Re: Hearn responds to Ronnie's "blackmail" comments
Wild WC wrote:Witz78 wrote:once we move to a flat 128 system the scope for prize money districution will be better as no losers will recieve a penny so everyone who gets paid will have earned their money.
Last 128 - nothing, if you lose you dont get paid, simples
Last 64 - if you win one game you get at least enough to cover your expenses for the x number of days at the qualifiers
Last 32 - if you qualify for the venue and lose in round 1 at the venue, you will at least recieve enough cash to cover your flights, hotels, expenses for going to the venue too
And once you start making the last 16 , last 8 etc onwards then you are making profit.
This is an initial idealistic model, a worst case scenario id expec and hope for.
ive come round to the flat system but never a ranking system that makes Carter top 8 based on one run at the worlds.
you still dont get it.
for all them round 1 defeats he had all season he wouldnt get any cash for them so his total earnings / ranking would be down a bit.
However reaching the World Final is a big achievment and it is clearly poorly rewarded ranking wise at the moment, and this will be rectified under an Order of Merit.
But one point to note is under a flat 128 qualifying set up, rankings will not be overly critical anymore as there wont be anyone automatically getting seeded through to venues anyway so the "elite" element will no longer exists. So long as your in the top 32 then youd expect to get a favourable draw in qualifying, (ie. worst case scenario, you play 65th seed in round 1 and 33rd seed in round 2)
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