Other than greed, why are tournament entry fees so expensive? At $250 a game per team, that’s $500 per game in revenue that’s coming in. Leagues like Cal Cup require teams to staff the table and Futures and Cal Cup sometimes have coaches Ref the games. The big Irvine tournaments stack the teams into as small a pool as possible (ex; 2 courses at Capo Valley) - what are we paying for?
Refs: 2 @ $50 each
Pool Rental: $100/hour
Table workers: 2 @ $25/hour
Profit = $250/game?
What profit margin would be acceptable to you? Most pools charge more unless you are a not for profit operation. So most clubs pay 60-80 per hour but when Kap7 rents a pool they are not a not for profit so they could be paying 150-250 per hour. Even if they are not paying more, if someone will pay you for your goods or SERVICES, you will want to keystone your expenses, that is elementary just ask the new President.
Politics, nice.
Then open the books and show your expenses
So you’re assuming everyone has equal access to resources in order to host. Let me be the first to invite you to the inaugural Chowchilla Invite.
We all know Kap7 and the clubs don’t pay for pool time for their own pools, the HS coach lists the tournament as a “school” event and then trades the pool time in lieu of entry fees.
Imposing barriers to entry, making the sport more and more expensive, limiting who can play and where athletes come from - I’m sure that won’t have any negative downstream effects for the college game or our National Teams.
Sorry, bad joke! I don’t have any involvement in the tournaments except to pay my kids fees. I was just taking your math and the fact it was double the cost, that is normal for any business. Then the Clubs have to pay for a coach, hotels for the coaches, food for the coaches. So 200 dollars per kid is not unheard of. That is 50 bucks a game. It is either worth it to you or not. YES it is a huge barrier! I don’t know of many clubs that don’t pay for pool time. Probably the private school clubs but the public schools cant really get away with it.
I don’t know what clubs at public schools are listing their weekend events as school events, but from what I understand that has stopped in most OC schools since COVID.
As far as I understand, it should be possible to host 4-6 games per team on a weekend for roughly 500-600 per team. That includes pool space, official costs and desk workers.