Addons allowed in "Semi-Freezout" tournament?

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So once a month I host a live home game with 3 tables of 8 players each, that counts a leaderboard through the entire year.
The game we play is NLHE and it is kind of a "Semi-Freezout" tournament that each player is allowed to make 1 rebuy, and no addons allowed. Once the player is out, and theres no more rebuy, he/she is out and that will be his/her final position in the game.

The idea of the "Semi-Freezout" tournament is to the players play more safe due to the possible points and also have 1 rebuy allowed as a second and last chance do continue playing

Initial stack 25k +5k for early birds who arrive in the first 20min of game (1st blind)
initial blinds 100/200
Break after 8th blind (last chance to rebuy)
9th blind (after break) 2k/4k - game cant last over 3h30
rebuy stack 25k

The rule for 2024 is that if you have less than 5k chips at break you can make your rebuy if you didnt use it so far.
Next year (2025) we're thinking on maybe changing some rules but we don't want to make it unfair between the players.

Our questions is about adding the option to make the Addon for those who didn't use their 1 optional rebuy.
At break should the ones who have less than 25k be able to make a rebuy if they didnt use theirs?
If yes, what about someone that has 26k chips? isn't it unfair to see someone with 24k making the rebuy and you cant? maybe then making it ass well for those who have more than 25k and didnt use theirs?
But then if the rebuy/addon is allowed won't this make the biggest players be even bigger?
in the other hand, if you didnt make the rebuy, is because you played well and deserve a reward, dont you?
SO MANY QUESTIONS!
Can you guys help me? Once the rule is applied for the year it is significantly hard to change
So what do you think? no add-ons? or yes go for addon?

I'd happy to have other suggetions to my game if you have!
 
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I feel like you guys are overthinking stuff because you're close friends and don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

the whole point of a tournament is to get people eliminated and awarding the top places,

in order to be able to rebuy, you have to get eliminated , otherwise you have to keep playing your stack.
 
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I've read this several times and it still makes no sense to me,

having a reward for players who are short at break who didn't rebuy ....in a rebuy?,

why are we rewarding players who do poorly and punishing players who do well...,

I think adding an addon in the way you suggest would create more problems than anything else,

if you want the game to go 3 and a half hours and you want players to feel it's a fair game then no addon😎👍
 
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