This message is from: "Teressa" <tere...@kodiakfishco.com> I agree with KMac on the volunteering thing. Big push by WEG to have volunteers but when push comes to shove, qualifying to volunteer is quite difficult - in the case of the driving events, one proviso was that one must volunteer in 2009 for the national championships as well to be qualified to volunteer in 2010 for the WEG. Not to mention they want to know if I'm "qualified" to be a volunteer.
But, as for price, take a look at individual tickets for Olympic events. They are very spendy. I thought I might get tickets for the ice skating finals for the Vancouver Olympics...gulp, over $500 for one event. I don't care enough to pay that much money. But for something I care about, like equine sports...I'd say to be able to see world championships in one venue for all those disciplines in the US is very cool and doesn't seem all that expensive to me - how much do we pay to audit a Schumacher clinic? How much is a lesson with Beth Glosten? How much to do a Parelli weekend? (Never mind buying the Parelli books, equipment and so on.) And this deposit is for all the events in each discipline. So if in dressage, there are five total events, you are paying about one/half of the price of the top tier tickets for those five events. The remaining amount is said in the FAQ portion of this website will be about one half. It is not an unknown number. Also, as I understand it, you are only able to take advantage of this program through individual memberships in a certain discipline. In the email I received from Alltech, the link took me to the driving events as I'm a member of ADS. The email sent to me contained a username and password in order for me to access this program. I presume that I would need to be a member of USDF to get into the dressage area, and so on. This really is a good deal to guarantee tickets ahead of time, IMHO. There are only limited numbers available for each discipline and it is first come first served. Plus, your tickets also include a general admission to the WEG where there will be enormous numbers of vendors (the better to spend even MORE of your money) and lots of exhibitors and demos. Not a bad deal, IMHO. Probably not as expensive as two weeks at Disney World and way more fun. Teressa Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
