Iditarod Entry Fee Increase

[Breeze]

First sign up day is 06/25/16

Entry fee for 2016 has risen from 3000 USD to 4000 USD.

Gosh. Quite a jump all in one fell swoop !

[Holly Golightly]

That does seem like quite a jump. Got a link?

[Breeze]

http://iditarod.com/resources/mushers/

Page also has internal link for the 2017 revised rules.

[Holly Golightly]

It hadn't occurred to me to check the musher resources page--I'm reminded of the phrase "hiding in plain sight".

[fladogfan]

First sign up day is 06/25/16

Entry fee for 2016 has risen from 3000 USD to 4000 USD.

Gosh. Quite a jump all in one fell swoop !

Is the ITC doing like Walt Disney World has done? Raising prices to control crowds in their parks/number of teams entered in the race? Or are both of them just greedy.

[Breeze]

I'm too skeptical and way overdosed on sarcasm to say much of anything about this now.

I'd be happy to see the YQ field 60 teams and the Idit 15 teams for 2017.

The bloom would come off the ITC rose pretty quickly.

[fladogfan]

[Breeze]

Actually, it reminds me of flipping coins with my older brother... when his rules were..........

" heads I win, tails you lose...."

[Holly Golightly]

Something to think about:

Before the 2009 race, the entry fee went from $3K to $4K. A few years after that (can't recall right now whether it was in 2012 or 2013), it went back down to $3K and that's where it stayed until this past week.

The 2008 race had set a record for entries, w/ nearly 100. The 2009 race had a higher entry fee, but still had almost 70 entries.

PS--the Quest has a 50-team limit.