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Tanya
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Date Posted: 16:16:34 05/22/03 Thu
In reply to:
Tim
's message, "Re: Venues" on 15:58:28 05/22/03 Thu
>Stoke is North of Birmingham, therefore in the North.
A lot of northerners would disagree!! I have been told that I am not a northerner because I am from Derbyshire!!
>My point stands that the midlands (Birmingham, Stoke,
>Blackpool) is not a utilitarian solution to locating
>IVDA. It would be better for the larger universities
>to subsidise the smaller universities and have the
>competition further south.
Financially I don't think that the northern teams would have a problem with that. However, there is the time factor - a lot of people on our team were put off coming to both the Oxford Social and IVDA because -
Increased travel cost (Twice that of Manchester),
Length of day (we left at 5 am and arrived back at 4 am)
The day it was a sunday, so people were up for classes at 9am.
We may have had twice the amount of entries if these factors weren't a worry.
>Personally, I don't believe that people would be put
>off by a couple of extra pounds cost, and the facts
>don't support that view - this year IVDC was £2 more
>expensive, yet the number of entries increased by more
>than 30%, whilst the number of spectators was also
>significantly higher.
It isn't the cost of entry that is often the problem, it is the cost of travel. Our coach to Manchester for the day cost £300, or coach for IVDA cost £600.
>However, this obviously (a) only considers costs, and;
>(b) takes a static picture of the circuit, and has no
>regard for grand ambitions such as extending the
>geographical extension of IVDA.
Agreed. Although financially IVDA is better off if it loses a couple of smaller university teams, it does go against the whole premise of IVDA.
Tanya
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