Hi everyone,
I recently took a trip to though Arizona and visited a high ceiling site
that I wanted to investigate for a possible contest venue.
Seeing as how there are annual high ceiling contests in every other corner
of the country except the Southwest, I though the time seemed right for
looking into this seriously.
In order to ever make something like this work the indoor community would
need to step up and commit in advance to travel to this venue. I would never
solicit a contest there-even a 1-day-unless there were enough FIRM
contestants to break even.
Please respond if you would consider making the trip to a contest such as
this.
It is:
--6 hours from L.A.
--11 from San Francisco
--13 from Denver
--14 from Dallas
--14 from Wichita
The site is an indoor football stadium, same floor area as ETSU, but a
higher and a cleaner ceiling. 150' in peak height.
--structure is solid wood geodesic trusses. No intra-beam hang-ups possible.
Major benefit!
--ceiling insulation tiles are tightly fitted between geodetic sections. No
hang-ups possible.
--apex is very messy with a raised mezzanine, catwalk, one cluster of
speakers, and a huge flag hanging down to about 60' off the floor. But this
area is only about 20-30' in diameter and could be flown around on all
sides.
--no scoreboard
--I am told the building is very tight drift-wise
--only real hang-up hazard are trio clusters of dome-shaped lights that hang
down about 20 feet off the ceiling. These are not too numerous, spaced about
50 feet apart. But models could definitely hang up on the tops of these
clusters. Clear height to the bottom of these clusters is about 125'
--high elevation (7000+) is the major drawback. Times would be down 10-20%
from sea level.
The advance word is that we could get this building for a pretty reasonable
rate-less than $1000 per day. This would mean a two day meet with 40
contestants could break even at around $50/head.
Respond to me off list if you would like to see pictures of the venue, or if
there is enough interest I could post them on the yahoo page.
Thanks,
Don DeLoach
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Received on Thu Feb 02 2006 - 16:08:51 CET
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