[LearnedfromTV]

hey ryan,

I'm kind of in your boat, got to 130k this year even though i only went fulltime in august, played more on other sites than i will next year, and played relatively more (slower-fpp-accruing) mtts than i will next year. So I feel like the sn elite is out of reach, but 300k/400k isn't and maybe even 500k or 750k isn't either.

It kind of sucks that the really big sn elite prize (the tournaments) doesn't accrue incrementally. I think it's clear that they don't expect very many sn elites, so something like only giving sn elites one big event but giving 300k a wsop prelim/wcoop and 500ks an ept would cost them a lot more $, since there will be like twenty sn elites and probably a couple hundred 500ks. SN elite is a bit of a phantom reward, because it's so hard to get, but it's not like low and middle novas get nothing, this is definitely better than before, granted you trade some freeroll equity but not nearly as much as you get back, and unlike freerolls the bonuses don't take any time.

I also hoped there weould be an FPP bonus bump between sn and sn elite, and yeah, an extra land based tourney bonus would be awesome. Still, it makes sense that every additional 100k is worth more; nova itself is based on this principle - your last 50k is harder to get and therefore worth more, etc.

So overall, I think this is a decent deal; even though it kinda sucks that it's distributed $1200/$2200/$3200/$4200/$6700/$25K+.

And I see your point about the 200k-300k range especially, because you get as much added equity ($3200 vs $3400) for vpps 300k-400k as for 0-300k; then it kind of flattens a bit and there's the huge bonus for 1mils. It's like three tiers, 0-300, 400-750, and sn elite. I think I'm going to aim for 400k as my base goal for that reason, and I can see wheresomeone aiming for 300k might be frustrated. If I end up playing less than I expect, I can see myself being frustrated by getting to 320k or soemthing and feeling like I just missed the bigger bonuses. Of course, getting to like 900k would suck even more.

It will be interesting to see how many sn elites there end up being.