compuease;c-418222 wroteOne I think we need to clear up if we do this. For any 2 week period is if you choose to participate for that period you pay the extra for every game you play and if you play 5 or more you get into the "special game" for free. If you don't participate you can play the game but it costs you $5. I think the "bonus" money should be kept separate and only paid to those who contributed to the bonus.
That wasn't really the way I had proposed it (but if that's what people want that's fine). My proposal was to have the top 9 point getters play for free but everyone else would have to pay. If you open it up to anyone who plays and pays in 5 games some people will effectively pay more than others without any chance of getting in for free. For example, if you play all 14 games you pay $14 to play but if you play only 5 you pay $5 to pay. That seems unfair. The idea was to provide a bit of competition while building a bit of a bigger pool.
The more I think about it the more thought we have to give this aspect of it. We don't want to make it unfair to anyone so we need to figure a way to make sure there isn't a wide discrepancy between what people actually pay to get into the special game. Maybe you can make it a requirement to play say at least 10 of the 14 games to play for free. If you play less than 10 but at least 5 you can pay to play (say $5 minus the number of games in excess of 5 that you played).
How do you make this "fair" without over complicating it?