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Originally Posted by DonShaw
There is currently only one team registered near Athens
The events planned are not located near the majority of the teams currently registered
We attended XBots in Albany off season and hotel rooms were 114 plus tax cMe to 126 each
Total cost was 2500 including the entry fee for one night having the kids buy one meal and that was a one night trip with no transportation expenses
Food at 10 per meal is low in my opinion
Sorry just do not see the benefit when First talks of the world experience of international interaction , now they limit to only state interaction unless you make it to worlds
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1) Sometimes, when you build it they will come. Palmetto moved to Myrtle Beach for 2013, and Horry County has added at least a good six or eight teams.
2) Between 2008 (when Palmetto moved to Clemson) and 2011 (when we started hosting SCRIW), there was no hotel-free event for us at all. Our home regional is three hours each way and two hotel nights. Nobody said FIRST was fair.
3) Get some parents who are travel fiends helping you out. When we went to Orlando last year--one night in Jacksonville on the way down, two in Orlando--the bill for each room (not per-person, the whole room) was $227.57. Would've been less, but our plans got changed within two weeks of the tournament.
4) Let's be real, how many Georgia teams were going outside the Southeast for events (other than Championship)? I bet you can count them on one hand. How many Peachtree teams were coming from real distance? I see one out of 66 last year (4707, Dominican Republic), while
literally every other team was from Georgia or a neighboring state. Georgia Southern Classic? One from Ohio, two from Louisiana. That's a total of four teams out of 107 regional slots that didn't come from Georgia or a neighboring state. You want to meet teams from all over the world? Gas up the bus, they weren't coming to you.