[UATrewqaz]

I can understand the various arguments from the "keep it at 10K" crowd, but ya'll do realize that eventually it MUST change don't you?

The ME buy in is effectively going DOWN every year that inflation goes up, you do see this right?

10K in 1972 was more than 10K in 1992 which was more than it was in 2002, and so on.

While nobody supports adjusting it every year to meet inflation, eventually (next year, in 3 years, in 10 years, in X years) the buy in MUST be raised.

It's the "main" event for a reason and one of the most important of them is that the buy in is really big.

The argument of raising the buyin to specifically eliminate donks is of course stupid, this wouldn't be the reason to do it, however it might be a side effect (raising the buy in would not prevent any pros from playing, but would certainly cut the number of internet qualifiers).

However the prize pool would stay the same even if you cut the field in half (say from a doubled buy in to 20K)

The managability of the tournament is also an issue. A live B&M tournament (especially a deepstacked one like the ME) has physical boundaries associated with it.

There comes a point where the tournament would simply be unmanagable or take entierly too long (what if the tourney grows to 30K people, what type of nightmare would the logistics of that be)