The hall traditionally has three main pieces... the arcade (open all the time).. the vendor section... and the pinburgh tournament area. The pinburgh tournament games will be limited to pinburgh use only until finals on Saturday. The arcade and vendor areas are available on all days. The arcade grows every year.. but was several hundred pins and forget how many arcades.

You will pay with a CC at time of registration.

But if they increased the price by a dollar... we'd have entire states complain about how we are just lining the pockets of the top players

This is counter to the feedback that lead to the ticket sale being moved LATER this year. The earlier the ticket sale date, the greater risk of 'unforseen issues' arising between when people decided to buy vs attending. Thus creating more strain/grief around refund policies

Maybe in the future there needs to be a Pinburgh and a Pinburgh II.

Take advantage of having the hall for the full week... run Pinburgh I as the lower tier prize pool event with some sort of eligibility filter... run Pinburgh II on the following 3 days as the high tier prize pool event.. Or even take it as the 'first fills up, then fill the second...' I dunno.. take your pick of design intentions.

Running two events at different times may not be viable.. but maybe it's viable to run two back to back?

The question remains to be seen if the 'pinburgh player' can be drawn to the location without playing 'in pinburgh'... and if some alt form of tournament is enough to draw those other 400+ players into an event.

Based on my quick and dirty (aka not flawless) comparison of weblists... 37 names on the waitlist are top 300 IFPA players.. and 14 of the names are from the top 100 IFPA player ranks.

On Point 1 - this depends on their booking window for the hall... maybe it can fit.. maybe not. But doing it once has to be easier than doing it twice. And there isn't another papa collection, so you can't run another major of the same type without alot more pins. Just throwing it out there as a way to increase capacity. It's done with all the papa side events...

On Point 2 - I think this depends on the player profile... and how you setup the event. Do we need to rehash so many threads about people so interesting in winning how far they'll go to sandbag, etc. Maybe Event II satisifies some of those people... maybe Event II satisifies the desire to 'expand the player base'.. or other ideas. You really have to set your goals to be able to setup the entry criteria that set up for that goal.

Just fyi ...Modern browsers can save this kind of stuff in auto-fill form features. Names, addresses, cc info, etc.

Also for showclix, once the ticket is in your cart, it should be secured until the transaction is complete or times out.

Alas Scaling vertically is always going get harder and harder verse horizontally...

I mention the schedule fit or not because I didn’t know in what increments they’d let you schedule... and what portions. Surely there are options that allow you to have some of the facility but not all of it? And maybe allows more suitable time increments?

Bowen made it clear he’s very against such preferential allotments

Well I'll give you a friendly tip... Telling people not to go because the games are 'tired' - would be taken as bagging on the quality of the product.

I think this is where you are adding in your own criteria... Being open to all is not the same thing as 'equal opportunity to buy'.

By that logic, events that charge more money for different players should also be excluded. Or how about a league that allowed returning players preference over new players? Or any system that didn't give everyone the same option at the same time. This 'equal chance to go after them' is a mantra born out of this scarcity around Pinburgh... not the genesis of requiring open events.

When in doubt... try common sense first.

I can assure you... the vast majority of events are not telling everyone 'no, I can't take your name down until 12:00pm on the 13th... when everyone else can announce their interest too'. And this is also because the vast majority of events are not dealing with sellouts in minutes.

In years past this info would come out in the weeks before the show. Hopefully this year they will be a bit more consistent where they post info. Be sure to follow their Facebook pages.

dude.. at least read the last page of the thread.

That of course would be proprietary information - not public.

That too.. is more info than most would like to give out. They've only said things like "we are happy with the turnout" and inferring things because they renewed their contract, etc.

Can update the list to show it's current as of a more recent point in time... (tho I believe they just updated this week)

You missed the point.

As a reader, you don't know if the list hasn't changed because there are no changes... or simply because they've been slow to update the page. Putting a update status on it, even if there are no changes, resolves that quandary.

Especially since the folks involved don't like setting expectations of frequency or deadlines... just 'it will be done before its needed'

Yet... the public tells you otherwise by their uncertainty over if the page is 'current'. It's a simple communication problem that is created by the lack of confidence in the state of the information. You beat that by building confidence that what the users sees is current.

That's the beauty of the format and what you must learn to manage. And why insight and knowledge about the games is so valuable. Unless you've been playing there for years, its likely you'll see dozens of games you've never touched before... let alone know their playing state.

The playing area has been surrounded by tables and chairs around the sides and in the middle in recent years. Think hotel banquet hall tables/chairs. People have been bringing small tripod chairs, etc... but the aisles can be crowded. If people start bringing full on camping chairs... it's going to get messy and problematic. I know I saw 2-3 in prior years, and I don't know if staff did anything... but just do the math. A few hundred chairs = a lot of space.

We are all going on assumptions the layout will be similar to prior years.. so info is guestimates

The stage has a large gallery seating area in front of it. It's in the middle of the floor. If you can think of an H... the stage is the bar in the middle of the H. Then there are rows (the vertical bars of the H) flanking it on each side. epthegeek's photo shows it best. There are tables and chairs on the outside edges of both sides of the area... and the gallery seating in front of the stage.

Rule #1 of pinburg is... you don't get to move the chairs

Ppl used to grab chairs and move them into the aisles... this was a big headache and problem for them previously. Thus, people started coming up with their own chair solutions. But since, they've added more tables/chairs around the outside.

The key is resting inbetween rounds.

People bring pads... but then should expect to move them in and out as they play.

That's what made the first pinburg so awesome. Of course now after several years, many competitors have been exposed to most of the collection... plus we have lots of tips/hint tools around.. so not so many times anymore where the whole group is like.. 'I have no idea what I'm doing' moments

I'd start here - https://www.replayfx.org/prizes/

To do so first requires sorting out the results and player counts. Replay is also not just some dude with a envelope of cash. They have accounting, different people involved etc. So now that they finalized the ifpa submission... I’d wager a request went from minion 1... to minion 2 requesting them to pay ifpa $831. Now minion 2has to work out how to do that in their system. Cut a check, whatever.