Experience promoting districts in Minnesota

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

This might seem like a weird question, but when I think of available venues in Minnesota, I think of ice hockey... do school systems own hockey arenas in the state?

Nope, typically events run at high schools in Michigan have 2 gymnasiums, the main gym is used for the field, the auxilary gym for the pits (though there are exceptions to this, as some schools use other spaces for pits). The biggest issue is finding venues with enough seating (FiM reccomends ~1500 seats).

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Chris,
While there may be no direct cost for the venue (that may not be true of every venue), there are other costs that are not obvious to participants.

True, but I was accounting for those in my $15k - $8k estimate (I'm on the planning comittee for our local district so I can only speak for our costs, but my understanding is that estimate is comparable to other districts in the state). It also does not include the cost of the field as those costs are covered by FiM. I could dig up our event budget from last year if you'd like.