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Originally Posted by PokerStars Steve
Players register for tournaments and leave their computer to go grab a drink or do something else. It's important to give them time to come back and play their first hand.
Tournaments that reliably fill quite quickly have no such issues as it's unreasonable to register and walk away from your computer. This is the criterion that was used to determine whether or not to have the extra time added: how frequently the sit&gos start.
No tournaments with 45+ players were altered to start more quickly at this time. We'll consider making some more changes in the future based on player feedback.
Okayyyy, but, well, turbo 180s at peak time, with the exception of 35s, are going off every two or three minutes. If someone registers when there are already 165 people in it, then bimbles off to the kitchen to make themselves a brew, then quite frankly they're a muppet if they get back to find it has already started without them.
For the smaller stakes 45mans, they go off even faster, every minute or so, and I'd say it's pretty unreasonable to complain about missing hands, if you go AFK after regging one of those.
If you made it time sensitive, ie faster at peak time, for turbo 180s at $15 and lower (not the 3.50 rebuy), and also for 45mans at $7 and lower, then that would be pretty awesome. Then switch it back to the current delay at off-peak, when people can more reasonable be expected to wander AFK while waiting for it to fill.
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