Here's a small stab at your horrible mis-information post.
Then I have a question. With some people traveling thousands of miles and spending thousands of their hard earned dollars to get to Vegas and play in the BCA. Why doesn't Mark Griffin have professional Refs?
In the BCAPL's opinion, the Ref's are Professionals. They have training courses, they have levels of different Ref's and are trained on rules. The Head Ref's probably do more events than most of the others as there is not a need for all of them to be Professionals year round. And like any other profession, there is lots of turn-over.
1. Mark gets $15 section fee from what 30,000-40,000 or more BCA league members.
This Fee does not go into Mark's Pocket! This sanction fee goes into running numerous State and Regional tournaments along with added money, advertisement costs and much much more. Without the fee, we would not have any tournaments!
2. Mark gets a 25% kick back on the hotel room rent from each BCA player.
This is 100% false!
3. Mark took $25 registration fee from each player in each singles event, and $25 per team in the team events.
That was about $30,000 from the Men's open singles alone. Now factor in Women's open singles, Men's Masters, Women's Masters, Seniors, Super Seniors, Open Scotch Doubles, Master's Scotch Doubles, Men's open teams, Women's open teams, Men's Master teams, Women's Master teams.
How much money was added to the tournament? How much does it cost to put this event on? How much to advertise? How much to provide all the flyers, trophies, pins, papers, etc. to each and every league across the country? How much to pay all the CSI staff to handle all the BS that goes into getting people signed up, validated, etc. to the event? ....
4. Maybe a million or more in dollars from the tables.
5. How many 10 cent BCA tokens that were bought for a dollar went home in people's cue cases?
Don't see how this is a complaint if people are not smart enough to sell their coins back at the end or sell or give them away before going back.
6. Oh yeah Mark owns the Vendor spots. How many Vendors at $2,000 - $3,000 per spot?
Mark doesn't "own" the vendor spots. The BCAPL pays a huge rental amount to have the Riviera for 2+ weeks long. How do you know that the Riv doesn't get any money to allow someone to sell merchandise inside the hotel?
7. And how could I miss the addition of the Food & Drink Nazis at the Ballroom doors this year. You think Mark was getting a slice of concessions at $3.00 for a can of soda?
The purpose of limiting persons from bringing outside beverages into the arena was to increase spending to the actual event beverage counters. It wasn't all to stop the ABC store spending but people buying coolers of drinks and bringing them in from who knows where. This is very acceptable IMO.
So in conclusion it looks to me that Mark Griffin is more concerned with lining his pockets with your money than he is with whether or not the proper call in made in your match. Just food for thought
This sums up your ignorance! The BCAPL has a team of ref's that are in charge of all the Referee's. Mark doesn't have a second to breathe to handle every little piece of this mass event by himself. The goal for Mark and the BCAPL is to get the most players possible, put on a superior event for all the players of the BCAPL and if they can profit from it great! Don't forget that when the BCAPL and CSI make money, they have more resources to put on even more great events like the Western BCA and the new Southwest Regional BCA Championship that is coming up Labor Day weekend in Arizona.
