Growth of the APAT

[Waz1892]

It is me, or do we have alot more members recently..I have seen more 1st posters on here, thus presuming new members in the last couple of months?

Got me thinking, what the growth of the APAT is, and are we indeed seeing a big jump in membership? (if we are, possible reasons? - The Vienna trip..more marketing?)

Maybe Des has a chart details new members per week / month ..etc?.. Just curious!

[AMRN]

.....and if that were the case, would there be an argument for increasing the max field size of the regionals and nationals?

[Bodddders]

If you click on "more stats" at the bottom of the main forum page, you"ll find a few of the answers to your questions.

[Waz1892]

Cheers, didn"t realise that was there...now raises a new point...no need to answer mind, but looks like we do have more new members this month..halfway through the month and 94 members...if you simple double this figure then it"ll be around 188 members - The 1st increase month on month since Oct 07....

[Mikeyboy9361]

If APAT is growing why are the on line fields so small? There was some chat on my table on Saturday night intimating there were too many tourneys therefore reducing the "specialness" (is that a word) of the events. I play the on line games when I can, purely because it is the only chance I get, bar the live tourneys, to pit my wits against people or names that I know, and for me that is the fun of it.
But I know I would get some stick from the Missus if I sat down and played for 3 hours in both the Thursday and the Saturday event.
I would favour one bigger event per month, with a bigger buy in say $25, I am sure you would see the numbers swell for that.

[tumblet]

If APAT is growing why are the on line fields so small? There was some chat on my table on Saturday night intimating there were too many tourneys therefore reducing the "specialness" (is that a word) of the events. I play the on line games when I can, purely because it is the only chance I get, bar the live tourneys, to pit my wits against people or names that I know, and for me that is the fun of it.
But I know I would get some stick from the Missus if I sat down and played for 3 hours in both the Thursday and the Saturday event.
I would favour one bigger event per month, with a bigger buy in say $25, I am sure you would see the numbers swell for that.

The online amount may or may not have something to do with the chips and frequency of the games. I believe that the amount of online games has more to do with the sponsor rather than APAT wanting so many games. IMO there are not to many games, can there ever be to many deepstack tournaments online  

What I would say, which may affect the amount of people is the chipstacks have now bene changed back to 5000. Why ? I accept that this is possible and fine for the Saturday night games, but the Thursday one finished last week at 1.30ish, ok for some but im sure not ok for quite a few people.

It would be nice to hear a response on the change of chips Des when you get a chance, because I think its a shame that it has been changed for a Thursday night. Fine for Saturday.

Anyone else any comments?

[APAT]

I think you are right on timings and I suggest we go back to 4k chips for the remainder of S2. 

With regards to the online schedule, APAT put it together but on reflection it feels like there are too many games and they are not receiving the management attention they did in S1. 

The answer may be to cut back on the number of online ranking events in S3 but add a "community" game, once a week.  The online ranking events would become much bigger and more significant both in terms of prize value and media coverage. 

We will discuss S3 live and online, for your input, on the forum before any final plans are made.