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Season 6 Discussion
TightEnd:
--- Quote from: Santino67 on September 29, 2011, 21:41:51 PM ---
Like most people I think it"s agreed that you all do an awesome job. Only think I"d like to change/add is a couple more northern venues (Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Blackpool etc) for individual events.
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The majority of events are already Midlands and North!
TightEnd:
--- Quote from: Robbiebox on September 30, 2011, 07:13:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: SirPercival on September 29, 2011, 20:00:25 PM ---
Well done APAT on 5 seasons of success.
As most know, I am a big fan of APAT and have played a few events each season. I do always admire Des and the teams approach to taking on board comments made by members and people often forget that they can"t please everyone all of the time.
My opinion is that when APAT started it was unique, it was groundbreaking, and it was new. In the first few seasons it grew and stayed ahead of the rest, it retained it"s USPs. Some ideas were tried that didn"t work but the ones that did stuck and grew more.
but.... IMO the momentum is not what it used to be. The core "product" is still excellent and still the prefered choice of many, the new ideas are good, but the fact is the other are catching up. I would even go as far as saying the others are in some ways ahead. Before the defenders of all things APAT step in can I say that I am not critising APAT or the team that put it all together I am mearly saying that IMO the others have caught up and there is a risk that they will soon be the ones holding the Aces.
So what is the "vision"? a question I have asked many times before on this forum. Do APAT want to stay ahead of the pack, do they want to continue providing the excellent tour as is with some year on year improvements? do they want to go global? do they want to influence the poker world and drive out rake in all tournamnets?, are they going to push for standard rules? do they want to be the springboard for players looking to get into bigger events or do they themselves want to provide those bigger events?
Share the vision Des - then the ideas for improvement can be aligned to that vision.
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Superb post, very important to consider this with next years plans. I also will have a go at posting my ideas in next few days.
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When we started there was very little festival poker apart from the individual casino weeks such as Midlands Meltdown, Christmas Cracker etc
Since then we have GUKPT, GBPT, UKIPT, SPT as well as PKR Live, betfair Live etc etc etc at varying buy in levels all with different attractions
So, the competitive landscape is more challenging, players have a lot more choice and allied to that post black friday/online poker rooms struggling the Sponsorship environment is extremely different
The plan for S6 is to push forward and take APAT onwards (new concepts being a part of that), within the overall remit of providing affordable and registration free recreational poker with festival structures
Marty719:
Everything is perfect :) Amsterdam for a European venue!
TightEnd:
--- Quote from: Marty719 on September 30, 2011, 13:18:07 PM ---
Everything is perfect :) Amsterdam for a European venue!
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would love to, but Holland Casinos are government owned and prohibit tournaments from third party providers in their country.
Hence you don"t see EPT, WPT etc there either
Fatcatstu:
can we PLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE do Tallinn again? pretty pretty please?
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