Can we have late registration work properly ?

Many complain about the inability to register near the end, but often there are times late registration will last an entire level longer than it is supposed to.

I have already raised this last week due to several users bringing it up on here
The team are looking in to the issue and looking at what can be done to resolve
I have provided some detailed examples for the team to review

Thanks

Colette

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Colette

Hi all

Any recent feedback for the team and I ?

The team have worked on the late registration issue and I believe this has been improved over the last week

Thanks

Colette

Any plans to address the payout structure of your MTTs or are you happy with the current ones? Do Party claim that players prefer the flat payout structure?

I posted this pic a while back in the main thread but didn't really get much feedback from anyone. As an MTT donk, I really dislike the very small mincash amount, paying so high % of the field, low 1st prize and difference between 1st and 2nd prizes which is the reason I play my tournaments on other sites at the moment.

I like the flat payout structure and in most tournaments it pays 2x buyin mincash and pays about 20% of the field. Obviously in that picture it's bad because it pays one third of players and mincash is just the starting buyin but that's a specific problem of very small field payouts. That one should pay 6 players, no need to pay 9.

Their tournaments that pay a small percentage of the field with small mincashes and top heavy payouts I think are bad. Obviously that's just a matter of personal opinion but I don't like them. I feel like there's so much luck involved in making it to the top 3 and a lot of the time I play for like 5 hours and get paid 2x buyins because I did not final table which is a huge turnoff. That's why I especially avoid top heavy payouts with 15 minutes blinds. At least in turbos if you get a disappointing result you didn't waste 5 hours for that.

Any thoughts on moving the 200 and 500 sunday games an hour or two earlier, seen as most of the playerpool for these are probably on GMT/CET, and the Russians are 3 hrs ahead?

Doesn't really adversely affect South America or Canada as it will still be in the middle of the day for them. Im sure a load of regs/recs skip them because they dont want to start/finish so late.

Agree with fivetypes. About paying out 9 with 30 players entered, I've seen that before late reg is over but I dont think it ever stays like that? Usually around 60 people enter and then 9 get paid, which is still a lot but acceptable.

I've been suggesting this for years in relation to all the majors. Seems like a no-brainer to me but others disagree...

I think 13 gets paid when it's 60 people (at least with 65 it is, not sure when it switches)

The $20 7Stud MTT with $200 Gtd is not being scheduled on Saturday. It always met the guarantee so that can't be the reason for the removal. I think it may have been a mistake as it happened with other tournaments in the past.

Colette, can you check if that was a conscious decision or a mistake?

fire the entire tech team and start over again. Guaranteed to be worth it, even if you hire people on the street at random.

"Daily major" 50r 20k gtd should be running daily. I'm sure many people would consider opening your client everyday if you have it there.

Still skipping the 200 major on most Sundays as I know it is going to go on too late. I don't want to be playing that one when it hasn't even reached the money when the rest of my schedule is basically over. Move it earlier, make it two day or make the structure a little bit faster.

Put the 50r in every weekday like it used to be. I really don't see any downside to this.

I don't play on Saturdays much but when I do play I open your client and don't see anything I really want to play, a signature Saturday tournament. Most of the tournaments are versions of weekday tournaments with guarantees a bit smaller. Wish there was something good to play, or maybe I didn't see it? This Saturday I think I didn't play any MTTs on party.

Hi all – some feedback from the team and I below.

Any plans to address the payout structure of your MTTs or are you happy with the current ones? Do Party claim that players prefer the flat payout structure?

Due to recent feedback from various sources we are reviewing the current payout strcuture with the aim to optimize

Any thoughts on moving the 200 and 500 sunday games an hour or two earlier, seen as most of the playerpool for these are probably on GMT/CET, and the Russians are 3 hrs ahead?

At the moment we have no plans to change our Sunday offering. We recently reviewed feedback and the majority are happy with our current times

The $20 7Stud MTT with $200 Gtd is not being scheduled on Saturday. It always met the guarantee so that can't be the reason for the removal. I think it may have been a mistake as it happened with other tournaments in the past.

This recently changed to the $10 $200 Gtd FL 7 Stud and is still scheduled on Sat with only the buy-in decreasing.

As stated previously we have no plans to reinstate the 50r daily - we will again review our current schedule once the summer season concludes.

Thanks,

Colette

Who did you ask? Makes no sense to me that it wouldnt be popular to start them earlier given the playerpool.

+1

Does your feedback review cover the players who don't play the tournaments but would if they were at a more sensible time for Western Europe (let alone Eastern Europe)?

Those are two different tournaments. The $10 $200 Gtd is scheduled Mon-Sat. The $20 $200 Gtd is currently scheduled Mon-Fri, it makes no sense to not have it on Saturday.

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I will of course keep you all up to date when possible and will share any news here first hand as soon as I am able.
Should you have any strong concerns, as always don't hesitate to PM myself.

Thanks!

Colette

We reviewed feedback via this forum and a player survey sent out.
The team will again review start times when they look at the new season schedule however for now there will be no change.


Sorry Lotus my mistake. I understand now, thanks for the feedback, I will look into this again with the PRM team and feedback

Colette

Meh I mean, just think about the vast majority of the player pool. Its obvious it will fit into more peoples schedules if it finished earlier.

I never got that survey btw and play them a lot (not 100% like I would if they finished earlier). Who in this thread wanted them staying where they are? Also highly doubt its more than a very small but vocal minority.

I didn't see any player survey either. Who was it sent to, Colette? If just those who regularly play those tournaments then it's kind of missing the point.

The survey went out via email to real money/active players and we had an pop up targeting players who play the tournaments. Maybe we did not target the right player group as you say - feedback noted. Looks like we need to request a follow up survey before the next schedule is confirmed post summer season.

Thanks for the response.

Not sure when you sent this survey out but I've checked my records and I don't seem to have received a single email from Party since an exchange with the CS team in January. Admittedly I've not been playing much since the "loyalty" scheme changed for the worse (I appreciate that may be unclear; I mean the first of this year's changes) but I am an active player for account purposes. And given Stars gets most of my rake at the moment, your beancounters might want to understand what would switch that around.

heyho, im back.

While still in the summer shed, i still think that the highroller should be switched.
The Sunday 500$ tourney has overlay pretty much every week or is at least "rakefree"
not too many rec players are playing it, thats why i suggest to change the sun500 into a 1k 1RE with 100k grt. I would think that the 150 regs which are playing the 500one are gonna play the 1k on a sunday too.
1k on a monday is still a bad spot for it

Cliff:
-> Sunday500 CHANGE into 1k Sun 100k grt 1RE
-> Cancel Monday Highroller
-> Introduce Tuesday 500$ with like 30-40k grt (other sites are running big games on tuesdays too, so the regs are gonna play it)
-> We-Sat 200-350$ HighrollerMTT with 10-25k grt

SundayMajor could easily run an hour earlier. I would guess most player start on sunday latest 1h before the sun200 is now. So it would be perfect for pretty much everybody to start the 200+500 (or 1k) one hour ealier. Canadians, Brazilians and Mexicans are playing anways and can still latereg if they want to start later. For Europeans would be one hour earlier much appreciated.