Looking for a Bonspiel

As I've said earlier, I aged out of the Novice 5 and Under Bonspiel this past season so I'm on the lookout for a new bonspiel that I can convince my teammates to do.  Let's look at a couple that I found.

Sin Sity Spiel - This one is about 6 weeks from now and if you can't guess from the name, it takes place in Las Vegas.  This one might be a good fit for my team as both Vice and Second are engaged (not to each other, not that there's anything wrong with that.)  What could be better for a bachelor weekend?  Curling, gambling, even Olympian Chris Plys will be there.  It's kind of expensive though at $400 per team.  The schedule is kind of insane too since the curling will be nonstop for all 48 hours of the bonspiel.  (There may also be some fun conversations wtih significant others when we say, "Honey, why don't you take care of the baby all weekend?  I'll be hanging out in Vegas.  Have fun!")

Beers of the World Bonspiel - This bonspiel features beer tasting along with all of the normal bonspiel type stuff.  When I told my wife about this, she said, "Don't you already get enough beer at a regular bonspiel?"  That's true, but regardless, it sounds kind of fun though.  On a related note, Lead thinks there should be something like a "Vice-Spiel" where basically all kinds of vices are celebrated.  So during this hypothetical bonspiel, there'd be cigar smoking, gambling, all sorts of drinking, etc.  Obviously, some (all?) of this stuff happens anyway, but more as a side to the bonspiel.  Anyway, the Beers of the World Bonspiel will be taking place in Columbus, OH on December 2.  Kind of a drive for us. 

Triathlon - I haven't seen anything on this yet for this year, but I've been told that it's really fun.  The triathlon in this case is composed of curling, bowling, and darts.  This takes place in Fargo, ND and the obvious joke is, "What else is there to do there?"  It'd be nice if the three sports are within walking distance of each other (I have no idea if they are).  I'm guessing it'd be dangerous otherwise or they'd need shuttles or something.

Anyone else know of any interesting bonspiels?

A More Competitive League

I recently got an e-mail proposing that my curling league may cherry pick teams from the Sunday night leagues to form a more competitive league.  Surprisingly, my team was on the list of teams that would make up this new league.  (I guess it's not completely implausible; we ended last year as a B level team with a pretty good 10-7 record.)  However, I look at the list of other teams and see several teams that dealt us our 7 losses.  Also, not naming names here, but one of the other skips on the list is a VERY accomplished curler.  We have a choice on the matter so, as Lead put it: "So our choices are to play against teams that will mostly destroy us, or to be grouped with teams that our past record would indicate we are slightly to much better than... On the one hand we will finish early and get free beer, on the other hand we will finish early to on time and have to buy beer."

I'm leaning towards voting for the "realignment" though I'm a little worried that if we truly are outmatched, it may not be as fun to play.  I used to play foosball with a friend of mine nearly every day for a few months (there was a table at work), but he had also played damn near every day during college and after a while, the losing got to me.  Maybe I could've practiced to get better or something, but it's just foosball, and it wasn't getting to not be fun.  (I've played foosball just a handful of times since.)  I'd hate for this to happen with curling. 

But right now, I kinda want to see if my team can hang with these other teams.  Several of my team's losses came down to the last end and maybe things might break differently.  What do you think?  Would you choose to be in the more competitive league?