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Originally Posted by L'homard
Moncton is perfectly capable of hosting the entire tourney by itself.
What am I missing, that we would have to do it jointly with another city?
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A magical influx of a half-million or so people in the immediate area would be a start, preferably with a much higher percentage of high income individuals than we have now.
List of past WJHC host cities from wikipedia
The cities that have hosted the tournament solo are Buffalo, Helsinki, Malmö, Ufa, St Petersburg and Ottawa. All cities that have well over a million in the metro area (Malmö technically has 700k, but Copenhagen with 2 million metro is 20 mins away).
Cities like Moncton (or Halifax for that matter) don't have anywhere near the population and money to support this monstrosity of a tournament without joining together. Maybe 30-40 years ago when the tournament was in its humble infancy, but definitely not today.