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Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell
Agganis Arena (BU)
Matthews Arena (Northeastern)
XL Center (Hartford)
Verizon Wireless Arena (Manchester NH)
Verizon hasn't hosted an event since 2013, and now both Boston venues are being replaced by revere high school.
Ultimately my only worry from the change over to districts 3 years ago is starting to happen, which is loss of quality venues. The last few years proved me wrong, but it's a pretty bad group of venues for 2017.
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Having been involved with several events at BU and NEU as well as Revere... for a district I think the Revere High School is a
better venue. The free parking lowers team costs and he lower venue cost lowers event costs letting them focus on other things. Now, if Revere was hosting the DCMP I'd have more complaints, but I think locations like BU, Verizon Wireless, and XL Center are simply too large to host districts and should instead be used for DCMP. [1] About the only real downside Revere has over the BU/NEU venues is that the food options are slightly more limited in that teams can't just walk across the street and find a half dozen places to eat.
EDIT: In the interest of not dragging this thread off topic, please feel free to tell me I'm an idiot via PM.
[1] Matthews is the oddball here, while I think it might actually be the same size (for our purposes) as BU it doesn't feel nearly as big. I like Matthews and think it's an awesome and historic venue but it doesn't feel as awe inspiring as the others.