For me personally, when I'm at a tourney all I do is play foosball from the time I wake up til about 3-4am. I hardly have time to sit and eat many times, when getting called for matches. I love vegas, for other reasons. I'd prefer to keep my vegas trips separate from my foosball trips as I wouldn't have time to gamble on a foos trip. I'm just glad they don't have a tornado table on Royal Caribbean cruise ships or I'd waste most of my cruise playing a bunch of spinners and stuff. I gotta kick this foos habit! 
John
I hear what John is saying, but like all rookies and relative newcomers to tour events, they learn and improve each time they go. But none of them and others like them can stay in rookies (especially John!). You know it doesn't continue to work that way, where one can afford to join all events & at least join qualifiers for Open events. Unless a newbie quits foosball cold turkey or is a complete hopeless forever rookie, they will naturally progress into a solid semipro, and with any luck, a pro or even better.
Tour newcomers have to realize that semipros & higher compose quite a bit of tour and super regional events, with as much, if not greater, investment in time, vacations and trip expenses as all the rookies & first-timers combined. The commitment to a tour & regional events over years and decades dwarfs what any rookie or beginner spends in their first or second year of their typical 1 to 2year tour life as a newbie. This is the same in all touring or major event leagues, like the semipro and pro pool/billiards tours, the varying bowling congresses, and darts and draughts associations.
Semi Pros and Open players can join fewer events, duhhhhhh... and thus have a lot more time, therefore the natural desire to have the event in places with interests, sights and activities for themselves, family and social acquaintances. Everyone realizes that the typical excitable rookie or beginner is happy to immerse themselves in foosball 20 hrs a day for days on end. Which is why they suffer more, and are actually treated like dirt by some event organizers. Who cares, right? They turn into respectable semipros and pros soon enough, anyway. So first-timer beginners or rookies are happy to play any Worlds or Major, perhaps even in an old huge used septic tank, if necessary.
So they have to understand that rookie & beginner opinions are seen through their very unique filter, vs the thousands of dollars and hours and peace of mind ALREADY invested by semipros, pros, Open, and ongoing tour players, often over years & decades. So newbies have to understand, whether its correct or not, why their input is generally and logically ignored.
We were all beginner/rookies once, and I know when I was, I probably would have happily played my first Worlds or Atlanta in some backwater motel inn an hour from the nearest airport or major highway artery. And I would (did) enter every stupid package event (loved it) AND would have played 30 hrs a day if possible, till my hands fell off (happened) and my eyes fell out(they did). But tour promoters and event hosts know rookies and beginners who will become tour goers will readily go to Bumf*ck Anywhere anyway, so their opinions don't count as much as the regular veterans who've been going and voting with their dollars and trips for years.
I know it probably hurts the promotions & recruiting side a bit, but you gotta have your bread before you butter it. which explains the predilection of tour players for Vegas and other party towns. Tour Event promoters have the same concerns in locations as travel agents. The place hasta had dat sumpin'sumtin'.
If they could play foos on a Mississippi River Casino Boat, I'd vote for that! The way the balls are getting stickier and slower, that could happen soon!
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