Why the lack of MLG tournaments in the central/southeastern US?

[upton889]

Me personally, being a native of Kentucky, I would love to see MLG come to the middle/southeastern part of the US again. Not sure how accurate it truly was, but the Halo 3 player locations map always showed a lot of people playing in the southeastern US (Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, etc.). There are several Halo pros from the state of Kentucky including Strongside and Elamite Warrior. Places like Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, etc. are fairly centrally located for everybody's convenience and surely they would have a great turnout. I really got into Halo less than a month or two after MLG Nashville (2005 I think?) so I didn't get a chance to go. It seems that Columbus, Chicago, etc. is the closest MLG has came to the southeast. Surely MLG could do something to accommodate the mass amount of gamers in this region. Your thoughts?