Why host a big event?

[hpfencing]

A question that has come up on the High Plains Open thread is: Why host a big event? WHy would one want to? What are the pros and cons?

I answered it but I thought I'd ask everyone else... What do you think?

[whtouche]

Well, for the new england division at least, the pomme de terre pulls in alot of money.
That's an incentive.

[Mo]

Originally Posted by hpfencing

A question that has come up on the High Plains Open thread is: Why host a big event? WHy would one want to? What are the pros and cons?

I answered it but I thought I'd ask everyone else... What do you think?

There is not enough money to make it worth while. I may have a rotten attitude right now but just getting through division qualifiers was enough of a pain.
There are so many rules and so much whining. I think the bigger the event, the more whiners show up streaming out of the nether regions.

[Inquartata]

Unless you are fortunate enough to live in a populous Division with lots of fencing nearby a big event is the only way you will ever get to fence anyone besides the same familiar few people, unless you can afford the luxury of travelling to other Divisions. Such "inbreeding" is both tiresome and stultifying to your fencing. Moreover, with it being the expressed intent of the USFA to hold fewer national events and to encourage more regional ones instead, this sort of thing is the wave of the future, like it or not...

[hpfencing]

I agree, a lot of our fencers that don't travel never see anyone outside the division and don't improve because of the family in-breading of fencing. That is not one of the issues I would have thought of.

As far as the profit idea. At this point I am not worried about making money on the High Plains Open, we are pouring everything we have to make it the best event we have ever hosted... http://www.hpfencing.com/open04.html

Thanks for your imput, I hope others will give theres too...