Hi,
Last month, we had a satelite tourney 2700$ + 300$ for our 25K buy-in in May. We had 1 seat of that 25K garanteed whatever the number of registration (min. 2 players). The dead stack stay on for the first two levels.
Here the question: We had 4 players registered for that satellitte and those four players went all-in on the first hand, giving all the chips to 1 player. So our tourney director had call the tourney to an end and declared a winner.
In our rules, the tourney director has the right to do so or decide any changes in any of our rules. However, should the best decision would beto let the dead stacks run out, of at least wait for those 2 levels to time out or else.
Thanks for opinions,
Stephan Dorion