It's official: It's Vancouver!

[bullados]

You are assuming that they are using all three Exhibition Halls. They may not. The main ball room in Hawaii was 24,720. The largest ballroom in San Diego was 34,122 sq feet.

Ballroom A, B & C for sides/open play + Exhibition Hall A for the main tournament will likely be plenty of room.

I can't see the square footage, but they had all of Sapphire and half of Indigo IIRC.

I'm always of the opinion that more space is good space. For Worlds in North America, I'd like to see much more space than the Bayfront. I felt like the Bayfront was rather small for the event. It'd be nice to run a few more of those 8-mans over the course of the weekend.

 

[Rambo]

Vancouver's actually somewhat convenient for a lot of Europe. There are direct flights for less than $1000 (800 EUR) next August from many major European cities (London, Paris, Manchester, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt...). Check our Air Transat next spring. I've been stressing to the European video game players that Vancouver is actually not as expensive as it might seem! I flew round trip for about $800 CAD earlier this year in May / June (open jaw Vancouver -> London and Paris -> Vancouver). August is a bit more expensive but still far better than Hawaii and less connections than California!

Also Vancouver is just cooler ;D

Thanks

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