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By a vote of 16 to 13 Sigillo and Montecucco in Italy won the bid for the 2011 Class 1 Worlds over Forbes.

Italian bid Not much there. No discussion (denies) of the actual airspace issues. States that pilots can't use 2m radios, that's weird.

The mayor of Sigillo was at the CIVL meeting and promised 100,000 Euros to the meet. The budget shows 40,000, so that must have gone up. No real indication if this is money or services, or a mix. No indication of what this money will do for the pilots. The entry fee is still high at 450 Euros. No prize money.

Montecucco is a good site for the Worlds. But, it is in Europe. The Europeans already have a Category I competition every two years, the Europeans, which pilots from outside Europe are effectively denied entry into. So having two Category I competitions in Europe is a bit much.

It appears to me from earlier indications that Montecucco got the Worlds because European pilots didn't want to have to pay the additional expense of flying to Australia. Of course, we Americans still have to pay. As do the South Americans, Australians, etc.