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Sky Priority Freeroll
First three places receive a VIP hospitality package for a match at the theatre of nightmares ie OT. The other prizes are free bets. Could SP not have made it something like a hospitality package to any premiership game on a set date?
This might appeal to all those man utd fans (who generally dont come from manchester) but to the rest of us non glory hunters it isnt really an incentive to play the freeroll.
In my opinion and im sure a lot of other sky regs last months priority freeroll with hard cash prizes was much more appealing.
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You and a friend get a four-course meal, £50 bet each and a FREE BAR!
Im a Northampton fan, so anything is better than watching us. Il be trying my best to finish in the top 3! One time!
I think at Arsenal its £5.50 for this package!
As for OT being one of the best in the prem, there are at least 2 other stadiums that are miles better. Sky shouldnt be offering prizes that only cater for a small section of the community. They could have just as easily offered a club wembley day out for an england game. That would have been miles better.
I think that for the vast majority of people, they will see it as an excellent day out. Probably only people like you who support a rival team will have a major issue, but even then you can support Benfica and still have a great day out?
Would you be saying the same if it was a VIP package to an Arsenal CL game?
I like how the Priority club keep their freerolls fresh with new ideas and would like to see more of these experience days than freebets/free money IMO.
I come from the era of standing in a packed terrace, the banter, the atmosphere the nowhere to go to the loo era when youve had ten pints! Club Level at Arsenal is the equivalent and I have been there once with clients of my old firm, very nice as a one off but id rather slum.
As for selling the package on ebay as someone else has mentioned, its illegal to sell football tickets/packages for a profit. Im sure ebay would pull any such listing.
This.
Or Sky can give me the money and i'll take the winner to a game of their choice at Hillsborough, get them a couple of pints in a local boozer and then buy them a Beres roast pork sarnie.
i hope there will be prawn sandwiches
As for priority status, I have to say you can do it at lower stakes. Playing £10/20 hypers (which required a modest br compared with some of the higher stakes games cash games) will get you to priority in under 120 hours play per month. The priority freeroll last month had a first prize of £500 cash, not to be sniffed at if you are a lower stakes player.
But this is definitely more interesting than another freeroll with cash prizes.
I dont know where you get your train prices from but trust me a mid week return from London to Manchester does not cost £60, try well over £100. There are also no trains back to London (or many other parts of the country) after a mid week game at OT so accomodation is also an issue. For 2 people your easily looking at a 150 quid plus outlay each just to go to the game and have a bed for the night.
For example they could have options such as a sky-diving session or a racing day etc, have some choice in there and it'll be a much better prize than cash IMO
I know it's possible, i'm just far off atm, I know if I keep playing i'll grind my way up eventually. I play £5.50 DYMs mostly and usually get 1500 points so need to either multitable seriously or increase stakes.
What I mean about the cash prize not meaning much is that a lot of the priority players are high stakes cash game grinders ie spending a few hours in a field of 50 (that's a guess) runners for a chance at winning a couple hundred quid isn't anything special for them.
Too many "Floppers"
And the thing that despises me in all sports but mainly when it happens in a WORLD CUP, lack of electronnic monitoring eg USING THE BLOODY CAMERA TO SEE IF IT WAS A GOAL <<< as you can see it annoys me lol
For example in tennis they can challenge the umpire's decision and check hawk cam or whatever it is, that's a start but I still think they should have someone checking every time so no false decisions are made, it doesn't exactly take long.
although id be trying to win this straight away if i was an arsenal fan its not often that you get to see a team win