<div>There were some practice sites that were about 50 miles away from the main contest site. Bear in mind that in Portugal a lot of competitors did not stay at the hotel that was very close to the worlds site but chose to stay at hotels in a town that was about 25 minutes drive away (on a freeway). The US team, along with France, China, Hong Kong, UK, Russia and the Ukraine chose to practice at an air base about 35 miles away from our hotel. Some sites were within about 15 minutes drive as well.</div>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">I have to say I concur. I would love to attend both, and likely will try to help at the worlds in some capacity, but back to back would make that impossible. Even for those who can make the vacation time, many can’t do two weeks in a row, and like Mike, I would opt to compete rather than watch. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Not to mention that the availability of practice sites would be even more limited if both events were side by side. Tony’s suggestion of Sept seems to make the most sense, though I have NO clue what the AMA calendar looks like, but I would like to think that the opportunity to host the WC would allow for some calendar clearing.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Derek/Andrew/Jason – how far away do teams travel to have access to a practice facility? I’m curious what sort of “radius” clubs need to be in to be a viable option for making their site available to incoming teams.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Frackowiak<br>
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<p>I sincerely hope that this idea is changed. Moving the Nats after the World Championships will greatly reduce the attendance at the Nats. I think it would be better to schedule the Worlds in September.</p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: black">I also heard the pattern NATS will be held after the Worlds?</span></p></div>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">From:</span></b><span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"> </span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">Derek Koopowitz <<a href="mailto:derekkoopowitz@gmail.com" target="_blank">derekkoopowitz@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b><span> </span>General pattern discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Monday, August 31, 2009 4:07:33 PM<br>
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<li style="COLOR: black">Wednesday July 27th 2011 Preliminaries Day 1</li>
<li style="COLOR: black">Thursday July 28th 2011 Preliminaries Day 2</li>
<li style="COLOR: black">Friday July 29th 2011 Preliminaries Day 3</li>
<li style="COLOR: black">Saturday July 30th 2011 Preliminaries Day 4</li>
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<li style="COLOR: black">Tuesday August 2nd 2011 Finals and Closing Ceremony and Banquet</li>
<li style="COLOR: black">Wednesday August 3rd 2011 Departure of Contestants</li></ul>
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<p><span style="COLOR: black"> . . . . . . do we know the dates yet?<br><br> Bob Kane<br><a href="mailto:getterflash@yahoo.com" target="_blank">getterflash@yahoo.com</a><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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