Imagine...
Imagine you are an athlete. You spend at least eight hours a day training. You train to be among the best and to win tournaments. You may obtain money either from sponsorships or from monthly funding by a particular organisation. You may not be as lucky as your more popular counterparts who earn millions just by endorsing brands. You have a family to feed. But you don't complain. Nevertheless, you do hope the money you earn from competitions will enable you to take your wife for a nice dinner or buy your child a cool toy as a gift. So you compete in this tournament, drop dead confident of bagging the main prize. You slug it out with some of the best in the scene and after a good fight you emerge victorious. The spotlight is on you and you make headlines - all for the right reasons. Suddenly you are told that you are unable to receive the prize money that you deserve simply because the organisers have not obtained 'funding' from a third party. You wait, you wait...