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Re: Location of Georgia District Events

I have no dog in this fight, but I will contribute the following:

1) Ooof, yeah, I would've thought the Atlanta metro area would've been able to line up something.
2) This should be incentive for metro Atlanta teams to work on a bid for next year. I don't know the Peachtree process and couldn't find it on their website, but if it's anything like the IndianaFIRST process (which played out, in part, one desk over from me at work so I started to get a handle on some concepts) I doubt they'd mind having additional viable host options. Like Ed Barker said above, venue availability is everything for where district events can be held. Reach out and ask.
3) I had heard once that the Horry County school district is a sponsor of the Palmetto Regional partly because it's cheaper for them to incentivize the event in Myrtle Beach than pay travel for their teams to play elsewhere. With the Atlanta schools pooling on travel, that may be an angle to work with the powers that be.
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