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We fundamentally disagree here, here's the opposing view:
We're now at the point where the teams attending tournaments have more combined funding/support/freebies than the tournaments themselves, the ladder is slowly being pulled up behind the "elite" in the name of "innovation" and personal gain in the hope that the future of the sport is certain.
There are now less tournament organisers than business owners in bike polo, this will become a problem as tournaments (and all other volunteer-dependent aspects of bike polo) fail to become commercially viable, we're no where near this point currently... we're just hoping the funding/volunteering holds out.
Bike polo cannot currently sustain the direction it's heading in without the time/efforts of bike polo players. Every time someone perceives others to be making money from bike polo their desire to get involved without personal reward diminishes.
By sharing proceeds/benefits/whatever with the wider community you return to social norms and everyone feels at ease with pitching in again.
I'm not saying I'm right, but this is where I'm at. We can agree to disagree?
The two are far from mutually exclusive! In fact the former would actively increase the chance of the latter (social norms).