BlondeFish;236612 wroteThere is a lot to lose with a winner-take-all rake-related race. Many players play too far from their comfort zone and lose a lot of money, needing the top prize to offset their losses. This doesn't seem like a good VIP promotion, as up to 44 of the 45 unlucky invitees will end up worse than if they never got invited or participated in the 24-hour sleep-deprived -EV madness, while the one winner only gets tournament entries with no guaranteed cash.
you don't feel like you're overreacting slightly? I get that you want to make your point across but the way you wrote it is just propaganda playing on peoples emotions. The DoN tournaments are right in my comfort zone and I've played and studied them quite a bit before, only reason I don't grind them harder is because of the high rake lowering my roi. I'm smart enough to quit if I feel like I'm messing up after 10 hours.
Also I'm really suprised hearing the words no guaranteed cash coming from you. You're definitely smart enough to realise that it's 2,5k tournament entries and like 3-3,5k $EV. sure you can bust all these soft euro tournaments even though you are an all around players with solid roi's for all the games played but that's just variance, really suprised you didn't instantly see that for what it was. If someone offers you 1000 dollars cash or a 1200 $EV spot you take the 1200 $EV spot every time unless the variance is ridiculous.