Originally Posted by
LindaH
Again, I was not trying to attack anyone who was offering constructive criticism. I was asking people not to jump to say things that were not constructive. It was my two cents because I believe in the long term affect of the tournament.
I don't understand where the deception is when the printed material states that only the big prize is guaranteed. When the decision was made to do this tournament a second time, it was based a lot on the post tournament comments made to KRA staff personally and on the posts on this site (by people who both participated and who couldn't because of scheduling) expressing that they wanted this tournament back this year. The KRA lowered the grand prize thinking that surely they would have enough participation to pay everything based on post tournament feedback last year. Aren't all tournament payouts based on participation? The way to insure that everything would be paid is to participate in AND spread the word about the tournament because the more people who know about it, the more people will participate based on the law of averages.
If the $85-95 registration is a deal breaker, then would it have mattered if it was in March or October? These are the things the KRA needs to know so that they don't change it to March and then have the same lack of participation. They truly did try to address what they heard last year by making some changes this year, but it didn't seem to help.
Maybe distrust will be the catch 22 that is the death of this tournament before it even had a chance. The fishermen won't fish because they don't trust that ALL of the prizes will be paid and the KRA has to lower the prize money because they can't trust that there will be enough participation to break even and lowering the prize money is one of the reasons that some did not participate. That would be very sad.
