During the late fifties and early sixties, however, there was a growing number in the drum corps would who didn't necessarily consider the Legion Nationals a true championship, primarily because more years than not, the contest was held in a distant city; generally convenient for Legionnaires attending the convention, but not for drum & bugle corps based in the northeast. Unfortunately, the drum corps championship was just one small event in the overall Legion convention, and most of the top corps, including the Caballeros, often found it difficult, and some years, impossible, to make the considerable expenditure in money and time to attend an event in cities such as Los Angeles, Portland, or New Orleans. The logistics and costs involved in transporting and housing a large corps over such distances was, for most, simply far greater than it was worth, and often took a year or longer to recover from financially.