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Originally Posted by RK_95
Hi David,
I was wondering why there aren't any 'normal' qualifiers for the supernova and the milky way? Those 10-->100 steps are not really attractive to be honest. I would really like a 5-25-100 structure for the supernova and a 2-10-50 for the milky way (or something like that). Maybe you could make it so you can use the €50 ticket either for the Milky Way on Saturday or the Odyssey on Sunday. That way you could combine qualifiers for these tournaments. Just some more normal sats, and not only 2-->25 or 5/10-->100.
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Originally Posted by LektorAJ
I'm personally a big fan of the type of "Moneymaker" satellites where for a relatively small amount you play straight through to the target tournament and I think they support getting a wider variety of player into target tournament. I call them Moneymaker satellites to remind people that they were the foundation the poker boom was built on before sites replaced them with a series of steps.
Let the 5 euro people play each other for a place in the 100 euro tournament, not play each other for the chance to be shark food for the players at the 25 euro level.
I think you're underestimating the player pool LektorAJ
There is a long standing culture of ticket grinding on Unibet and the same thing would happen here. A decent number of the reg low stakes players would just grind the 5's until they had enough tickets to take shots at the 25. You won't just get people playing the 5, winning and then getting crushing in the 25.
The 1 in 10/20 route might work when you can get lots of players to actually play the sats but the majority of them just now just pay out 1-2 tickets to the target and then just a bunch of rebates. I don't think that's a game the majority of the reg sat players are going to waste their time with.
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Originally Posted by RK_95
Also: the Nebula still has the 'old' new structure, with the first 2 levels removed. I thought all tournaments would have the same structure now? And I see the Nebula and Spectrum have new times for next Sunday? 16 CET and 18CET. Since it are very much the same tournaments, maybe you could make one of them a freezeout? That would mean more diversity in the majors. Also 16/17CET for a Sunday major seems really early.
Let's not beat around the bush, they are the same tournament. The level time and starting stack are slightly different but they're the same thing in essence. You don't even start the Spectrum with 100bb, in a Sunday 'major'. The Nebula is a hyper R/A, other than the aggressive GTD, what's major about it? It should be called Apollo 1
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According to the public schedule spreadsheet there are only 4 MTTs with blind levels of 10 minutes and above, they're all Sunday Majors and they're all €25 and above. At the 8 minute level there is a single €1 and two €2 daily, that run at 12, 16:30 and 21:30. Why have decent length small/micro MTTs been wiped from the schedule? In the old schedule the €1 Daily deepstack and the €4 Bounty deepstack were two of the highest entered MTTs on the schedule (as far as I could tell) and now there is nothing in the evening to play.
I know I've had this rant on the community already but it's been 3 weeks now and nothing has changed. Multiple people there have complained that the low stakes (€1-2) offering is a lot worse in the new schedule. A single bounty in the evening, no PLO for 3 hours in the evening, nothing above 6 min levels in the evening. I'm sure you can say that what's in the schedule is hitting GTDs and people are playing them but if that's all that's being offered of course they'll play them.
It feels like the schedule was created with the Sunday majors in mind and to appease the Ambassadors that want to play decent big games and the small stuff have just been filled in at random without any consultation with players that actually play those stakes and times regularly. With sure a big community on the forum and via Twitch etc. I think you could have shown this to a handful of regs pre-release and got a much more well rounded schedule.
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Also, change the name of the Gorsky MTT or add the GTD to the title please. It's basically the Black Hole that runs 30 minutes before it and even with R/A can't hit €400 when the Black Hole (with the GTD in the title) beats €700 as a re-entry. That or make it €2, a stake that seems to be under represented just now.