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i'm thinking this will end with 5000/10000 blinds (making it about 6h20m not including breaks)

btw you can colour up after the 1200/2400 level

i think there's a typo: it should be 4000/8000 right?

i personally like the slow progression, but if you have to take away 1h20m, that's about 4 levels you have to omit. that's a lot

one option is to do a t5000, which would make it end at 3k/6k, 5h20m to 5h40m. you can also omit the 250/500, which will save you another 20m.

if you want to stick to t10,000, my opinion is to let it play out as you have structured it. the whole point of doing a t10,000 with 25/50 starting blinds is to have a deepstack tourney. that implies a lot of play for your chips and by default, a long tourney. there's no advantage to a deepstack tourney if you are going to shorten it by increasing the blinds too fast.

but...if you still want a t10,000 within 5h, i would suggest deleting and amalgamating some levels so that you will have net loss of 4 levels:
1. skip the 250/500
2. skip the 400/800
3. combine the 600/1200 & 800/1600 into 700/1400
4. skip the 1200/2400

that would take away 1h20m from your total tourney.

my preference is do the t5000 and leave the structure the way it is