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Message: [QUOTE="Frozen, post: 2247682, member: 167"] [URL="http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/11/21/great-alaska-shootout-enters-39th-year-but-a-40th-isnt-guaranteed/"]Great Alaska Shootout enters 39th year, but a 40th isn’t guaranteed[/URL] [I][B]...ESPN’s decision following the 2007 tournament to part ways with the [URL='http://www.goseawolves.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13400&SPID=6647&KEY=']Great Alaska Shootout[/URL] has made recruiting teams difficult, despite the Shootout’s current national television contract with the CBS Sports Network. “We have to pay a guarantee to get teams here, and they range from $40,000-70,000, depending on distance and quality,” Hackett said. “So yeah, we have to pay, but by comparison, other tournaments are paying $150,000 or $200,000 to teams to come.”[/B][/I] [/QUOTE]