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How sickening !!!
Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier In Response To: How sickening !!! (neilkaz)
Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2009, at 9:55 p.m.
Neil...1) Players who are alive in Masters should NOT be allowed to play in doubles ! This has been the source of more conflicts than I can count. Clocking all events won't solve this problem, it will help but it won't prevent the doubles/masters conflict on Sundays. Once again, players who are alive in either doubles or masters or the limited jackpot should NOT be permitted to play in doubles.
I agree that clocking doesn't solve the problem, but it is the necessary first step. Lack of clocks is basically saying: eh, things are OK the way they are.
Not allowing players to enter the doubles when alive in the masters probably doesn't help much in this kind of tournament since the doubles and masters start & fill at roughly the same time. Doubles originally filled to 16 by the time the second round of the masters was being started.
1) 3 hour dinner breaks ? Who needs that long for dinner in a metro area like that and at a nice hotel?
I like the 3 hour dinner break, since it is a way of allowing people to go into NYC and do other things that people typically do when they travel. However, it'd be good if players well behind in their brackets (e.g. Falafel) could be made to take only a 2 hour dinner break if necessary.
2) It seems that the main event wasn't what caused most of these problems, but I note 66 players with 15 buybacks. Why not limit it to 13 buybacks and just run a bracket of 64 with no byes ?
Not sure if this was a contributing factor, maybe it was.
I note a 10:30 start time for the last chance which is fine, but was the last chance progressive ? Had the last chance been progressive more players would have been out of the event and possibly playing side events money rounds and minimizing time pressure.
A PROGRESSIVE LAST CHANCE IS A MUST FOR ABT WEEKENDS. Then for players knocked out quickly, run blitzes, stop pots, or whatever.
Last chance was traditional.
3) 11 AM ..finals scheduled for all events. Why so early ? Why not use more of Sunday ? There's zillions of flights into and out of Newark and the airport is less than 30 min away by train. Was it the unneeded desire to finish early on Sunday that resulted in a couple matches well into the wee hours of Sunday morning ?
Finals were at 12PM on Sunday, I believe. I think it was the desire to finish early on Sunday so that guys like me who had booked early flights could catch them.
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