06-21-2016, 12:53 PM
A big contributor is the number of players that are squeezed into tournaments. Any little screw-up (which almost by definition occur) and the congestion compounds quickly, not unlike traffic congestion. Plus, play is only as fast as the slowest group. I actually am skeptical that there is any media conspiracy to milk ad revenues by intentionally slowing play. Fortunately, they have not figured out a way to have a "TV timeout".
"It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you think you know that just isn't so."
Mark Twain
