Can we list the main suggestions? (Not necessarily in order of importance - we can do that later.)
- Qualified judges
- Fair, consistent judging system
- Openness of judging system (coaches being allowed to know why they lost/won)
- Unrushed, safe warmup area
- Event runs on time
- Production value (lights, backdrop, etc)
- Participant gifts (bags, trinkets, etc)
- Individual competition awards (jackets, rings, etc)
- Allow coaches to video/photograph
- Allow crowd to video/photograph
- Hospitality
- Food/Concessions
- Expense of entry fee
- Expense of spectators
- availability/quality of spectator seating
- trophy/banner quality
- efficient awards ceremony
- elaborate awards ceremony (lots of prizes for stuff other than division rank)
- fun/games on stage between sessions/awards
Feel free to add
For now, we can stay away from the hotels/cities/tourist stuff, although that can certainly be a factor for many. Once we get a complete-ish list of factors, I would love to see people's grades on each for the major events. That would be interesting.