Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Poker Forum => Live Poker => Topic started by: Cyntaf on June 18, 2009, 22:28:52 PM
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Hi, 22:19 doesn"t sound very good, but, is it good enough.
I take it the whole site suffered with server probs?
I"m not software genius, would it make any difference if the buy seat button was not on the main page, as when you refresh, there would not be all the pictures and other stuff to load. Sorry if i"m teaching my granny and all that.
Just trying to help the general cause for APAT and all Our members.
Cheers :)
Paul Mac
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22:19 beats me at 22:22 but going by blondepoker forum whole site down for like hour n a bit.
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Hi, 22:19 doesn"t sound very good, but, is it good enough.
I take it the whole site suffered with server probs?
I"m not software genius, would it make any difference if the buy seat button was not on the main page, as when you refresh, there would not be all the pictures and other stuff to load. Sorry if i"m teaching my granny and all that.
Just trying to help the general cause for APAT and all Our members.
Cheers :)
Paul Mac
I made it for 10.16pm ...
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I managed to get my payment @ 9.48
Am Hopeful.
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i"m glad I satted in for this.
No link on homepage
forum was playing up too.
It was the Dublin clickfest all over again
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i"m glad I satted in for this.
No link on homepage
forum was playing up too.
It was the Dublin clickfest all over again
indeed
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hi tried a few times for me (mike rainsford) & ste murray kept saying there was a some sort of problem with the card, I have hecked with my bank and the cash is there £170 on my maestro card, could you confirm if we are in because it will not let me try again, thanks
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10.23pm for me, I run soooooo bad. ::)
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well moneys out my account im hopeful :P
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well, here"s hoping we all get seats.
upto 140 ish anyways. :)
Nice to see you got a seat Rob, hopefully get to see you there :)
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After an hour an half of sitting staring at the screen trying to load and getting error messages we finally managed to go through the motions about 10.30 ish! I dont rate our chances! :"( :"( :"( :"( :"(
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hi tried a few times for me (mike rainsford) & ste murray kept saying there was a some sort of problem with the card, I have hecked with my bank and the cash is there £170 on my maestro card, could you confirm if we are in because it will not let me try again, thanks
could any one let me know if we are in please
Help
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i live in dublin and i can"t even buy a seat here,you can only buy if you live anywhere in the uk and i want to go
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Everyone who has put a successful transaction through to this point has a seat, the event is still on sale.
David, I am allocating you a seat as I said I would beyond 9.30pm. I will sort out payment details with you separately.
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i live in dublin and i can"t even buy a seat here,you can only buy if you live anywhere in the uk and i want to go
Is that correct - only UK residents?
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Hi, 22:19 doesn"t sound very good, but, is it good enough.
I take it the whole site suffered with server probs?
I"m not software genius, would it make any difference if the buy seat button was not on the main page, as when you refresh, there would not be all the pictures and other stuff to load. Sorry if i"m teaching my granny and all that.
Just trying to help the general cause for APAT and all Our members.
Cheers :)
Paul Mac
Thanks Paul and you"ve definitely got a seat.
It"s a server side issue and will be addressed when my boot meets our technician"s arse tomorrow :)
Apologies to everyone for the inconvenience this evening.
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Hi Spud, I"m sure Des will post soon enough. He will have been having a nightmare.
I wouldn"t be surprised if all who posted are in, as a lot give up until tomorrow/later etc.
Not too sure about your status in Eire? Sure Des will get to answer you on that soon too... GL All :)
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i live in dublin and i can"t even buy a seat here,you can only buy if you live anywhere in the uk and i want to go
Is that correct - only UK residents?
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UK payment providers will not accept payments from Ireland due to Irish government legislation. Go figure?
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Everyone who has put a successful transaction through to this point has a seat, the event is still on sale.
David, I am allocating you a seat as I said I would beyond 9.30pm. I will sort out payment details with you separately.
Can You do me a favour and check my seat please? Money hasnt gone out but i am sure I made it about 21.10
Will go again if its necessary!
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10:35 for me - just hope it wasnt too late
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Thanks a lot Des,
Go easy Matey and don"t wear your hobnails :o
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i live in dublin and i can"t even buy a seat here,you can only buy if you live anywhere in the uk and i want to go
Is that correct - only UK residents?
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UK payment providers will not accept payments from Ireland due to Irish government legislation. Go figure?
That"s really weird - but thanks for the reply ...
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Everyone who has put a successful transaction through to this point has a seat, the event is still on sale.
