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Season 6 Discussion
Des:
--- Quote from: Paulie_D on February 20, 2012, 16:43:19 PM ---
A quick response before I cogitate further.
I don"t have a problem with a 10% reg. fee. I know it would be a real heart-breaker for you to have to implement this but in the current market (viz. sponsorship &/or competition) I don"t see any real alternative.
On the schedule side, I"d have to say that while I think there are, perhaps, too many events over a 12 month period, I think that just 6 weekends (and that"s what it basically breaks down to) is not enough...for me.
APAT has a wonderful product and whilst I can foresee that restricting the number of events will drive up the demand for seats I don"t see that there is any capacity to increase the number of available places at the venues of which I am aware...that will lead to people (at least it seems to me) being disappointed in not getting seats and losing interest.
A festival event sounds great but in practice I think the majority of the membership will bail on anything other than Saturday and, perhaps, Sunday.
You know me, I"ll turn up to the opening of an envelope and a paring down of the schedule isn"t automatically bad (Pub Poker Champs anyone?) but I think 6 event schedule is a cut to far.
I"ll have to look and see what my "ideal minimum" would be.
On the added value, I"ve always treated this a the cherry on top so anything is good with me. The only "problem" I see with the WCOAP passport idea is that you won"t get 6 events in before the WCOAP. Presumably, anything won after the WCOAP would be for the next year?
More later
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There is additional capacity out there compared to what we utilised in season five. Look at Brighton for example, where we could have had an additional couple of tables.
There is a significant clash with a competing poker tournament in the August bank holiday weekend, so I"m contemplating adding a 4 day (therefore we would miss out all of the day 1 activity elsewhere) ECOAP festival at that time, with the WCOAP moving to the end of the season.
Two visits to DTD would also increase capacity considerably also.
All still a work in progress....
amcgrath1uk:
Reg fee.. like most I feel will say, go for it. If it helps APAT continue and grow even better.
I personally find it tough to play every 4 weeks, but whatever APAT decides go for it!
Added value to the WCOAP is a cracking idea and I love the thought!
ian.ski309:
I"m surprised we"ve got away with no reg fees for so long.
As for the scheduling, not everyone plays every event. There were 11 events in season 5, three of which were the Home Championships, Pub Teams, Forum Teams - if we go to six events will those three be scrapped as they were not strictly "open" to all ?
Re the prizes, I"d like to see them remain as they are. What would happen if a winner couldn"t attend the WCOAP ?
dwh103:
I have no issue with a reg fee, though you do lose the headline "no-reg fee" from APAT. Depends how important that is - however if it"s at the expense of growth then I think almost everyone would be behind a reg fee. Doesn"t have to be 10%, say £75+5. That"s obviously cheap and would compare well vs other offerings.
I"d agree with Paulie that six events is a little on the low side - not much more than that would be perfect though. I strongly believe APAT should champion itself and especially the WCOAP - if this can be extended to (fewer) Nationals then I"m all for that too. English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Worlds, Forum and International Team events, plus one European event (is it possible APAT could try and build a new user base in one European country and focus on that?). 8 or 9 would seem a happy medium.
Packages to the WCOAP would be nice, but you are then almost forcing people to take time off work and perhaps play a game they"re not familiar with - I"d personally prefer a GPS or a UKIPT (but that"s probably because I"d buy into the Worlds anyway). Perhaps a condition of the added value is that said winner provides APAT with a report of the trip. Obviously can"t police it, but a nice article detailing person x"s bigger buy in experience on the front page would be good.
Paulie_D:
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