There's more information to consider.
First, John Coulombe is from San Marcos in northern San Diego
county. We're on the hook for mileage (I didn't find out $/mi) and
hotel. John has already spent about $200 for a Pasadena hotel room.
Either way, this is way below my nightmares of him flying from
somewhere.
So we may not be looking at as much of a savings as I thought,
especially at this point, where he's already spent the hotel money.
And again, another cost of switching is that the masterpoint awards
get cut to 80% of a full sectional.
If we kept our sectional a Championship event, I might suggest
hiring Paula (if she's willing) so we have two assistants. That
would leave one of us to do things like duplicate boards for the
next session (we need four board sets each session!). That would add
$400 I think.
Mojo