What's the deal with this buy-in structure?

In the ACR new depositor's freeroll, everyone starts out with 100 chips at 10/20 blinds but they also get a free "rebuy" of 1500 chips. Everyone ends up "throwing away" their first 100 chips to get the 1500. Also, you only have 2 or 3 levels to get the 1500 before rebuys are over.

What's the point of starting everyone with 100 chips and what's the proper way to play?

That's odd, I never seen a structure of that sort.
Maybe it's so you can blind out the inactive accounts first because A lot of people on ACR go inactive.
Other than that guess, I have no clue.

Yeah, that is kinda bizarre. I would probably look to get in some flip situations early knowing that the rebuy is where the "real" poker starts getting played. Since it is a free rebuy you aren't really giving up anything anyway.

Mordecoke said:

That's odd, I never seen a structure of that sort.
Maybe it's so you can blind out the inactive accounts first because A lot of people on ACR go inactive.
Other than that guess, I have no clue.

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This was my initial guess, but that's really really strange.

I have never seen a structure like that also. I think that they made it like that in order to add some fun at the beginning. Anyway just shove there with anything to get your 1500 and then start to play seriously.