This is announced very early.
The owner of AL and Osirun here are very active contributors to the fighting game community around Ohio. As long as nothing strange comes up around that time, I'm definitely going to this. If you can make it in, I suggest you do. I feel like they're planning this very far in advance to understand what will be necessary to make the first big event at AL go as smoothly as possible.
If you guys want it (I know most of you do), you may need to speak up and make a commitment to make it a good side tourney.