A tournament company shifting from single-event bookings to a subscription-based touring product, a player contract inherited from the founder's earliest events, conduct issues surfacing at three of the last five stops, and no written exclusivity anywhere in the file. We rewrote the paper to match where the business had gone.
The inherited player contract addressed none of it. There was no exclusivity provision, no tiered payment structure, no per-diem, no promotional-support commitment, no fraternization or harassment policy, no attendance or punctuality standard, no green-room requirement, and no damages provision.
Recent events had surfaced player conduct problems the company had no paper to address.
We rebuilt the player contract for the touring product. Two-month trial contracts and six-month tour contracts, monthly payments in defined tiers, per-diem for travel, mandatory attendance and check-in through a company-issued device, a green-room requirement at all events, and a fine schedule tied to the company's playing rules imported as an exhibit.
We wrote the exclusivity provision to a competitor-defined standard and set enforcement rights at the touring-product level, not the individual-event level. We drafted separate fraternization and harassment policies as Exhibits A and B, each requiring separate signatures.
We built a one-page cheat sheet for player onboarding meetings and a template package the company can execute against each new signing without further legal review.
"The old paper was for a business we no longer ran. Brandon gave us paper for the one we did."
— Operator, Tournament Company
Companies grow past their founding documents constantly, and nobody notices until the gap causes a problem. A single-event contract has no reason to define exclusivity, because a single event does not compete with itself. A touring subscription product competes with every other tour a player could join, and the contract has to say so.
Conduct policies matter most exactly when nobody thinks they will be needed. A fine schedule and a harassment policy that exist only after an incident are reactive fixes. Built in before the next stop, they are just part of how the tour runs.
We rebuild player, performer, and athlete contracts when a business model has outgrown its founding paper, and we build the template so future signings do not require legal review every time.
Most engagements are flat fee, quoted before the work begins — and most matters resolve without litigation. Start with a free consultation.