PS $500,000 Guaranteed, Donkified or Tough Competition?

Hello all,

I played in my second PS $200+15 yesterday, and fared pretty well. In general, I thought that many players were quite good, but that there were a huge number of very poor players as well. I fully admit that I am far from being an excellent tournament player, and wouldn't bet on myself against most posters here. I have to say though, that the $500,000 guaranteed felt alot like the competition in the $5 and $10 rebuys, although I realize it's not easy to make these kind of judgments.

I periodically checked thepokerdb.com as I usually do to get an idea of who I'm up against (although I can't say it helps much) and while I realize that many players in this tourney may have had alot of success on other sites, it surprised me that my table was full of players who had never won, or come close to winning anything on PS, and had very few ITM finishes. I think only two players of the nine, when I looked them up, had what I would term a respectable record, and please understand that I haven't won much myself so my standards aren't that high.

If you have played this tourney, how did you find the competition? Is half of this tourney's field made up of wealthy donks that never win anything or am I underestimating the quality of the field?

Holdemphile