David, I am allocating you a seat as I said I would beyond 9.30pm. I will sort out payment details with you separately.
Can You do me a favour and check my seat please? Money hasnt gone out but i am sure I made it about 21.10
Will go again if its necessary!
It"s gone through Michael. The funds are reserved until closer to the event.
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Everyone who has put a successful transaction through to this point has a seat, the event is still on sale.
David, I am allocating you a seat as I said I would beyond 9.30pm. I will sort out payment details with you separately.
Can You do me a favour and check my seat please? Money hasnt gone out but i am sure I made it about 21.10
Will go again if its necessary!
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It"s gone through Michael. The funds are reserved until closer to the event.
Thanks!
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Thanks a lot Des,
Go easy Matey and don"t wear your hobnails :o
;)
(http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~chamberl/pictures/2002/italy/boot.jpg)
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that"s a pain in the **** that no one from ireland can buy a seat but it looks like i got a seat thanks guys
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that"s a pain in the **** that no one from ireland can buy a seat but if i get a seat i"ll be happy.
Consider yourself happy. Being Irish myself, I agree with the sentiment above. It"s certainly not an APAT thing.
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so im in then/ happy days if that is the case
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that"s a pain in the **** that no one from ireland can buy a seat but if i get a seat i"ll be happy.
Consider yourself happy. Being Irish myself, I agree with the sentiment above. It"s certainly not an APAT thing.
Could run qualifying events in Ireland??? (Reserve some seats)???
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^^^^^ what daviebhoy said ^^^^^^^
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des your the man i can sleep easy now :P
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that"s a pain in the **** that no one from ireland can buy a seat but if i get a seat i"ll be happy.
Consider yourself happy. Being Irish myself, I agree with the sentiment above. It"s certainly not an APAT thing.
Could run qualifying events in Ireland??? (Reserve some seats)???
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Last season we ran live qualifying rounds for every National event at 14 different casinos. Happy days.... unfortunately some of them ran off like live versions of this evening"s clickfest.
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I AM DEFINITELY F*****g HAPPY
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Spud - pm sent to your inbox
Pempi - pm sent to your inbox
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Thanks a lot Des,
Go easy Matey and don"t wear your hobnails :o
;)
(http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~chamberl/pictures/2002/italy/boot.jpg)
love it no stamping lol sound like max got in then woop woop cheers des for info
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Thanks a lot Des,
Go easy Matey and don"t wear your hobnails :o
;)
(http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~chamberl/pictures/2002/italy/boot.jpg)
love it no stamping lol sound like max got in then woop woop cheers des for info
Max definitely in.
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that"s a pain in the **** that no one from ireland can buy a seat but if i get a seat i"ll be happy.
Consider yourself happy. Being Irish myself, I agree with the sentiment above. It"s certainly not an APAT thing.
Could run qualifying events in Ireland??? (Reserve some seats)???
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Last season we ran live qualifying rounds for every National event at 14 different casinos. Happy days.... unfortunately some of them ran off like live versions of this evening"s clickfest.
Oh - I see - was not aware.
Maybe run a smaller amount of qualifiers and revolve them around the country?
I am aware no perfect system.
It looks like I will get a seat - but gut feel is that people should qualify and not clickfest.
A few thoughts - for Sat"s people close to qualifying get right to buy (say the final table?)
More $20 entry sat"s - or do Blue Square veto this?
Also for the Irish players - if they cannot clickfest a special case for a live qualifier.
I look forward to thoughts.
L
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Am I in Des?
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Hi Des,
Can u confirm if i got a seat.
ps if he is playing can i get position on Neil Blatchly this time ;D ;D ;D
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bejeesus, the kids must have eaten the left boot.
"n they just had a mcD"s ;D
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Past 11pm but possibly maybe hopeful, i run so bad theres no chance is there.....
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you could also do a direct buy-in thru blue-sq
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hi des,
is gary phillips in?
cheers
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Stan, Davie and Ross - all in.
Don"t see Gary Phillps on list.
The event is still on sale as the masses have gone off to watch Big Brother :D and I can"t blame them after an hour of clicking.
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Des - assuming from the timings that my very late clickfest got through...
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Spud - pm sent to your inbox
Pempi - pm sent to your inbox
does that include steve murray i paid for him on my card
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Des - assuming from the timings that my very late clickfest got through...
lets hope not to improve my chances of winning :P
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cheers Des see you at the maybury
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Spud - pm sent to your inbox
Pempi - pm sent to your inbox
does that include steve murray i paid for him on my card
thanks Des got your pm
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maybe you could use BlueSQ to take the payment?
