APAT National Online League Restarts 30th Sept

[teaulc]

APAT Season Six will see the the introduction of two 15 Match National Online Leagues. Details of the first follows:-

APAT Presents The PokerStars.com National Online League In line with our policy to place APAT tournament properties with multiple operators in Season Six, APAT is delighted to announce that PokerStars.com will headline sponsor the APAT National Online League, starting on Sunday night March 11th and running for 15 consecutive weeks, finishing on June 17th. All matches will feature a $10 + $1 buy in and start at 7pm, with a 1 hour late registration. The structure will offer a 15 minute clock and a 5,000 chip starting stack to allow for lots of play. Competing Regions In a change of format, APAT members will compete in one of thirteen regionally based teams in the PokerStars.com National Online League. Formatting the teams in this way will allow for a more even distribution of players across teams, who will all compete in the Premier Division of the PokerStars.com National Online League. The regional teams and geographical boundaries are as follows:- South West South East London East of England East Midlands Europe West Midlands Wales Yorkshire North West North East Scotland Ireland Players will be able to play for the Region that they currently reside in OR the Region of their birth. Once a player joins a Region, no further change will be allowed during the League. Regional Team Captains Applications are encouraged from players; particularly existing APAT Poker Club Captains, for the position of Regional Team Captain. Please see the Captain's thread. Prizes Prizes will be allocated based on both team and individual performance. Team: The three best performing members of the winning team will be awarded a PokerStars.com UKIPT seat each. The three best performing members of the runner up team will be awarded a $215 PokerStars Sunday Million entry each. The three best performing members of the third placed team will be awarded a $109 PokerStars Sunday Kickoff entry each. Individual: The best performing individual player will be awarded a PokerStars.com UKIPT seat. The runner up individual player will be awarded a $215 PokerStars Sunday Million entry. The third placed individual player will be awarded a $109 PokerStars Sunday Kickoff entry. In addition; and for the first time, the top 18 finishing individual players will be awarded APAT Ranking Points, with 18 points going to the first placed individual and 1 point going to the eighteenth placed finisher. Finally, the best finishing English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish player will be assured of a squad place with their National Team at the fifth annual World Championship Of Amateur Poker. National Team captains will have responsibility for selecting which of their players play each phase of the World Amateur Team Championship. Matchday Points Allocation Individual points will be allocated to the top eighteen finishing players at each match. The individual points will be allocated as follows :- 1st = 25pts 2nd = 22pts 3rd = 20pts 4th = 18pts 5th = 16pts 6th = 14pts 7th = 12pts 8th = 11pts 9th = 10pts 10th-12th = 9pts 13th-15th = 6pts 16th-18th = 3pts A maximum of four players per region can score individual points in any one match for calculating team matchday points. Should five players reach points scoring positions, the lowest of those points scorers will receive 0 individual points, and individual points will be allocated to the next best finisher. In this example, the player finishing in 19th position would receive 3 individual points for for the purposes of deciding matchday team points. Individual points will be totalled for every match and the region finishing with the most individual points will receive 5 match points. The region finishing with the second most individual points will receive 4 match points. The region finishing with the third most individual points will receive 3 match points. The region finishing with the fourth most individual points will receive 2 match points. The region finishing with the fifth most individual points will receive 1 match point. No other clubs will score match points. Where regions finish with an equal number of individual points, match point allocation will be sorted in the following order: a) The region who has the most individual points scorers will be deemed to finish ahead. Should this not separate the regions, b) The region who has the highest single individual points scorer will be deemed to finish ahead.

[avongirl]

Re: APAT Season 6 - PokerStars National Online League starts 11th March for 15 weeks League structure and prizes look like an improvement on previous seasons. :ok Don't like the 7pm start on a Sunday, but as it's 1 hr late reg I should be able to make it. Will be Yorkshire team for me (I qualify on both counts!)