[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by iVanDuzer

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Except when we get up to 60 Championsplit events, they wouldn't be world-level, because there wouldn't be any international teams. With your projected growth, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Mexico, Israel, Australia would all have their own Championsplit events. Even if you lived right across the border in Windsor, you would still probably go to the Ontario event, not the Detroit one.

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You really do have to ask yourself the question "why is the Championship a special event?" Because if it's the prestige of the event, the Championsplit wrecks that. If it's the ability to talk to teams from very different places, the Championsplit wrecks that. If it's the need to crown a single champion, the Championsplit wrecks that. What do you want a Championship to be?

This is it exactly.

As things are now, I can hit up my sponsors because I QUALIFIED for the WORLDS. What kind of a heartless sponsor would say no to that?

If, instead, I went the my sponsors and said, "It's my TURN to go to ONE of a NUMBER of world class events." I am not sure that my sponsors would be as forthcoming to such an appeal.

Dr. Joe J.