Robert Johnson
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Springfield, Ga.
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quote: Originally posted by Nat Thomas
If they increased the entry fee by lets say... 25... 50.... even 100... think about how much they could pay out. I would just about bet my truck that entries wouldn't drop enough to be noticed either. People can complain about money all they want and how the hunts are getting to expensive but when I a world title is on the line, especially one with a pretty nice payout, they will dig out just a little bit more of their moldy money to take a shot at it. The purse needs to be broken down so that the final cast of 4 dogs take a good chunk of it... they should have the option of splitting the purse 4 ways, hunting for the advertised payouts for 1st-4th placement, or if all 4 cast members agree hunt for it winner takes all. The remaining purse would be split 16 ways for 5th-20th.
If they upped the entry fee 25$ to enter the zones and that 25$ go strictly into the payout fund and use the other part of the entry for costs etc.. like they do now... that 25$ with an average of 600 dogs going to the zones equals 15,000$... if you add in the 5$ dollars extra that the Rqe's took in that puts us up in the neighborhood of 25,000$ for the top 20 dogs.. the top 4 should take 50% of that so 12,500 to the top 4 and the remaining purse would be split 16 ways.
The top 4 dogs break down would be like this...
1st place - 50% $6250
2nd place 25% $3125
3rd place. 15% $1875
4th place 10% $1250
5th-20th place each receive $781.25
Paying an extra 25$ to hunt in the zones is nothing. I would even go out on a limb and say that if you said the zones would he 50$ or an extra 100$ that people would complain at first... but.... they would still pay it and go and when they saw the payouts that extra little bit adds up to they wouldn't be complaining much more... especially if they bump the entry fee up 100$ and they take Home enough to buy a brand new truck.
On the flip side Nat, i bet the entries won't drop any if it stays like it is now, being the MOST PRESTIGOUS TITLE IN THE SPORT is on the line. I don't care, pay out or not, but the fact is people want that UKC World Title, pay out or not. Its worth thousands come stud and puppy time, and we all know it.
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