SmoothSailor
* Ace Member *
I like this pay ams nothing mentality. Makes me not feel so bad about not paying as deep.
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PDGA standards require 40%-50% payout. Read the tour standards.
Those PDGA 40%-50% guidelines are only for U.S. and Canadian events. The PDGA International payout tables include options ranging from 10% to 50%.
In theory, the U.S. payout guidelines have been there historically to protect players from a cash grab by TDs, encourage more participation from lower rated and newer players without memberships and ratings, and provide more consistent expectations without the TD needing to promote their payout plan. In the case of the International payouts, Japan in particular had high tournament costs, usually run on temp courses with few permanent tournament courses available. So their payouts were allowed to be lower to provide sufficient income for TDs to not lose money on tournament expenses.Personally, I wish the PDGA payout standards weren't mandatory---like divisions offered, TDs could alter it with advance notice. It would be interesting to see a wider variety of formulas offered to players.
You could just as easily go the other way and give players a voucher as a player's pack equivalent to their entry fee minus fees, and have no payout.I'd rather get rid of player packs altogether and just pay out ams in merch. I voted 25%, but half is fine if you don't get a player's pack full of crap you'll never use.
You could just as easily go the other way and give players a voucher as a player's pack equivalent to their entry fee minus fees, and have no payout.
The TD would get roughly the same markup, more people would get some stuff and it would at least be stuff they picked (provided that it isn't all crap to begin with).
Isn't there also a trophy only option?Those PDGA 40%-50% guidelines are only for U.S. and Canadian events. The PDGA International payout tables include options ranging from 10% to 50%.
Isn't there also a trophy only option?