Detroit Competition

[Kit Clement]

Motor City Open 09

There's a very good chance I'll be able to host a competition in Detroit, and I just wanted to poll this forum to see what the interest is, and what time would be a good time to run this. I'm hoping that some of you from Canada and the Tri-State area (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky) would come up and participate, but I see that there are two Indiana competitions in the works already this summer, so I don't want to run a competition that's competing with yours.

EDIT:

Website is up, and competition is in process of becoming official.

http://mcopen.weebly.com/index.html

EDIT 2:

Competition is now official! ^.^

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=MotorCityOpen2009

 

[Sa967St]

I may come, its less than 4 hours away from here

 

[Bob]

i've never been to michigan!

 

[philkt731]

yeah sure I'd probably come

 

[Kit Clement]

Awesome, how does sometime mid-May sound?

 

[Thompson]

Hmm. Maybe I can come. It would be fun.

 

[philkt731]

Mid may is near graduation so it depends on when exactly it is

 

[JBCM627]

I may be able to... 3.5 hour drive from Columbus? Not bad.

Initially I thought it was further, so I checked plane ticket costs... Why are tickets to all these places so expensive? It costs less for me to fly to SFO, which is quite a bit farther.

 

[Sa967St]

Awesome, how does sometime mid-May sound?

bad, IB exams!

 

[Kit Clement]

Hmm... I'd have the competition later, but I don't want to run along the Indiana competitions, I imagine that would reduce participation in these competitions. I'll wait and see for now, this competition is definitely going to be a ways off.

 

[Noah]

I'd be there. I'm just down in the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor area.

 

[Jason Baum]

I'll probably be there, especially if it's in mid May when I'll be home from school. Detroit is only a 5 hour drive from Pittsburgh.

 

[philkt731]

Awesome Jason, this makes up for Indiana then huh?
It should be fun competing against you (except in 3x3 lol, you will destroy me)

 

[IamWEB]

I used to live in Michigan, so if it's in June, I'll be visiting and will try to make it there.

 

[Jason Baum]

Awesome Jason, this makes up for Indiana then huh?
It should be fun competing against you (except in 3x3 lol, you will destroy me)

Heh, don't be so sure, I'm awful in competition. It should be fun though, we're pretty close in quite a few events!

 

[Carson]

That would be a fairly long haul for me considering that I am in southern kentucky (almost in tennessee) but assuming I could get off from work, there would be a decent chance that I could make it.

 

[Kit Clement]

Maybe a good day to do it on would be the Sunday before Memorial Day, it would give people a day to travel if need be on Saturday, and probably be a relatively free day for most people.

 

[Bob]

That of course eliminates all (most) of the east coast competitors since it is the same weekend as Captain's Cove...though I might be willing to do 2 competitions in a weekend.

 

[Kit Clement]

Aaaah, that may be a problem.

Maybe I should stop uttering random dates that may work, and see what days I can get for venues. >.>

 

[Bob]

Aaaah, that may be a problem.

Maybe I should stop uttering random dates that may work, and see what days I can get for venues. >.>