Yeah, $1500.00 for a day of welding aint to shaby. If I lived closer, I'd be giving up a saturday to go do that. What is the entry fee? I don't recall an entry fee in the flyer.
92 contestants is going to be hard to judge as well. I run competitions with 6 and 12 guys over a 4 day period and it's hard to judge, but our new scoring criteria helps us out a bunch. It's pretty cut throat.