"It's really not about the money sometimes," added Duong. "It's more about how much time I have to invest," he said noting that when he's putting so much effort into running a fighting game tournament, he's not able to put that into his business. Click to expand...

kirblar said: Note to players: do NOT complain about TOs making money. They need to make money, or there isn't a next year. Click to expand...

BobbyRoberts said: Spending 6k on Jaeger shots or whatever might not be the wisest of expenditures. Click to expand...

From the article (emphasis mine).This statement struck me as odd. Particularly the emphasized part. If you're quantifying your statement with that, it says to me that you're not doing it for the reasons stated. If you're running tournaments with an excessive concern on money (not necessarily making it, but the cash in general) thenThis isn'ttrue. It depends on the disposition of the TOs running the event. In the end, they have toto do it the next year. The reasons and impetus for them doing are many. There are those that are willing to take a loss, but also have a better understanding of how to make it anloss.While I don't think that this is the issue (and I believe the receipt we saw was 2,000 CAD along with people stating there were other bills that were paid that night), but supportive of my point before about doing it for the wrong reasons.The main point being that I think that Lap was doing this for the wrong reasons, or that the expectations of what the return would be for the expenditure of resources wentbeyond his threshold, even from the beginning.With posting the receipt, stating hard loss numbers in the EH article, etc. what is the message he'strying to send? I'm generally an empathetic person, but I find it difficult to do so when someone brags about their losses in this manner.Respectfully, the overall message from Lap strikes me as looking for empathy/sympathy when there's no real reason for it. There's nothing in the article that reads that he actuallythat he took a financial loss, that it's more about the time invested.And if you want to talk about TO costs, time is always the biggest one for any major. It's not shortly after ECT and TFC ends (we're talking a timespan of one-two months) that I know the talks about the next year ramp up and action items start coming up. While money is definitely a factor, it's a grind that let's uplittle during the year for an event of any reasonable size.