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Date Posted: 18:57:43 05/22/03 Thu
In reply to:
Tanya
's message, "Re: Venues" on 16:16:34 05/22/03 Thu
As Tanya said its not the competition fees that cause the problems, for example there is not enough of us to afford a coach and not enough cars and too many for a mini bus. We stayed over in Oxford costing each of us aroun £100 for the weekend - our union does not subsidise anything for us and we personally, as a society, have money but it has to go round the rest of the classes and not just latin.
The larger universities can afford the travel because they have more financial advantages than us.
I understand the Northern thing though when I came to Uni from Cambridge up to Keele I thought that anything near Stoke was Northern !!!! I have been corrected many times and told Stoke is in the Midlands.
As a personal preference Birmingham or Stoke or Blackpool seem most accessible to all !!!
Cheers xx
>>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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