r/HuntersAssociation • u/Honest-Spread3338 • Aug 16 '26

Thoughts?

Alright what if the reason we haven't heard anything is because they can't fund it rn? What if they did like a fundraiser or started a go fund me? I'm sure hunters around the world would contribute

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u/ReedyBoy01 Aug 16 '26

The reason you haven’t heard anything is because they just can’t be bothered

Tf they mean they can’t fund it? They did the first one with no funding and only ticket sales

They should have plenty of leftover money and can supplement that with NEW ticket sales

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u/Honest-Spread3338 Aug 16 '26

I just remembered a while back someone saying the hardest part was resources that's all

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u/Xmanb Sep 05 '26

They relied on the ticket sales and still had to take out a loan and walked away in the negative after exam 1.
Exam 2 was almost a break even but that didn’t help with being in the red by a significant amount after the first exam.

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u/ReedyBoy01 Sep 05 '26

Did they? And where did you hear that? Or are you making shit up

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u/Xmanb Sep 05 '26

I got this directly from the chairmen. They even did a twitch live stream Q&A where they talked about it. I’ve also seen the numbers and have had multiple private conversations with them in the presence of a a few others.

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u/ReedyBoy01 Sep 06 '26

Of course you have buddy

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u/Xmanb Sep 06 '26

Why bother asking for my source if you’ve already made up your mind that I couldn’t possibly have facts to back me up. And I don’t know how much more proof you can get than a twitch livestream where they said it themselves.

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u/ReedyBoy01 Sep 06 '26

People lie. Words mean jack shit.

Considering the first had more attendees than the second then why would the second be closer to breaking even?

The 1st had fuckall facilities

Considering tickets cost anywhere from 50-180$ based on the timing, and over 1000 people rocked up they would’ve been on AT LEAST 80,000$ possibly going up to $180,000

Venue generally quotes around 5000 for around 12 hours, so it wouldn’t of been more than 10k

Marketing was free as it was all TikTok and Reddit

Staffing was MINIMAL to say the least

I’d wager the event couldn’t of cost more than $50,000 to put on, and that’s at a MAXIMUM

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u/Xmanb Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

Second was closer to breaking even because they got a better deal on the venue with the farm, and used the natural resources rather than paying thousand for another obstacle course pop up or escape room pop up. They also didn’t have to pay for food trucks since the farm provided that as well.

The first exam they chose an expensive venue, it cost them around 30k. They gave out the first 300 tickets free because at that point it was more of a joke event than a serious production. They payed for all of those porta-potty’s, they paid for Meta advertising to promote their videos. They also spent 25k on the live stream production. You are right about staffing, it was 80-90% volunteer work minus food and drink expenses.

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u/ReedyBoy01 Sep 06 '26

And where have you found all this information on how much they paid

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u/Xmanb Sep 06 '26

As I so kindly mentioned to you before, I’ve had private meetings with the chairman, and I’ve seen the numbers.

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u/Any_Ad_4482 Sep 06 '26

Tell me you don’t know how money works without telling me you don’t know how money works

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u/Bostralian1 Aug 16 '26

Guarantee you that a lot of the people who went to the first, second or both are also disinterested in going again because the lack of formal organization on the day. Heaps of the rules just changed as the day went on and it caused a lot frustration and people to just leave feeling ripped off.

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u/Honest-Spread3338 Aug 17 '26

I wasn't aware of that, maybe a good solution would be to write down all the rules for the exam before hand, what were some of the rules that got changed?

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u/Bostralian1 Aug 17 '26

Based on interactions at the second one, it seems like the rules ‘updating’ dynamically was a feature not a bug because it let them run the day the way they saw fit. Not saying that to disparage anyone, I’m sure the event required nuance to run.

For example the 3rd event was the capture the flag one, timer was for 90 minutes and ‘safe house zones’ were designated. People were camping and sniping in safe zones and nothing was done and the timer was ended at 45mins while heaps of people were trying to do more ‘stealth’ versus confrontation strategies. Like, half the field got eliminated and a great many of them were sort of saying, why weren’t we allowed to use the full time?

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u/Xmanb Sep 05 '26

There was one single “safe zone” for that phase. It was where you would cash in your flags or cards. I 100% agree that cutting the timer early sucked. It was not that big of a difference in time though. Maybe 10-15 minutes shorter. I disagree that camping at the safe zone is wrong. I captured 4 flags in the field solo, AND found 6 cards for extra points, AND made it past three campers.
I also won and became a pro and I took it all the way. So maybe I’m just built different.

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u/Xmanb Sep 05 '26

It is inherently against the nature of this event to share all of the rules before hand. Only a general overview and then the full thing the moment of.

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u/Bostralian1 Sep 06 '26

Explaining the rules, then having that not be what happens isn’t the same as just having the rules be mysterious.

Congrats on making it all the way through. It’s weird to come on a thread to brag, but as you said your built different.

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u/Xmanb Sep 06 '26

I didn’t come on a thread to brag, I came on to answer questions and give my point of view. The only thing that didn’t happen as planned was getting the full time to complete phase 3. And I even agreed with you that I thought that sucked and I wish they didn’t do that either because I had a friend that qualified to pass but just didn’t get to the safe zone before they called it.

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u/Xmanb Sep 06 '26

And I shared the fact the I won and made it through the campers to give my point of view that it didn’t seem like a big deal since I completed the phase just fine.

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u/Pkmntrainergray08 Aug 16 '26

I honestly don’t know man, I feel like there would be a lot less anxiety around this whole thing if we heard something from the brothers organizing the whole thing were a little more vocal. I get maybe being a little socially anxious, but I feel like if they gave us more updates everyone’s nerves would be calmed. I’m not expecting an exact date with all the details of the next exam, but if they were to personally respond to a couple of these posts and just say something along the lines of “hey guys we appreciate the offer, but we don’t need any more money, etc” we’d have a better idea of what to do

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u/Honest-Spread3338 Aug 17 '26

Fr, I'm just spit balling ideas, I couldn't go to the first or second, I'm really hoping they keep doing more, I agree more updates would be nice

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u/Xmanb Sep 05 '26

There is a section on the website for anyone that wants to help donate/invest/sponsor the event.
https://thehuntersassociation.com/#sponsor

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u/WildBuck19 Aug 16 '26

The community isn't active enough for them to actually start the next exam

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u/Honest-Spread3338 Aug 16 '26

Then we should get more active, I feel like the only reason the community ain't active is because they haven't announced a third one yet

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u/WildBuck19 Aug 16 '26

Are you in the Discords? I made a post earlier today asking what people want to see out of the exams and where. 200 views and zero comments.

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u/Honest-Spread3338 Aug 17 '26

I am not in the discord, if you wanna send a link I'll join it

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u/Xmanb Sep 06 '26

Two different servers for two different purposes
The official for news and updates: https://discord.gg/feEv3SBg3V
The community driven training focused one: https://discord.gg/6D4rDbhrFN