Live
No need to change.
£75 perfect
Structure perfect
Standard payout
Deals, not bothered either way
Pro league does not affect me as it's too much for me but a change to Sunday/Friday would be good for several reasons. Friday would give people the chance to play the pro then the ME. People may travel knowing that they have two comps to play. Sunday would give the opportunity for those that have bustard out of the ME to play via direct buy-in or via a satellite. But would this affect the side games? It would free up places fpr the ME. But for me I would scrap it and put more added value to the ME by giving 2nd and 3rd place seats to GUKPT side events or to DTD deep stack.
Venues
They is a big battle going on in Leeds with two casinos battling it out to be top dog, am sure either one of them would love to host a APAT game, but the best card room is Alea. Sheffield as also several places that could hold a 150+ event. Newcastle would also be a place worth revisiting.
$50
Again for me this is fine as it is but if you want a change, play it on a Sunday. If people are worried about the finishing time then start at 7 or change the structure.
League
This is were I think the biggest change as to be
I believe when the league was set up, it was to progress into a live league. (As stated earlier) but we no this will not happen. So do we keep with it or dump it for an individual league.
a) Stay as we are
b) Same as now with a bit off tweaking
c) Have a individual league
d) Have a new league were you pick/join your own team with a set number of players
e) Scrap it all together and have a $10 comp
f) Any other suggestion
I would be in favour of d, a new league of made up teams of 5.
We get about 150 runners over the 3 leagues. Based on that amount you would have 30 teams playing in one league. Every team will get points towards the grand final which all teams would play in.
The winner of the league would receive the biggest amount of chips in the final say 10,000 (per player) the 2nd 8,500 the 3rd 7,000 4th to 9th 5,500 10th to 19th 4000 the rest 3,000
Scoring points
Top 3 in each team would score points in the same way as now but over a bigger finishing position say top 40 (40 for 1st down to 1 for 40th) if a team does not score any points then they would get 1 league point and then work your way up. EG if 7 teams do not score then they all get 1 point the next team would get 8 points then 9 and so on.
I know they is allot of flaws with this mainly can Betfair set up a game with different starting chips. But it would mean that all teams, all players would have something to aim for, the final.