The cost of entry is irrelevent, however the fact that you insist on people paying to take part should mean were getting something back in return that no other league offers. The only thing you offer that no other series offers is entry to the international round, right?
Why does this series warrent people paying to enter? There are plenty of events out there, free to join, and they're organised just as well as this, infact more-so based on what little you've proved so far. Its all promises of wonder, yet all the evidence points to nothing but arrogance that people will just ignore all the holes and failures in the setup and come flooding in because of the possibility to race in the international race.
Could you remind everyone how much the International folks paid to race? i'll quite happily pay for everyone who wants to race if its at the same price as they paid. So you'll run that for free but not the rest? They get free entry, prizes people want rather than country fair raffle ticket type prizes?
Infact, heres your answer! Take your 50-€ poker kit, stick it... on ebay
and let that pay for your 'expenses and work', sod the crap prizes people dont care about winning and you'll have people signing up in no time.
Question: If there was a league, free or pay to play, information was slow, details were rather last minute, you had to drive in 3rd-person camera and had 2 weeks notice of it starting... would you join??
Answer: Would you balls! You'd take one look and realise they cant even start the series efficiently so what hope is there of them running it half-decent and your not going out of your way to adapt to a new driving style with short notice of a badly organised event. Stop pretending this league is anything but an afterthought, someone else you can spoon some money off. You cant sort your end out, why should people come rushing to join something you havent even finished working on, and pay for the damn privelage too!
'do you get any prizes in any other league'
Wanna read my post? The BOTT series, the one your team joined and showed up for round 5 only, had you participated like you said you would you might have known they had prizes, cost of entry, nothing. They found sponsors, just like you have for the international series.
Even the UF Owners club have got some crappy car shop providing prizes, cost of entry, nothing.
As for being able to win a Wii or holiday if you get into the international series, dont forget to add thats after you beat:
N1lyn, Zock, Baggy, Chriskart, Vince, B0nd, Jay, Jonesy, Rudi, HuskyG, Sracer, Clownpaint, Misko.... Theres over 20 people who were invited because they're the best racers out there, and folks... if you beat all of them over 8 races then you'll win a Wii, and i'll thrown in a 360 too, a Ferrari 360 ffs.
Is that all there is? if i'd known this i'd have paid, joined, and started packing my suitcase and bought some sun-block already!
'£80.... It is to cover expenses and work'
expenses and work other leagues dont make their entrants pay for.
How much are UKCT getting? CRTA?? My bet is nothing, they're putting their free time into making this successful so you can be paid to do a couple of simple things, at least you've sorted your priorities.
'The rest is WiP, as you play a WiP product every day, I personally thought, you have some open mind for stuff being ready but still in development.'
We all paid for something that we couldnt get elsewhere, your charging for something we can get better for free elsewhere, maybe you should take a step back and open your mind a little?