kny wrote:
The pros pay an annual fee, so one or ten races per year generates the same revenue for WTC. WTC is interested only in that their pros have to race enough WTC events in order to get their points that it effectively keeps them away from Challenge, Rev3, and indies.^^THIS^^ has to be primary reason for the 50/35 slot allocation. If it were 50/50, Marinda, Steffen, Joyce, and the rest of the usual top 10 at Kona would be free to race Challenge and other races with larger purses rather than chasing points. Its not about keeping 36-50 off the pier, its about keeping 1-10 in as many of the other WTC races as possible.
If I'm not mistaken, WTC is allowed to call Kona a world championship due to some agreement/permission from the ITU even though they are not technically a governing body of triathlon. Tri Equal might have more success challenging WTC's ability to call Kona a WC.