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Mt Buller have been claiming that they're going to do that every year since they re-opened. This year was the first year anything actually changed (other than putting in wooden bits where there used to be natural terrain, but whatever, apparently it was necessary) and even then that was only really the little slalom track which served to elongate International and annoy people a bit, plus the XC stuff (which apparently is awesome, I haven't ridden it though).Were you the only party bidding for the buisness?
You are surely aware that Mt Buller already have the jump on you regarding many of the suggestions made on this forum. Mt Buller, from what I have heard, plan on expanding their MTB operations big time in the coming years. Given this, and the failure of RawNRG, how do you plan to compete?
I'd say the #1 thing that could be done at Thredbo is to actually make ANY significant changes. I haven't gone up there for the past couple of years even to races because the track is pretty much the same old one-line plow-fest it's been every other time I went there. Put in a new track? Put in some big jumps? Make a track that has more than one line? Whatever... just make some decent changes that give the place a breath of fresh air, because at least in my eyes, it's pretty stale as is. I also don't think that complete beginners should be able to ride national-level racetracks, or alternatively, national-level races shouldn't be on beginners' tracks. Trying to strike a compromise to create a track that is both rideable by absolutely everyone, and challenging riders who are literally the best in the world, is just unrealistic IMO. They do need separate tracks or at the very least very much separate lines.
Also it would be nice to see some steep stuff there... it's a big steep hill, why not have some big steep burly stuff? Nowhere else in Aus really has a better location, it'd be nice to see it being used a bit closer to its potential.