JB Cases said:
I still don't understand how the BSCP works? Is Yen's position an elected or appointed one? Is the BSCP a private organization or a government funded one. Who are the constituents of the BSCP?
So how is the BSCP organized? Why can't the people who make up the BSCP oust the leadership? Are there bylaws that govern such situations? It seems to me that with such aggregious allegations then there ought to be some provision for the members of the BSCP to change the leadership.
Inquiring minds want to know and to fan the flames
Okay, you want to know....
Let's start with WPA. WPA has a regional rep APBU where BSCP is a country member of. WPA deals with country representatives.
In the Philippines, BSCP is under the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), as well as the other National Sports Associations like the Philippine Track & Field Association. The PSC is under the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC). Both POC and PSC are amateur organizations as well as all the NSAs under them.
It is in the constitution of the PSC that the NSAs like BSCP hold annual elections, among other laws that BSCP does not follow. The NSAs also have to be registered in the Securities and Exchange Commission to have a legal personality.
BSCP enjoys accreditation from both the PSC and the WPA. Accreditation from the WPA includes the assignment of players in country quotas that are sent out through APBU for international WPA sanctioned tournaments.
BSCP is not registered in the SEC. Instead, they are using the by-laws and constitution of an association named Billiards & Snooker Association Inc. Nevertheless, the PSC had recognized BSCP since 1987 and allows BSCP to function as an NSA and APBU is okay with that slip.
In 2006, by virtue of some hocus pocus, new faces were put in BSCP. Obviously, some computations on table napkins with prospects of the WPC facilitated the new seats in BSCP. Makabenta became Chairman of BSCP and hence declared Raya Sports (of which he is president of) as a partner who handles tournament productions.
So through the partnership with Raya, BSCP brought in the two WPCs in 2006 and 2007. In the meantime, the players and the managers felt that they were not being dealt with fairly in international tournament quota slots. The arrogance of BSCP climaxed when they "banned" Alex from Guinness for sharking and right away threw one of their players into the tour.
The players and managers brought up their grievances to no avail. The ultimate straw was when the POC said that they will not look good if the issues are brought out, so we should better go back to BSCP and mend things.
Their constituents (players and managers) bolted out and put up a professional association called BMPAP. But even when being professionals automatically took BMPAP out of BSCP's mandate as an NSA, BSCP still had the accreditations and the quotas of WPA.
Then BMPAP started questioning the legitimacy of BSCP. Also questioned were the unliquidated funds from the government that financed the two WPCs.
The reaction of BSCP was to initiate black propaganda via local text broadcasts, newspaper releases, internet columns, and in internet forums. BMPAP fought back through internet forums and through court cases.
From then on, BMPAP had taken on the partnership of BSCP and Raya head on, pitting tournaments to compete with one another.
BMPAP has the players and BSCP/Raya has the accreditation, and the only time that BMPAP will cooperate and lend its players to BSCP is when Makabenta leaves BSCP and takes the Raya partnership with him.
Rats migrate though ships from port to port. It seems that some rats had migrated from sport to sport. I believe that an investigative expose on TV is in the making so that should be a source of information. It will be posted.
