The venue and a healthy crowd, who turned out in miserable conditions, also played their part in what Group 11 secretary Ross McDermott called an audition for the 2017 City-Country Origin fixture.

Country Rugby League (CRL) chairman Terry Quinn said the executive was yet to decide where next year's fixture would be played, but that Dubbo certainly stood up as a strong contender.

"Every time we play out at Dubbo we get really good crowds so it's one of the venues we're looking at," Quinn said.

"It's one of the ones we're looking at at the moment but we haven't made a decision as of yet.

"We haven't done a lot on it at the moment, we'll get through the Championships and then we'll look at the nominations we have and look at where we think we should take it."

Hundreds of fans turned out to watch the games over the course of the day on Saturday, despite the fact there was no Western Rams side competing.

Quinn said the NSW Country selectors would have a tough time choosing their sides once the championships had wrapped up.

"They were very good," Quinn said.

"The girls were excellent - they were probably the most excellent games at the weekend and the other four were good, tough footy.

"There were reasonably tough scores, they weren't blown-out scores which was good. It gave the selectors a lot to look at."

Dubbo has attracted some of the biggest crowds in recent history of the City-Country, including the best crowd in 11 years when 11,423 flocked to Caltex Park in 2006, while 9627 fans turned out in miserable conditions in 2014.

But there are plenty of other contenders for the fixture, Quinn said, including Orange, Bathurst and Mudgee as well as some further flung rivals.

"There's a few places where we know we'll get a crowd. We've got Tamworth and Wagga...places like the Central Coast, and probably Wollongong and Canberra and they are all possibilities [in terms of] getting bigger venues," he said.

"There was a suggestion that we should take it to Broken Hill. I don't know if they've got a big enough ground out there.

"There's also the option of the Sydney Cricket Ground - taking it back to where it all began."

Group 11, which has been working closely with the now-defunct Dubbo City Council, sent off their official application on Thursday, and Quinn said there were a number of factors which made Dubbo a contender.

He also thanked the former and current councils for making the facility available on Saturday.

"Absolutely, my word," he said.

"As I said we know there's plenty of accommodation, we know we're going to get a good crowd and we now the facility's going to hold up.

"The venue was excellent with the rain and to have six games on there, it's a testament to the ground."