[FSPA] Buying tickets for Pinburgh - Urgent

[Max Baskin]

Personally, I hate the idea of giving an automatic pass to top players.
There are already events, like the SPC and Kevin Stone's circuit
championship, that give the elite a chance to shine. And those events
SHOULD exist. But just because Pinburgh is the biggest doesn't mean that it
should be filled by the creme de la creme, IMO. It's an open competition
that even someone completely new to the tournament scene can enter and
shine in and limiting the number of those entries that can happen because
John Tourneyplayer has been at it longer seems counter to the spirit of the
thing.

Also, I do think limiting ticket numbers per person to 2 would at least
make people feel better about things, regardless of the impact it has on
the speed of sell out.

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 5:51 AM Mike F via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

> I agree 100% with what kosack said.  I also think that any first place (or
> top three, not sure if that will work but I’d prefer top three) to place in
> any circuit event, should have the option of getting a guaranteed pinburgh
> ticket instead of some cash.  Or maybe involve NACS in it somehow.  Or top
> 100 IFPA ranking.  That ensures that the best aren’t shut out of the
> biggest tournament in the world.  You WANT those players there, so others
> can see how they measure up.
>
> As an example, Keith Elwin getting shut out of papa would be like ovechkin
> getting benched in the stanley cup finals.  I know, bad example for
> Pittsburgh folks.  Sorry mark, love you.
>
> But you get the point.  And it’s not a dig at all on the burgh and what
> you guys do/undertake to get this huge tournament and show going.  The
> replay crew does an amazing job.... I don’t think anyone else could pull
> this off.
>
> Mike Frasca
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 24, 2019, at 3:19 AM, Wei-Hwa Huang via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:35 PM Joe Kosack via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
> >> This would totally get away from the whole point of Pinburgh.  The idea
> is that Pinburgh brings players of all skill levels together for one hell
> of a tournament.  The tiered pricing would scare away the novice and new
> players that are important to growing the sport.
> >
> > Wait, you think tiered pricing scares away novice players, but novices
> > are fine with tickets selling out in a minute???
> >
> > Here's my crazy suggestion.  Once you've played in Pinburgh, you can't
> > play in the next three Pinburghs, but you can play again four
> > Pinburghs from now.  (Or whatever number is needed to make the rush
> > more sane.)  If possible, have more than one Pinburgh per year -- if
> > the reason is because of cost, just raise the registration price until
> > it pays for the cost.
> > --
> > Wei-Hwa Huang, onigame at gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 5:51 AM Mike F via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

> I agree 100% with what kosack said.  I also think that any first place (or
> top three, not sure if that will work but I’d prefer top three) to place in
> any circuit event, should have the option of getting a guaranteed pinburgh
> ticket instead of some cash.  Or maybe involve NACS in it somehow.  Or top
> 100 IFPA ranking.  That ensures that the best aren’t shut out of the
> biggest tournament in the world.  You WANT those players there, so others
> can see how they measure up.
>
> As an example, Keith Elwin getting shut out of papa would be like ovechkin
> getting benched in the stanley cup finals.  I know, bad example for
> Pittsburgh folks.  Sorry mark, love you.
>
> But you get the point.  And it’s not a dig at all on the burgh and what
> you guys do/undertake to get this huge tournament and show going.  The
> replay crew does an amazing job.... I don’t think anyone else could pull
> this off.
>
> Mike Frasca
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 24, 2019, at 3:19 AM, Wei-Hwa Huang via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:35 PM Joe Kosack via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
> >> This would totally get away from the whole point of Pinburgh.  The idea
> is that Pinburgh brings players of all skill levels together for one hell
> of a tournament.  The tiered pricing would scare away the novice and new
> players that are important to growing the sport.
> >
> > Wait, you think tiered pricing scares away novice players, but novices
> > are fine with tickets selling out in a minute???
> >
> > Here's my crazy suggestion.  Once you've played in Pinburgh, you can't
> > play in the next three Pinburghs, but you can play again four
> > Pinburghs from now.  (Or whatever number is needed to make the rush
> > more sane.)  If possible, have more than one Pinburgh per year -- if
> > the reason is because of cost, just raise the registration price until
> > it pays for the cost.
> > --
> > Wei-Hwa Huang, onigame at gmail.com
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > "Where are all the time travellers?" -- generalizing the Fermi Paradox
> > to four dimensions
> > _______________________________________________
> > FSPA mailing list
> > FSPA at fspazone.org
> > http://lists.fspazone.org/mailman/listinfo/fspa
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