Hey everyone,
I am organsing the NZ Freestyle Footbag Champs and am considering making it an official IFPA sanctioned event. At first I was discouraged due to the fact that if you wanted to compete in open you would have to become a member, hence higher costs for all the players.
Then I thought I want this sport to get bigger (and taken seriously), and that's what the IFPA is about and now want to get it sanctioned, but I just don't want it to effect the number of people who will compete. (Our currency is worth half what the US dollar is so it's a reasonable cost to add to registration).
What I want to know is who here would be discouraged from competing if they had to spend $10 US extra just to compete?
IFPA Sanctioning??
IFPA Sanctioning??
Floyd Morgan
http://www.footbag.co.nz
http://www.footbag.co.nz
And one other *important* thing I need to say here:
The IFPA is *your* organisation.
One of the mandates of the IFPA is to achieve a measure of international respect for the game by gaining admission as an "official sport" by the International Olympic Commitee. But this is by no means its only mandate.
The primary purpose of the IFPA is to educate the general public and doing this requires more than a volunteer board of directors. It requires the players to take the initiative to start things on their own. The IFPA is there to support and facilitate *you* in doing the kinds of things *you* want to do.
The IFPA is not some group of people that are getting rich off your $10. It is a non-profit, democratic institution that is working very hard to make it possible for *you* to make footbag into something bigger than what it is.
Get invloved!!
PS Floyd, obviously I cannot encourage you enough to get IFPA sanctioning. There will be some very valuable resources for people hosting tournaments released by the IFPA in the near future, so please keep stay tuned.
The IFPA is *your* organisation.
One of the mandates of the IFPA is to achieve a measure of international respect for the game by gaining admission as an "official sport" by the International Olympic Commitee. But this is by no means its only mandate.
The primary purpose of the IFPA is to educate the general public and doing this requires more than a volunteer board of directors. It requires the players to take the initiative to start things on their own. The IFPA is there to support and facilitate *you* in doing the kinds of things *you* want to do.
The IFPA is not some group of people that are getting rich off your $10. It is a non-profit, democratic institution that is working very hard to make it possible for *you* to make footbag into something bigger than what it is.
Get invloved!!
PS Floyd, obviously I cannot encourage you enough to get IFPA sanctioning. There will be some very valuable resources for people hosting tournaments released by the IFPA in the near future, so please keep stay tuned.
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I guess you could look at is as aspiring to a higher ideal. I mean, anybody competing wouldn't disagree with the IFPA's chief aims so the only problem would be the extra $10.
For most people it should be ok and I guess some people could shout for others but it really is imposing the aims onto another person, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
What would be good would be a donation of $10 instead as it has the best of both ways. Course that can't happen so I'd say just make it an IFPA sanctioned event. Those that can't afford it could definetely earn enough by busking and scabbing/borrowing off others.
For most people it should be ok and I guess some people could shout for others but it really is imposing the aims onto another person, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
What would be good would be a donation of $10 instead as it has the best of both ways. Course that can't happen so I'd say just make it an IFPA sanctioned event. Those that can't afford it could definetely earn enough by busking and scabbing/borrowing off others.
Jon Lee
Thanks Allan. Having been intimately involved in putting on a number of large footbag events including the 1997 World Championships (which still holds the record for the largest prize money pool in the history of the sport at over $16,000), I understand the effort involved in making a footbag event successful and enjoyable for all participants. It takes a lot of time and energy and frequently money, and mostly for little to no thanks. I don't know of a footbag tournament that has made a profit. Most are largely underwritten by the people putting them on. Sponsorship revenues (yeah right) and entry fees frequently don't cover the costs of a decent event. So, thanks again Allan!!!dizzy wrote:I always try to pay the full entrance fee at whatever tournament I attend to try to support the people that put the thing on.
I do this is even if I don't plan on competing. And even if I don't really have the money.
A
Kenny Shults