Since it is APAT's aim to provide Good Value, Well Structured tournaments for it"s members I think there are a couple of things that should be considered...
Good Value does not necessarily mean cheap to enter.
Well Structured does not necessarily mean more chips and/or longer clocks.
I"m afraid I"m probably one of those being refferred to as making loose calls and generally bad plays in these APAT online tournaments... Not because I"m a bad player, but because I just can"t get excited about a $10 tournament -
that is less than a fiver!!Add to the [too] low buy-in the awful BlSq structure, without antes, and then 5000 chips and a 15 min clock and you end up with a 6 hour tournament where the winner only gets $500 - $600.
I guess, if I"m honest, the only reason I enter these is because the buy-in is so low... not because I expect to win or even get any return on my time and money... and certainly not because I see it as a "Good Value, Well Structured" tournament.
I know there are those who will say that it"s not all about the money... but the title and the medals and the ranking points and that"s all very comendable for those that actually believe that. But just because we are amateurs doesn"t mean that the time and money are not important to us... they certainly are to me.
Just my humble opinions.
PS. Please lets have less chips (3000) for the satellites!