Jimbabwe: Have you been grinding mtts for a long time? If not I can say get ready for extreme variance and it can and will sometimes take months to make one final table... But on the upside sometimes you make final tables all the time
This is why I don't play at stars special tournaments too often, the variance is just too damn extreme in 5k+ fields for me. 3k registrants is like the upper limit most of the time ^^
Well it depends, I don't play them very often, but from time to time I have a mood to play some. (during last 7-8 years)
I know that mtts can be very risky business and I accept the variance as it is.
When I play mtts I try to play fields under 500 players. So it doesn't take very long time to finish.