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Dear Des, wtf is going on
Fatcatstu:
http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=14190.0
I wonder if frank ever recovered from this brutal stomping from Paulie Pot?
Oh no, wait, he was thanked for his input.
ian.ski309:
I think Brendan should be given credit for having the cojones to post this thread. Like others have mentioned above, I have heard the collective concerns of other players at recent APATs like the rumbling of distant thunder. The most commonly held view is that APAT is losing it"s personal touch as it becomes more of a corporate entity and in this context Leigh's departure is huge. Although it may be accurate, the use of phraseology such as "development roadmap" and "market movement" does little or nothing to reverse this perception. I sent a PM to one of the APAT management team four days ago and never received so much as an acknowledgement. Nothing I say here is intended as criticism in any shape or form, as I believe that there"s a reason for everything and we are not always privy to the reason, but this merely further illustrates the point.
I"ve always thought of APAT as an "extended family" where a large network of true friendships have been forged over a number of years. Whatever the future holds for APAT, without that "personal touch" I fear it may lose the uniqueness and the familiarity which we have all come to know and love.
Matt D:
--- Quote from: ian.ski309 on October 15, 2013, 12:05:32 PM ---
I think Brendan should be given credit for having the cojones to post this thread. Like others have mentioned above, I have heard the collective concerns of other players at recent APATs like the rumbling of distant thunder. The most commonly held view is that APAT is losing it"s personal touch as it becomes more of a corporate entity and in this context Leigh's departure is huge. Although it may be accurate, the use of phraseology such as "development roadmap" and "market movement" does little or nothing to reverse this perception. I sent a PM to one of the APAT management team four days ago and never received so much as an acknowledgement. Nothing I say here is intended as criticism in any shape or form, as I believe that there"s a reason for everything and we are not always privy to the reason, but this merely further illustrates the point.
I"ve always thought of APAT as an "extended family" where a large network of true friendships have been forged over a number of years. Whatever the future holds for APAT, without that "personal touch" I fear it may lose the uniqueness and the familiarity which we have all come to know and love.
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Apologies, that was me who didn"t reply. I was away from home (and therefore my computer) Friday 6AM (arg!) until last night, and therefore only saw the message then. Replying to all the PMs I received in the period I was away, is on my "To Do" list for today. So you would have received a reply today. If not, tomorrow for sure.
Hard not to take that as a criticism tbh, though it really was unavoidable in this case.
MintTrav:
I have known Tom virtually from when I first played in LPPL six years ago. I think that when people get to meet him at tournaments, they will realize that a lot of the things that they value about APAT will still be there. He is an excellent organizer, but is also a very down-to-earth guy who enjoys the craic. LPPL has just as much of a community or extended family feel as APAT. They have 400-600 players at their National event every year and Tom knows the overwhelming majority of them on first-name terms, so I expect that any fears about the personal touch being lost are likely to prove unfounded.
I see that there is a Jim Brady entered for the Glasgow tournament. If that is Tom's father, I can tell you from personal experience that anyone who is drawn on the same table as him is guaranteed to have a hoot.
AJDUK:
As Brendan has already clarified, these issues are not about Tom. Just because a bunch of things have happened to set this thread off doesn"t mean that nothing was wrong, or sliding the wrong way, before. They"re just symptoms or perhaps examples.
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