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On Feb 7, 1:39 pm, Wick <Wick.D...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 7, 12:29 pm, "Voice of Reason" <conscie...@uscf-reborn.org>
wrote:

Sam criticizes Blas and Eric for failing to pay guaranteed prizes
but the plain truth is that the prize amounts were not guaranteed.
Sam does not even pay his apartment rent.

This is just incorrect. The prize fund was 70% guaranteed. The
organizers paid out only 50%.

The organizers of the Miami Open failed to honor their guarantee.

The "voice of reason" has actually made Sam Sloan seem accurate in >comparison. Neat trick that.

There is an Act of God clause within the agreement governing the
size of the prize fund.

God acted.

End of discussion.

It is to be so hoped that you are less negligent when advising your
clients, Wick.

Deer has actually made Parking Tickets judge Brian O'Laugherty seem
accurate by comparison. Neat trick, that.

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Voice of Reason wrote:

On Feb 7, 1:39 pm, Wick <Wick.D...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 7, 12:29 pm, "Voice of Reason" <conscie...@uscf-reborn.org>
wrote:

Sam criticizes Blas and Eric for failing to pay guaranteed prizes
but the plain truth is that the prize amounts were not guaranteed.
Sam does not even pay his apartment rent.

This is just incorrect. The prize fund was 70% guaranteed. The
organizers paid out only 50%.

The organizers of the Miami Open failed to honor their guarantee.

The "voice of reason" has actually made Sam Sloan seem accurate in >comparison. Neat trick that.

There is an Act of God clause within the agreement governing the
size of the prize fund.

God acted.

End of discussion.

It is to be so hoped that you are less negligent when advising your
clients, Wick.

Deer has actually made Parking Tickets judge Brian O'Laugherty seem
accurate by comparison. Neat trick, that.

(alt.privacy.anon-server removed from Newsgroups: list where Deer inconsiderately placed it, replaced with a newsgroup more suited to discussions about Sam Sloan)

Nonsense. There wasn't any hurricane preventing players from coming to
the tournament. The organizers argued that the _possibility_ of a
hurricane might have _discouraged_ players from coming. The real
reason they reneged on the prize fund was that they had a lousy
turnout. If a small organizer did that, he'd be stomped on. Letting
Lugo and his associates get away with it was disgraceful. This has
nothing to do with Sloan (he didn't originate most of the arguments he
made). It's a question of integrity.

It's not clear that the USCF can do much to get the prizes paid, but
at the very least Lugo (and perhaps Hecht, one of his backers, though
that's not so clear) should be held up to public contempt. So should ignoramuses like you, who defend them.
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[quote="nolan"]Here's a list of 91 Grand Prix events since 1/1/2008
that offered 30 or more Grand Prix points. (All sections are
included, USCF IDs are counted only once, so re-entries and section
changes should be factored out.)

There aren't very many events where the percentage of 'local' players
(defined as living within 150 miles) is less than 44% (two of those
being in Bermuda), and for around a quarter of these events it was 90%
or higher:


[code]
tnmt_eventid tnmt_name state players within
150 Pct
------------ ----------------------------------- ----- -------
---------- -----

200809147431 2008 MIAMI OPEN FL 212
114 53.8

[/code][/quotte]You have 212 players in the Miami Open of which 114
came from 150 miles of Miami.

Is my understanding of the data correct?

This seems to support the view that an above average number of out-of-
state players played, which means that the possibility of a hurricane
was not a significant factor.

Sam Sloan
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