I have barely any tournament experience, so I wanted to bounce a recent B tier amateur tournament off some people who have done this more than me.
Disclaimer up front: I'm not playing amateur for payouts, and it's not relevant whether the PDGA amateur payout structure should exist (since I know that's controversial). I would happily play a cheap Am tournament with no payout, but it's a $50 fee B tier Am event, so the Tour Standards apply. I think the TD may have made a calculation error, so I want to know if what I experienced was typical or if I should follow up with the TD to get some clarification. It may have been an innocent oversight since the TD had the division payouts scribbled on a piece of paper.
The specs:
First place was $45 voucher I believe, 4th was $35 voucher. Using the pay tables, those numbers calculate back to a $350 total payout. Breaking down the entry fees, the only way to get to that payout is if the Net Entry Fee was $14, meaning the player pack had to have been assigned a retail value of $36. A t-shirt and disc doesn't seem like a $36 retail value to me.
Am I seeing this correctly? Like I said earlier, I'm not saying there was TD malfeasance, it could have been a simple math mistake. Or maybe the TD got the player pack value mixed up with the value of a different recent tournament that had a 2-disc player pack. Lots of innocent mistake scenarios. I want to make sure I'm not making a newbie error in my calculations before I message the TD and ask if the calculation was accidentally incorrect.
Disclaimer up front: I'm not playing amateur for payouts, and it's not relevant whether the PDGA amateur payout structure should exist (since I know that's controversial). I would happily play a cheap Am tournament with no payout, but it's a $50 fee B tier Am event, so the Tour Standards apply. I think the TD may have made a calculation error, so I want to know if what I experienced was typical or if I should follow up with the TD to get some clarification. It may have been an innocent oversight since the TD had the division payouts scribbled on a piece of paper.
The specs:
- PDGA B-tier
- $50 entry fee
- 25 players in division
- Player pack: 1 disc (choice between 2 disc models in premium or a different disc in base plastic), 1 t-shirt
First place was $45 voucher I believe, 4th was $35 voucher. Using the pay tables, those numbers calculate back to a $350 total payout. Breaking down the entry fees, the only way to get to that payout is if the Net Entry Fee was $14, meaning the player pack had to have been assigned a retail value of $36. A t-shirt and disc doesn't seem like a $36 retail value to me.
Am I seeing this correctly? Like I said earlier, I'm not saying there was TD malfeasance, it could have been a simple math mistake. Or maybe the TD got the player pack value mixed up with the value of a different recent tournament that had a 2-disc player pack. Lots of innocent mistake scenarios. I want to make sure I'm not making a newbie error in my calculations before I message the TD and ask if the calculation was accidentally incorrect.