If you will allow the crash one more time, let me congratulate you on your selection to recolonize at Kansas State. I would have thought that after 12 colonizations in 5 years, ZTA resources would have been stretched too thin and the preparation would have been incomplete and a little haphazard. I would have been WRONG. Your extension team did a fabulous job. This is not to take away anything from the other houses that presented, but your representatives were incredibly polished and PREPARED. Both your current national president and a past president were on the team. They all did a great job of "working the crowd" before the session, and brought in a lot of local alums and actives from surrounding chapters. They also had an absolutely DARLING video of a 96-year-old Beta Upsilon alum talking about how important her years of being a ZTA at K-State were. Definitely got heartstring points there!
Probably the biggest "solid" aspect to the ZTA presentation, however, was the groundwork that had been done in preparation for housing. As has been posted elsewhere, you really have to be a housed chapter at KSU to be competitive. ZTA had already exhaustively checked out the list of possible immediate housing situations. They also explained your housing corporation and said that funds were already available to begin housing construction without "local fundraising." I wasn't in on the selection process, but I have heard that was a big consideration.
Before the extension process began, ZTA did not have as much name recognition among the actives as the other chapters since Missouri is your only other Big 12 North Chapter. (I know you have a big presence in Big 12 South Texas, but like they say, Texas is a 'whole nother country'
) It is a sincere compliment to note that you were able to overcome that and be chosen to recolonize.
Congratulations and welcome.