by AlwaysImprove » Thu Jan 09, 2014 7:02 pm
It is a huge advantage to have the tournament in a location where fewer teams have to travel. SoCal makes sense in that regard.
It is a huge advantage to have the tournament in a location with loads of flights and loads of hotels. This avoids the captive audience that ASA used to take advantage of teams.
It makes sense that teams either stay in partner hotels, or pay an additional amount. The comp'ed rooms from those hotels are necessary for out of town umpires and out of town tournament personnel. The extra money helps offset cost of tournament.
Not sure that it makes sense for locals to pay zero additional money. It should not be they whole 1500, but 300 seems to make sense. They will save way more than that by having the tournament in SoCal.