, but not easy. We'd then email everyone their draft spots that afternoon and they'd have six days to prepare for those draft spots. Is that okay?
** The big problem is that these leagues are set up to electronically run KDS for each league on Monday at 11 am PT. So people would get that email the next day and see different draft spots than what we told them the day before. We'd also then manually have to go into each league and change to the correct draft spots, which we can do, but again has to be done manually.
I guess we'd just have to tell people to ignore that Monday email and really email everyone each day with their actual draft spots that we ran live on YouTube. Again, would that be too confusing? Would it make things worse? Or is seeing the Draft Selections Live on Sunday better?
I'll have Mike Massotto with me on YouTube commenting about the league selections and players, so we'll make it fun. We can have up to 10 guests on with us as well if anyone wants to join us for some commentary!! But again, I'm worried about the confusion of the Monday email and about me manually looking up 120 KDS preferences on Sunday, but I'll do it if everyone thinks this process is the most transparent and enjoyable.
I'm looking for feedback on this process because this is completely new and could be confusing to some, while very enjoyable for others. I've already emailed everyone in this league with this idea and I'm waiting for feedback from them. But feel free to post positive or negative thoughts to this process and I'll finalize everything before I fly to New Jersey next Thursday. Thanks all and good luck in all your leagues this year.
Now sign up and close out this 8th Main Event league!!!
But I think we've got it figured out and will have some fun.