I left my Christmas wishes on the skype channel, and no one else said anything (except Safra and her dodgy keyboard). Nice to know that it was being said on here as well. The quality of the people on this forum are awesome and even though I am quite new to this place I feel very welcome and part of the community, thanks.
Now for what I came to this thread for was to vent some frustrations on the price of my next closest GP, GP Melbourne.
Now pre-registration info came available on 17th of December and the entry cost is a whopping AU$90. Now I paid AU$70 for GP Sydney this year and was content as it was sealed. GP Melbourne is CONSTRUCTED.
Why do I have to fork out $90 just to have my janky modern brew 0-3 drop? It is like they only want serious people to go. There isn't any side event schedule posted yet as the event is in March, but seriously, do I even care?
This GP is the first one I have seen in Australia hosted by CL Events (usually it was TopDeckEvents). They are a Malaysian organisation that seems to run by one of the WMC representatives of Malaysia. I wonder if it has to cover the costs of them importing all their Judges or something. I just don't know. I don't understand. I just, I just...
EDIT:
So I just checked out GP Oakland and its general registration is $70, which still seems steep to me. The conversion rate between AU and US would make it around $90, so it makes sense. I guess inflation happens. Time to see if I can find some cheap flights to compensate