The Date and the Organiser's Clocks
Victory Athletics Spirit holds the Checkered Flag Championship in Exhibit Hall A at the Indiana Convention Center on Saturday, January 9, 2027. The venue's calendar carries a forecast attendance of 450, and the Whitetail Film Tour shares the date in Wabash Ballroom 1-2 at 300.
The organiser publishes the only dated clocks on this event. A $125 late fee applies from the tenth day before the event, which is December 30, 2026. A second $125 applies to a payment taken on the Friday, the Saturday, the day before or the day of the event. A $100 change fee applies after the first preliminary schedule goes out eight days prior, on January 1, 2027. Two coaches are free per team, and each additional coach costs $25.
Those dates bracket the booking window a reservations desk reads. The organiser's payment deadline and its first schedule release both sit inside the last 11 days before arrival.
What the Rate Table Publishes for the Month
Engine publishes an average nightly rate of $128 in Indianapolis across 1.2 million public rate observations from May 2024 to April 2026. The figures are par rates, the cheapest publicly available price at the time of each search, and the platform ranks Indianapolis 39 of 50 markets.
The month table gives January at $114, which is 11 percent below the city average. February is the low month at $107 and May is the peak at $158.
A Friday, January 8 arrival prices inside the two cheapest months of the year. A rate plan that holds a January Saturday at the city average meets a month the platform prices 11 percent below its own annual figure.
No Block, No Rate, No Cut-Off
The organiser publishes no room block, no rate and no cut-off date for the date. Its event page carries the date and a note that more information is coming soon. Its registration system answers behind a login at regchamp.com.
A team books in the open market. Three structures cover the rates a family or a club will meet: the flexible rate, the non-refundable rate and a group block with an attrition clause. The organiser publishes no cancellation window and no cancellation fee, so the terms come from the property.
Two questions set the booking's cost. The first is the last date to cancel without penalty. The second is the treatment of the deposit after that date.
The Calendar Around the Date
The venue's calendar carries eight events in January 2027 and a forecast total of 32,500. The two January 9 rows hold 750 of that.
The next Center booking sits 11 days later, on January 20, at 1,500. The Central Zone Invitational runs January 23 and 24 at a forecast of 20,000. January 29 to 31 carries 8,250 across three rows.
A distribution file holds the date inside an open stretch of the calendar. The nights of January 8 and January 9 carry no competing Center booking beyond the two rows on the date itself.
What the Venue Publishes for the Room Count
The venue's footer gives 7,100 hotel rooms in downtown Indianapolis and 4,700 rooms connected by skywalks. Visit Indy counts 12 hotels and 5,200 rooms connected once the Signia opens, and states that the downtown pipeline will bring the total within walking distance of the Center to more than 10,000 rooms.
Exhibit Hall A carries 44,400 square feet at a 35-foot ceiling, with 4,300 theatre seats and 2,370 banquet seats. A 450 forecast uses 10.5 percent of the theatre seating.
The Read for a Reservations Desk
One Saturday carries 450 forecast attendees in a month the platform prices at $114. The organiser gives two dates to work against: December 30, 2026 for its payment deadline, and January 8, 2027 for the first published payment window. The event publishes no block, so every room on the date sells at the open rate.