Hey all,

I'd like to provide some clarification about how we're moving forward and a timeline for the next few months. First of all, I'll be your contact for the Championship Series, the weekly shared liquidity tournament schedule, and shared liquidity tournament promotions going forward. Our interactions here won't change--this thread will be for the weekly schedule and other discussions, while separate threads will be created for the Championship Series. Now, an admittedly rough timeline for the next few months:

• March 1st - SCOOP schedule completed
• March 19th - Sunday Storm 6th Anniversary
• April 2nd - Sunday Million 11th Anniversary
• April 3rd - Tentative date for SCOOP launch
• May 7th-21st - SCOOP 2017

At some point between now and the end of the month, I'll create a thread with an early draft of the SCOOP schedule. This will happen after a group of my colleagues have reviewed the goals, concepts, and a draft of the events.

Last but not least, I want to thank Bryan for his many years of service and wish him luck in all future endeavours.

Cheers,

Luke

Thanks Luke.

Big boots to fill! GL!

Good luck Luke. May the force be with you. Fwiw I think you ll do a good job

you're relentless

It's more like you are relentless and I m a dying breed of optimist who realizes that whining doesn't get anybody anywhere compared to doing constructive criticism with a bit of butt kissing given the relationship Stars has with us. Yes this relationship is nonsense but at some point it's time to accept that the scheinbergs are gone and we still gotta make a living.

And I legit think luke values Bryan's legacy to an extent that we can expect at least maintenance of the series' quality if not improvement

I for one who plays massive volume on stars have noticed a somizeable improvement in the sched since the new sched rolled out last April. What I d actually like to say about my main grind which is euro mornings to afternoons:

I personally would prefer the 44$ pko to be reentry. I m always super sad to bust it and as a pko it generates many many more big pots than a normal fo

I stopped playing sats that aren't deadline cuz their structures really suck. Put some like the regspeeds to the milly and I d happily fire them but the hypers are overraked to a point that they must be net losers for everybody. Make them rakeless or change structure or something

Please turn 6max turbos into either pko 6m turbos or some variety of 6m hyper. Both are in many ways more fun than turbo 6m freezeouts for various reasons

The 162 wtb is dead. Reduce its buyin to 109 and it will most likely get a decent number of more entries. The 55 wtb is a nice little offpeak niche mtt but the 162 is a peaktime lobby clutter.

Make 55 wtb reentry.

I personally heavily dislike the 7th/6th get paid the same in 6max mtts. The net effect is that many more blinds get skipped die to one extra spot being played in hand for hand mode which is really detrimental to the playing experience. Much more so than some stalling that could happen esp since in hypers or turbos there's limited timebanks in those situations. Making the ft without getting a pay jump really hurts.

thanks 4 announcing scoop dates this early luke!
looking forward to the series!

Also appreciate the communication about the anniv milly.

Is there any plans to make Mini-SCOOP?

Scoop has a low level

low is 27$. He (and a forkload of other people) want 2.50+0.20$

4 levels would just be overkill imo - there is always Common Cents or MicroMillions.

SCOOP should remain 3 tiered.

dude you get series every month get the hell out of here

hands of the triple BI-level scoop as is.

you'll have to wait till next MM. you can lobby for that.

def wouldnt mind 2-week MM 4x/year to generate more players for surrounding weekly sched.

sats to the low buy-ins are like a mini scoop, hf.

Yeah let's get the prelim
Sched out ASAP luke

so nothing till may? not even a micromilllions? or just a quick low series

Would be nice if Stars could organize a last longer contest for the upcoming milly and storm anniv on twitter/facebook with prizes like iphone 7 for the first place, mtt tickets and other goodies for 2nd/3rd places. Free advertisement for Stars!

What??? You are crazy. Iphone 7 is like 700-800$ and mtt tickets would also cost several 100$. How can a multi million $ company like stars afford that?? Better keep that money and give it to dnegs.

Replace scoop low with scoop micro with a 11$ max buyin imo. There are too many low-mid stakes series as it is, and as we know ppl are just not interested in those.

WAT?
Which of the lots of low Midstack Series do you mean? WCOOP with mostly 215 to 700$ Buy in?
No interests?
Keep the low as it is. Normal recreational player can afford a 27$ MTT and there is even the chance to win somethings that really changes your account (money for new car etc.).

Who wants to play a 11c Tournament für 12 Hours to get then the money on FT for a good Dinner or ok maybe a short holiday if you win!

I'm assuming he was being sarcastic.

And +1 to all of blakkman's post.

Leave SCOOP as it is please

What an intelligent post - let's go with this!

No one touches SCOOP and I want watches for the winners because this is the year

that will be all

Can we hear an Amen!? 🙏❤️