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IrishTom:
We wish to build on the success of the UK Team Championship and hopefully this year not have to disappoint as many teams - to do that we need to increase the capacity. 

This means a split of Day 1 which would see 4 members from each team compete on Friday evening (circa 1900/2000) and play around 9 levels (7 hours play) and the remaining 4 compete on Saturday (circa 1500) obviously to play around 9 levels (7 hours play) also. 

Day 2 would then have all those remaining come back to commence on Sunday at 1200 noon and play to a completion as usual.

The venue has not yet been confirmed, but probably north of London and south of Manchester!

We would welcome thoughts on the above.

Cheers/Tom

doublebubble:
Love the idea of getting as many teams as possible in however personally don"t like the split team scenario. For events like these teams like to imo travel together, play together, drink together. Can"t you have 2 flights, but all teams in same day. If that means people from same team more chance to be on same table then so be it. Once tables break you have that chance anyway.
Seems a logistical issue for traveling teams

All always many thanks for always thinking of improvements.

teamdobb:
Hi Tom & APAT

Newcastle Poker have entered a team in every team event that has ever been organised by APAT BUT by splitting the event into day1A and day1B but also splitting your team up where members are playing different days is IN MY OPINION one of the worse decisions you could make.

While I understand the organisational problems and trying to satisfy all concerned as Ive organised many events like this it will ruin the event from an atmospshere point of view and sometimes additional numbers a split day may create will be lost by the enjoyment that a big majority will lose

MY VIEW IS NO SPLIT DAY in order to maintain the demand that this event achieves

AAroddersAA:
I don"t think this is ideal for this event. This is a personal viewpoint would be interested to see other points of view though as it might not be reflective of the entire community.

My logic here is that it is the event that probably is most responsible for drawing people into APAT (it certainly was in my case). The team element means that you do not turn up to an event and know nobody at all, you will at least have some people you are familar with in your team even if it is the first time you have met them.

A large part of this event for me is meeting up on the Friday night and having a few beers and a laugh with your team without having to worry about the poker*.

This allows new players to see the social side of APAT and meet some of the characters you see at all the events. I am not exactly objective here but having visited a few other tours (Sky, Pokerplayer for example) the APAT community is the strongest out there I have seen. It is true to say that you can meet these people at the table but I don"t think this is the same at all. Some teams are made up from forums where people don"t always know each other that well and the time to get to know each other enhances the experince and the event itself, I believe it makes it more likely these players will looks to play future APAT events. This improves the event also as people rail their team mates and you make new poker friends which is very useful. By starting an event on Friday night you remove an element of the community aspect from the weekend which feels like it could be a mistake?

My feeling, the event works very well as it is.

*It is worth noting that there are a number of us who see every event like this to a certain extent and are a minority who will turn up to every event anyway so should not be the main focus on who events should please.

ian.ski309:
Let me say that I"m liking the fact that APAT are constantly seeking to improve and innovate... but there are a few drawbacks to this idea IMHO...

i) It means that at least half the team, if not all, are paying for two nights in a hotel rather than the usual one.

ii) The 3am - 4am finish might be a strain for those who have already spent much of the day travelling.

iii) Half the team could find themselves at a loose end for the second day

iv) If all four of a team"s players were to bust out of flight 1, it kind of ruins it for the four in flight 2.

I could go on, and of course there are counter arguments to all of the above, but as "teamdobb" says above, making this a two-flight tourney will destroy the brilliant atmosphere of these events.

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