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APAt Has lost it
thacker:
makes me laugh.... You complain about the standard i cant even get to play. Iv found it a lot easier to get to a final table than get to play in the first place. I managed to play in Luton only because i was on the reserve list and got an e-mail the day before. My net connection is rubbish and wont win a clickfest. So i went walsall. Sat there for 5 hours didn"t get a game. Now i see the world event ,at short notice, has been put online the weekend im in cork(plus the opening of dtd). Why wasn"t this tourney mentioned a long time before? Oh yeah im not in manchester either. So anyone who wants to moan about the standard. Either p*** off and join a bigger game and see how good you really are or count yourself lucky you are getting a game.As you see im hacked off with it all.
EvelcyclopS:
Yeah cheers thats really helpful.
Riorodent-
im confused... are you arguing against what i said? ??? :D
by the way, has any0ne ever noticed, that there are 2 Ad cards in the smileys bit? 2x Ad, that has to be +ev
RioRodent:
--- Quote from: EvelcyclopS on November 16, 2007, 02:38:35 AM ---
Riorodent-
im confused... are you arguing against what i said? ??? :D
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Yes... and No. The example of chimp playing heads-up was to illustrate that it might be easier to a really small tournament - a heads-up match - because you just need to get lucky once.
But, given 9 top class opponents it would be easier to win money, and maybe even the tournament, in a 200 man tourney over a 10 man tourney.
I have first hand knowledge of this. In the summer I played in a tournament, that paid 10% of the field, with the following...
Phil Helmuth
Dave Colclough
Karl Marenholz
Marcel Luske
Men "The Master" Nguyen
Kathy Liebert
Chris Ferguson
Johnny Chan
Phil Gordon
Now if this had been a STT I would have rated my chances of being in the top 10% [winning] as somewhere between slim and none!
In fact there were 2778 runners and I cruised into the money. None of the above made the final table and the winner was an amateur.
I was not making a comment about the current APAT point structure, simply about your statement that, "A small tournament is easier to win than a large one." Which I do not believe to be true.
duncthehat:
Purely on a ranking points arguement and not taking money into account at all.
There are what around 18 players turning up at Plymouth for the regionals and around 80 at Luton for example.
Obviously you can only beat who turns up but with 6 regional ranking point events, players in plymouth for example (not that I have anything against plymouth guys ok!!) are likely statistically to make the ranking points in 50 per cent of the tournaments. as oppossed to around 8 per cent at luton.
It is extremely likely that some players will make the points 6 times in such a poor attended venue ensuring that these players are very high up the leaderboard.
Say a player wins one comes third twice say 4th once and 5th once out of the 18 players thus getting 34 ish points!!!.
Surely this is a massive headstart on those 1. struggling to make any regionals or 2.having to play in 80 player fields and with the increased difficulty in getting to play in the nationals my predictions is there will be MORE players from the south west in the final leaderboard top ten than anywhere else in the country.
Obviously again its season 2 and we are all on a learning curve and I for one have NOT got a solution.
Sliding scale is unfair as well.
no solutions just my twopenneth!!!
3 hour drive to plymouth tempting hmmmmmmm
EvelcyclopS:
I dont understand, the sliding scale is a solution for the complaint youve just made, why is it unfair? HAve you understood what i mean?
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