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Originally Posted by DoGGz
It's interesting to me.
Before the schedule was changed, the common complaint was that there was nothing interesting to play on many days. Your average weekday only had a few big games and for a lot of players that wasn't enough.
So for the schedule changes, major weekly events were added for every day and for multiple time zones. There were also more Bigs and Hots added across the day so that there weren't so many large gaps in the day with no interesting tournaments and so other time zones had a chance to play tournaments they might not get to play.
The result? People complain there are too many... It's an intellectual curiosity to me, and frankly I don't fully understand.
It depends on the time of day. (The following focuses on non-turbos only.) Look at just the BIGs/Bounty Builders from $0.25 - $4.40 (that are still running at this time), I see 8 of them from 11:30 ET to 15:00 ET, with one starting every 30 minutes. After that, we have the following tournaments:
16:30 - $2.2 Bounty Builder
19:00 - $3.30 Big
21:30 - $4.40 Bounty Builder
22:00 - $4.40 Big
00:00 - $2.20 Big
That's eight in a 5.5 hour span, followed by just 5 in a 7.5 hour span. For me, I would like to see a $1.10, a $2.20, or even a $0.55 after 18:00 up until about 21:30.
By the time I get home from work and eat dinner it's about 19:00, and if I were to play tournaments I would register for anything starting after 18:00 for the next three or four hours. Besides the above tournaments, the ONLY regular speed, non-re-entry is a single $2.20 at 18:15.
If I add re-entry tournaments, the ONLY additional option is a $1.10 6-max tournament at 20:30 (and I filter out re-buys & re-entries).
The above tournaments have late registration of 2h00, 2h10, and 2h20. Why do the tournaments have different late registration periods, and why is the difference so small?
I haven't played any MTTs in a quite a while due to a combination of the structures, the payouts, and the late registration period. A two hour late registration period is too long. Combined with the structures being super slow at the start it takes far too long to make the money (then the structure is way too fast in the middle). With the low payouts, it wasn't worth it. Now that the payouts have been updated, I may start playing again at some point. However, the extended late registration period is still a turn off, as I tend to only register for tournaments with a late-reg period that ends before 22:00.