[EricH]

Originally Posted by Rachel Lim

I'd guess that the current setback would be finding the volunteer base followed by getting venues. I am hoping they find a way to solve this soon...

I might go the other way, but those are the top two, I think. It's hard to find a location in CA that fits for a district/small regional without having to deal with "larger" (read: non-school) venues. I can't think of more than about half a dozen "near" L.A. (read: within a couple of hours) that would work for that, though I could probably come up with a few more if we were talking "offseason". BTW, most of the ones I can think of have hosted an event in the past.

And then you get the volunteers...I worked 3 events this year; I know some of the other volunteers worked at least that many. And the only reason I did a third was because I knew that event was short-handed. Many of the volunteers have been doing this since I was competing...

It's not an easy problem to solve, though, particularly for some key positions.