The race director's math is just awful look at what he wrote.
the Race Director wrote:
Since we began our advertising campaign in early 2015, we have been promoting (with proof) $15,000 in prize money. The breakdown on our website has always and still is the same. Yes, it seems to be unclear to a few people, however, several people have come forward and said they knew it was a mistake and fully understood how the prize money was to be divided. If you add up the numbers with the total prize money being split between male and female, you will see that it adds up to $15,000. The way you think the prize money should be divided totals $30,000. DO THE MATH. If we had the original intention of giving $30,000, we damn well sure would have advertised our prize money at $30,000 instead of $15,000 to attract more participants, obviously.
That's simply not true.
I added it all up. If you add up what they actually paid out (1800 each for first), it adds up to $24,500 as there is no double dipping on the costume stuff.
As shown as follows:
10 milers - $7000 total ($1800 for 1st, $1000 for 2nd, $600 for 3rd x 2 sexes)
10k - $6400 total ($1600 for 1st, $1000 for 2nd, $600 for 3rd x 2)
5k $5600 total ($1400 for 1st, $900 for 2nd, $500 for third x 2 sexes)
10 masters - $1500 ( $250 for each winner in 3 age groups x 2 sexes)
Teams $2000 total ( $800 1st, $500 2nd, $400, 3rd, $200 4th, $100 5th)
Costume $2000 total ( $800 1st, $500 2nd, $400, 3rd, $200 4th, $100 5th)
There is simply no way to get to $30,000 by any math. Even if you double the team and costume for both sexes, which I assume ould be a mistake, you'd only get to $28,500.
Sadly, I think the race director will get his money back by not offering prize money at all next year.