Season 4 Announcement

[SirPercival]

just noticed this one:-

21/8 -  UK Online Team Championship - Betfair

[APAT]

Happy to wait for more announcements but feel free to answer if you want.

Which events will be assigned ranking points? medals etc.?

Will the National Leagues be the same format as last season?

Will there be online qualifiers for all the Amateur Championships and Professional League events?

Full ranking points (18) to multi day events and half ranking points to side events in Amateur Championship.  All events will award medals.

Full Ranking points (18) in Professional League and medals.

9 Ranking points available in Specialist Series, but will not award medals.

Full Ranking points in Online main events and half in Omaha Championships.  Both will award medals.

National League will run in same format, but we"ll have two 10 match leagues as opposed to 1 20 match league.  Prize structure to be finalised as we don"t have an 8 seat GUKPT budget for this, but we do have around £5k to allocate.

Qualifiers - yes, same as S3 - Monday $20, Tuesday $10, Weds $5 rebuy + $50 Pro League satellite.  Thursday clickfest at 9pm.  Same structures on all events.

Is specialist series a separate ranking league or do they go towards National Amateur rankings?

so 4 sets of rankings?

National rankings (live)
National rankings (online)
Professional league
National online league x 3 - twice

The Specialist Series is largely for fun, although each individual leg will award a Pro League seat.

The others are very serious Ranking categories.

[SirPercival]

Looks like there"s only 2 set of rankings, with the live and online ones being merged.

edit: no... actually it looks like rankings are effectively being removed, if only tournament winners qualify for the champions event. Clarification please?

Live and Online rankings continue separately with the winner of each receiving a GUKPT seat and entry to the Champions Final, alongside the National Champions.

so specialist series points count towards live rankings?

and professional rankings are separate yes?

[SirPercival]

imconfuseddotcom

[AVFC.WILSON]

No APAT Walsall this season?

Always wanted to do that one.

[AMRN]

No APAT Walsall this season?

Always wanted to do that one.

It"s over-rated

[Eck]

NH WP

Betfair was where I first opened an account, pretty sure my username made me sound like a mentalist off to try to remember it.

Wiiiiiiiiiii after getting locked out twice i am finally in gonna have a go at the half hourly turbo and see what the software is like. 8 minutes to go anyone? Eckyboy is in

Oh lol

lol all you like Eckyboy is 1/7 on ft  

[APAT]

NH WP

Betfair was where I first opened an account, pretty sure my username made me sound like a mentalist off to try to remember it.

Wiiiiiiiiiii after getting locked out twice i am finally in gonna have a go at the half hourly turbo and see what the software is like. 8 minutes to go anyone? Eckyboy is in

Oh lol

lol all you like Eckyboy is 1/7 on ft  

First APAT win FTW!!!  

[THEGUY84]

I cant get u up on find a player eck, whats the tourny?

[Maylis]

The schedule looks great. Really looking forward to season 4. Especially London in April x x  

[H-Man81]

Can"t even remember the last time I posted on here, write a 1000 times, I must not neglect APAT!  Excellent schedule Des and the team, after a promising start to Season 3, I didn"t get to play what I would of liked last year so here"s to Season 4 and a great tour.  Have fair amount of questions as well but I"ll let Stuart ask them as he"s bound to cover them at some point ;-)  Here"s to Cardiff (hopefully!)   Alan

[Waz1892]

Aberdeen in June, and Spain in January....typo yes?!  

you"d prefer it the other way round?

Spain better in the sun no...and Aberdeen in January..well is cold what ever the date!

and Aberdeen in January is under two feet of snow!!  and why is Spain better in the sun when you will be sitting in an air conditioned casinoe for the duration?

I was just jesting..  ..and I wouldn"t be playing for the duration based on previous encounters..

[APAT]

Right, going bed.  All of your questions will be answered tomorrow evening - so post away.  I would appreciate if those of you who have websites and blogs, posted the press release so that we can create a great wave of excitement for the start of the season that will follow next week!

Monday - Welsh Amateur Championship satellite $20, 8pm
Tuesday - Welsh Amateur Championship satellite $10, 8pm
Wednesday - Welsh Amateur Championship satellite $5 rebuy, 8pm / Professional League Swansea satellite $50, 8pm
Thursday - Welsh Amateur Championship - £75 - Entry in Betfair poker lobby at 9pm sharp.
Friday - Welsh Online Championship satellite $20, 8pm
Saturday - Welsh Online Championship main event - $50 - GUKPT Seat and Medals, 8pm
Saturday - Welsh Online Championship PLO event - $25 - Professional League Seat and Medals, 9pm

[inthebelly]

nice work guys with the sponsorship

schedule must have took some working out no wonder it took a while to get everything in order before announcing.

hoping to play as many live and online championships as i can this year as long as i can get away from the club


well played des,tighty and the rest of team apat!

[Laxie]

I would appreciate if those of you who have websites and blogs, posted the press release so that we can create a great wave of excitement for the start of the season that will follow next week!

Will hit the Irish with it in the "morrow.  They"ve switched sites recently, so no red tape this year.  Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii