Tournaments on Sunday: Battle of the Donkeys

This Sunday, the battle for tournament superiority begins! Take part and have a chance at playing for a total of over $200,000 in prize money.

Last week the
English community held two community tournaments - and saw some friendly admin rivalry. After going on to win last Sunday's Omaha tournament on top
of collecting TribunCaesar's bounty, one would think SoyCD would be
satisfied. Yet this is clearly not the
case, as he has now gone on to also challenge TribunCaesar on his own battlefield, NL.
Looking to rebuild his reputation after the defeat in the last two community tournaments, TribunCaesar accepted the challenge.

The admins
have therefore decided to carry out their battle to decide who can claim tournament superiority, over
the course of next Sundays. Yet in order to up the fun factor they ask for the support of the entire community. As of this weekend they will be hosting a
format similar to one that already enjoys great popularity in the Dutch
community: "Battle of the Donkeys"

The Goal: Win the PokerStars Sunday Hundred Grand (or
at least get closer to it than the competition)

The Framework

Each admin
- so SoyCD and TribunCeasar - will captain a team of four community
members.

The captain
of the team will provide the team members with the option of a back-deal. That means the members have their buy-ins paid
by the respective admin and send back 50% of their winnings should they get ITM
(meaning they are staked by the respective admin - if you don't get ITM you have to pay back nothing). As members of the admin team you collect 'points' toward the team's victories the further you get. That means it is in the respective admin's interest in making sure that you get as far as possible!

To ensure the
admin teams are not always made up of the same community members, there will
also be a third team - the so-called "Community Team". This team consists of all members that either
paid their own buy-in, or qualified for the tournament via a qualifier, and
signed up in the weekly tournament thread.
At the end of the tournament, the spots in the two admin teams will be filled
up with those players of the community team that made it the furthest. To sign up as a participant on Sunday go here: Battle of the Donkeys first of June

This means
there are two ways to make it into the two admin teams:

• If you played the Sunday
  Hundred Grand as a member of one of the Admin-teams and finished ITM, you
  automatically have a back-deal spot in the team for the next week.
• Those spots that are left
  vacant due to the players not having made it ITM will be replaced by those
  "Community Team" members who made it the furthest in the tournament in the
  prior week.
• In this first week you can
  qualify for the admin team as described further below.

The Community Team

All members who are not in one of the two official teams, yet signed up for the event are part of the "Community Team" and can move up to the Admin team next week if they place high enough. Aside from buying
in for the tournament themselves, users who don't have a sufficiently large bankroll to
buy-in for the tournament will also have the chance to get a spot in the community
team via special back-deal tickets. These tickets will be given away via
promotions and giveaways. Users who win
these tickets can therefore also qualify for the admin teams even if they don't
have the needed bankroll for playing $11 MTT's.

The Tournament

The Sunday
Hundred Grand is a $10+1$ buy-in tournament on PokerStars. With usually around 20k participants, the
players play for a prize-pool of $200,000 and upwards. Usually around 3,000 players get ITM.

Rules and Restrictions:

• In order to take part in the
  event, you need to be a tracked member of the English community. If you are not fully tracked over the
  English community but wish to be - you can contact our support team via
  the ticket system and request to be re-tracked.
• If you have won a spot in one
  of the admin teams but do not have time to participate - inform the team
  captains in time so that replacements can be chosen. If there are spots left for next week,
  you will receive one of these.

• If you have won a back-deal
  ticket but want to pay your own buy-in (to win the full amount should you get
  ITM) inform the team captains so that they can offer 'your' back-deal to
  someone else.
• If you decide to accept the
  back-deal, you are required to send back 50% of your winnings to the admin who staked you.

Leader Boards

In addition
to keeping track of what team is more successful over the weeks, we'll have
several leader boards to keep track of the highest cashes and most consistent
member results. This is important to not
only determine which admin leads his team to better results, but also to see
which members have the best weekly results.

• Best of Leader
  board: Cashes (Soon)
• Best of Leader
  board: Average Finishes (Soon)
• Best Teams (Soon)
• Team
  Statistics (Soon)

This week's Tournament:

Three spots
are reserved for the winners of last week's community tournaments. That means Snodreliss, Cardbender420 and Robyroy have first picks and can chose either of the teams by
signing up in the respective thread.

To also get a
spot in one of the admin teams you have several options:

1) Post
a comment on this news. One spot for
each of the teams (so two in total) will be randomly chosen from the comments in
this news.

2) Apply for one of the teams in the respective team threads: Team SoyCD / Team TribunCaesar - (or Team Rebels) with reasons of why you should play in the team. The spots
that remain after the tournament winners have registered will then be allocated amongst the applicants in the threads.

You can apply in both threads (if you want) + leave a comment in the news if you want - but please do
not register if you do not actually have time to participate.

The Threads:

Battle of the Donkeys First of June
Registration: Team SoyCD
Registration: Team TribunCaesar
Registration: Team Rebels