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In the beginning
nosey-p:
The future (Garlic bread I've tasted it)
So for I have looked back to the start off APAT. I am going to gloss over season two as it's been a disaster for me and look into the future. (Crystal ball at the ready)
How to improve for season three, does it need improving? What's wrong with season 2?
In February I put a post on the forum http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=1106.0
Were I gave my thoughts on the online game. So to go over a few points.
1 The cost should be $50
2 Only one game per month
3 To have added money
4 To be played on a Saturday
If you want to know why, read the post
Please leave any comments on here or on the post
Jon MW:
--- Quote from: nosey-p on June 23, 2008, 20:42:57 PM ---
The future ...
Were I gave my thoughts on the online game. So to go over a few points.
1 The cost should be $50
2 Only one game per month
3 To have added money
4 To be played on a Saturday
...
--- End quote ---
I vaguely concur.
Although I"m a little more flexible about 1 and 2.
1. I think between $20 and $50
2. Between fortnightly and monthly (depending on the answer to 1.)
I definitely don"t think it should go above $50 as this would price some people out and I don"t think people really want to have to satellite into an online game.
Another thought that was briefly brought up but largely forgotten was a non-ranking online event. If for example there could be an unashamedly expensive tournament with a super stack and super slow blinds (ie something new for Bluesquare) then some people might fancy their chances of satelliting and playing in that for the value of the prize pool and the super duper structure.
nosey-p:
Sacrifice
The date of the first APAT forum was announced, it's to be on the weekend of the 19th/20th of July. "Now how do I get in the team" but wait a minute that date rings a bell, s**t I have already got something booked for that day. I go to the test match each year at Headingly, this year it's against the South Africans. So do I now cancel the cricket so I can play poker or do I go to the cricket with my work mates and get rat arse like we have done for the past six years. First of all how do you get in the team? As it happens I would have had no chance off getting in, if they were five APAT teams I may have just got in as the 10th member if I was lucky.
This got me thinking, what would you cancel to attend an APAT event? Now if you arranged to go out on the town with your mates, well that's easy you just go and play poker and get drunk, it's just that it's a different set of mates. What about a night out with the Mrs? Again easy there is seven nights in a week, just go out on a different night (its ok Mrs Nosey_p does not read this) how about a family party? Well for me again it's easy, with the size of my family nobody would even know I was not there plus we seem to have them every other week. But then it gets difficult, what about birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, and the birth of your first child. I could go on and on but you get the idea.
The one sacrifice I made was at the end of season one, well I say sacrifice it was more like I was told to do something and I said no. With me in second place in the championship, we were down to the five on-line championships when the boss calls me in to his office and tells me that I would by working in Luxemburg for five days, it just so happened to be the same week as the games. I would miss four of the five games. So I stud my ground and refused to go, after about two hours off arguing I got my way (but it did not give my promotions any good). Let's face it, who wants to go to Luxemburg anyway.
Now if I was prepared to get the sack so I could play on line, what would you sacrifice so you could play live? (I would not have got the sack, I don't think I would have :-\)
HaworthBantam:
I"ve cancelled 2 gigs in order to play APAT tournies, when the clickfest was on a Saturday. Rest of the band weren"t too impressed but, priorities.....priorities......
I now ensure that we don"t book gigs on tourney dates.....
Swinebag:
I missed a City game to play in an APAT tourney
I also tend to get injured when indoor cricket clashes with clickfests.
I"ve never let poker affect my work though.........................yet!!
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