2010 Havasu WF location rumors

yamaslut

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scottie mac said:
To be honest, I love the town of Havasu, it is a cool little site. But, the event could use a good change of location and Daytona would be awesome. Think about it. What Nick said earlier was dead on, AND Disney is only an hour away. This would make the event a lot more family friendly. It would also give the international racers and freestylers a second reason for traveling half way across the world.

Just my opinion.

Scottie
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plus for Europeans it's like half the distance... so that is cheaper flights and shipping of skis.

I didn't think of the Disney factor, that makes it even better.
 
Big Kahuna

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cool shot. But without seeing the lake with my eyes it is hard to say if there is enough room. Typically you start across middle of the track. You could start along the side but you still need enough room for all your turns.

Length is way more than enough. Hell, you could have the Drag racing PWC's there as well!
 
Big Kahuna

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There is much more logical sense to have it in florida, anywhere in florida. Daytona would be great if you were shipping your ski's by air!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
yamaslut

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DK-Freestyle said:
It'd be a really lame idea to move the World Finals to the East Coast, because all of the National stops are on the Easy coast. The sport would lose a lot of racers from the West Coast if the world finals would move to the east. We don't have any actual regional promoters here on the west coast. We've got the DJSA racing, but it's not an APBA/ IJSBA sanctioned event, it's a nonprofit organization, so it's all racing for fun. It'd be a bad idea to move the WF's to the east.
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I understand, but you points kinda make a case for moving it to the east coast...
 
DK-Freestyle

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Big Kahuna said:
That excuse is lame. Blame your promoters for that. It does shock me that the racing is larger here on the East Coast. Use to be it was bigger out west. It may make more sense to have it in the East, you may actually get more people from the East to go. I know I would. The only year I was going to go was the same year we found out we were expecting our little girl. So we chose not to go due to expense.
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So how is it fair that the East Coast gets all of the national stops AND world finals??
 
Big Kahuna

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DK-Freestyle said:
So how is it fair that the East Coast gets all of the national stops AND world finals??
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You have 2 series. The series that AJ is doing is all on the east. He lives in the east. Logistics is the reason right now. But give him time, I think he is trying to do somethign out west.

The promoters basically have to bid to get the APBA national events. It boils down to what they have to offer. Right now they have race sites and sponsorship. Again, blame your promoters. Better yet, start promoting yourself and bring more racing out West. California is a very difficult state to put on races. That is one of the difficulties.

If you go and look at the old IJSBA Nationals format there was typically one race in each region. That was 10 years ago though.

And forget about anything being fair. Racing is expensive. Promoters are not in this to lose money. They are lucky to even make money.
 
Foximus

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Putting it in an arena based area would make the damn sport explode.



I know from competing in paintball, we were facing the same damn thing. The NPPL league was growing stagnent and dying off, fewer and fewer new teams were being introduced and the tournaments were getting less and less coverage and sponsorships. Every single one was being held in a field in the middle of no where, and world finals would be held (of all places...) in the middle of nowhere kissimmee. But then a group of execs got together, rethought some rules, started a new league, built an arena in disney and immediately got the new X-Ball tourney televised.... ironically the same year I competed in world finals. They made the sport faster, cutting rounds from 5-10 minutes down to 2-3, shrank the fields, and moved everyone closer to the field with grand stands. Actually made it official looking, even though nothing real essential to the game changed. Just a few rule tweaks and a change of venue. This factor alone is what made the marker industry explode. For the first time in a few years new and amazing air valve designs were released and companies actually started pouring in money.


If you ask me.... this is the exact same damn scenario. A relatively irrellevant sport in todays mindset is able to get a facelift and total turn around overnight. Move WF's to daytona and you have the chance of getting it back to the height of its ESPN televised self back in the early 90s... Making the actual racing area smaller will promote faster races, and all people will get further hyped. Less spread apart, more furious competition. Its a win win situation for everyone except maybe the racer himself.


Eventually youll get a few companies able to grow to the size Westcoast, PJS, and SKat and all the others were.
 
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brett

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i hate to admit, but i agreeit should be in daytona or san diego, if not mexico ;) havasu, although it was fun this weekend, doesnt make much sense anymore
 
norcal ex

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Havasu is awesome, but the location just doesnt help the sport to much. population is small in havasu and it is in the middle of nowhere....

dont get me wrong, I love havasu!

If you want to promote the sport at least do world finals during spring break, not the off season.
 
brett

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norcal ex said:
Havasu is awesome, but the location just doesnt help the sport to much. population is small in havasu and it is in the middle of nowhere....

dont get me wrong, I love havasu!

If you want to promote the sport at least do world finals during spring break, not the off season.
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theres an idea, the scenery would be much better:icon16:
 
Big Kahuna

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Only problem with that is you are suppose to qualify for the Finals. Plus spring break is the start of the racing season, not the finish of the season.
 
ShowtimeStocks

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it would be better to have it at a different location every year like the world cup (soccer) you have riders from u.k ' japan ' uae ' france ' belgium ' brazil just to name a few or the winner of the nations trophy gets to have it in their country just some ideas
 
Smokin'FX-1

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I won't get into the debate of moving it, I can see points on both sides.

But Spring break....really? Other than having drunken mostly naked chicks to look at, the problems that would crop up from it wouldn't be worth it. Plus as mentioned it's the start of racing season.

If you want to mostly naked girls at the wf get some game and bring your own, lol.

edit: I'm sure you have game, I'm being a smart ass <-----------
 
brett

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Smokin'FX-1 said:
I won't get into the debate of moving it, I can see points on both sides.

But Spring break....really? Other than having drunken mostly naked chicks to look at, the problems that would crop up from it wouldn't be worth it. Plus as mentioned it's the start of racing season.

If you want to mostly naked girls at the wf get some game and bring your own, lol.

edit: I'm sure you have game, I'm being a smart ass <-----------
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i think exposure to a new and younger crowd was the big point about spring break, but yeah it would be a PITA!
 
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