Non-use of gold rounds during minor tournaments:skirmish, ante meridiem &...

Lowecore, on Sep 12 2012 - 18:04, said: I find that hard to believe LF. Lets do a bit of assumed math.
The payouts of all prizes for the current challenge is around 50,000 gold. There are 175 teams of which 5 players will see the field for a total of 875+ players ( total players would be closer to avg 7 players per team = 1225 players ). I myself spend about 1500 gold per tourny to move crews, buy ammo/ consumables, and convert xp for needed tanks etc( that's oner way transfer, it could cost me an additional 1k gold to move them back after). Lets be stingy and say that the average player will spend 1000gold, and lets assume only 1/2 of all players involved will spend this gold for a total gold usage of 1000x437players= 437,000gold.
So by my math, and I think Im being pretty fair 400,000+ gold is spent on each challenge, with payouts of approx 50,000. That's not really near equal. You could chop my estimated amount of players who will spend gold in 1/2, from 437 to just 200, or only 40 5 man teams, and you'd still come up with a gold usage of 4x the total payout.
I'd like to ask how you think 175 teams of 8 players each will only spend 50,000 gold on a 9 round tourny?