[GeoStL] Re: IS anyone interseted in forming a Geocaching team
- From: "Drei Michels" <Drei.Michels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:48:19 -0700
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Mike here is an great explaination for the break down.
Thanks DREICAT I\\\'m actually not surprised at all. Some people will
be sceptical of the fee scale at first. I\\\'m happy to explain.
The current session has a slightly augmented scale because the first 2
teams to signup were promotional (i.e. free). Basically, $50 per team
goes into the prize fund. That is 1/3rd of the cost to signup.
The trophy costs are also included in the league fee for both teams and
individuals. These vary based on the type of trophy, but considering
these need to be shipped out as well youre talking about $250 in trophy
costs for 1 team of 10. This across 10 teams would be another $25 (for
a new total of $75 per team of 10).
There are also website development costs, administrative costs to run
the league (peoples time) and yes, we are making some profit. Much of
it will go back into the league in the form of promitions and give aways
for the upcoming league sessions.
If we really look at the breakdown of all costs involved with the
current session. Let\\\'s presume we have 10 teams
$1500 - Total Team Signup Value (10 teams x $150)
- $300 for the 2 promotional teams. (2x150)
- $300 (estimated) trophy cost with shipping to all players
- $400 Prize money
That leaves $500 which covers the administrative costs, new development
and upcoming prizes, advertisting, etc. For the league to succeed we to
have some money in order to offer better prizes and cache funds.
That means Cacheleague.com is keeping less than 1/3rd of the dues.
Over 2/3rd of it is going back into the team and the players. We\\\'re
quite proud of what we have and expect it to grow in the future offering
players more prizes and better prizes. While we build funds we\\\'ll be
using much of it to offer bigger and better prizes.
Thanks and we hope to see you in the game!
Drei Michels
Systems Manager
RiverFront Times
6358 Delmar Blvd. Suite 200
St. Louis, MO. 63130
drei.michels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(314)-754-5903 Direct Line
>>> griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx 3/2/2004 11:30:57 AM >>>
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So if 10 teams enter, at 150.00 per team = 1500.00. Then I have to
enter in
all the caches I do on this website, and enter them into GC.com. And if
we
get 1st we get a cash prize of 400.00? Where does the 1100.00 go? Seems
to
me that this guy is taking people to the cleaners.. I can't see paying
money
to create more work with caching. If he was keeping around 200.00 per
session or even 400.00 per session, I could see it but he is trying to
make
too much off of this.
I like the concept, but not the greed. I cache because it gives me
something
to do when I hike or something social. I hate entering logs into GC.COM
and
to think about entering them in 2 places?
I am not surprised that Illinois and Michigan jumped on it as they do a
lot
of team activities in their local area. The 3 top cachers in Chicago
also
have a team but I couldn't get them down here to compete.
If he would scrape the logs from GC.Com weekly and publish stats based
upon
that, I might be interested.
Good luck though, it sounds like fun... Just too much on the backend
for me
to do and not enough given back to the cachers who do all the work..
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drei Michels" <Drei.Michels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:05 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] IS anyone interseted in forming a Geocaching team
> -
> This team is for a league like bowling and darts. But is for
Caching.
> The cost is based per-team. Which is $150 a team. If you get 10
team
> members it comes out to $15 per person. These costs go to towards
many
> things including the prize money and awards. If your team wins or
you
> win one of the individual achieivement awards (See Awards link)
> you\\\'ll actually get a physicial award (trophy, plaque, etc).
> The website for this is http://www.cacheleague.com Please check it
out
> and let me know if anyone is interested. I would love to get a SLAGA
> team together and win this thing. It would be great.
>
> Please let me know ASAP. It start March 29. If I don't have any
taker
> bye the end of the week I will join another team.
>
>
> Drei Michels
> Systems Manager
> RiverFront Times
> 6358 Delmar Blvd. Suite 200
> St. Louis, MO. 63130
> drei.michels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (314)-754-5903 Direct Line
>
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