loganpkbt wrote:

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KJ I am not clear on what you meant by

"One of the main reasons we have Prime Time as it is now is because the region pays half the fee to Nationals. When you sign up to play in Prime Time you have to put up the other half. If we were to go the other route and give it away at nationals the region might not be able to get the same commitment."

Not be able to get the same level of commitment from the region in subsidizing teams to nationals or the number of teams wanting to play in nationals ?

Also are the proceeds from these prime time tournaments the "fundraiser" for our regions half?

In our region there are less then half the teams that want to go to nationals. The tournament fee for nationals is somewhere close to $800 or so. Our region pays half of that for the Prime Time teams. When a team signs up for Prime Time they put up their $400 in case they win. If they don't win they get their money back.

I think the problem they are trying to avoid by doing this is having a team qualify and then some point later say they don't want to go because the team can't afford the air fair and stuff. In that case the region could get in trouble depending how late that came. By having the team put up half the amount they get a commitment that they will go to nationals.