Set up a holding tourney (like they do on other sites for WSOP qualifiers) open reg up at 9, put the max number of seats in and then watch it fill.
Then ask BlueSQ to kindly pay the money over to Des (maybe Des could agree that with them as part of the sponsorship deal)
Then if people want to drop out they just unregister, until the money has gone out. then revert to seat exchange.
What do people think of that?
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maybe you could use BlueSQ to take the payment?
Set up a holding tourney (like they do on other sites for WSOP qualifiers) open reg up at 9, put the max number of seats in and then watch it fill.
Then ask BlueSQ to kindly pay the money over to Des (maybe Des could agree that with them as part of the sponsorship deal)
Then if people want to drop out they just unregister, until the money has gone out. then revert to seat exchange.
What do people think of that?
This is already under consideration and was close to being adopted for this event. Will revist that before the buy in to the English Amateur Championship in September, as all of the World events are sold out.
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Just got through and paid - Neil Mcclory - got a seat?
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maybe you could use BlueSQ to take the payment?
Set up a holding tourney (like they do on other sites for WSOP qualifiers) open reg up at 9, put the max number of seats in and then watch it fill.
Then ask BlueSQ to kindly pay the money over to Des (maybe Des could agree that with them as part of the sponsorship deal)
Then if people want to drop out they just unregister, until the money has gone out. then revert to seat exchange.
What do people think of that?
This is already under consideration and was close to being adopted for this event. Will revist that before the buy in to the English Amateur Championship in September, as all of the World events are sold out.
always ahead of the game Des 8)
btw ahem article ahem ;)
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maybe you could use BlueSQ to take the payment?
Set up a holding tourney (like they do on other sites for WSOP qualifiers) open reg up at 9, put the max number of seats in and then watch it fill.
Then ask BlueSQ to kindly pay the money over to Des (maybe Des could agree that with them as part of the sponsorship deal)
Then if people want to drop out they just unregister, until the money has gone out. then revert to seat exchange.
What do people think of that?
This is already under consideration and was close to being adopted for this event. Will revist that before the buy in to the English Amateur Championship in September, as all of the World events are sold out.
always ahead of the game Des 8)
btw ahem article ahem ;)
will be looking at that this weekend James...looking good though!
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maybe you could use BlueSQ to take the payment?
Set up a holding tourney (like they do on other sites for WSOP qualifiers) open reg up at 9, put the max number of seats in and then watch it fill.
Then ask BlueSQ to kindly pay the money over to Des (maybe Des could agree that with them as part of the sponsorship deal)
Then if people want to drop out they just unregister, until the money has gone out. then revert to seat exchange.
What do people think of that?
This was the first APAT live event I tried to get into - last night I transferred money to Blue Square because I assumed that"s how we would register "til i spoke to Mary for confirmation - makes much more sense to do it through a poker site, IMHO.
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Just got through and paid - Neil Mcclory - got a seat?
Yep, all good Neil.
Off to say hello to my wife now (ran in the door from work and haven"t seen her since). Updates on the list tomorrow night. Apols again for any inconvenience caused tonight everyone.
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Thanks and thanks for all the hard work tonight.
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... aye ... great work ... well played.
Louis
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hello ladies and gents,
keeping my fingers crossed i managed to make the cut, and would like to wish everyone who did, all the best in the burgh, could someone tell me when the list of players will be posted or if i made it in??
cheers Gareth (McNeill)
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Steven MacIver - am I in??!!
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Des I think I have PM"d you a couple of times re the clickfest, did you get them? If not can you PM me.
Cheers
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Any idea when a player list will be put up? I"m hoping I got lucky in the clickfest at 22:45
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Anyone know when the player list is going to pop up and where ???
thanks
:as: kh
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maybe you could use BlueSQ to take the payment?
Set up a holding tourney (like they do on other sites for WSOP qualifiers) open reg up at 9, put the max number of seats in and then watch it fill.
Then ask BlueSQ to kindly pay the money over to Des (maybe Des could agree that with them as part of the sponsorship deal)
Then if people want to drop out they just unregister, until the money has gone out. then revert to seat exchange.
What do people think of that?
This is already under consideration and was close to being adopted for this event. Will revist that before the buy in to the English Amateur Championship in September, as all of the World events are sold out.
