Obviously the main thrust was to get to the money on day 1 - whilst this would be nice, I really don"t think that it"s such an important concept that you should change everything else to achieve it.
+1
this.
Dont see any reason to change the clock really, not tooooo fussed about coming back the next day to go for the money (coming back to actually play day 2 would be nice atm) as some of us go for a full weekend away and will be staying 2nd night regardless 
that said though, just cos it works as it stands, doesn"t mean it can"t be improved. APAT tournies are fantastic value deep stacked poker, but unfortunately the latter stages are always very shovey and therefore the luck factor plays a bigger part than it should - my point is that if the antes were more expensive throughout, it would damage the shorter stacks earlier and force more play in the early to mid stages, thereby increasing the depth of stacks toward the latter stages, and leaving a little more play after the bubble bursts....
I might be getting this wrong, but it feels logical
A point well made Steve IMO.
It was interesting though at Betfair Live at the weekend that whilst the levels were 40 mins and not 45, the ante"s were actually 10% of the small blind not the big blind and even when the money bubble burst to end day 1, the blinds were only 1200/2400/100. This still left just 26 players in the money and 144 out.
Whilst this would not get an APAT event to the money it did however leave alot more play than is sometimes the case on an APAT day 2, as the average was 65k which as memory serves is about the same give or take. I have noticed that many players that come back on an APAT day 2 go out very quickly as the blinds kill them.
Personally I"m happy either way but some ultra-fine tuning might be in order.
