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Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?

Posted By: Mike Main
Date: Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 8:38 p.m.

In Response To: Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon? (Daniel Murphy)

It is possible to run a viable Non-Money / Optional-Money play annual event:

Backgammon Live in London 2001-2009:
Year Attendance
2001 30
2002 40
2003 70
2004 75
2005 70
2006 115
2007 111
2008 107
2009 101

It is the very fact that players can come along and NOT play for money that is this events attraction to them. Many that have come would have otherwise shyed away from attending a live event. Some of those that have come have gone on (some very successfully) to play in Money-Play events, others are happy to just attend this event. Hence the event serves, in some cases, as a feeder event to bring new players to live play without frightening them off at their first attempt.

Players that do attend Bg Live in London events do pay a registration fee. Is it by chance that they generally do not moan about this? I think not. They accept it as the cost of doing something they would like to be doing on a weekend.

Messages In This Thread

• Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
  Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 3:33 a.m.
  • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 4:09 a.m.
    • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
      Stick -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 4:46 a.m.
    • NEVER Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
      svilo -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 3:04 p.m.
      • NEVER Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
        Chiva Tafazzoli -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 10:34 a.m.
        • NEVER Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
          Bob Koca -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 5:32 p.m.
        • NEVER Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
          Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 9:42 p.m.
  • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
    Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 6:55 a.m.
  • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
    Chiva Tafazzoli -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 7:46 a.m.
    • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
      rew -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 10:06 a.m.
      • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
        rew -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 1:58 p.m.
      • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
        Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 5:57 p.m.
        • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
          mtuhtan -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 9:38 p.m.
          • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
            Chiva Tafazzoli -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 10:50 p.m.
        • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
          rew -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 8:02 a.m.
    • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
      Leonardo Jerkovic -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 1:41 p.m.
      • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
        Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 5:34 p.m.
        • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 7:57 p.m.
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    phil simborg -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 8:27 a.m.
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    Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 2:17 p.m.
  • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
    alex21 -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 5:47 p.m.
  • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
    Mike Main -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 8:38 p.m.
    • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
      Chiva Tafazzoli -- Thursday, 9 September 2010, at 8:41 p.m.
  • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
    mamabear -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 2:21 a.m.
    • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
      Leonardo Jerkovic -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 2:32 a.m.
      • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
        phil simborg -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 4:36 p.m.
        • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 9:19 p.m.
    • What the Dayton Guy Said
      mamabear -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 12:44 a.m.
      • What the Dayton Guy Said
        phil simborg -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 2:12 p.m.
        • Side pools
          Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 3:38 p.m.
          • Side pools
            Tom Keith -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 5:10 p.m.
            • NEBC used to do it differently
              mamabear -- Saturday, 11 September 2010, at 8:08 p.m.
              • Blinding signups?
                Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 12 September 2010, at 6:59 p.m.
                • Blinding signups?
                  mamabear -- Sunday, 12 September 2010, at 9:56 p.m.
                  • Blinding signups?
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 12 September 2010, at 9:58 p.m.
                  • Blinding signups?
                    Stick -- Sunday, 12 September 2010, at 9:58 p.m.
                    • Blinding signups?
                      Jason Lee -- Sunday, 12 September 2010, at 10:23 p.m.
                      • Blinding signups?
                        Stick -- Sunday, 12 September 2010, at 10:46 p.m.
                  • Blinding signups?
                    Michael Petch -- Monday, 13 September 2010, at 1:40 a.m.
  • Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
    mtuhtan -- Friday, 10 September 2010, at 11:15 a.m.