Where do YOU want to see the National Convention?

[Senusret I]

So the National Convention is coming up in Atlanta, GA in less than three weeks. Two years from now, it will be some place in California.

Just so you know, there are four "convention areas"

Eastern-The States of Vermont, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and all Atlantic Seaboard States except South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia.

Southern-Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and all commonwealths, territories and possessions of the United States located in the eastern waters.

Western-All Pacific Seaboard states, and the States of Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, and all other commonwealths, territories and possessions of the United States located in the western waters.

North Central-Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.

The convention sites rotate in the order listed: East, South, West, North Central.



For fun, where would you like to see convention in the coming years? 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020

PS - Here is a list of previous convention sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_P...al_conventions

[Senusret I]

My picks (this is just for fun. I'm not with any potential bid teams):


2014: Columbus, OH (It's a great little town with nice convention-scale hotels which is not to far from many chapters)

2016: Baltimore, MD (Definitely a great city for tourists in a great region -- and we've surprisingly never had a national convention there. The food is GREAT)

2018: New Orleans, LA (I'm sorry.... I freaking love New Orleans and will support it until the day I die lol)

2020: Seattle, WA (Never been there and want to go )

[naraht]

2012: Prefer SFO to LA.

2014: Chicago (Like to give it to Region VI)

2016: Either DC or Pittsburgh, I'd love to see either.

2018: San Antonio, I was disappointed when they had to move it in 1994.

2020: Denver, I can't see it being anywhere else. (Denver has won every time it has competed because it is that much closer to the majority of the chapters in the fraternity than any other convention city in the Western Region.) I hope Region XI is strong enough to put in a Seattle bid...

Flipped around, where personally *don't* I want to go?

2012: I'd prefer not to do LA
2014: Cincinnati (not sure why)
2016: NYC (and Boston and honestly not NE Pennsylvania)
2018: Florida
2020: Denver (but I know it will be there)

[arvid1978]

2014: Chicago. There's a group already working on it,. and given the massive (and I do mean massive; over 1/3 of the fraternity's active membership lives within 500 miles of Chicago) student population, the two major airports and the fact that it's Amtrak's main hub, the variety of options and amenities that the city provides... this one should be a winner, hands down. Plus, Region VI hasn't had a convention since 1948; I think we're due for one :-)

Last time Chicago was considered was back in 1998, and the convention chose Minneapolis. I wasn't active yet, but that must have been one hell of a presentation by the Minneapolis bid committee.

[Pingyang]

2012: San Francisco

2014: St. Louis

2016: Philadelphia

2018: Charleston, SC or Nashville

2020: Albuquerque or Portland

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

PS - Here is a list of previous convention sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_P...al_conventions

After Arvid's commentsI went through the Convention sites (including 2012, which will almost certainly be in Region X)and grouped them by current Region, I got some fairly interesting results (table below).

On the "unfair" side, Region VIII has hosted 12 conventions, more than twice as many as any other Region, including twice where it has hosted two conventions in a row. This is inflated by a *number* of factors including being relatively central, having the National Office there for most of the lifetime of the Fraternity, and having Denver host it as much as legally possible since the institution of the current Convention rotation. In fact, if either the 1986 Houston Convention or the 1970 DFW convention had been in Oklahoma or Arkansas, it could have done it three times in a row. Also, Region XI has never had a convention, but given the current state of the Region, I think holding a National there would be a *very* (x100) bad idea.

On the "fair" side, the 8 conventions from 1998 to 2012 will have been in 8 of the 11 regions. A successful bid for 2014 by Chicago (or elsewhere in RVI) and then 2016 by DC (or elsewhere in RIII) will give us 10 of the 11 regions in a row (yes, it is mathematically possible to do all 11 in a row, but not with the current sequence).

Regions Count Conventions
I 2 2008, 1992
II 2 2000, 1960, (1928)
III 2 1984, 1968,
IV 3 2010, 1978, 1976,
V 3 2006, 1952, 1936,
VI 3 1948, 1940, 1932,
VII 5 2002, 1994, 1986, 1970, (1967), 1958,
VIII 12 2004, 1990, 1988, 1982, 1974, 1972, 1964, 1962, 1946, (1942), 1938, 1934, 1931,
IX 4 1998, 1966, 1954, 1950
X 4 2012, 1996, 1980, 1956
XI 0

* I'm not counting 1967 (Con-con in Norman, OK), 1942 (Cancelled, scheduled for KC), 1928 (half by mail, half at a boy scout camp near Cornell U.)or 1926 (mail)

[Senusret I]

^^^ I love naraht because I KNEW he would do this!!!!

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

^^^ I love naraht because I KNEW he would do this!!!!

Now I just have to get cracking on the 85/86 conference talk...