[EricH]

Originally Posted by jlindquist74

Remember that bit about an "excess of venues"? It isn't valid in San Diego. Call it a consequence of us having better weather than the rest of you, but we have little history of building large or multiple gyms. We really don't have venues to offer.[...]

The junior colleges and private 4-year schools lack facilities, and the ongoing budget crisis has forced the state universities to treat outside rentals as revenue sources. (SDSU and UCSD won't give us any breaks.) If we can't be assured of three (maybe two) district events close enough to drive/bus to daily, I don't expect much support for a proposal which would eliminate our present home event.

Discussions among folks on my team focused in on 3-4 separate places: Our school (gym, plus either cafeteria or secondary gym--primary issues access for robots and parking), the one other high school in the district with a team (space concern? but plenty of parking), one of the other high schools (no team, but has parking, but...), and the main community college which would have space (two gyms, plus theater) but it's a community college...and in the middle of a years-long construction project all over campus.

Now, that being said, I can understand that "hey, we can make this work". The two biggest problems down here are the Big Vs: Venues and Volunteers. IE went through three venues in three years, and two of them were "interesting" (lack of seating at one, and distance+a swarm of minor factors at the other). And I've already mentioned about the volunteer problem of how people are doing 2, 3, 4 events and there often aren't enough--that part can be worked around, given time and people who want to step up.