These things is beginning to be more known. Real Sports and other reporting may effect these event organizers ability to get venues in the future...maybe not too. ..anytime there is millions of dollars at stake there is money to bribe host city/country officials.

Unless you can find me some working class people looking forward to taking time off for the Rich Man's Hobby Cup?

I guess this is the new normal...the NFL wants the Super Bowl halftime act to pay to play, too.

Greed at its finest....

I live in San Diego, and I'm glad that we are aggressive in keeping Comic-Con, for example, here. The amount of concessions are inconsequential when weighed against the benefits.

Comic-Con, the San Diego Convention Center’s largest annual event in terms of economic impact, attendance and hotel room use by attendees, is expected to generate an economic impact of $488.4 million between 2013 and 2015, according to a study released by the San Diego Convention Center Corp.

The study also showed that direct spending by attendees during the three convention years would total $203.4 million and hotel tax revenue would total $7.9 million. Sales tax revenue would total $442,000 and room nights would total 378,000.

From all that projected revenue? What will you be getting? Exactly?

What will I be getting? Exactly?

I won't be getting anything directly from, say, Comic-Con, if that's what you mean.

Please explain.

Whilst being fiscally responsible and fortunate enough to have the degree of disposable income to attend. The promoters could probably care less. In the grand scheme you are either contributing to someone's wealth or being had. The money makers don't give a damn if we are pleased or entertained as long as they get theirs. It's not about the events (s) it is Only and Forever ... About. The. MONEY.

to get the best deal possible, the city has an obligation to evaluate their proposal. The city rejected the initial proposal out of hand and gave them a counter offer. (Personally I'd rather they go elsewhere.)

"In the grand scheme you are either contributing to someone's wealth or being had." Gee, that sounds like a lose-lose proposition and again, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Do you object to the city giving concessions? What 'grand scheme' are you referring to?

Do the 'money makers' care about me? No, probably not, but I don't lose sleep over it either. Very few private organizations are going to put on an event that loses money. San Diego is ranked as the fifth most popular location for conventions and business meetings in the U.S., ahead of New York, Dallas and Washington, and the revenue generated keeps a lot of folks employed. I personally enjoy living in a location which has so much appeal, and if not the America's Cup some other group will hopefully take their place, no doubt with some "concessions" to boot.