Arranging Houston vs St. Louis

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Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

One of FIRST's stated reasons for the dual championships is to decrease travel costs for teams. Having back-to-back weeks at the same venue does not achieve this goal.

While I do understand the general concept of having the dual championships at different locations with the intent to decrease cost, it remains to seen on whether having it St. Louis/Houston and Detroit/Houston will actually do that. There are others that believe an East Coast/West Coast venue might have been better, or perhaps they chose Detroit due to the sheer no. of teams in Michigan, Ontario, Minnesota, etc.
Securing a venue also depends on what the host city has to offer in terms of its facilities, hotels, etc. in addition to how much it would cost. This will certainly factor into possibly less than ideal locations to address those needs.

If I wanted to see the best of the best from each of the 2 Championships, I could do just that by booking my trip a few days earlier or stay a week later paying for 1 R/T ticket. Or maybe, by having it at one venue for two weeks, you only need to transport 1 set of fields (and stuff) and have it stay put for back to back weekends, thus lowering the cost to FIRST which gets passed down to us as lower registration fees.