Is a schedule out yet? What time does the racing start?

First race at 9:00am, last race (2000m) at 4:30pm.

Anyone have a link to the schedule?

Would like to know who is racing when?

There are very few races that mean anything. The Juniors still have 2 spots so it looks like only the Premier Mixed, GD women and U23 are meaningful. The lack of teams is interesting.

A lot more collaboration between coaches this year. Looks like we're moving towards true National Teams.

The cost probably had something to do with it. At $3000+ to enter a team, there's no point in entering unless you're pretty sure you're going to win it. This may have encouraged coaches to work together to submit a combined entry rather than waste $6000 fighting it out.

I think that was also part of the plan. Force the clubs to race at Nationals where they belong at a third the price.

The high fee was intended to be used to subsidize the national team which is a good thing, however the actual effect of being so pricy probably reduced the level of conpetition. Accessibility goes out the door at 3gs per entry.

The plan had 2 objectives:

1) subsidize travelers
2) reduce the registration to the most serious contenders

I hope those teams that have entered but have no one to race against get their money back. What kind of racing is that?