insomniacdude wrote:I actually like the idea of giving freemies four tourney games as well as four normal games.
1. It would make running tournaments easier, since that would solve the problem of having slots open for the freemies.
2. That would encourage more tournament play, since it'd be easier to guarantee open slots for premiums. Also, the freemies would be playing four games at a time and yearn to play more, and they'd meet that demand with tournament game play.
Here's the problem: Lack isn't going to give non-premium players 8 games, simple as that. If he did that he would be hard pressed to convince anyone that premium membership was worth it.
As for making tournaments run easier, I don't think the added game limit would really improve it all that much in the end. The dedicated non-premiums don't seem to have too much trouble with making it through tournaments. As a matter of fact, I know of several that dedicated ALL of their 4 games to a single tournament at a time.
There really isn't much of a lack of supply for tournament players, it's more about us finding a few more quality tournament organizers. Right now there are probably a dozen or so that really put their souls into it, and we could easily use another dozen at the moment.