IPT has got their sh*t together!!

[Banker Burt]

1) It is the IPT tour .... period.
2) The alternate list reached from 151 to over 3,000, and I believe, that
the alternative list just applied for the KOH tournament. Surely, you understand that #153 or #156 or #159 might not be qualified players to play on the tour, and should not be considered for a tour card JUST BECAUSE THEY GOT THEIR PAPERS IN EARLY.
3) The 50 more tour players come from 25 or less events after the 2006 events are over, in otherwords for 2007. I think it has been indicated that they may take the top 6 out of a qualifier for 2007 tour card, so less than 25 qualifiers would be needed.
4) I would imagine it will run $2,000 per entry, just like the qualifiers they have already conducted, but I don't know for sure.
5) The fees probably go into a the big 'accounting pot', and used for promotion, qualifiers, bonus payments, and maybe regular events. You have to remember KT is paying out thousands and thousands of dollars to conduct various events at different locations besides any payouts he is also paying. Tours have to have something coming in, they can't jsut have everything going out, or they will not last.

I understand your explaination and know there were a mountain of resumes submitted, so I will give the IPT a bit of a break; but this stops at only the "Bit of a break".

In a perfect non-political world (which I know does not exist) and I were KT, Mike Deno or whomever else was involved in the select 150, would have automatically given each hall of famer and all recognized champions a spot, then throw up the 30 or 40 spots and have the rest of the players fight for it.

Then you would have a real tour for the true players. It didn't happen that way. I am not bittler for myself but I have dozens of friends deservant of a spot and did not get one.

Unfortunately for me and the rest of my player friends, we have to weigh an expense that some of us feel was already earned. I also understand
that the slection process was complete before the deadline was even reached.

You are right though, it is KT's money and he can do what he wants. I hope for those selected, which also includes some of my close friends, that the IPT does very well.

For the rest of us it is going to be a very expensive crapshoot at best. And the history book will be written sone day about how the sport was bought and it went like this...

Messy, political and questionably started... someday we will know how it ends. Unfortunately allot of great players will not be a part of "Do You Have What It Takes" knowing that they did.

 

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