It's paying for a hotel room for an already expensive trip (Pound 4,) and paying for drinks for THIS tourney.
This also goes towards messes that will inevitably be made. I've cleaned up after every tourney I've ever hosted, and I will probably continue to be forced to do so, so get over it. The tourney in AZ had a venue fee, and tourneys in CO have dickload venue fees. I'm not pocketing the money, or anything of the sort, it's helping to pay for a hotel room (and from the assumed 50 person turnout, it still won't cover all the nights we'll be staying in Maryland) so stop complaining about something that isn't even that big a deal.
OP updated with pics of venue.