Clearly all of the problems with Stars in the past 2+ years have stemmed from them eliciting feedback from players, so kudos to them for going on communication lockdown.
+Everything to people criticizing the HORSE Phase event.
Also, I'm pretty sure the HORSE Phase internal discussion went something like this:
"Holy **** that's a great idea!!! That way we won't have to run any standalone FL HE, FL O8, FL Razz, FL Stud, or FL Stud/8 tournaments, we can just say to players looking for those events 'Hey, there's multiple PHASE 1's just waiting for you to enter for the game(s) of your choice!!! What's that? You want a standard freezeout based entirely in your game of choice? LOL, you probably won't make Day 2 anyway, so it's the same thing!!!' "