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SPT Grand Final Satellites/Direct buy in etc.
Posted on Gen Chat today
SPT Grand Final Satellite structures.
As we speak, a proposed new satellite structure for the SPT Grand Final is being designed, & if approved by the big suit blokes, will be introduced as & from Monday. I will advise before then, as soon as I hear.
It will be, sort of, similar to the Viva Las Vegas satellites.
Daily micro satellites will feed in to a nightly quarter-final (1 in 5), and that in turn will feed into a weekly (Sunday evening) Semi-Final, with a 1 in 5 structure.
That will give us five Semi-Finals, assuming it gets the green light, being Sundays August 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th, & September 2nd.
INITIALLY it will be on a trial basis if it goes ahead - probably just next week - but if it works, it'll stay.
More when I hear it.
SPT Grand Final Satellite structures.
As we speak, a proposed new satellite structure for the SPT Grand Final is being designed, & if approved by the big suit blokes, will be introduced as & from Monday. I will advise before then, as soon as I hear.
It will be, sort of, similar to the Viva Las Vegas satellites.
Daily micro satellites will feed in to a nightly quarter-final (1 in 5), and that in turn will feed into a weekly (Sunday evening) Semi-Final, with a 1 in 5 structure.
That will give us five Semi-Finals, assuming it gets the green light, being Sundays August 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th, & September 2nd.
INITIALLY it will be on a trial basis if it goes ahead - probably just next week - but if it works, it'll stay.
More when I hear it.
| | A few other matters raised in the thread..... Direct Buy-Ins. It is likely that Directs will be available from around August 6th. Enough seats for the regulars, the "Community"? Absolutely. If we need to up capacity at the Venue, we can do so easily, they have plenty of capacity, & we have left the door open to increase if need be. Seats not going fast enough, it will not fill? Whilst not complacent, we currently have no worries on that score. August will be quiet Online (Olympics, School Jollies, Weather), but it wil pick up in the week or 10 days before the Event. On every SPT Grand Final we have ever held, & many of the regular SPT's, demand remains low until near the date, & then everyone wants a seat, & we usually end up having to say "no". "Outsiders" winning or buying Seats via Directs? We have to adrress several criteria with SPT. First & foremost, our loyal regulars & Community Members always get first dibs, but we also need to attract new players to the Site, & SPT is one of the means used for that. If you agree with all of that, I'll take the credit. If you don't, I'll blame the Suits, or SPT Rich. Seems reasonable, yes? |
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The new structure will be as follows....
SPT Micro-Sats
£3.60 buy-in. Scheduled to run throughout the day, & these feed into the nightly Quarter-Final, 1 in 5 structure.
SPT Quarter Final.
£16 buy-in. These will run nightly at 9.30pm, EXCEPT on Sunday, whern they will run at 7pm. 1 in 5 structure.
SPT Semi-Final
£72 buy-in (or via satellites, as above). Every Sunday evening @ 9.30pm. 1 in 5 structure.
The Micro Sats are in the Lobby NOW, the first one today is at 13.25, & there are SIX of them scheduled for today.
The first SPT Quarter-Final is scheduled for 9.30pm TONIGHT, £16 to enter direct, or qualify via the Micro-sats.
The first week's Semi produced nine qualifiers
Interested to hear all feedback, of course...
Details when I get them