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Originally Posted by Libby K
Other advice: Make sure your events are evenly spread out. In MAR, the team I work with is set pretty closely to the population center of teams, and yet we have to drive an hour or more to any of our district events (2+ hours for DCMP). I can't speak for our neighboring teams, but this is a pretty stressful thing on our budget. In fact, since going to districts 1923 has spent about as much money on hotels/buses/other transport in one season than we did from 2006-2010. Part of that is from team growth (30 > 100+ students), and part of that is because we need a bus and a hotel for each of our events now rather than -maybe- once per year. It's tough on us.
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Why do you have hotel rooms for events that a 1 hour away? 1712 hasn't stayed in a hotel once since MAR went to districts. Granted, Hatboro and Chestnut Hill are both an easy commute for us, but we've also attended events in Lenape (1 hr) and Bethlehem (70min) without booking hotels. Those are equivalent commute as WWPW to Mt Olive or Lenape. We use school buses to commute to events, so we haven't spent a penny of team funds on travelling since MAR districts began.