Sats.

HAYSIE

I dont know if it would be possible, or even if it is a good idea.

Before I start there is an argument against what I am about to say, which is you could get the cash anyway, but the argument against that is, ok well why have sats in the first place.

I can only speak for myself but I usually play sats for the £110 tourneys, and just enter the lower priced ones.

This morning could be considered a miracle as I qualified for the 3pm semi, in the first sat at 10am, and am now thumb twiddling.

If the rest of the day goes according to previous form. I will bust out of the 3pm semi, and start playing £5.20 sats again to try to qualify for the 6pm.

If I bust out of that, I might just enter the late entry semi.

I would like to qualify for the later semis, instead of thumb twiddling, but putting on early sats for the later semis might prove to be confusing

Tickets.

If you qualified for a ticket then you could maybe qualify for all three semis before the fist one started.

If you had qualified for the first semi, you may wish to continue playing sats in order to qualify for the later semis.

If you qualified for the tourney in the first semi, you could use the tickets to qualify for tourneys on other days.

If you got a ticket for qualifying in the semi, you might consider playing all three and using the resulting tickets to play in the Summit on Tuesday, or the Friday game, or both, or maybe use two tickets to play in the online SPT.

So qualification from a £5.20 sat would give you a £24 ticket to be used at any time, and qualifying using the £24 tickets would give you a £110 ticket.

This could be adapted for other sats, where if you qualified for say a £33 main event, you could use it on any day.

Doing this may encourage people to play more sats, when it suits them, with future tourneys in mind.

Assuming the sats were played every day, it would give more time to qualify for the bigger tourneys, and may boost the numbers.

Logically, if you just consider the £110 tourneys, if would give sat players 7 days to qualify for the three tourneys, rather than the current three.

I think that this may give a particular boost to a Friday, as those players that are working have a limited time to qualify because of the 7.30 start.

So going back to today, after qualifying for the first semi, I would have continued to play the sats.

I would have had a choice after qualifying for the tourney, of either playing the other semis to cover an entry for another day, or play a semi on another day.

Even better if a ticket could be used for a re-entry, as £110 to re-enter is painful.

Tikay10

@HAYSIE

That my be possible soon, but the current software can't cope with state of the art stuff like Tournament Tickets.

HAYSIE

Tikay10 said:

@HAYSIE

That my be possible soon, but the current software can't cope with state of the art stuff like Tournament Tickets.

Ok, I dont know anything about state of the art stuff, but I thought there was a tourney ticket at one time.
Perhaps that was for one specific tourney.

weecheez1

If you had already qualified for the semi and won another one you would be paid the cash equivalent that you could use whenever you wanted the same for any of the mains why would you want a ticket when you could have cash

Tikay10

weecheez1 said:

If you had already qualified for the semi and won another one you would be paid the cash equivalent that you could use whenever you wanted the same for any of the mains why would you want a ticket when you could have cash

Because he's difficult, mainly due to his age.

HAYSIE

weecheez1 said:

If you had already qualified for the semi and won another one you would be paid the cash equivalent that you could use whenever you wanted the same for any of the mains why would you want a ticket when you could have cash

There is no point in having this argument, as tickets arent possible anyway, but I do have a goonandonandonandonandonandon reputation to protect, so here goes.

You are putting forward the argument that I suggested in my post, which is if you put that argument forward then why have sats at all.

Why not play a tourney or a sitngo, and use the cash to enter a bigger tourney.

I, like many other players specifically enter sats to gain entry to a bigger tourney at a fraction of the cost.

I am just making the point that giving players more time to qualify for these tourneys by using tickets will surely result in larger numbers of entries, and bigger prize pools.

Everyone is restricted to trying to qualify for the weeks 3 biggest tourneys on the day that they run.

Everyone is restricted in qualifying by the times that the sats run on the day of the tourney.

This is highlighted on a Friday.

There are far more entries on a Sunday, than Friday.

Is this because there is more time available to run far more sats, in which case I rest my case?

I am aware that some players play sats for money, but I dont think this is the majority by any means.

HAYSIE

Tikay10 said:

weecheez1 said:

If you had already qualified for the semi and won another one you would be paid the cash equivalent that you could use whenever you wanted the same for any of the mains why would you want a ticket when you could have cash

Because he's difficult, mainly due to his age.

I think you are going to have to produce your birth certificate at the next SPT.