I love to travel, but wouldn't mind another Knoxville, or Huntsville, or Syracuse or someplace I could drive to. Flying with equipment has gotten too expensive and complicated.

I wasn't a fan of Knoxville. I liked being able to drive to the tourney though. That was nice having my own car there. Something else in the midwest or east would be nice. But again, the city has to make the effort to get the tourney. I fly southwest so taking equipment isn't expensive for me. I take (2) 2 ball bags and carry on my clothes.

This is pretty much old news, since I live in Orlando. They have been talking about this for a long time. Right now there are lanes by University of Central Florida where the collegiate team plays and that is 100 lanes as well. I'm sure that it will be no where as near as beautiful as the Disney property though. I am looking forward to bowling in many tournaments there.

Since the airlines have put in so many limiations and fees for flying in general I think we will see a decrease in participation in general. Doesn't matter where the tournament is, a significant amount of people have to fly in and that's become a huge hassel. Air travel used to be a luxery and now its worse then driving your own car. It'd take more then a National tournament to get me to fly across the entire country No one could pay me enough to do it.

So when these events happen they have to be in major hubs across the country. Knoxville is nice, flown in there for conventions, done that. Atlanta, the same, Dallas, St Louis etc..... But in order to make it worth the flight the location has to be accessable to as many as possible. Plus if the hotel costs are too high then there's no sense in bringing conventions there: i.e San Francisco, Chicago or NYC.

Erin

I think that we are going to have that issue in Orlando. Staying on Disney is going to be pricey (I think) so we would have to stay outside of the Disney property in order to keep hotel costs down. We normally don't rent a car. We go from the airport to the hotel and are within walking distance of where we bowl. If we are outside of Disney, we would have to get a car or cab it. There goes our savings.

Not many people that stay in Orlando, stay on the Disney property. Trust me when I say that there are very inexpensive options for lodging around the Disney property. To be honest, staying on Disney property is like committing financial suicide.

Well to revive a month old thread, for those who might not have heard, the Nationals will not be in Orlando in 2011.

Here's the article.

http://bowl.com/articleView.aspx?i=14975&f=1

Hello Wichita

Well, my wife will be pissed.

But, look at all of the money you saved. Give her half, and she would be happy.