I also think Main Event should be 3 day event with Day 1 play for around 10 hours and day 2 until FT is reached.

+1. Reason not to is maybe that is has a huge collusion risk.

Do you mean collusion ? I doubt that is really a problem.

Yes, pretty tempting to have a better player take over when your stack is worth $500k. And that's a lot easier to do when you have a day to prepare.

Well, even if there was no day3 you can always find a guy from your city come to you in under an hour. If you wanted to cheat/collude you will always find a way ( not saying you should! ).

-2

Keep this as re-entry.

4 phase seems too complex IMO. But what about a big 5k qualifier (with lots of round 1 sattys) in which ppl who win it should play the event?

Must play satellites would in general be great for the games, the satellites as well as the target events. If you have a seat/ticket already, you cant grind anymore of the must-play-sats.

I like the must-play rule but i don't get the donotplayanymore. Altough it would be good as a general rule it would affect satellites too much and you would end up with the late sats being half the field.

yeah, must-play is great but if you exclude players who've already won a seat you decimate the player pool for the sats

Yeah must play would almost certainly lead to much smaller prizepools

must play satellites already exist. They are called deadline satellite. Either someone want to play the target event after satellite win or not. No need to make things worse for most players (cannot decide anymore, lower satellite entrants).

Why would you expect that the guarantee would double? Adding re-entry to a particular tournament doesn't generally have that kind of effect on the overall pool.

We will likely run the Main Event (and other tournaments) as a 3-day tournament in the future, however it's not properly supported in the client at the moment, and we don't want to run large 3-day tournaments manually if there is no overwhelming need to do so. There isn't in this case, so we've chosen to run this year's WCOOP Main Event as a 2-day tournament.

The overall opinion on must-play satellites seems to be changing, with more players than ever posting that most or all satellite seats won should be played, with this requirement enforced by the system. I doubt that we will make cash satellites must-play at any point in the near future (in fact, I'm pretty much certain that we won't), but I'm very interested in further opinions and comments on this issue.

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback, everyone... it's much appreciated!

Still allow all sats to be unregged but dont allow players to sell tourney $ so it makes sure they have to spend the dollars in other games instead of just selling their $ and withdrawing.
Good for the games

Please bring back extreme sats. Instead of all the giveaway promotions under the form of all-in tourneys that you keep offering, take that money and put it as added seats in the extremes. And the tickets won should be must-play, as they were before.

I'm curious to see what others think of this, personally I've had enough of those all-in freeroll offers and they don't encourage me to play anymore. Extreme sats, on the other hand, were offering a much better chance of getting a more expensive ticket for a smaller buy-in, and I's definitely take a shot in most of those sats, if they were held.

One time !!!

Again I think this would decrease the popularity of satellites markedly.

why?

there's a definite subset of players who grind sats for T$ but have little/no interest in playing the targets. Taking them out of the player pool would presumably not be a positive for the liquidity of the satelites, though it's arguable that this would be offset by the benefit to the MTT pools.

However it'd definitely suck for ring game grinders if they lost the ability to sell T$, as sats are a popular way of converting FPPs

Because people that play them for money will stop playing them. You may argue that this does not matter and those people were not using the $T in a productive way so that is no loss. This may be correct but in many cases (regular mtts in particular) if you remove some players, the guarantee falls, less people are attracted and so on and so on.

what about addressing the overwhelming amount of requests for more/bigger PLO tourneys?

+1

Damn, SCOOP replays are already gone from the client. Last year they were available atleast until the end of July.

Anyone know anyone who happened to record majority of these? (Interested in the high ones of events 1, 2, 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 34, 40, 41, 43 and 44)

Seems like a LOT of KO and SKO. I would really appreciate more of the tournaments (of all game types) to be "normal"

Hey Bryan can you roughly say when you'll publish the final schedule?

And when will the sattelites start running, too. And hopefully the extreme sats..?