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Originally Posted by bmugwump
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Originally Posted by ThePatrick
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Originally Posted by JimG520
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Originally Posted by DPdiscer
100% payout also. 
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Before or after fees? |
Same as every other non added cash tournament... after fees. (not including management fees)
There is nothing we can do about what the pdga charges except hope that you run for the board and get the PDGA to drop all their fees too. It's one hundred percent payout from the entry fee. What you pay to play a tournament is an entry fee and other fee's necessitated by having the rounds be official sanctioned rounds. Part of our mission was to provide sanctioned tourneys in Houston, so we abide by the requirements as such. There are plenty of mini's for you to frequent if you don't like paying a little extra for services provided. Now can we please let this go... |
To answer JimG's question (which Patrick already did on the Suggestions for Birdshot thread!), the 100% payout is, of course, AFTER PDGA sanctioning & player fees & any other tourney expenses...I still say skimming is a poor word choice!  |
If "skimming" is a poor word choice, then so is "100% payout" and "one hundred percent payout from the entry fee".
Folks that have
run tournaments should be familiar with the PDGA fees and tournament expenses. However, players that only
play tournaments aren't.
If Joe Player pays $30 to enter a tournament and it's advertised as "100% payout" he could realistically expect $30 of that $30 to be paid back out.
Saying "entry fee" is ambiguous. Even the PDGA breaks that down into gross "entry fee" and net "entry fee".
The Birdshot website says: "*All entry fees include a $2 PDGA fee & a $2 online registration fee."... so if you're advertising paying 100% of the "entry fee" one could rightly expect the PDGA and online fees to be paid out.
We're reaching a fine line in truth in advertising vs. overly complex registration forms that the average player may not care about.