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NEVER Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon?
Posted By: svilo In Response To: Eliminate entry fees to promote backgammon? (Matt Cohn-Geier)
Date: Friday, 10 September 2010, at 3:04 p.m.
http://backgammon-news.blogspot.com/ (RAKES SURPRESS LEVEL)
Since sponsors of backgammon are nowhere to be seen, High class players all over the world play HIGH ENTRY tournaments AND RAKES, AND travel AND HOTEL to sustain the competition. It is only the entry fees that is returned to them. But they pay twice as much in travel, hotel etc. expenses. In fact the players sponsor the competition and the outsiders want to DECREASE STILL their small return from the sponsored (full expenditure) amount. What an irony.
Another question is that the extremely unfavorable ratio full expenditure/prize-fund eventually SURPRESSES LEVEL of play.
I have discussed this point in regard of online backgammon in January 2005 http://backgammon-news.blogspot.com/ (RAKES SURPRESS LEVEL)
A link to Adam Stocks and Rick Janowsky ?(zagloba on GG) went dead. They proved mathematically the relationship between expected wins and ELO difference. Since the rakes of the main servers increased severely with ELO difference, no high class player could "outplay" the machine - either you have 5% skill advantage an pay 10% rake or you have 20% advantage and pay 30% rake. That is why many danish and I guess other players played anonimously - to have a chance against the server-taxman.
I think this issue - entry, rakes, expenditure deserves more thorough research.
There is a need of more small and no entry fee tournaments. But high class tournaments need a better ratio prize fund/expenditure. Untill sponsors come to fill the prize fund, the only way to keep the ratio is TO INCREASE entry fees or decrease travel, hotel etc.
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