The highest rated active player in Wyoming is a Class A player. 
So? It is a very small pool. He may very well be underrated. Not every state has masters.
Move to Wyoming, Bill, and you can be King of the Hill.
Wyoming is the equality state. All of the chess players are average there.
When is there a tournament there?
Wyoming has two main tournaments a year that I know about. The Wyoming Open, which is in May, and the Wyoming Closed, which is in September or October. The Closed is open to all Wyoming players but closed to out-of-state players. There might be some scholastic tournaments as well.
MSA shows a total of four tournaments in Wyoming in 2009, I don’t think any of them were scholastic events.
Wouldn’t it be so sad to live in the center of a giant chess tournament dead state like Wyoming?
The only reason that any area is NOT tournament-dead is because there are folks there willing to do the work to organize and direct tournaments.
Yeah, but clearly the demand just isnt there.
Sorry, I disagree.
It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg situation.
I’ve seen areas that were nearly if not totally dormant grow quickly once someone started running tournaments there, or when a strong player moved there.
I’ve also seen areas die down quickly when the local organizer stopped running events, or when a few key players moved away.
Jerry Nash may have said it best, though he was thinking of scholastic programs, when he said that any chess program is just one person away from collapse.