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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: trash heap on April 07, 2008, 05:41:01 AM
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Since money is the issue. If most of these guys can't make a living at this then its time to step back and let them have jobs. They can go to tournaments that are strategically placed through out the year. Instead of every week.
Would it be in the best interest of the PBA to cut down. Maybe there should be one event for every oil pattern out there (That would be 11 events. 12 if you count the Dydo Cup in Japan).
Up the entry fees for each event.
Open the regular tournaments up to more bowlers (No Exemption).
Points achieved are only used in majors. The bowlers with highest points in
previous year are guaranteed spots in major events.
Maybe there needs to be more international stops other than Japan.
I am thinking create less events but increase the prize fund. Make it worth while for the bowlers to go and win some money, instead of having all these events and watering down the prize money.
Just an idea.
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be even better if they had more sponsers to help pay...dennys is probably not the richest company out there..now mcdonalds...they could pay a million every tournament! lol
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getting rid of the "exempt" tour and going back to the way it used to be....
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people should not fear their government, rather the government should fear their people.
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I belive alot of the low payouts is do to not having more sponserships for the PBA.
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Even still theres no reason that every exempt player should definately cash every week.
I would agree with this. Cut down the number of events, up the entry fee, and make it worthwhile for guys to go out and bowl. If you really wanted to make a living, you could do it in High Rollers and amateur tourneys with 10k first place prizes and stuff like that. Everybody in the Round of 64 makes money, and I find that stupid. With only 64 players, you shouldn't cash until at least the round of 16.
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1. Put this in the PBA forum.
2. Talk sense, not nonsense. The PBA is in business to make money, not to provide bowlers with an income. If they make money, the PBA does not give a crap, one way or the other. It is a corporation, no more, no less. Any corporation could care less about whether or not its employess earn a living wage or not. This is the current real life; get used to it or go live on welfare or a trailer park in Nebraska or Idaho or Kentucky Or New Jersey.
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21 events is cut down, used to be 36 not terribly long ago
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Time for some REAL bowling!!!
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and before that, it was 48.
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What was the reason cutting the number down from 48 to 36 now to 21?
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Get more and better sponsors. Have ESPN perceive that the sport can make money for them and not charge broadcast fee!
REgards,
Luckylefty
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HEY... We have trailer courts in Indiana too!!! We also have a couple PBA Tournaments.
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Entry fees make up very little of the prize fund - prize fund comes from the host center and sponsors as well.
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getting rid of the "exempt" tour and going back to the way it used to be....
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people should not fear their government, rather the government should fear their people.
Not really a factor. That's what the PTQ is about. Those "non-exempt" bowlers pay to play and some of the money goes into the tournament itself. At least, I think that's the way it works.
There's something to be said about the open format of older tournaments, however.
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Nothing wrong with trailer parks. I grew up in one and lived in another one for some years after I got married. In fact, even my RV has more amenities than some folks houses! And when we travel, we often stay in what some folks would call trailer parks.
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If "all" bowlers can compete is it really a "professional" bowlers tour?
Shouldn't you have to prove that you belong on that stage?
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If "all" bowlers can compete is it really a "professional" bowlers tour?
Shouldn't you have to prove that you belong on that stage?
Which is what the PTQ is all about, IMO. A guy ca go ahead and pay his $200 entry fee and compete in the PTQ; he just shouldn't complain when he gets his lunch eaten.
Still, there's no reason to reduce the number of events on tour. If a company is willing to host them, then they should go off. I wish we could get some of the big boys back in sponsorship - companies that have vested interest in bowling.
Beer companies come to mind. *runs and hides*
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Many forget that for most of the PBA’s history in order to bowl a national event you had to be a PBA member AND either cashed in 2 or won a regional event.
In order to join the PBA you had to meet the average requirement at that the time and be recommended by a current member. Then you had to go to an orientation school.
Only when the PBA started going bankrupt did they start opening up the fields to anyone who would show up and pay the money.