I have very substantial heart burn with a $75 entry fee. My first
though was $60, which is a little more than 2x our normal fee of $25-
$30. It's also important to keep in mind we're effectively taking
in 600 single day entries, but only paying 300 worth of sanction and
insurance. An effective saving of $4.50/driver/day ($2500+).



I went out and researched divisional pricing around the country.

Mi Div series <$60
SW Div series = $60
SE Div series = $60
GASS <$50 (CenDiv+GLDiv)
NEDiv = $60
SOWDiv = $50
RMDiv = $60

Lots outside Cali are cheaper, but they're also not expecting the
number of people we do so the fee is spread out over less people
there.



Crunching numbers. The results of Guy's prelim budget imply $26 of
every entry goes towards the series prize purse. Resulting in an
AVERAGE series podium prize of $200+ (Note top prizes will be
higher) If I simply replace $75 with $60 entries across the board,
I get $11 of every entry going towards the series prize purse.
Resulting in an average series podium prize of $85+.

Now, in my opinion, Guy's expense budget is overstated (list more
expenses than there is) and the income budget has no contribution
from a Test & Tune or sponsors. There is also what I consider too
many series podium finisher's assumed (115). So I'm convinced the
prize numbers have nowhere to go but up as the budget gets refined.



I'm also having trouble getting reasonable numbers with a $75 fee
when you have odd cases. A non-SCCA member should be +$15, making
the fee $90 for non-SCCAs. We've also adopted the idea that a
person could run a single day if they couldn't make the whole
weekend. This would put a single day entry at $40.



Guy, Chris and Mark have taken quick adoption to a $75 entry fee. I
just don't know if that's going to be in our best interest.


I'd like to hear some thoughts.


Jay W
505/287 Dakota






--- In CSCC_Divisional@yahoogroups.com, "Jayson" <woodrufj@...>
wrote:
>
> Planning Committee members. It looks like we're going to be
forced
> into making a decision on entry fees earlier than I had planned.
>
> Firstly, entry fees are not ultamately up to us. The E-Board will
> have the final word. But I'm sure they're take our input very
> strongly.
>
> Now, the difficulty is Guy and the California series has put
> together a very preliminary budget for all three regions. I
> uploaded the budget on this group site, and it can be found here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yw3zpa
> (excel file)
>
> His Budget assumes an entry fee of $75 with 300 entrants at each
> location.
>
> It results in an average of $202 per series podium finisher
> (assuming 115 podium finishers)
>
> I'll list my opinions in another message.
> You can see Mark, Chris and Guy's opinions in the e-mail chains of
> messages "Cali Series Conversations" and "Cali Series
Conversations;
> part 2"
>
> Jay W
> 505/287 Dakota
>