Position statement on hosting national championships

If it is not appropriate for a national championship to be hosted in WA (e.g. due to lack of a suitable facility) then the NSO should ensure that a program variation format delivering similar benefits is in place. DSR believes that all NSOs should adopt an approach to hosting national championships that enhance the nationwide development of their sport.

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Traditionally NSOs have rotated hosting of national championships around the states and territories. The outcomes of this arrangement were that:

• Sport development benefits (i.e. opportunity to compete before a home crowd, development of event presentation skills, exposure to the hosting community of the nation’s best talent/best role models) were distributed around the nation.
• Each state/territory avoided the burden of travel costs in the year they hosted the competition;.
• State sporting associations, in partnership with local and/or state/territory governments, contributed towards the development of sporting facilities capable of hosting national level competitions.
• Modest operating surpluses achieved in hosting national championships supported local program development.

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