[chillibowl]

nope you cant blame them at all.

these events simply do not turn a profit and only survive due to a huge influx of tax dollars.

i also question the benefits that it supposedly provides through advertising.

perhaps in the pre internet days a GP really was a chance to showcase your city to a global television audience but i find it hard to believe that a city/region can't, with the benefit of the internet, reach a far greater number of people by spending that 20-30mill sanctioning fee on something else.

the low attendance that these 'new' venues generate seems to corroborate that imo.