@NotMadeOf$$ posted:Is it not the case that WWBA is pay-to-play, i.e., you must stay in one of the hotels designated by PG or will be ineligible? That has been our impression.
So, here's what the rule was in 2017 and 2018, when I was our team's hotel rep. I asked them several times to confirm. They required that each team have the number of rooms in an official hotel to house the equivalent of the whole team 4 to a room, plus coach. Thus, if your team had 20 players, you had to have 5+1=6 rooms in official hotels. They didn't care who was actually staying in the rooms, it could be 6 families, whatever, they just required 6 rooms for a 20-person team.
I have absolutely no idea if PG ever checked. Some other tournaments did check, and I got phone calls asking about who was staying where.