sorry.....i had to say one more thing as do feel strongly about this. BP is becoming a reference for many of the card rooms in the UK to get feedback on the way they operate (payouts, structures, rules etc). Because of this I think posters should have more responsibility when they crictise card rooms/casinos etc.
For example, when a card room manager whose worked his backside off looks at a thread on BP for feedback, they might not realise that the poster knows little or nothing about festival tournament poker and may be influenced by their comments. I have noticed that sometimes the people posting their strong views on festival tournamants know little or nothing about playing the UK festival circuit (the card rooms may not know this). How can anyone who doesn't play the UK festival circuit comment on how it should be run? It costs about £30k to play 2 events at each UK festival, these are the people who support the UK festival circuit, and the people that casinos should be listening to, NOT the "back seat drivers" who never play or just enter the odd event when its near their house and they won a satelitte and are free rolling.
On dodgy ground here saying this, but BP is having a voice in how the UK circuit is run and we are being listened to.
Strong words Rob.
I agree with most of the points you have made in this thread but I think you have missed the point regarding feedback from players that dont play as many festival events as you and many others.
The reason that some people do not play the events is because they do not want to put up those size of buy ins to play a bad structured event, with a top heavy payout structure. I think I fall into the band of people you have aimed this post at but it is because the structures are bad and the payouts too top heavy that I would like to voice my concerns. If these things were put right I might play, that is no big deal to anyone but me, but it is a fair enough reason to have an opinion and to post it here.
It is good to see Luton taking more and more steps towards events that the players want.