It's easy to blame the players for making a deal, but the crux of the problem was touched on earlie by Paul Jackson. The prize structure goes double, double between 3rd and 2nd, and 2nd and 1st. This is not true in other sports. If 1st prize collected 32%, 2nd prize collected 25% and 3rd prize collected 20% then the likelyhood of a deal would be considerably less. I'm afrad it's about time that Tournament organisors started changing the percentages so that 2nd 3rd and 4th places took a higher cut from the pool.
Having said that, making a deal where getting the trophy is part of the deal is pathetic. How do you ever know if you would have won it fairly?
My vote goes 100% with this quote, Also if ever in a deal situation i try to encourge the pther players to leave money in the pot for the winner, although not the ideal solution it make s the game truer for me and win seem real whatever level of comp it is.
Dont know if it was a repeat or not but i thought TK got some good points across well about certain failings in the sport on 425 last night.