Okay, I'm all caught up on my reading now.
Arcansi, how we usually go about going to and from tournaments is by greyhound. The trip is about 8 hours and costs about 60 dollars each way. Then us islanders have the housing issue, sometimes isn't too big of a deal, being that Starwaffle is usually generous enough to house people, but this time IHT and myself will be staying with IHT's brother, and I highly doubt that that could be stretched even the slightest.
Unfortunately this tournament is probably not the one to go to for islanders, especially being in our area of the island, we have to plan way ahead and save money to go.