Rest of World as in non-US.

Phil thinks he knows what's best for everyone.

not only euros.... I grinder starts firing up at 13 pm european time with the sunday kick off...who the **** is going to register in a major at 11/12 pm?

This CEO "looks" so dumb that makes you question if the goal is really to make this work...

So so true all this. Obvs its not TD´s fault but he is surround by all kind of idiots and incompetent people...

So out of all of the responses so far 11 people don't like the change and 1 does.

Question for Winning_TD, what makes you think 5 PM EST is a better start time than 1-3 PM EST? Can you at least share your logic here? Why aren't you guys heavily targeting the European market for this? I'd think the Euro's would love to play with the Americans considering most of us are years behind their standard of play.

We're only being critical because we want this to succeed. I'd love to see this happen on at least a monthly basis and 200K overlay isn't going allow that to happen.

Also, I assume this has A LOT to do with wanting more time for sattys to pop off during the Sunday grind. Why wouldn't you run the biggest sattys the day before? You want people to grind 3 hours in a satty before a 13+ hour long tournament?

TD is just informing, was not his decision. This is the CEO who one day wake´s up and decides 5pm its ok,,,no logic behind his decision.

The logic seems pretty simple to me. That is maybe if you move the tourney back it give some people some more time to satellite in. It could shut out a few grinders in a few times zones cause maybe they will be exhausted from the Sunday grind on the ROW sites but.......this isn't a 33 dollar 10k, this is a tourney with a big buyin, re entry and overlay. I would think it would be worth a lot of peoples time to stay up late if they build a good stack.

I'm not saying this idea is gonna work or help much with the overlay but with three more millions coming up, its probably not the worst thing in the world to try something out. If the tourney gets more overlay its will likely be a product of people having already took their shots on earlier millions rather than the threat of someone staying up late to play deep in a tourney.

The logic is or the thoughts behind it is. Peak time traffic starts after late reg ends at 3. We do have the numbers to back this up. I have my own thoughts on the decision but its quite irrelevant.

Also yes we can fit in more sats before hand also.

Listen, as clutch said and i say, if you go deep your not really to concerned it being 6 - 11am etc. Its not ideal but im sure the players that get there are going to be pretty happy.

Last point, if it doesnt work and we overlay more, less of a field for the players to battle through, we are not going out of business. We are trying things to make this work so the MDS can be regular tournament

If you want it to be a regular MTT, you need ROW support so you need to take their schedules/time zone into consideration.

Really appreciate the response TD. I see your point for sure, I just don't think the US market alone (at least on your site) can support this big of a tournament. I hope I'm wrong.

If it doesn't help much is trying a 1 PM EST start an option? I think if you advertised heavily to the Euro market you'd get where you want to go. Are you guys active on the Blonde poker forum at all?

ofc all of us are gonna be happy. but the question is can we still play around that timing. heck i dont care if the milly runs throughout the weekend, but most of us have school/work on monday.

Yeah try something is better than try nothing, but this something I don't expect to help, personally.

I'm not sure how valuable peak time #'s are towards the MDS effort. What % of your peak time traffic that is not yet on at 3pmET can afford this tournament and would play it? I would suspect that the majority of play MDS candidates are already on and playing before 5pmET (or 10pm ET lol let's not forget 5 hour late reg). So while your traffic undoubtedly goes up from 3 to 5pm you are probably not getting much increase in $540 MTT traffic. And those as is could late reg 2 hours in and still have a very playable stack with lots of time to work, i.e. they are likely already playing anyway.

It is not a matter of being happy of going deep and not worrying about what time it is. It is a matter of people looking at the start time, estimating how long the tourney might take IF they go deep and potentially not regging. Personally I think most people would be turned off by this start time but I hope I am wrong.

Well put

The start at 1 PM ET would be great for ROW, but taking the American peak consideration into account, the old starting time (3 PM) looks like a reasonable compromise.

Casual players still need to get some sleep before work if they run semi-deep (a win of several K is not life-changing). So the start shouldn't really be later than 3 PM.

exactly so this

What irritates me is, I was already IN the tournament, and they changed the start time.

It's one thing to say, future tournaments will be at 5 instead of 3.

Changing tournaments after people have started registering already is not cool. You're changing the terms after the sale.

If you were registered before hand and do not wish to play i will happily refund you

I wanted to play and intend to play. That does not change the fact that you still changed the terms AFTER the sale.

Yeh if it's true that it runs 12 hours or so, that wouldn't work for me with my job

Really think a 1-3pm start is ideal

I just got an email blast about the change, in it the email says:

I call BS. Who asked for it? Not the Euros, later is worse for them. Not most Americans as later is more problematic for people with a job on Monday or who are not fully nocturnal. The feedback in this thread has been overwhelmingly negative regarding this change.

i like the change

I like the change aswell... gl to those playing tmrwa..

I hope this encourages less EU grinders to play, that would be awesome.

Yep, only positive thing coming out of moving the milly back