Aren"t there a bunch of people who have problems connecting to iPoker?
AOL was one of the ISP"s talked about IIRC, would this mean that people with AOL would get frozen out of the registration process?
Also it would require everyone to have a Blue Square account and to have the money transferred to it.
If someone doesn"t want to play on Blue Square it isn"t too hard to just open one up as a means to an end.
But if someone opens a Blue Square account, loads up the £75 to pay for registration but then is too slow and misses out on a seat - will they be able to just cash straight out their £75 and would it cost them anything to do so?
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Just got through and paid - Neil Mcclory - got a seat?
Yep, all good Neil.
Off to say hello to my wife now (ran in the door from work and haven"t seen her since). Updates on the list tomorrow night. Apols again for any inconvenience caused tonight everyone.
Updates will be as advised above guys, so later this evening.
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Just got through and paid - Neil Mcclory - got a seat?
Yep, all good Neil.
Off to say hello to my wife now (ran in the door from work and haven"t seen her since). Updates on the list tomorrow night. Apols again for any inconvenience caused tonight everyone.
Do you have a location / url for where the list will be? Its a bit of a haystack on here sometimes
ta
Updates will be as advised above guys, so later this evening.
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stupid question....but the link is still on the homepage...does that mean there r still seats available??
cheers
Yep, all good Neil.
Off to say hello to my wife now (ran in the door from work and haven"t seen her since). Updates on the list tomorrow night. Apols again for any inconvenience caused tonight everyone.
Updates will be as advised above guys, so later this evening.
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This was my first experiance of the "clickfest" and i have to admit i was not impressed. Like others have mentioned before there has to be a better structure. A structure which would give us all a fair chance of getting in. 8)
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You may not be impressed, however it was the same for everyone. Fair as in everybody had the same chance and also still do as seats are still up for sale. :)
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stupid question....but the link is still on the homepage...does that mean there r still seats available??
cheers
Yep, all good Neil.
Off to say hello to my wife now (ran in the door from work and haven"t seen her since). Updates on the list tomorrow night. Apols again for any inconvenience caused tonight everyone.
Updates will be as advised above guys, so later this evening.
If the link is still live, then there is the possibility that tickets are still available.
Des will confirm numbers this evening, and seats are allocated on a first come, first served basis, so if you want a seat, click through, payment is only ever authorised at that point, so nothing to lose.
Leigh
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This was my first experiance of the "clickfest" and i have to admit i was not impressed. Like others have mentioned before there has to be a better structure. A structure which would give us all a fair chance of getting in. 8)
Technology is not always our friend, but lessons have been learnt from this one.
It"s tough to test what the website will do when a couple of hundred people constantly clicked refresh from 8:55pm.
Everyone is treated in the same, fair, way and the seats are allocated in the order that they are processed through the system.
Apologies again for last nights delays, but this is one extreme, and if you make it through to play an APAT weekend, I am sure you will appreciate the exact opposite and see what APAT is all about.
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Hello all I got me seat to the pre-auth how long does full confirmation usually take.
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Hello all I got me seat to the pre-auth how long does full confirmation usually take.
Des will post a confirmed player list, hopefully tonight.
The actual payment should be taken in the next few weeks.
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cheers
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hi
I have just processed my payment for me Mike Rainsford & Steve Murray could anyone confirm we are in please
thanks
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hi
I have just processed my payment for me Mike Rainsford & Steve Murray could anyone confirm we are in please
thanks
Hi Mike,
Des will confirm a player list this evening once he finishes his paid work for the day. ;D
Hope to see you in Edinburgh.
Leigh
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Same goes here leigh..... now i really am praying as i just booked flights :) :)
thanks
Hi Mike,
Des will confirm a player list this evening once he finishes his paid work for the day. ;D
Hope to see you in Edinburgh.
Leigh
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Hi - friend of mine is hoping to play his first APAT, so hoping we both made it. Could you confirm if we"re both in - J Murray / P Ivey. Thanks
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I don"t know if you are in John.. but Mr P Ivey is playing the £5 rebuy on the Friday night at the Maybury, he must be going!!! ;D ;D :D
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I don"t actually think having the seat sale on Blue Square would be a good idea. As has been mentioned already - a lot of people have had problems with Blue Square at points - where as up until the last two clickfests nobody has really had much bother with them. Maybe it is as someone mentioned earlier, something to do with the new homepage, and the link should be posted on the forum rather than the homepage which has a million pictures etc to load. I think clickfest direct from APAT site is definitely more fair than one from Blue Square as clickfest really is fastest fingers first where as on Blue Square I think it might be down to who has better internet connection.
