I am happy to support my local league and that in turn helps support pinball. What does the $1 exactly go to? Not sure I really understand. If it's to increase the prize pool for State/National events then not no....but HELL NO. Go get corporate sponsorship for prizes if that's the end game and goal. I enjoy our local league for fun. I don't travel for other tourneys nor do I plan to.
If IFPA wants to take money from state events to increase the prize pool for National events that is fine. Local events do not benefit from this so no money should be taken from local league play events.
And in the other thread IFPA basically tells how to get around and only pay a dollar a year. The catch to that is you only report your scores once a year. That's not fun if people want to watch theirs or others rankings. And doesn't that defeat the purpose of adding the fee?
I did quick math and our local league does three seasons of about 8 weeks and a finals. We have about 40-50 players weekly so for 3 8 week periods that's about $960 if everyone paid a dollar a week over one year. How many other leagues are there.....ALOT if you start asking around. I suspect easy enough well over $500K to $1mil could be raised. I smell something very afoul the second fees come into play and then IFPA doesn't want to collect it...that's a red flag right there.
Would it make sense for IFPA to track everyone's scores from results submitted per event and sends THAT player/person a bill to pay at one dollar per event and that person pays IFPA. It can all be done automatically. If the person does not pay the ranking is not official. Those that plan/choose to enter state/national tourneys can pay the fee for their rank to be "current/valid/verified" or whatever you would like to call it. That is fair to everyone. Those that want verified ranked scores have that option and those that just want to play for fun in their local league don't pay for something they don't want/need. Everyone's happy.
Bottom line is unless the IFPA is gonna evenly distribute "Collections/Fees" back to the local league/tourneys and increase those prize pools it will only detract from local leagues. If local leagues benefitted from it in some way they would embrace a small fee with little to no issue.
May be starting my own underground league........