I would like to offer an additional "Third" option solution
to
funding the qualifiers.

I will be happy to provide and AO-E Shaft for each event. I suggest
that you raise the entry fee to $35.00 and give each player a $5.00
raffle ticket in return for the extra $5.00 and use the ticket to
draw for the AO-E Shaft.

Based on my research at AZBILLIARDS you averaged 40 players per
event during 2004. Using this raffle idea, you would generate an
average additional revenue of $200.00 per event to be used for
qualifiers. If you get more than you need at some events, keep the
extra money in a special "Qualifier Only Account" for the
next
event. By the end of the year, you should have more money than you
paid out and you might reduce the qualifier fee for the end of the
year tournament.

As most of you probably know, the AO-E shaft is the best,
(Spelled `least deflecting'), shaft on the market today. Test
results are posted on my website at http://www.annieosproshop.com
–
click on the AO NT Shafts link to see the data.

I hope this helps. See you all in February.

Annie



--- In hunterclassicstour@yahoogroups.com, "Melinda" <recplay@y...>
wrote:
>
> Hello Ladies!
>
> Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Christmas is coming up
> soon...time sure does fly, huh?
>
> We need your opinion! We have always been pleased to be the only
> Regional Tour to have each of our stops be qualifiers, but in the
> past several years we have not recouped the amount we are paying
for
> the qualifiers from the $50 fee we have charged. The qualifier
> amount is $500, with an additional $100 for the room to be a WPBA
> member. Therefore, we need 12 players at each stop to break even
on
> the qualifier. When we don't get 12 players, the Hunter Tour puts
> up the rest of the money. We would like to add one or two
> additional stops but cannot as long as we are losing money on
nearly
> every stop.
>
> We see two possible solutions to this problem and would like your
> opinion before we make our decision:
>
> One: Do not have each stop be a qualifier - if there are fewer
> qualifiers, then perhaps there will be more demand when we do have
> one.
>
> Two: Divide the $500 for the actual qualifier by the number of
> players who are interested in participating - if there are 15
> players participating it would be $33 each, if there are 10
players
> participating it would be $50 each, if there are 5 players
> participating it would be $100 each.
>
> We need your opinion by *December 19th* so we can start
advertising
> for our first stop at Fast Eddies in Austin on February 12-13.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and opinions!
>
> Sincerely,
> The Hunter Tour Board Members