In some ways, who cares what we "want" to happen, we can't force people to show up.
If you want to know what impresses me, it's not a handful of rockstars coming from Europe, it would be more like a minimum of 10 boats per country. Same in reverse. If a handful of US boats go to a Worlds in Europe, that's not really impressing me as the country's class supporting the event, that's a handful of individuals that chose to go.
Not realistic with overlapping seasons, but that would impress me.
Of course, there's really no point to this part of the discussion. We can make it as enticing as possible, but even if the event were free, with free boats, logistics and airfare included, people would find reasons not to go.
