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Author:
Tim
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Date Posted: 15:11:00 05/22/03 Thu
In reply to:
Justine
's message, "Re: Venues" on 15:00:09 05/22/03 Thu
Probably not out of budget, but a point on the centrality question:
What is the appropriate centre to consider. Suppose that what we want to do is to minimse travel costs for the majority of people. Then the best place to hold the competition is nowhere near the centre of the country, and certainly not in the North, where Stoke is. Why? Because there is a high concentration of larger universities in the South, whilst there are a small number of small universities in the North. Oxford, IC, Cambridge, Bristol, London, Southampton are all in the south. Of the larger teams, only Sheffield are in the South. Taking a total number of teams, most are in the South, and a lot are in the South East. Southampton and Cambridge are both large teams, where York and Hull are not.
Taking a demongraphically weighted centre for the country, IVDC would be held somewhere around, ironically, Oxford. Still, I think the more important question is around accessibility, and the quality of the venue, which should be paramount. I'd love to see IVDC in Blackpool even though it is a long way north of the centre.
You also have to remember that the total travel cost difference per person is unlikely to be more than a couple of pounds anyway. That's one pint, for goodness sake, and you are all rich students, with next to no liabilities or expenses, leaching off the states and the taxes of honest, hard-working people like myself.
I would imagine that Blackpool would be within IVDA's cost structure. Watford was, and that was near London, so I'd expect Blackpool to be available cheaper.
>>Oh, aren't long bus journeys fun! Are Southampton
>>really going to make it to Blackpool? If the Crystal
>>Palace is as good as people say, the money saved on
>>coaches to get to Blackpool would surely pay for it.
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>No disrespect to Soton, but what about the Northern
>Unis who would have to come down south? I thought
>IVDA was giving travel bursaries to those unis with
>high transport costs?
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>>Is there really nothing large and central?
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>Kings Hall, Stoke was OK, but still lacked peripheral
>space, ditto Dudley Town Hall but otherwise both nice
>venues.
>
>The Tower ballroom in Blackpool is amazing - large
>floor, good peripheral space, wurlitzer organ... but
>may be out of range of budget.
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