Tourney 4 Session Tourney Structure (1 Viewer)

[200 Motels]

I'm wondering what a good blind structure would be for a tournament that would have three 64 player qualifying sessions, then one championship session where the top 20 from each 64 player session move on to the championship session.

They're going to start with 20k stack with blinds at 100/100. On the championship session the blinds roll back to 300/600 to give the final session more play.

The intention is for each session to last about 4-5 hours then the championship session to last 6-8 hours.

Qualifying sessions structure (25 min levels) - My logic is that these sessions should end at around 3000/6000 with the average stack being ~64k when at 20 players remaining.

Championship session structure (30 min levels) - With 3,840,000 chips in play, the game should end with 50bb which would be 76,800 (so the 4000/8000 level).

Does this seem like it would last the desired amount of time?

 

[200 Motels]

I guess the guy running this tournament is intending players to literally bag at the end of each session and has plenty of chips. He's also using T10k and T25k. He evidently has plenty.

Here's the payout structure for 192 total players. Seem decent?

 

[Legend5555]

Do you think you need to have levels after the 2nd that double to get done on time? Going from 500/1k to 1k/2k is brutal. Why not do 500/1500 or 1k/1.5k if you must chip up the 100s.

 

[200 Motels]

Do you think you need to have levels after the 2nd that double to get done on time? Going from 500/1k to 1k/2k is brutal. Why not do 500/1500 or 1k/1.5k if you must chip up the 100s.

That's definitely the weak spot in the structure.

I'm told it has to be done within 5.5 hours. There's a 10 min break after every 3 sessions.

The one thing that makes it hard to estimate is how long will it take for the qualifying sessions to go from 64 players to 20. No real experience estimating when this would end. My best guess is, it would end when 20 players have average stack of 10bb. (1,280,000 / 200 = 6400). Should end at the 3000/6000 level or shortly after, is my best guess.

This structure might push it but maybe not.