I think i just played in the worst structured tournament ever... (LC)

[BillFranklin]

Friend of mine invited to play in a tournament at his local elks lodge. Wasn't doing anything so i went.

200 Players. $10 buy in

Players start with $2,000 (20xBB)in chips. Blinds raise every half hour and follow this structure.
100-100
100-200
200-400 100 ante
400-800 200 ante
800-1600 300 ante (got knocked out around here but assummed
it followed this pattern to the end)
Each player also has 1 $10 rebuy for an additional 2,000 in chips. Within 90 minutes we where at crapshoot status.

Other strange things. Each player started with 6 chips. (1-$100, 1-$500,1-$200, 3-$100) so every hand everyone had to make change. Player were calling $200 blinds with $1,000 chips and then often had to wait to the end of the hand to get change. And for some reason the white Chip was a $1000 which was weird(never seen a white chip have that much value)

i asked my friend why the tournament was set up like this and he told me that the room is only reserved from 7-10 so they do this to speed it up. Anyone ever seen anything worse than this..?