Meh. I can take it or leave it, I go to events to interact with others that enjoy the same hobby I do. I certainly do not use the prize fund as a barometer to judge whether it was, "successful" or not.

On the other hand, I have hosted and run events that have donated many thousands of $$ to local charities. I would consider those events, "successful" (for the charities, if for nothing else), and it could be ASSUMED that many of the participants considered it successful, as they freely spent their money at the event one way or the other (food, raffle, entry, just a plain donation without expectation of anything in return). The REAL measure of a, "successful" event is the satisfaction achieved by those who attended. I am sure that for every "successful" event that I have run, there have been those who attended that did not feel the same way.


Astro