[BD] Tournament prices

[Luke O'Rafferty]

If you really want to get a cheaper tournament, run it yourself. You already 
know half a dozen venues willing to host Ultimate tournaments - you visit 
them every year! No TD has a monopoly on one sports ground. If you think the 
TDs are ripping you off (and £30 a team extra is so little per person I'm 
not entirely sure why some people seem so outraged) bid for the same 
tournament at the same venue, find better local facilities, provide them for 
free and charge people less in fees and you can be everyone's hero! Or if 
you think one particular venue is better than the rest bid for a different 
tournament at the same venue.

If you really think TDs are making a mint for not a lot of work why aren't 
you jumping at the chance to grab some of the action?

There's figures of £30-40k profit being bandied around but if you actually 
think about it, those figures (if it is anything like that) are annual 
profit between several seperate individuals/groups. When people are talking 
about how some of this should be put back into the grass roots of the sport 
how about making a donation yourself rather than demand it from someone 
else? Or lets stick up UKUA membership fees and use the extra money 
generated for development that way we all contribute not penalise the very 
few who put the effort in to provide us with a tournament.

Views are my own, etc, etc, etc.

Sharky
Haze #4

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