As far as I know there is also a European competitor and if I'm not entirely mistaken London is in Europe, hence many, many European BCers attending and therefore chances for that European city to win not bad. ;-)) Yeah, yeah, I know I'm not making you happy.
On a different topic (or not), I received your pm and answered it just now. As the pm systems seems rather unreliable at present, I just wanted to let you know I received yours and am very happy about its content! :-)