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As it is now, preflop expertise, especially preflop aggression, is the most important attribute a tournament player can have.
I assume you believe this should not be the case? You would rather have tournaments highlight postflop play rather than PF aggression- do I understand correctly?
I'm not certain that eliminating the antes would lead to more post flop play. While it would lessen the value of aggression PF (but not eliminate it) doing so would also lessen the need to become involved in post flop situations.
I think he problem in general with tournaments is that you can't run one slow enough to allow for deep, skillful multi-street play throughout and still have the tournament be a reasonable time investment for the players. Essentially they must all devolve into contests of Pre-flop aggression. Removing might delay this a little longer, but it's inevitable because you have to force people to play to get to a single winner.
If you want skill to reign, I think it has to be by allowing people to play deep for as long as possible. I've often wondered what the effect would be of raising blinds as people are knocked out rather than at a specific time, and in such a way that the blinds double every time 50% of the field is removed. This way the average stack would always be playing at the same depth. It would probably last for freaken ever I guess.