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This I don't understand. Looking at it as 'losing' the money sounds pretty depressing. I think of it as money spent as a privilege to play in a tournament as opposed to lost gambling or something.
Preach.
I did a survey with our players to see what they actually turned up to tournaments for.
I was so gladdened by the results, the highest positive answers by far were "because competitions are fun" "getting PDGA ratings" and "because I like playing"
Winning money/cash/merch was one of the least important considerations for players to play. Now, TBF, this is really just a series of am events as we don't have enough good players over here to have a real pro scene but it was still really refreshing to see that most UK based players play in tournaments because they just want to play and have fun.
Whining that someone better than you comes along and wins the only division available to them is just odd.