IPMS 2010

DrewH wrote:

That's not too bad. A cheap flight and looks like I have a few places to stay

 Ive got a spair room

Mansteins revenge wrote:

What about the 2009 show?

Columbus, Ohio, 19-22 August 2009.

ajlafleche wrote:

Mansteins revenge wrote: What about the 2009 show? Columbus, Ohio, 19-22 August 2009.

OMG yes!!!!!

Thats a 10 minute drive for me, not to brag or anything...

Erik

Bah!  I'm gonna miss '09 and '10.  I'll be moving back to Indiana in the next few months, but too late for Nats this year, and that means I'll be half the country away from it in 2010.  

Anyone know where its likely to be in '11?  Also, any IPMS Roscoe Turner folks, please feel free to PM me about your chapter.

Cheers,
Alex 

Bids for the 2011 convention will be presented & awarded next week in Columbus.   The event is scheduled to occur in the eastern-third of the country, based on the east-middle-west progression.  Last year Virginia Beach (east), this year Columbus (middle),  next year Phoenix (west).  I have not heard who is bidding.

Indiana [or Chicago - Firesmacker] qualifies as middle.   If you want it to come to your home town YOU need to begin working on the bid preparation right away (location, lodging, events, cost, etc) so that your organization can make the bid presentation next year in Phoenix for 2012.    When we bid for the 2000 convention held in Dallas we had been working on the presentation for a year before we presented & were awarded in 1998.

Any BTW Firesmacker - the Nats were last held in Chicago (Rosemont Center)  in 2001.   The east/mid/west progression failed in `99 when no chapters in the west prepared a bid and Chicago was asked to bid to fill the void.

EdGrune wrote:

Bids for the 2011 convention will be presented & awarded next week in Columbus.   The event is scheduled to occur in the eastern-third of the country, based on the east-middle-west progression.  Last year Virginia Beach (east), this year Columbus (middle),  next year Phoenix (west).  I have not heard who is bidding. Indiana [or Chicago - Firesmacker] qualifies as middle.   If you want it to come to your home town YOU need to begin working on the bid preparation right away (location, lodging, events, cost, etc) so that your organization can make the bid presentation next year in Phoenix for 2012.    When we bid for the 2000 convention held in Dallas we had been working on the presentation for a year before we presented & were awarded in 1998. Any BTW Firesmacker - the Nats were last held in Chicago (Rosemont Center)  in 2001.   The east/mid/west progression failed in `99 when no chapters in the west prepared a bid and Chicago was asked to bid to fill the void.

I was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan in 2001...

firesmacker wrote:

EdGrune wrote: If you want it to come to your home town YOU need to begin working on the bid preparation right away (location, lodging, events, cost, etc) so that your organization can make the bid presentation next year in Phoenix for 2012.    When we bid for the 2000 convention held in Dallas we had been working on the presentation for a year before we presented & were awarded in 1998. I was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan in 2001...

My point being, you can sit and complain about it not coming to your area or you can be proactive ...

I don't recall complaining. I was making a lighthearted comment, a "quip" if you will, about how I thought Chicago would be better. A year ago.

Regards,

Jeff

cardshark_14 wrote:

Thanks for the information.  We haven't moved yet, but once we do, I'd love to see if there's interest in putting a bid together for Indy!  I don't know any of the fellas that are a part of Roscoe Turner yet, so we'll just have to see... Cheers, Alex

Indianapolis will have tons of new hotels and a new convention center by then (getting ready for the Super Bowl). I think Dayton Ohio would be a great place as well as St. Louis

gary

ajlafleche wrote:

The Phoenix crew did a really good job in 04.

You are just saying that because it was so nice to meet me Al.

I am hoping to be there with Ken again as it's been too long.

Something about August in Arizona doesn't appeal to me. I know it is dry heat but I prefer something below 90F.

Omaha in 2011, it could be either extremely hot or decently in the mid 80s.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Something about August in Arizona doesn't appeal to me. I know it is dry heat but I prefer something below 90F.

That's why it's indoors Gerald.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Something about August in Arizona doesn't appeal to me. I know it is dry heat but I prefer something below 90F.

All together now, "BUT IT'S A DRY HEAT!"

Omaha can also be very humid.  Here in Denver we don't know humid.  In '94 in Omaha, I remember sweating just standing still outside the hotel.  Or was that Indianapolis?  No, both of 'em.  I think you can forget Denver ever hosting.  We're just a bunch of old f%%ts here.  Unless Colo. Springs wants to try.  Bunch of Young Turks with energy down there.  They just did a nice Regional show.  (hint, hint).  Warm days, cool nights, beautiful scenery....aahh.

Doug, Pres. IPMS Front Range..small but full of love..of plastic.

Was'nt the O'ma'ha the name of a band of Orcs in LOTR?

Agreed about Omaha, it can get pretty nasty in the summer

I spent 4 years there, courtesy of the US Air Force - Offutt AFB is on the south end

One place to definitely check out there is the SAC Museum - last I was there, they had a B-36, a Vulcan, a B-58 and several other airplanes of various types

cardshark_14 wrote:

Hey Gary, I know you're in that general area...are you a part of Roscoe Turner? Cheers, Alex

I live in old town Greenwood. Roughly three minutes west of the Greenwood exit on I-65 south. I have thought about asking the guys if I could join, but just never did. I seem to stay pretty busy, and a time factor would become a problem in the end. Their meetings look like they are held about fifteen miles north of me (maybe further). Where are you located?

gary

MikeV wrote:

HawkeyeHobbies wrote: Something about August in Arizona doesn't appeal to me. I know it is dry heat but I prefer something below 90F. That's why it's indoors Gerald.

cardshark_14 wrote:

I'll be a little ways south of Bloomington, once we move.  We're in the hurry up and wait stage now.  I don't mind traveling for a good IPMS meeting, though.  Maybe we can go be new guys together...that way they can't haze either of us too much, right?  Cheers, Alex

from where they have their meetings to the southside of Bloomington is well over an hour each way (probably closer to and hour and a half drive!). What we need is to get a club started in Columbus Indiana. There is an AMPS group getting their feet wet in Southport (just a few minutes north of Greenwood); which would be about an hour from Bloomington. Exactly where are you moving to? Bedford? Or Olitic?

gary

heres are promo video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTZ5SenYQg