Increasing Regionals and International Championship prizing
Regionals and International Championship prizing desperately needs to be increased. The entry fee has been increasing since 2013 steadily, and prizing has not increased since 2018.
To put that in to perspective, one dozen eggs at my local grocery store cost $1.74 in 2018, and now I can find a dozen eggs for no less than $5.08. If prizing increased by almost 3x, like the price of eggs did, prizing would be $15,000 for 1st place, which I don't believe is too much money.
If TPCi only increases it by 2x, they could at least increase the number of attendants that get prizing. I believe that at least the top 128 should get merchandise prize support, and at least top 64 get monetary prize support of at least $500 to pay for the price of entry and travel.
I also think that TPCi needs to decrease the entry fee to $50 for masters, and $30 for juniors and seniors. The entry fee is ridiculous for a company whose revenue was 1.6 BILLION dollars last year.
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