--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "Emil Thomas Chuck" <etchuck_at_y...> wrote: I am sure that we lost money hosting > MLK Jr in January. This makes me very curious. According to the dollar amounts that you posted in message 8156, added up for those teams that actually showed up and are listed in message 8291, the Duke MLK tournament grossed about $800. How do you spend more than that on a 10-team tournament? > Running college tournaments is not a fundraiser for the most part; > it's usually a money pit black hole if you account the number of > hours of editing and effort per team attending. I understand your point, which is that the amount of money that you get for a typical tournament can be small relative to the number of hours that you spend editing and doing other organizing work. But this does *not* mean that running a college tournament is "not a fundraiser." If you have a bake sale, but your net profit turns out to be less than $5.15 per person-hour worked, does that mean the bake sale was a "money pit black hole"? Of course not. In the case of a quiz bowl tournament, the volunteers spend those hours gaining experience that helps them to be better quiz bowl players. If you run a college tournament that charges teams a base fee in triple digits in U.S. dollars, and you lose money, then either you're providing something much more lavish than the typical college tournament, or else you're using not generally accepted accounting principles among quiz bowl clubs.
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