• Registered: May. 22, 2010
  • Posts: 107

Topic: THIS SITE IS LAME and that's a compliment!

How weak can you possibly be???   The ATP fantasy game has over 20,000 players.  This site has fewer than 500.  The largest reason for that is an UTTER failure to promote the game. 

A smaller part of it is that the prize is stupid and meaningless.  Give the winner a free trip for two to the Grand Slam of his or her choice and free tickets for every day including the finals, Scrooge!!!   

The game itself is interesting -- but that doesn't make up for the COMPLETE failure to engage tennis fans worldwide.

NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION IS THIS SITE WORTH THE MONEY BEING PAID TO MAINTAIN IT.
THE GRAND SLAMS ARE GETTING RIPPED OFF BY WHOEVER RUNS THIS LAME SITE.

SHAME ON THE GRAND SLAMS!!!   
IS THIS THE BEST YOU CAN DO?????????????????????????????

  • Registered: May. 22, 2010
  • Posts: 107

Re: THIS SITE IS LAME and that's a compliment!

Brilliant comment, DropshotKing.  You're the man!!!

  • Registered: Dec. 26, 2008
  • Posts: 142

Re: THIS SITE IS LAME and that's a compliment!

We're just a small group of people who love the game, not a huge multinational organization with millions of dollars. We encourage you to give it a try and help us spread the word.

  • Registered: May. 22, 2010
  • Posts: 107

Re: THIS SITE IS LAME and that's a compliment!

Thanks for your lovely attitude.  I, too, love the game.  That's why it pains me to see the ONLY game allowed by the Grand Slam tourneys with virtually no one here.

While I'm undeniably popular in some circles, I'm not Barack Obama -- so I'm not so popular that I can fix the problem myself.  Thanks for thinking I could somehow, I guess; HOWEVER... 

The ONLY WAY the MANY other people who love the game will be here with us is if the Grand Slam websites PROMOTE the game and furnish a link to it.  It makes absolutely no sense that these huge tourneys will not allow the AFT to include the Grand Slams in its game anymore (as of this year) -- leaving this the only game in town, so to speak -- and then don't tell anybody about it.  Frankly, it makes me very angry.

  • Registered: Aug. 17, 2009
  • Posts: 1

Re: THIS SITE IS LAME and that's a compliment!

I did get my friends and family to play and most of our picks have been erased as this site explains there was a glitch if you made your picks on Friday. I have enjoyed this comp in the past but I won't be inviting anyone to join in the future.

  • Registered: May. 22, 2010
  • Posts: 107

Re: THIS SITE IS LAME and that's a compliment!

Anybody can suffer a glitch, and they did send out an e-mail notifying folks of it -- but the window was short.  I know it must be frustrating to find your picks erased. 

Oddly enough, I had a similar thing happen to me with the ATP game for Rome recently.  Though I made my picks, including 3 minor changes, hit "save" and was under the impression everything was OK, it turned out that somehow I wasn't properly connected to the site and so I was shown as not having made any picks.  I discovered this when I went to see how I was doing after the first few Sunday matches.  This was particularly disappointing because the ATP game is a cumulative year-long competition.  What a bummer!

So I'm fairly understanding about the glitch here.  But I am not happy that it's impossible to learn about this game at the Grand Slam websites.  That really sucks IMHO.

  • Registered: Dec. 26, 2008
  • Posts: 142

Re: THIS SITE IS LAME and that's a compliment!

Hi Davi,

We're very sorry about that. We did a lot of work on the site between the Australian Open and now, and as a result a few bugs got in to our system that we missed. We are creating a backend tool that will let me quickly fix that for you, and I will have everything back to normal soon.

Thanks,
Charles