APAT Season 8 - [Pre-release Discussion]

[Paulie_D]

My Big Wish for S8

The usual issue about booking hotels is the amount of advance notice. With ample (and I"m talking months) notice, deals / discounts are nearly always available for the casual visitor...I do my best to point them out where I can.

Unfortunately, and it"s sometimes common, the final details of APAT events aren"t nailed down until quiet late which has been the cause of some niggles in the past. I know this is one of the things Tom (and Des) want to address for S8.

A nailed down schedule for the whole year...soon

[CW86]

Will expect usual Apat excellence for upcoming season! However please please please revert the main event back to a 45 min clock with normal starting stack. Apats huge usp is the deep stacked nature of the events throughout and this years main did get really shallow around levels 18-20 unlike any i have known before

[jockey]

Can I just make (another) plea for something (not LPPL) in the North West of England please.  We have a significant number of APAT players, but haven"t had a "home" event for years.  Yorkshire I have to say, has been neglected for even longer!

As a Lancashire Lad myself I have to agree



.............................but I don"t have a problem neglecting Yorkshire

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[IrishTom]

Will expect usual Apat excellence for upcoming season! However please please please revert the main event back to a 45 min clock with normal starting stack. Apats huge usp is the deep stacked nature of the events throughout and this years main did get really shallow around levels 18-20 unlike any i have known before

To be fair Chris, WCOAP did attract a huge field and had to be played out over 2 days (whilst not dragging on into the early hours of Bank Hol Monday after a very long week) - so in essence I believe the 20k/40 min for WCOAP was an acceptable (matter of opinion!) and  good compromise.  HOWEVER, rest assured there is no intention to do anything different that the NORMAL 45 min clock for Season 8.

[LombBomb]

Can anyone on the APAT team confirm when the Season 8 schedule is likely to be released?

[fandango]

Can anyone on the APAT team confirm when the Season 8 schedule is likely to be released?

Ohhhhh I will not I repeat will not be the first to say it!!!

[Paulie_D]

I was going to but I bottled it.  :-P

[KarmaDope]

Can see the reaction in APAT Towers now...

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Can see the reaction in APAT Towers now...

LOL, now this is funny

[Paulie_D]

I think he meant...

Oh...and anyone else who asks

[KarmaDope]

More like

[Paulie_D]

More like
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Scanners....excellent movie.

[cuzza23]

I totally agree with the whole issue of getting rid of English , Scottish , Irish championships etc and replacing them with a standards leg 1 leg2 etc, I would ideally like ( and I relies I won"t happen) all legs of the tour to be played at DTD, it"s fairly central  and easy enough to get to for all player (I didn"t play wcoap this year for the simple fact it was in London, and I live in Scotland).

I also think team events are based around people you know or how well you are known within the apat community and players are not selected on merit. This needs to be changed to a scoring system and a team championship played at the end of the season, it would them become more of an honour to represent your country

[hi_am_chris]

Would prefer the world team event to be a separate occasion and season finale after the world championships possibly with the champion of champions on the same weekend, then players selected from the rankings with the top players given first refusal. Accept though that the way it"s done at the moment is better for travelling teams as they have other tournaments to skink their teeth into besides the team event.

Also possibly an online equivalent of the team world championships with players selected from NOL rankings.

[CW86]

Will expect usual Apat excellence for upcoming season! However please please please revert the main event back to a 45 min clock with normal starting stack. Apats huge usp is the deep stacked nature of the events throughout and this years main did get really shallow around levels 18-20 unlike any i have known before

To be fair Chris, WCOAP did attract a huge field and had to be played out over 2 days (whilst not dragging on into the early hours of Bank Hol Monday after a very long week) - so in essence I believe the 20k/40 min for WCOAP was an acceptable (matter of opinion!) and  good compromise.  HOWEVER, rest assured there is no intention to do anything different that the NORMAL 45 min clock for Season 8.

Yeh certainly understand the thought process behind it, and I must admit I hadn"t actually gone deep in an apat main which has had 350-400 runners before so I didn"t consider the implications of having extra runners. Glad to hear it will revert to the regular clock in the future though