Hey Marc - have you come out to play one of the PM tourneys? They are relatively fast, but plenty of people see value in them. We get anywhere from 30-60 players daily for the afternoon tournaments on non-holiday weekdays.
In other news, coming up in June is a kind of mini-festival, the Playground Power Weekend.
It consists of a $300 + $30 Freeze on Friday at noon, a $135 + $15 Mix Max on Saturday at noon, and a $270 + $30 Tag Team event on Sunday at noon.
The last $330 Freeze (in January) attracted over 360 runners and had a prize pool north of $100K. It's hard to imagine we'll hit that kind of number this time, but there is a pent-up demand for bigger one-day tourneys like this so I expect turnout to be pretty strong.
The Mix Max format means that the tournament starts out 10-handed, but when it gets down to 80 remaining it moves to 8 max, and then eventually to 6-max and 4-max. You should draw your own conclusions about the impact of this - but put it this way, as a player with quite a bit of short-handed experience I'm really looking forward to this.
The Tag Team is as usual - players play their own stacks for the first 6 levels, and then each player per two-person team plays a level before alternating with their partner. This is always a super-popular event, and we created a separate Facebook Event for this so people can register their two-person teams.
Here's the Fb event for the whole weekend:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1445682372393774/
and for the Tag Team you can get more info and register your team here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1433040920347698/