Either way - I hope to see you all in Edinburgh.
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Hi - friend of mine is hoping to play his first APAT, so hoping we both made it. Could you confirm if we"re both in - J Murray / Soren Lorensen. Thanks
FYI.
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Hi - friend of mine is hoping to play his first APAT, so hoping we both made it. Could you confirm if we"re both in - J Murray / Soren Lorensen. Thanks
FYI.
Had to look that one up. Didn"t know you read Ladybird books.
Or did you mean: http://www.myspace.com/mini_mosher#
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This was my first experiance of the "clickfest" and i have to admit i was not impressed. Like others have mentioned before there has to be a better structure. A structure which would give us all a fair chance of getting in. 8)
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It"s tough to test what the website will do when a couple of hundred people constantly clicked refresh from 8:55pm.
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...it"s not really...it"s pretty easy to test and the developer should be testing for just exactly that, bit shabby imo....NB that"s not directed at apat as i"m guessing you didn"t develop it inhouse...just think your supplier owes you a bit of a refund there if that"s the line they"re feeding you...
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hello
could I enquire if the list for Edinburgh is going up tonight,
cheers
Mike :)
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hello
could I enquire if the list for Edinburgh is going up tonight,
cheers
Mike :)
Yes you can.
;)
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How can we get a list when there are still seats for sale.
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is it a sell out or can i still buy a seat? 6s 6s 6s :-\
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Click the link on the Home page.
And your details and take yer chance
I believe there are still seats.
You have nothing to lose
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is des kicking about? really wanting to know if i got that seat ???
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Hi guys, there are still seats available so no need for a list at this point. If you have purchased one, you have it :)
When all of the seats are gone we will finalise the player list and publish it.
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Yippee
;D
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WOW
didnt realise that it wasnt sold out yet
went to the main page and bought a seat no problem
yippee
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I was surpised also that still some seats left. Have now decided I want to enter. I have just tried to pay but came back secure environment check failed. And now stopped me because of repeated failed attempts. Des are there still seats left - Am I in please ?
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do we get a confirmation e mail at some point
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do we get a confirmation e mail at some point
You should get your payment confirmation email with the pre-authorised payment confirmation.
Des will post a player list once all seats are sold.
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While i do appreciate that it is the same for everyone i have to say that it felt like a ryanair flight rather than an organised one. I would be more in favour of a ballot system where you got the chance to register then apat carried out a ballot after a cut off date. Thus meaning your name was in no matter how good a pc/laptop you had or how many. It would seem this time most people on the night got seats but it was a horrible feeling when my page would not refresh for an hour. It would seem apat are looking at this seriously and i hope they come to a satisfactory outcome.
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While i do appreciate that it is the same for everyone i have to say that it felt like a ryanair flight rather than an organised one. I would be more in favour of a ballot system where you got the chance to register then apat carried out a ballot after a cut off date. Thus meaning your name was in no matter how good a pc/laptop you had or how many. It would seem this time most people on the night got seats but it was a horrible feeling when my page would not refresh for an hour. It would seem apat are looking at this seriously and i hope they come to a satisfactory outcome.
no one could get on till 10 unless u were REALLY lucky mate
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presume this has now sold out?
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Well ... the Buy Seat link is still on the Homepage at www.apat.com
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You can still get seats and the Marriott hotel is still offer 2for 1 on bookings.
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is des about just for an idea of numbers?
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The event has sold out and we"ll publish the player list later this evening.
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The event has sold out and we"ll publish the player list later this evening.
Nice 1! :D
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While i do appreciate that it is the same for everyone i have to say that it felt like a ryanair flight rather than an organised one. I would be more in favour of a ballot system where you got the chance to register then apat carried out a ballot after a cut off date. Thus meaning your name was in no matter how good a pc/laptop you had or how many. It would seem this time most people on the night got seats but it was a horrible feeling when my page would not refresh for an hour. It would seem apat are looking at this seriously and i hope they come to a satisfactory outcome.
They tried a ballot for the first couple of events and tbh nodody liked it and APAT got lambasted for using the method at the time. Unfortunately, no system is perfect, but that said I think the current system is the best. Just for the record, every time I have attempted to buy in via clickfest over the last 2 years I have been successful, and I live in the sticks with a very poor broadband speed, so if Ican get in I think most other, who want to, can too.