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And maybe remove the rebuy button so we can save ourself one click for each rebuy?

(like FTP has the rebuy button not in some menu but it is direct on the table)

This would be awesome!
First place of about 1k would attract many players.

Its been disappointing that 180's above the $15's have never increased much in popularity over the years and maybe even declined. It feels like 180's have become a little stale compared to new formats such as zoom and hyper turbos where the action is faster and games start near straight away and so 180's have lost recreational players to them. I think the volume for higher bi 180's would be a lot higher with an on demand format and would even allow a higher bi rebuy like $8.8+r to be possible.

Most formats have low/mid/high stakes with decent volume at all levels but for 180's the higher stakes have never developed as much as they should and thats probably because the current registering system doesn't work for higher bi 180's, especially today when people want to play instantly. Its not that the player pool isn't there to support a much higher volume of $35 or a $8.8+r but that the regging system is outdated. Also promotions and/or a leaderboard would help.

just a thought, but what about changing the $35s to $27s (ie. in-line with the steps system)

Hello all,
This Q&A is long overdue, and I apologize for that. The end of the year is the busiest time for us here and our team has also been a bit short handed, so it has been difficult to get time for everything that needed doing.

Anyway, I hope this answers will shed some light on the issues that are important to you and that we can keep the communication going in the future.

I will not answer any questions regarding promotions specifically. We are still weighing all our options, but at this time, no decisions have been made.

We will make this change as suggested for the 180man’s from early January. We will start with a single buy-in of 180s and continue through the rest if feedback is positive.

We don't have the technical ability to deploy on-demand right now but we are considering them for the future. If we were to deploy on-demand, it would likely be done such that there would be caps on entrants per tournament.

Finally, I would like for your opinion. There has been some requests for using the final table layout in the 18 player tournaments. What do you think about this suggestion? Should all multi-table tournaments use the final table layout?

For sure, cant see a reason why anyone would be against it.

Great that you test the blind level changes. Now just get us a BOP-leaderboard or something similar.

awesome! i would personally love if 7k blind level remains

IMO no, I think it will cause confusion to those who mix formats.

18 man do not require as much attention from the beginning of the final table like 45 and 180 man do, so I like the "attention grabbing" final table layout when it pops from the stack of tables.

If I have 4-5 more layouts like that at any given time on the stack of tables, it will nullify that effect.

I suppose being able to toggle it on/off from the options is the best choice.

This is GREAT news. +1 to leaving 7k level in too!

yaaay, but ye leaving the 7k level would be better imo

This

and it also would be nice if you made it possible to have different backgrounds in different types of sngs, like it's now possible to have a different background for cash/sng/mtt

a lot of players mix for example:
- 45s + 180s + mtt
- 18s + stt
etc etc

I think it would definitely be a big + if we could apply different backgrounds for different types of sngs

A+ idea imo
it would make mixing SnGs with MTTs alot easier when multitabling.

MTTs (red background)
180s (blue)
45s (green)
etc.

obv the option has to be activated manually
most players just want to the standard themes i'd imagine.

+1

Yes this

+1. they're needed in 3max/hu

exactly why i would love them to stay cuz if they go with removing 7k blind level than introducing 2.5k was not needed as we loose very important blind level in 3 handed or hu where it is much much needed

absolutely agree
I would like everything remained as now

I like the original idea of adding BB2500 and removing BB7000, no reason to increase the avg duration of the tourneys.

we discussed that earlier, it really doesnt effect avg duration of it if you really think about it cuz it basically adds 5 minutes on WHOLE tournament, and it would add on avg what like 1min max? would you really drop that edge that you could get by adding new level cuz of 1min? if that could be the problem i would really love to remove 10/20 level than 7k one for so many better reasons

Perfect... glad this has finally been looked at. A 150% increase in blinds at that stage in a tournament is waaay too steep.

If an addition of a level needs to be accompanied by the removal of a level, the suggested change keeps the increases consistent and the 2.5k level seems far more important than the 7k level IMO. But if both can be in, beautiful.

That does make sense, but still (especially if you play high volume) you will still take a penalty in your hourly. It probably gets compensated from the edge you get from the extra level but it is hard to quantify this.

I like this idea too!

This and also make an option for stakes please.
For instance, I'd like to focus a little more on my $35/180s and a little less on my $15/180s. Same goes for MTTs ($109s vs $22 etc)

^^ If the different backgrounds thing ever gets implemented, it would be best if we could customise it. Some people want it to use it to differentiate between stakes, some for # of entrants, some for reg speed vs turbo, etc etc.

+1 to colors. I do this quite a lot already, just downloading different colored jpegs and using them as custom backgrounds, but they sometimes cause problems with table ninja and are a pain to set for each seperate table when you're playing a lot of tables.

Also, again, please just add the 2.5k level without losing 7k. As Stefan (I think) pointed out. It'll add literally seconds to average game time as it only makes a difference generally when you're hu un a freeze-out or top 3/4 in a 3r.