Agree!! I 100% hope that the rumors of the booths being permanent are NOT true. I wouldn't want the booths there all the time, and I like Food & Wine being its own special thing. But some of the special-ness has already gone away with the booths popping up at other times of the year, so I can see them slowly making them permanent.
With 4 festivals during the year already I am surprised they haven't gone to permanent booths.
The entire race weekend theme would need to change, right? They DID already announce food-related themes for each race though...
Yeah thats what is weird about this. They announce themes but then everything is on hold.
My guess is that it's #5. With the Guardians ride going up near the Epcot parking lot, the gondolas going up at DHS and Epcot, those all interfere with the courses as they currently stand. I'm sure they are trying to find a different course but maybe they're trying to confirm it will be plausible before making thousands of people sign up, and then afterward realizing logistically it wouldn't work out and having to refund those people. This is all pure speculation on my part, but I could easily see this being the case.
I don't think Guardians has anything to do with this. We ran right past the construction in January (and February) and the area has not widened since then. Both Princess and WDW both ran by gondola construction too. I am not buying the construction claim right now. WDW has a ton of areas to work with/
Could it be a sponsor thing????
Very well could be. Misfit sponsored this last year.
When I pull it up the 10K and challenge are gone...
The same thing happened to me the other day. Refreshed and it was back. It was strange.