BenAround wrote:ummm, everyone of your arguments is from PGF's perspective.
Also yer bending lots of truths ...
Or, you can ask the about 35 teams traveling ask ???
The hotel rates are exactly the same. They are? Really ?? In my experience you call 3 times and get three different rates. Odds are that most of the teams could have stayed cheaper, if they were allowed to. Are you in politics ?
No one payed anything additional. No One ? Not the team that can get a better deal but has to pay a $1500 extortion fee? Not the team that passed up a better deal to AVOID the $1500 extortion fee?
If you are PGF why would you want to have ASA get that money?Umm, we're not PGF buddy. Are you ??
If you're a team, and your ASA insurance was good enough for a qualifier, you're gonna wonder why the rules were changed for the tourney. Basically the answer you give is that PGF figured out another way to take more $$$.
Again, Every single one of your arguments is from PGF's perspective.
Take yer PGF hat off and slip on one from an attending team...................All yer starting to end up with is "At least we're not in a crummy location". Not much to hang yer hat on is it ?
I have
nothing at all in any related shape or service to do with PGF. I make no money from them, team does not get a free berth. There is no way for anyone to construe me as connected to PGF in anyway shape or form. Gary has no idea who I am, we do not communicate in any fashion. I am quite sure that I have posted things here in the past that has made PGF unhappy. PGF proper would probably have a different take on this post.
We are merely a team that is attending from out of town. We are more than happy to stay in one of the hotels PGF has selected. The rates are very reasonable. We come to that part of the country a lot for tournaments and we know the rates of the hotels. PGF has done a fine job providing a range of hotel options and the rates are within what we always pay for rooms in that area. Yeah, perhaps bid on a room on Priceline and you get lucky you can get one of these hotels for $10 less a night, but really it is not that big of deal.
Every organization NSA, ASA, PGF, USSSA, require
their insurance to attend
their nationals. I have never faulted ASA for that, and I am not going to fault PGF for it. It just makes common sense. Oh, BTW, most of the organizations have a waiver process. You write the league directly and they look at your request. I suspect, since everyone is buying bollinger insurance, they will have a hard time denying a request for a waiver to accept your insurance.
Currently for us, PGF is a great option. It was a no brainer to buy PGF insurance, as we planned on attending PGF the whole time.
I suspect that anyone that posts in favor of PGF, you would call them Kool-aid drinkers or question their integrity, which is fine. People are free to read what I have posted in the past and make their own judgement.
In fact, I will throw out what you are really missing about PGF. PGF must soon come up with a way of being governed by a group, including votes. Also, I believe that PGF must maintain a stated mission to find a way to work with ASA. As MTR points out, ASA is still "the national governing body". It is too the end benefit of the sport to have
one very well run organization. While I had hoped ASA would see what was happening, and I still believe this is possible. Having the teams stomp off in one direction is a reasonable short term solution to the problem, but longer term thought should be applied how things can be brought back together.