US Nationals 2013 [Cancelled]

DavidWoner said:
What?

Also Colorado is the only one that's a halfway reasonable suggestion.

@Tyson: Has the location for 2012 been picked then?
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World Arena...it's gigantic...There are community centers all over the place to hold it, the pepsi center, some of the high schools in the Denver/Colorado Springs area are plenty big enough to hold hundreds of people...
 
RyanReese09 said:
Everyone does. Everyone here suggesting will always give a place closer to home. I obviously won't suggest a place in New Mexico, if I'm all the way on the east coast. I'd actually love the chance to travel to the west coast, as crazy as that might sound :).

As David asked, I'd also like to know if 2012 location has been decided.
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Yeah because it would be hard to book a place that is far from you.
For example my recommendation was the closest place (therefore easy to book) with the possibility of getting a reasonably sized area.
 
Hershey said:
New England is full of fast cubers. At Park Ridge Open 2011, the cut off time to get into the second round was like sub 17 seconds.
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Um that doesn't mean they all live in New England <_<

And I think you are wrong, the cutoff for 2nd round was like 13.63 average IIRC. Could be wrong though, but I'm pretty sure.

edit: Ahhh tim reynolds owned me. misheard him :-:
 
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ianography said:
I wouldn't be able to really help with booking (sorry), but I think that a good location would be in Washington State. Maybe WSU?
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But why does it always ahve to be on the edge of the USA why cant it be in the middle. Some landlocked state! Ohio is east coast so for me to get out there its like either 3 days car trip or 800 plane trip. Something south west is sorta middle of the USA kansas and surrounding states!


AJ Blair said:
World Arena...it's gigantic...There are community centers all over the place to hold it, the pepsi center, some of the high schools in the Denver/Colorado Springs area are plenty big enough to hold hundreds of people...
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Thats exactly what i was thinking. Plus it is a more centralized place not on the edge of the USA. Like i mentioned i would like to have a place that is about the same distance from each coast so everyone can make it.

DavidWoner said:
Also Colorado is the only one that's a halfway reasonable suggestion.
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yay thanks!
 
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Tall5001 said:
But why does it always ahve to be on the edge of the USA why cant it be in the middle. Some landlocked state! Ohio is east coast so for me to get out there its like either 3 days car trip or 800 plane trip. Something south west is sorta middle of the USA kansas and surrounding states!
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Did you really say that Ohio was east coast? Learn your geography man.
 
Tall5001 said:
But why does it always ahve to be on the edge of the USA why cant it be in the middle. Some landlocked state! Ohio is east coast so for me to get out there its like either 3 days car trip or 800 plane trip. Something south west is sorta middle of the USA kansas and surrounding states!
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Did you really say that Ohio was east coast? Learn your geography man.
 
Lucas Garron said:
I don't have any good suggestions to add, but I'd like to note that I reserve the right to heavily administer and censor this thread if people post suggestions that are obviously not going to work. If you have a legitimate suggestion, by all means post it, but If it's a blatant PIMBY or doesn't contribute to the conversation, it will be deleted or flagged.

Anyhow, if I had to make a suggestion: Assuming it's not there in 2012, I think Berkeley deserves it, and enough of the team will be around.
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Re: Berkeley: We have leadership hand-off in place, and should be set for having a strong club through 2016, assuming Edward Liu is as awesome as advertised.

Main room in Pauley Ballroom (Google Images, pic1, pic2). Pauley is basically a gigantic ballroom, dividable, with a nice backdrop of the campus through all the windows. The nice thing about Pauley is that because we're an ASUC-sponsored student group as of a month ago, I can get most if not all of the Room Rental Fee waived, and it's already far less expensive than tOSU Student Union is charging us this year. We can configure the room however we want; for example, if people prefer banquet-style seating with lots of large circular tables to encourage interaction in the audience, we can set that up.

Side events in other rooms in other ASUC-controlled rooms such as Tilden Room, Stephens Lounge, etc. OR in the usual rooms we do Berkeley competitions at (145/155 Dwinelle, etc.), which are auditorium halls with theater-seating. We can fit 6-8 timers onto the 145 Dwinelle stage, which is more than enough for side events.

All these rooms are either in the same building, or a 1-2 minute walk from the ballroom. Lots of hotels in the Bay Area. Hotels in Berkeley can run a bit expensive because they tend to be boutique hotels, but there are plenty of hotels in San Francisco, for example. BART is a rapid-transit system that stops 1 block away from campus (West-side), and thus any hotel next to a BART station can be feasibly used. BART also has connections to both San Francisco Int'l and Oakland Int'l Airports for people flying in from far away.

Bay area staff is amazing; Berkeley and Stanford each put on ~3 competitions a year, and both staffs often collaborate with each other. Socal cubers from Caltech and San Diego as well as visiting cubers from places as far away as Norway and Australia have flown here to hang out and run interesting competitions (see Vidar Open; Vidar Klungre and the Order of the Phoenix, etc.).

Tyson lives in the Yay so he knows the area already. San Francisco is an amazing tourist destination for parents and/or guests who want a nice attractive destination to visit before/during/after Nationals. I don't know if we'd have the manpower, but I'd totally be up to guide people on a tour around SF (the parts that I know about, anyway).

Lastly, it should be close to the West Coast's turn, seeing as how last year was in Massachusetts (aka East); this year is Ohio State (aka Big Ten/12/whatever they call themselves these days land)

Oh, and no offense to WSU, but there isn't really anything to do in Pullman... there's a reason why Pullman and Corvallis are the only two road trips in the Pac-10 with a dry reputation.
 
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If we had $15000 to blow we could also get Zellerbach Hall. Think legit concert hall that seats 2000+. Jeopardy College Championships was held there once. Pauley Ballroom (and Hertz Hall on the off chance the music department would let us use it) are much more reasonable options though.
 
Tall5001 said:
Ohio is east coast so for me to get out there its like either 3 days car trip or 800 plane trip.
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I just went to Priceline and Albuquerque to Columbus was $369 total.

We need to go back to the previous US National planning threads and post the rules/rationale up front. I hope this doesn't become filled with just single links to every convention center in the US.
 
I still think it should be at Carmel High School even though it is considered my "backyard"(I live 3 miles away from it). The reason why it would be so good is because there are several area's in the building that would be great for a competition. All 3 cafeterias in the school would be just amazing because they are all massive. The biggest one is the "freshman cafeteria" because it was built five years ago. It has a tall ceiling, and it also has a stage built right into it that is a good size to put tables and stackmats on. It is a very easy place to find with a lot of parking and is in a very safe area. There is always stuff going on all the time so they wouldn't mind having hundreds of people cubing there.

I will take some pictures tomorrow of what the place is and they will show the size and stage of the place. If you want me to I could help you contact them.

This would be a great venue.
 
Those are not the only things that go into a good venue.

A good venue is also:
Close to a major airport, accessible by public transportation or a short cab ride.
Relatively cheap hotel within walking distance (<1/2 mile).
Restaurants, gas station/convenience store, etc within walking distance. Some food choices within a few hundred feet of the venue is convenient for lunch.

A bunch of other stuff.
 
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