Do we have a place that we are all staying?
We decided to stay at this Comfort Suites:
http://www.comfortsuites.com/ires/en-US/html/HotelInfo?hotel=GA290
It's about 5.5 miles from the competition, but it didn't look like there was anything closer than about 2 miles away anyway.
And Lofty, I'm starting to think that you and we might be the only ones staying in a hotel for the competition. Everyone else either seems to live close or be staying with someone they know.
Hadley, I paid about $4 (plus an ungodly amount for shipping!) for each Magic pack with 8 strings. Whatever you think is fair based on that will be fine. My biggest concern is whether or not we can find the time to get it fixed. Hopefully we'll manage. Maybe we can get to the competition early, but remember I have a whole family to drag there, so it could be a challenge for us to get there very early.
How many strings do you have now that it's all apart? (I'm assuming it's still all apart - let me know if it's not.) If you have 8 or more (there should really be 16, but none of mine have that many), you could try to put it back together yourself. Check out the links in this thread to learn how:
http://www.speedsolving.com/showthread.php?t=2843&highlight=magic+stringing
I'm happy to help you there (if there's time), but if you could do it yourself, you might even get a chance to practice before the competition - could be a little helpful.
You can restring it all now, then add the extra strings to make it more stable if you want after I bring them. The only problem with doubled strings is that you can DNF more because it sometimes winds up too tight.
