Sat"s : True there is no cap : Hard to see how having extra sat"s would not produce more qualifiers.
The fact that APAT events are heavily over subscribed is an argument for more qualifiers of whatever type.
What are the stat"s here? How many more seats would sell?
In particular - I think the World Main Event should have more qualifying events - versus clickfest (which as you say is not convenient for many). These events could run through the year.
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The same people play the satellites each time, it wouldn"t increase the number of individual players by the same proportion that the number of seats would be increased - I suspect it would in fact, almost stay the same.
So if more seats were available via satellite it would mean the people who play them have a disproportionately high chance of getting a seat.
Everybody who wants to can get a seat via a clickfest, this has always been the case and with the fall in demand (which has a few causes but imo is principally related to the economy) it has become even more the case.
By their nature online satellites have to be faster structured than most would like, and obviously a satellite is different to a freezeout - and online is different to live.
It just doesn"t make any logical sense that any significant proportion of of APAT seats for live deepstack freezeouts end up being won by players who are good at online, faster structured satellites.