Not picking a fight...
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Topic: Not picking a fight...
Posted By: Jason Cherry
Subject: Not picking a fight...
Date Posted: 7/06/18 at 1:31pm
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Not picking a fight but as an intellectual conversation: A highland games competition takes place with A Class, B Class, Masters, and Women contesting the field. Awards are given for places 1-3 for each class. The games administrator/AD/comittee/string puller decides to give cash prizes in dropping denominations from 1st through 3rd for each instead of buying/paying S&H/taxes, etc on cheap Pakistan steel. Is this a problem for anyone? Thank you for your discussion and civility. Jase ------------- "Example is the best precept." ~ Aesop |
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Posted By: dWood
Date Posted: 7/06/18 at 3:07pm
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NOPE....but one novel thing I saw at a games was gas cards given out for placings(ie:1st place $25..2nd place $15..third $5 bucks) ------------- JUST BRING IT / SPEED KILLS..BUT STRENGTH PUNISHES |
Posted By: The Queen
Date Posted: 7/07/18 at 12:07pm
| I have absolutely no problem with this. I have given out Cash Prizes at games for "Non-Pro" classes and for Challenge events. In the early days we called them "Training Scholarships" but now I don't bother. |
Posted By: Sammy68123
Date Posted: 7/07/18 at 12:36pm
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Sounds like a clever idea, especially the gas (or even widely usable gift) card. ------------- Teresa Merrick Bellevue, NE |
Posted By: C. Smith
Date Posted: 7/07/18 at 6:31pm
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If you're offered money at a games, you take it. I doubt there are AD's anywhere who care, or who would check anyway. Open class ftw.
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Posted By: dWood
Date Posted: 7/07/18 at 10:22pm
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^^^^^ I concur w/ the great one!^^^^^^^ Only once in 20 years did an AD say I had to throw pro because I took money at a masters game...no biggie,but he no longer is an AD and I suck ------------- JUST BRING IT / SPEED KILLS..BUT STRENGTH PUNISHES |
Posted By: Krazy40
Date Posted: 7/09/18 at 9:19am
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Sounds like travel money to me. ------------- Jeremy Gillingham "Go Big or Go Home" Sponsors: http://www.stoutbarbell.com/Home_Page.html http://www.backinact.com/newpatients.htm |
Posted By: Borges
Date Posted: 7/09/18 at 11:46am
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There is currently no major organization with rules that prohibit the taking of prize money by any athlete. None. Further, there are no rules that say you are a pro if you take prize money. So...throw far and win money. It's the American way!!!!!! ------------- Cheers, Carlos "Live free or die" |
Posted By: Sammy68123
Date Posted: 7/09/18 at 10:42pm
In my very first games, in Scotland 2007, I won 10 GBP for taking 5th in HWD (along with a whiskey miniature). My entry to the festival (no separate athletics fee) for that day was 6 GBP. It was a pretty cool intro to heavy athletics. ------------- Teresa Merrick Bellevue, NE |
Borges wrote:Posted By: throw50
Date Posted: 7/11/18 at 7:43am
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I hate the idea of money as a prize. I certainly would take money as a prize, but it would remove one aspect of the games for me. 99% of us do it for the love and fun of the sport, for the laughs and the friendships. We look forward to certain games and prepare for them in our own way, some with weights, some with barley and hops The awards given at an event become "memory talismans" that hold the reminders to great throws, great laughs, an unfortunate sunburn, an ill-advised haggis lunch and a zillion other moments of significance for each of us. I have a unusual array of items I have won from games...from statues to an engraved round of aluminum...and they all remind me of at least one meaningful memory. I have a Nerf sword that was given in jest, but (given the memory and the friendship it was presented in) is one of my more valuable trophies of my career. If a third place finish defrays the cost of a meat pie at lunch, that is great, but, for me, there is significant value in the physical "thing" that is earned by competing well. Plus telling people that you spend your weekends stomping around in a field, in a kilt, tossing "that telephone thing" and winning swords....well, that is a sin of pride I highly enjoy
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Posted By: Mr. Natural
Date Posted: 7/11/18 at 8:32am
| I agree John! Much as I appreciate being paid to throw stuff, money is nowhere near as permanent (my 8-year-old keeps asking me when I', going to bring another sword home). |
Posted By: C. Smith
Date Posted: 7/11/18 at 8:51am
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Well, aren't you guys sentimental, lol. I have a closet full of swords, awards, trophies, etc... that I'd have traded for the cash equivalent in a second. Or a cheeseburger... I'd have likely traded them for a cheeseburger too.
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Posted By: Krazy40
Date Posted: 7/11/18 at 9:53am
Its nice getting all those things..... and money. ------------- Jeremy Gillingham "Go Big or Go Home" Sponsors: http://www.stoutbarbell.com/Home_Page.html http://www.backinact.com/newpatients.htm |
Posted By: Borges
Date Posted: 7/11/18 at 10:52am
I'd have CERTAINLY traded any of mine for a bacon cheeseburger and chili fries. ------------- Cheers, Carlos "Live free or die" |
Posted By: Jeff Ingram
Date Posted: 7/11/18 at 1:12pm
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If you don't need the cash you win at a Games (you know for food, or physiotherapy), save it, and use it to go somewhere you've never been to throw with people you've never met. I've never tried to pay for airfare with a Pakistani claymore but I doubt it would go over well.
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