1st-- Southwest is having a sale on plane tickets to San Diego from most of the country if you are looking for a way to get to the meet near there in January... One-way tickets are ranging from 39-109 dollars depending on where you are flying from.
2cd-- I'm hoping to go to the training camp in Hamilton... and the meet in San Diego (I'm on winter break then so I have the week off:) and I think I'm going to buy plane tickets from Buffalo to San Diego in the next couple of days... I'm assuming that there is a good chance that I might be able to get a ride to Buffalo on the 8th or 9th? (presumably there will be people driving back to the states then? anybody? thoughts?).
I'm pretty sure there's a bus that will get you from Buffalo to the Hammer, although, it might not be enjoyable.