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Re:The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal by ghaff on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:27PM (#26783964)
It's happened to greater or lesser degrees with a lot of events. The Head of the Charles (big rowing event in Cambridge MA) is still fairly casual with people watching from bridges and along the rivers. But it's commercialized a lot in the past 20 or 25 years.

There are now a ton of sponsor booths on the Cambridge side of the river. And rather than groups from colleges setting up wherever, they're now in a big roped off area on the Boston side.

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Re:The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal by colechristensen on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:15PM (#26784582)
Is it perhaps just the natural lifecycle of events? An evolution from a joke to quaint to corporate to decline
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Re:The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal by ghaff on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:29PM (#26784752)
Lifecycles vary but that's probably a reasonable description for a lot of events. Certainly, once an event is very corporate there are a lot of forces acting to keep it going long past its sell-by date.

That said, long-lived events can stay volunteer efforts.

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