I'm surprised they begged him to carry on with it in 2016 given they evidently made a loss. One of the opening bits of the email talks about paying back 2016 losses before the 2017 one can go ahead.Zeyes wrote:Which leads to two questions:The Ginge Reaper wrote:The difference is this was an event with "BDO" in the title.Zeyes wrote:I didn't quite believe it at the time, but it's there in writing: The BDO / Sportotal expected Shownights to pay for basically everything including the prize money, while not allowing them to retain any revenues except from ticket sales (har, har) and food and drink sales? What the hell kind of idiotic business proposal is that? That's not how it works with any other tournament promoter that gets BDO ranking points, I reckon.
Had they ran it on their own, none of those demands would have been made.
1) Whose idea was it to brand the first edition in 2016 as a "BDO event"? Given that the BDO brass apparently begged Dobinson not to cancel it back then, I get the impression that it was them who were pushing for it. (Particularly ironic as nobody really even seemed to notice at the time that this was supposed to be a BDO-name brand event, rather than a standard privately promoted open with ranking points...)
2) Was Stephen Holland / BDO Events stupid enough to sign a similar "you shoulder all of the risks, we pick up most of the revenues" contract with the BDO for the original World Trophy in 2014, and he's simply on the other side now?
As for what Holland signed, the fact BDO Events posted £300k worth of losses probably shows they agreed to similar terms. He's clearly trying to make a fast buck, wonder what % of the £10,000 he was going to get?
Dobinson should have worked with the EDO and got the event sanctioned that way. Not impossible, the ladies event in London is only EDO for the convenience of applying for points isn't it? As far as I knew it's a private promoter who stumps up for it.
Having "BDO" in the name of the event: how many more entries is that going to get than if it wasn't there? Not many, if any.