[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

There's been a lot of talk about venues (one of the more difficult aspects), either for a new regional, district events, or a district CMP. I'm going to quote a few aspects from the Official Regional/District Planning Guides, as a set of minimum requirements (notwithstanding scheduling).

• The suggested venue cost is $10,000 (district planning guide, page 19), so this is the ballpark we're operating in. For a regional or district championship, the average is about $37,000 (regional planning guide, section 4, page 4)
• General space recommendations for a district event:
  
  
• Read the District Venue Selection Checklist for a brief overview of all the things required. For a Regional/DCMP, there are even more requirements.
• This doesn't even get into the logistics of planning district events and the manpower required. There's a nice flowchart on page 14 of the District Planning Guide that illustrates many of the positions that are involved.

Overall, these requirements can be pretty tough to meet, especially for high schools in NYC because it's not just the size of the school that matters, but also the physical layout of its space. And it's often difficult to find enough pit space that's an easy walk to the field, since many schools in the area don't have a second gym.

The most likely venues then are basketball/hockey arenas (for completeness, the parent category), and I'm willing to bet that even many of those don't fit the requirements.

Over this week I am going to go through every NYC team, find their High school and figure out if they have space. The scenario I feel as if we will see the most is the event in the gym with pits in the cafeteria but they have to on the same floor and decently close.