Venue, location and address
Every event has three “where” fields, and they do different jobs.
- Venue — the resort. “Copper”. “Keystone”. “Ski Cooper”.
- Location — the spot within it. “Center Village”. “Sundown”.
- Address — the street address. “209 Ten Mile Cir, Frisco CO”.
Why they are two boxes
One box for both invites two spellings of the same place — “Copper Mt. Center Village” and “Copper - Center Village” — which nothing can tell apart afterwards.
They are also genuinely different things. The venue is the resort. The location is the specific spot within it, and there are several at each: Sundown or Cimarron at Breck, East Village or Center Village at Copper.
Venue is the one that shows in the title
This is the practical difference. An event reads:
U16 GS — Copper
Who it’s for, what kind of session, and where — at a glance, the same in the list, the cards, the month view and the calendar feed. Only the venue goes in that line. The specific location shows on the event page and on the family’s event card, under the title.
That’s deliberate. Before the split, the month view sometimes titled a race by its location and you’d see an event called simply “Aspen Highlands”.
Both boxes suggest what you’ve used before
Start typing and you’ll see the venues and locations the club has already entered. You can always type something new — Ski Cooper, the adventure park, anywhere — without waiting for an admin to add it. What you type becomes a suggestion for next time, which is what stops a fourth spelling of Copper appearing.
Why the address is worth filling in
The address is shown on the family page, and the whole location line is a link that opens the venue in maps. On a phone that means a parent driving somewhere new taps once and gets directions.
What families see
📍 Copper — Center Village · 209 Ten Mile Cir, Frisco CO
Tapping it opens the venue in the phone’s map app — Apple Maps or Google Maps on iPhone, Google Maps on Android, the web map on a laptop.
If you only fill in some of them
- Venue only — the title still reads correctly (“U16 GS — Copper”), and the map link searches on the venue name. Fine for well-known resorts.
- Venue and location — best for the family page: they see exactly which side of the mountain to drive to.
- Address as well — best of all. The name is searched together with the address, which is what makes mountain-road addresses actually resolve.
- Nothing — the event still works, the title just stops after the discipline: “U16 GS”.
In the month view
Month chips now end with the venue — “NorAm M GS Sun Peaks”. It goes last on purpose: when a chip is too narrow the venue is what gets trimmed, never the discipline. “NorAm M GS Sun P…” still says everything that identifies the race.
There are no three-letter resort codes (cop, key, brk). That would need a list of abbreviations somebody has to maintain, against a field that is deliberately free text, and trimming already gives you “Cop…” for nothing.
No Training days
Leave the venue blank. There’s nowhere to be, and the title reads “U16 No Training” without a trailing dash.
Calendar subscribers
The venue is part of the event title in the feed; the location and
address go into the calendar’s own location field, so anyone subscribed
to the .ics gets a map link from their own calendar app.
Series
Series create has the same three fields, applied to every occurrence. Set them once when you build the season.