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pro9dg

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Is the UK the only place where players showed connittment to a Tour. Over here 96 amateur players annually pay over $900 in advance to play on the GB 9 Ball Tour. A further 32 pay $1200 for a spot in the professional division. These include World 9 Bal Champion Daryl Peach, World 10 Ball Champion Darren Appleton, World Masters Champion Raj Hundal, Predator 10 Ball Winner Tony Drago and his Mosconi Cup team mate Mark Gray. Standng above them at No1 in the rankings is Imran Majid.

Lee Rigby, Founder of the tour, made these 128 players pay their entry fees ahead for six multi event weekends. All prize money is covered and because of the financial committment all events start with full fields.

The Tour is oversubscribed with players from a reserve list filling the rare spots that become available through illness etc.

Well America - there's a business model for you to emulate
 
pro9dg said:
Is the UK the only place where players showed connittment to a Tour. Over here 96 amateur players annually pay over $900 in advance to play on the GB 9 Ball Tour. A further 32 pay $1200 for a spot in the professional division. These include World 9 Bal Champion Daryl Peach, World 10 Ball Champion Darren Appleton, World Masters Champion Raj Hundal, Predator 10 Ball Winner Tony Drago and his Mosconi Cup team mate Mark Gray. Standng above them at No1 in the rankings is Imran Majid.

Lee Rigby, Founder of the tour, made these 128 players pay their entry fees ahead for six multi event weekends. All prize money is covered and because of the financial committment all events start with full fields.

The Tour is oversubscribed with players from a reserve list filling the rare spots that become available through illness etc.

Well America - there's a business model for you to emulate
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Sounds good. How many tour stops are there, and how much is the purse for each? The WPBA Tour players pay $500 each tour stop times five or six, it use to be eight.I believe each stop has a purse of over $100,000 with about $15,000 going to the winner. They have 64 player most of the time. Johnnyt
 
Sounds like a start

If I did the math right, the payout for each of the six events would be $20800. First place wouldn't be quite the $15000 that the WPA paid, but if you upped the ante to the values that johnnyT outlined, you'd have a bigger prize fund.

I like the idea of prepaying for multiple events...this gaurantees full fields and might create more interest in sponsors.

I think it would be a start.

L8R...Ken
 
don't know about dollars but can tell you in pounds?
Pro pay ?739 per season
Challenge pay ?539 per season
6 weekends a season
in 1 weekend we play 3 tournaments
all single knock out
pro cup = 32 pro players with prize fund of ?2500
challenge cup = 96 challenge players with prize fund of ?2625
main event = all 128 players with prize fund of ?6000
Total prize fund of ?11125

any more questions? Let me know..

Shir
GB9BT TD
 
Doug,

That is a very fine model for the UK. But (if I am correct) your players do not have the same travel problems as those in the US. At the last event that Mark Gray won I believe he was paid about $1,800 for his first place win. Is this correct? Even if that is pounds we are talking about less than $3,000 for first place. US players cannot pay $800 for airfare and $300 for hotel rooms and be expected to fill a field that pays this type of money.

If my figures are off please first forgive me and then correct me.
 
the model would probably not work the same for the usa... Might work for some states...
we let the players pay in 4 installments...
maybe for the usa it might work with bigger amounts?
 
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shir said:
the model would probably not work the same for the usa... Might work for some states...
we let the players pay in 4 installments...
maybe for the usa it might work with bigger amounts?
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You are right, it wouldn't work for a national tour here, but would for the regional tours. And I think your right, it would pull in more sponors just knowing they have full fields. Johnnyt
 
exactly...
Maybe the model would work but with different figures for a national tour....
but what we've set up here in the uk took a lot of effort from us...
there's lee as the chairman that does a lot of work, me as the td with a lot of work and than there's the comittee that help out and make decisions...
The USA is so big that you would have to find people that are really comitted to the tour and are willing to communicate..
We struggle to have meetings ourselves. We try to do it all via email and conference calling or at tournaments.
Shame I am not living in the USA... Would love to have a go at it!
 
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JUST ME PREYING ON THE CARNAL DESIRES OF THE FORUM USERS.

WELL IT GOT YOUR ATTENTION. SO IT WORKED
 
In the next year or two I'm hoping to make it on the tour. Lee, Shir and everyone else do a fantastic job running it.
 
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