After taking about 4 years off from major tournaments due to dissatisfaction of unlimited Herb qualifier tournaments, Ryan's implementation of the limited Herb format is THE reason I participated in last year's RMPS tournaments. It is highly successful at TPF and proved to work very well last year. If it goes back to an unlimited qualifier format there's a high probability I will not participate. Unless restrictions are used, it is the most uneven and unfair qualifying system in any sport or skill tournament I am aware of.

Yes, this is another great thing Ryan did last year, got a lot of locals to look at the tournaments more favorably than years past.

Glad to see you getting feedback from the right people. Being a PAPA circuit event it's even more critical to do this tournament in a manner that circuit participants are happy... they are a very seasoned and very opinionated group of players that will make or break this as a future circuit event.

As I said, it's a fickle bunch of competitors (understatement of the year?), as I thought it went well last year.

Also it is unfortunate to have 2 circuit events on the same weekend, but it's actually more of an issue that two major shows are scheduled on the same weekend... forcing vendors, tournament players, and travelers to choose one or the other. There are 52 weekends in the year and about 20 major shows, so there are bound to be conflicts, but this is the second year in a row these two were scheduled on the same weekend, so some thought should be put into rescheduling for 2018 to maximize attendance.

Interesting, so in 2015 RMPS moved from April to a safe weekend in June, then in 2016 SFGE moved theirs to the RMPS weekend, and in 2017 the NW show also decided to pile on the same weekend? There are lots of other weekends in the summer to spread these out.

Multi-day tournaments like this commonly charge $5/play or 3 plays for $10, so $60 would get you between 12 and 20 qualifying attempts, in this case $60 gets you 20, which is where this cost comes from.

This is actually a great benefit to local casual players who, in an unlimited qualifier, may be inclined to plop down a $20, which won't get you a single attempt on each of the 8 game bank, while other players are putting down $120 and getting 4-5 attempts at each of the 8 games. How often do you think you'll best someone if they had 4-5 tries and you got 1 in a match? Yup, you may as well burn that $20 in the parking lot before you come in and stick to the free play area.

With everyone getting 20 tries on the same games, things start to even out nicely, and casual players are inclined to use up all their 20 plays and actually be competitive.