I recently went to the nationals for napa and after crunching some numbers I am concerned. In my bracket (b 9ball) first place only got about $550. I know going into It that there were at least 100 players. Each player paid $40 plus a greens fee to enter. The math doesn't work out and it appears that not all the money was paid back out to the players. Not only did the league not structure the payouts correctly (percentage wise it was way off with second place getting only $50 less than first) but this was a national event.
Every year the league is growing with more players and more teams but the payouts are getting smaller and although I don't want to I am beginning to wonder if something fishy is going on. The people that run the tournament are all very nice so I don't want to question them without due cause but i don't think some transparency on what happened to the payouts would be out of the question.
The other thing that bugs me is that this is a national event for a league that has grown significantly and it appears that the league is not giving back to the players by way of added funds to the prize pool.
I want to stress that this is coming from someone who had a fun time at nationals even with all the problems and I don't really want to bad mouth anyone but I do want to see this tournament get better and without growth in line with the league itself I don't see any reason to come next year.
Every year the league is growing with more players and more teams but the payouts are getting smaller and although I don't want to I am beginning to wonder if something fishy is going on. The people that run the tournament are all very nice so I don't want to question them without due cause but i don't think some transparency on what happened to the payouts would be out of the question.
The other thing that bugs me is that this is a national event for a league that has grown significantly and it appears that the league is not giving back to the players by way of added funds to the prize pool.
I want to stress that this is coming from someone who had a fun time at nationals even with all the problems and I don't really want to bad mouth anyone but I do want to see this tournament get better and without growth in line with the league itself I don't see any reason to come next year.