In my opinion it’s either most likely going to go 1 of 2 ways. Either they will do the contract once more in Kentucky or go back to there original spot of Texas.
Why these two?
Kentucky: They may want to extend their contract because it’s a decent location.
Texas: Where home base is at for VEX. AKA much less travel for them.
That’s not even remotely realistic. The Phoenix Convention Center is the only venue around here that might have the space for Worlds, but parking in downtown Phoenix… yeah, no.
No offense, honest. I would never let our team kids go to Phoenix. I went to a one week conference in August there to teach and came home with Valley Fever from simply breathing the air. Would never want someone to go through that, especially form other countries.
@thejeffnagle Don’t forget about the use of the Convention Center as well as Lucas Oil. Tons of space for all of the teams to compete and then hold championship rounds in Lucas Oil.
At 10,000 seats, WinTrust is about half the size of Freedom Hall (~19,000 seats) which is already pretty much full on Saturday afternoon. That’s probably a non-starter.
Chicago is also a notoriously difficult city to host conventions in, not to mention terrible traffic and being quite expensive. I live in the Chicago suburbs so it would be convenient for me but I don’t really see it happening.
Hey Salt Lake City has the Salt Palace Convention Center with plenty of hotels in the surrounding area. The airport is a Delta hub so plenty nonstop flights here and we have Lagoon just 20 minutes north for a replacement of Kentucky Kingdom.