Hey Cambell,
I'm writing you on behalf of UCLA Utimate. We think that you should reconsider your decision to host regionals in Colorado for a second year in a row. Traditionally, regionals has moved around each year, and I think somewhere else, either in SoCal or Arizona, would be more fair.
I've been working with Frankie Rho to help get a bid together to host regionals around here. We've been working on locking down a couple different sites that would work for both men's and women's regionals. I've heard a rumor that the bid deadline has passed. I can't seem to find any announcements on RSD or any other public forum calling for bids or announcing a deadline. If I'm wrong, please send me the link.
I realize that it sucks for Colorado teams to have to fly to tournaments most of the time, but locating regionals in an area with a higher density of teams is a much more efficient solution. Last years regionals were extremely expensive for our team, between flights, rental cars, hotels, etc. I'm sure the facility in Ft. Collins is very nice, but it's very difficult and expensive for 25ish of the 32 teams to get to.
We're trying to get our team to fly out to Centex for the first time this year, and we're working hard to fundraise for the expenses. We were relying on the fact that college regionals is usually not in the same place two years in a row, but this announcement has a very good chance of killing our chance to go to Centex.
One last point: the last two Colorado regionals that I've been to have been cold, wet, and miserable. I promise our weather will be better.
Please give our Southern California bid a fair look, and consider the interest of the majority of the SW ultimate players that you represent as RC.
Thanks,
Dan Oettinger
Co-Captain, UCLA Smaug
How bout this:
ReplyDelete-Figure out how the flights would be for the Colorado teams to fly to LA (8Teams x 20players/team x $250/player = $40,000)
-figure out how much each of the SoCal and Arizona teams would pay to drive to LA ( ~$10/player x 24 teams x 20players/team = $4800 total)
-Figure out how many players are going to regionals Total (32teams x 20players/team = 640 players)
Total travel costs for everyone if regionals was in LA
(40,000 + 4,800 = 44,800)
Per person=
44800/640 players = $70 per SW player.
Do you think you could convince everyone in SoCal and Arizona to play $60 (70-10) to defray the cost of Colorado's tickets in return for having regional in LA?
Only if Colorado had paid every time teams from California and Arizona incurred additional costs for going there. Which they didn't. Because that isn't how it works, and it isn't how it should work. I realize that they are at a geographic disadvantage, but that's really not the fault of 80%+ of teams in the region. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteYeah, i know Mamabird and Co didn't help us pay last year, but Im suggesting if we want to convince them to change the location for this year from Colorado to LA, we would have to give them something....like subsidize their flights out here.
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