There is a proposal pendiing to require Nationals be held "at venues located within the boundaries of USMS." If adopted, it would preclude Puerto Rico's bid.
How do we feel about it?
The focus should be on having an annual championship meet at a qualty facility. However, I think it's important to be sure that hosting the meet outside USMS boundaries will promote the goals of USMS. Maybe having the meet in PR gets more members to participate--maybe not. The only way to know for sure is to run the meet and compare participation from prior years.
This is well said, and I think is the primary argument being made by proponents of keep the meet withing USMS boundaries. I voted in favor of keeping the meet within boundaries for this very reason, but I now think we should at least try to hold a meet in an exotic, but not too distant locale and see what it does to attendance before banning such meets altogether. I'm OK with a bias against such meets, especially if they're proposed to beheld very far away. But we probably don't need an absolute rule against them...
The focus should be on having an annual championship meet at a qualty facility. However, I think it's important to be sure that hosting the meet outside USMS boundaries will promote the goals of USMS. Maybe having the meet in PR gets more members to participate--maybe not. The only way to know for sure is to run the meet and compare participation from prior years.
This is well said, and I think is the primary argument being made by proponents of keep the meet withing USMS boundaries. I voted in favor of keeping the meet within boundaries for this very reason, but I now think we should at least try to hold a meet in an exotic, but not too distant locale and see what it does to attendance before banning such meets altogether. I'm OK with a bias against such meets, especially if they're proposed to beheld very far away. But we probably don't need an absolute rule against them...
