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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
Because the survey asked respondents to choose their top N items. The decision to split the Championship has only minor effects on cost for most teams.
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Going to Detroit, going to Houston, going to St Louis, it's all about the same distance for us, and a lot of other teams. Had I not known what the venues were, or were they to tell me to disregard the venue choice, I may have answered differently, but as it is cost isn't a big factor when the only difference will be whether we'll be 10 hours away in intense humidity, or 10 hours away in a just-thawed city.
This also brings up an interesting point: Had this survey been given out before the announcements, I guarantee we'd see a different set of responses, and some different priorities (cost reduction would've been higher priority, and one true champion would've been less important).
I hope the committee will come up with a solution for region locking so that I don't have to go on vacation to California and Washington to see some inspirational teams and my skunk buddies...