<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Ctonya%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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Despite significant efforts by both Jason, myself, numerous manufacturer sponsors and others, DooHickey Hobbies has decided to cancel this year's Canadian Open due to non-participation. According to DooHickey Hobbies, all ticket sales (all 8 of them) will be refunded.
A number of factors led to this decision:<o
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- 8 people at an International level competition is lame<o></o>
- An event of this cost and scale cannot be justified with just over a half dozen competitors.<o></o>
- Participation by the 30+ local Canadian crawlers and 40+ more within driving distance was assumed, but did not result in actual participants.<o></o>
Jason and I are both shaking our heads in stunned amazement that this entire event wasn't just huge and sold out immediately with a $10,000 purse up for grabs... the largest in crawler history. Maybe it was the whole "need a passport" thing, or too close to the World's, ... not really sure what the problem was, but I do know there are tons of Canadian crawler folks up there and this could and should have been a nearly sold out event just with the Canadian guys.
Solely from my perspective I have to jab a finger a bit at the Canadian guys here. Do you really think us US guys are willing to spend some significant $$ to travel, take time off of work, when the Canadian guys don't event think their own event is worth the effort to sign up for? The answer is a resounding NO. It's great that you all want some of the top guys to come up, but the reality is it isn't a cheap trip or easy trip (passport) for us and if we are just going to crawl with the same exact folks we see everywhere else in the US, then why make the trip?
You guys have a local hobby shop up there that is clearly trying, & spending hard cash to build a venue, hobby shop, and event all to strongly support the crawling segment. Geez support the guy will ya, what's the matter with you? We should have seen 50+ local ticket sales immediately when we made the tickets available. If $10,000 in cash won't motivate you to sign up for a local event, I am not sure what else could have been offered.
DooHickey Hobbies is really upset that no one wanted to compete both locally and from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1
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lace></st1:country-region>. Maybe next year the Canadian clubs will really embrace the Canadian Open and make it a stellar event that the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1
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lace></st1:country-region> guys will die to get a chance to attend.