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Season 6 Discussion
Santino67:
We can"t book our holiday to Rome till I know when the Scottish is :D
AceOnTheRiver:
--- Quote from: Santino67 on January 24, 2012, 16:39:59 PM ---
We can"t book our holiday to Rome till I know when the Scottish is :D
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That"s ironic; I can"t book my holiday to Scotland till I know when the Roman is 8)
satan:
--- Quote from: God on January 23, 2012, 20:00:42 PM ---
Good times.
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So is Gordon Strachan.
Your witness.
Des:
I can"t believe we"ve just signed off on our fifth season! Thanks to everyone who took part, it was a great year and we"re looking forward to launching an even more exciting schedule in season six.
But before we can do that, we have a number of big decisions to make regarding the direction that APAT will take moving forward. I have several meetings scheduled over the next two weeks and the outcome of those will help determine the route we take.
Our options as I see it are as follows:-
1) We enter an annual partnership as per the previous five seasons.
- The positive in this option is that it offers APAT a fixed position and a set budget for the season.
- The negative being that the market continues to move significantly and it is not certain we can achieve the best deal for players with an annual partnership. In addition, typically once a budget is agreed we become unable to further innovate during the season.
2) We enter a "per event" partnership with different operators for each of our National Amateur Championship properties.
- The positive here is that once up and running this can deliver the budget we would like in place for the season. In addition, with no exclusive agreement in place, it would enable us to put the National Online League on our choice of poker room and we already have a proposal on the table with our preferred operator for that.
- The negatives would be a requirement on members to sign up to several operators throughout the year. That said, we would ensure there was an exciting schedule of events in additon to our live and online National Championship events to ensure signing up is worthwhile. The other negative of course is that an event may be called into question should its proposed partner pull out at the last minute.
3) We open an APAT Online Poker Room and generate the budget for our live schedule via this.
- The positive here is that APAT would operate as a business and if managed well, we would be able to generate a marketing budget (in addition to our live events budget) to continue the growth of the brand. In addition members would be able to feed into the structures and schedules of all of our online events.
- The negative here is that it would rely on the support and committment of members to play online with APAT and to be proud of and promote our brand.
So as you can see there are some big decisions to be made over the next two weeks before we can confirm the season six schedule. I"ve published the above to keep you guys in the loop as much as possible. In doing so, I"m aware that a lot of people will post their support of the option above that they consider the easiest for themselves. All I would ask of those who do choose to post on this, is that you have a good think about all of the options before condemning any! :)
I know some members think we like to drag out the annual season announcements, but this really isn"t the case. The minute we know, you guys will know.
Cheers,
Des aka Ginger Jesus ;)
TightEnd:
Balding shrek agrees.
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