I am wondering if this 'slow pay' situation will affect the turn out at the up coming IPT qualifiers...it sure is starting to "feel" like it could. Is there blood in the water?
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Island Drive said:I am wondering if this 'slow pay' situation will affect the turn out at the up coming IPT qualifiers...it sure is starting to "feel" like it could. Is there blood in the water?
Keith Buck said:I wouldn't be surprised if the slow pay and other questions have some effect on the entries.
I also wouldn't be surprised to find out that a lot of players think that with ten weeks of qualifiers it might be a good idea to save their money and enter after five or six weeks when a lot of top players have already qualified.
Of course if they knew that there were only going to be six players or less at each qualifier they would have been guaranteed a free entry to the next qualifier. They are still giving free entries to 3rd through 6th for these qualifiers, right?
We also should remember that there are twice as many qualifiers each week so that will reduce the average player per qualifier.
TheOne said:I fear we may have some events with 2 players in them but we just don't know. Maybe in a perverse way it might be good for the IPT if the qualifiers bomb. They might realise then that they are placing far too much enphasis on the pool player to fund the tour, its never going to happen.
Roy Steffensen said:Looks like there's something wrong with the IPT-website, since they are not updating...
Well, the players are:
01 - Michael Enters, Rob Hart, Matt Krah
02 - Brian Brekke, Lee Haugwagen, James Baraks
03 - Richard Broumpton, Tony Crosby, Keith Bennett, Robb Saez, Richie Richenson, Will Bilbery
04 - Teddy Garraham, Oscar Dominguez, Arturo Rivera
05 - Jim Weast, Steve Rector, Darrien Everett, Jeff Melton, Kevin Becker, Roger Griffis
06 - Christoffer Magnusson, Vesa-Ville Virtanen, Sten Jarledahl
07 - Marco Tschudi, Andy Barnett, Urs Furrer, Rob Wilson, Joern Kaplan
08 - Andrew Breen, Andy Worthington, Steve Highton, Patrick Fagan
09 - Alexandru Nedelea, Toni Judet, Vilmos Foldes, Mark Gray, Brian Beekers
10 - Roger Lysholm, Line Kjorsvik, Kari Paloheimo, Lars-Harald Riiber, Kim Soo Garmark
In total: 43
jay helfert said:Let's see, 43 X $2,000 = $86,000 KA CHING!
smashmouth said:I would think that if aspiring pros believed this wasn't a doomed tour, they'd drop the 2k in a heartbeat.
As it stands, you have qualifiers with only 3 entrants, that's insane.
That puts you in a tourney where the top 50 supposedly will get 100k minimum next year.
AMAZING odds! Why are people not jumping all over this, makes you wonder.