Yeah that's a pretty big issue considering the prices on tickets from coast to coast. I could honestly only see the money strictly going to one person, or being split up amongst them. If donations were thrown in a paypal account, like Cali is doing that would also make it easier. But no one is going to donate from outside of Canada to watch Canadians play each other, unlike Cali. Maybe even taking out a small percentage of the pot from the main event for so many tournaments before the big show happens would also scratch in some dough for more people to make an appearance.
But again the biggest issue is just lack of attendance on WC, so money wouldn't come in as quickly like EC tournaments, which as far as I know average over 20 people, no?
Tinman was able to make it here because of homo-oli-love but not sure if anyone here would be willing to throw down a few hundred from their own pocket to make TO joe's appearance happen. So smaller things would have to be setup for an extended period of time I'm thinking.