Sail2007,

I'm being perfectly honest here - but I'm unable to locate your actual name or anyone's name with this organization on your website. Even if I had the interest and/or the money there is very little chance I would put it up entrusting an organization that is so clouded. For all we know, you could be a person that has had legal issues with something like this in the past or, heaven forbid, this could even be a scam. Before I sent anyone $2800 I would certainly want to know who was behind it and what reputation they have.

The fact that nearly $250,000 is expected and the website for the event is hosted on a free and public Geocities account leads me down the road of further concern since nobody's real name need be associated with the domain registration. For that level of sport, one would at least expect that the event would have it's own domain name.

You're asking for a lot of faith from your competitors.