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Originally Posted by JB987
We have no highschool venue large enough to handle the minimum 40 ish teams we were told we need to serve and cost of bringing in generator we would need brings overall cost to same as current venue we get for dirt cheap thanks to LV Convention Visitors Authority discount.
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I think the LV area has upwards of 2 million residents and about forty high schools. If our one high school in a community of about 8 thousand can host a district competition, surely one (or more) of those LV high schools can do it.
Venue rental is not usually the largest cost difference between regionals and district competitions. Professional event management and A/V services make regionals much more expensive to operate than districts.
I served on a regional planning committee for several years, in St. Louis, before moving to Michigan. The regional I helped to plan and run had a budget more than 20 times what my district competition runs on today.
Of course this is not easy -- it takes a small army of dedicated volunteers and some of the best organizers in the FRC community. But surely LV is up to that kind of challenge.
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