World championship

[Ton]

Ok, so I searched a bit. The first somewhat large auditorium with rental offer that I found:
http://www.virginiawestern.edu/theatre/whitman.html

I do realize that it's not as big and probably less shiny than last year's RWC venue, but this costs $300 per day, so $900 for three days. Even if last year's RWC venue cost 100 times that much (which would be a ridiculous factor already), that's still be only $90,000. How do we get to $500,000?

In the venue is also the audio coverage + network +food+ drinks
+personal + stage cubes etc+ security

Me and Ron did not get payed,, getting payed would makes us depended

 

[Stefan]

I still can't believe these things amount to anything near that much. But if they really did, I would've preferred to be in a much more reasonably priced venue and have the thereby saved money be used to sponsor more talented cubers who couldn't afford to come.

How much was paid for let's say the Dutch Masters 2008 or the San Francisco Open 2009?

 

[shelley]

The San Francisco Open was at the Exploratorium, which has hosted our competitions in the past. They didn't charge us money to use the space.

All the tournaments in California have been at venues which were willing to host us for free, with the exception of the competitions at Stanford University, which charges a fee to book rooms. But the EPGY program which sponsors us takes care of that cost.

When it's not on a school campus, it's at one of the science museums (Exploratorium, Discovery Science Center, Fleet Science Center) which have hosted multiple competitions. The staff know us pretty well, and the museums benefit from increased exposure among cube enthusiasts.

 

[Stefan]

Thanks Shelley. Btw, the reason I asked about the San Francisco Open was its 150 competitors, beaten only by RWC2007 with 214. Do you think that with let's say $100,000 to spend, one could organize a decent competition of RWC2007's magnitude (all events, three days, 214 competitors)?

And sometimes I dream of some billionaire just for fun offering a million bucks to hold the most awesome cubing festival and competition ever. Sigh...

 

[Tyson]

Thanks Shelley. Btw, the reason I asked about the San Francisco Open was its 150 competitors, beaten only by RWC2007 with 214. Do you think that with let's say $100,000 to spend, one could organize a decent competition of RWC2007's magnitude (all events, three days, 214 competitors)?

And sometimes I dream of some billionaire just for fun offering a million bucks to hold the most awesome cubing festival and competition ever. Sigh...

San Francisco Open 2009 cost about... $600 which was paid with entry fees.

It would be possible to host something of the WC2007 magnitude for $3000. But they decide to waste money, so I don't worry about it.

I mean, if you want more frills, then maybe the cost goes up to $10,000. But certainly not more... unless you're giving out lots of money in cash prizes. There is no reason that the competition should cost more than $10,000.

 

[Tyson]

Ok, so I searched a bit. The first somewhat large auditorium with rental offer that I found:
http://www.virginiawestern.edu/theatre/whitman.html

I do realize that it's not as big and probably less shiny than last year's RWC venue, but this costs $300 per day, so $900 for three days. Even if last year's RWC venue cost 100 times that much (which would be a ridiculous factor already), that's still be only $90,000. How do we get to $500,000?

We could get an auditorium the size of the WC 2007 Budapest event very easily. But that option was declined.

Again, not my issue how they spend their money.

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/drama/maps.html

The hall you listed has a capacity of 325... probably too small for a WC. Memorial Auditorium at Stanford has a capacity of 2,000.