Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=18555028'>posted</a> on 04/30/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by Triple_D_Bet View Post
Heh, not gibberish...I have more than a passing familiarity with competitive structures, and to achieve the goals of a contest (and every contest should have goals, or else it's worse than a waste of time) these are the concepts that need to be thought of and the terms which need to be used. With the huge disparity between US and non-US players, it's probably not possible to completely level the playing field in this contest by it's very nature (geographical regions vs each other with huge differences in member populations), but there are several steps which could be easily taken to minimize it (divide US
into several regions).

Or better yet, scrap the idea of geography-based contest since the player populations don't support it, and
come up with another one! Run dailies to qualify, then top 50 playing for WSOP entry is simple, easy, meaningful and fair across the player base. Running contests that are none of these things is counterproductive.
I was just kidding bout gibberish. Indeed breaking up the US into four regions would not level the playing field but it would help immensely giving the huge number of US players. Then the bowl analogy comes into play and is definitely more fair. Agreed tripleD.