This thread can be used for APAT members and management to discuss potential developments ahead of the finalisation of Season Four. If there is something you would like to see in the new season, please make your suggestions here.
I haven"t re-read all 46 pages but I don"t believe I saw any APAT members request a Pro series, nor any APAT management person throw it in for discussion.
APAT has a product - the £75, 2-day, deepstack amatuer tournament - for which, right from Season 1, Day 1, demand has way outstripped supply.
What I do see mentioned many times are suggestions for ways of increasing available seats at each event.
I have read Rich"s "Bigger Picture" response on a couple of threads, but I"m afraid it makes no sense to me. If you were in the business of manufacturing the ever popular "Widget", that no home can be without, and you are struggling to meet all you orders... would you then take 25% of your workforce off of widget production so that they could make the new "Doodahs" for which you have only had a couple of tentative enquiries and no firm orders... I think not!
Whilst I congratulate all at APAT for everything else that they have delivered for Season 4 and thank them for all the hard work they do on our behalf, I believe this pro series is a mistake and had it been put forward as a suggestion on this thread, pointing out that it will take 25% - 30% of the seats from all but the DTD event, that it would have received very little support.