One idea I liked from another site was counting hands that a particular player plays over a week, and then qualifying or giving him an entry into a tournament with a GTD prize pool maybe at the end of the week. But since this can be taken advantage of by playing many hands at 0.01/0.02, maybe you could set a limit of stakes like over 0.05/0.1 or something.
Yeah, I think something like that might work. There are a few different ways they can do it.
Similar to what you said, they've talked in the past about maybe adding weekly Krillrolls that require a certain amount of Krill earned that week to enter. Then make the requirement something like 500... not too small, but still a goal that can reasonably be reached by most people if they put in the effort.
Another way would be to just expand the Krill Leaderboard down to more places... like 25 or 50. That would mean the prizes at the bottom wouldn't be as large though. Might look something like:
06 - 10 = 25 chips
11 - 20 = 15 chips
21 - 30 = 10 chips... etc
Instead of giving everyone at the bottom of the leaderboard a guaranteed small prize... you could give them an entry to win a larger prize. The top 5 would still get guaranteed chips - and then everyone else would be entered in to a random drawing.
I like this method because it still gives players who finish at the bottom a chance to win a larger prize - and it also gives a chance to players that don't feel confident in their ability to win a tournament. Ring game players and losing players would still be rewarded for their ring game play, not reliant on their ability to win a large freeroll tournament.
It would depend on the capabilities of the software... but the best way to do the random drawing would be to run a tournament where players are forced all-in every hand. That way it's transparent and everyone knows the winners were chosen fairly. And it allows people to sweat their chances.
To reward higher finishes on the leaderboard players should get bonus chips in their starting stack depending on where they placed.
50th - 41st start with 10 chips
40th - 31st start with 20 chips... and so on.
The tournament would begin with antes large enough to put everyone all in. Players with more chips would still have a better chance to survive because there would be side pots.
If you aren't able to manually set up a tournament with variable starting stacks, something else could be figured out. But the basic idea is that you give the guy who finishes 50th on the leaderboard the chance at winning a larger prize... while still giving him an incentive to play more and move up on the board to 40th/30th/etc.
And for the people that DO want skill to be involved, there would still be the standard Krillrolls.
