2016 IPMS Nationals

Incoming! Let me get them sorted and uploaded.

Couldn't make it this year...anybody got some pics???

According to a posting on Hyperscale which identifies the chapters which will be offering bids at the IPMS USA Nationals next month are:

Chatanooga, TN 

San Antonio, TX (to be held in San Marcos, TX)

Phoenix, AZ

Loveland, CO

Las Vegas, NV

There will be convention awards for 2018 and 2019

One more time, one more time!!. I will keep hopeing and campaigning for a another shot. Sadly i was not into modeling the last time Seattle hosted it. I will try to go 2017, but would love to see it return to Seattle. I think it would give a area jolt to modeling communtiy, and specially the youth. They can come and see there is a national interest in a hobby other then Pokemon, and comecon. I know as a area we can do it, i can not wait to show it.

I'd like to rebut the message from BillMC.  I am VP of the Seattle IPMS Club - 126 members strong.  When we tried to host the Nationals (for 2016), the IPMS National office was not the problem at all.  They were very helpful, answering all of our questions regarding securing the venue, contacting vendors, visitor metrics - everything.  They also take all the financial risk.

We have five clubs in the area who were willing to band together to run the show itself.  We successfully secured the venue and the hotel, and had figured out the food, rooms and tours - we were on our way to hosting the 2016 event.  We simply fell short of the key people we needed to manage the project.  We needed about eight, we had 5.  These critical 2-3 year-out jobs are not something you can convince someone to do - they have to really want to do it.  And we fell short (this time).  As a group, the membership voted to pull out.

So - lack of long-range volunteers were to blame.  To attribute any of this to the National office of IPMS is simply wrong.

The North West will try a second best of show win. 

2017, omaha, thats what i am looking at. Two years east coast, just can not flip the bill for a cross country trip.  I get the feeling IPMS is like the oylmpic selection commity!. They want the citys to cough up a lung to host one?, why. Scale down your requests please!. Give(it can be west coast and or Maybe NW, lol i am bias there) citys a chance to host. If they have the venue, let them work out the rest. IPMS just demands to much to host!. In a era where we are just trying to keep the hobby alive, past down to our kids, IPMS acts like citys should bow down to them on there knees. Go splash some cold water on your face and come back to 2016!, the hobby in a lot of places is shaking at the knees. The Nationals should keep this in mind.

stcat

I just decided yesterday to go to the SC nationals.  That's when I learned that while I could get the first two days at the convention rate of $129, Friday night the price went up to $270 because all the slots are filled.  My fault for waiting so long.

 

Try looking in other hotels, West Columbia and Lexington is nearby and probably cheaper.

I just decided yesterday to go to the SC nationals.  That's when I learned that while I could get the first two days at the convention rate of $129, Friday night the price went up to $270 because all the slots are filled.  My fault for waiting so long.

I join here in seattle back in 2014,  i had just got back into building, did not know that much about ipms and convention's, shows. I found out about the Nationals early in 2015,  found out later that year that Seattle lost the bid for 2017. I for one love the idea of a potenial show coming to Seattle. I would throw my hat in. For 2016, its not going to happen, for me to attend this year. 

I may have to submit my Tiger 1...it's pretty good I must say 

At least a modeler from Seattle took best of show at the 2015 I.P.M.S. Nationals.

After a large flood I would not think about building models.Recovery takes longer than a year.Respect is the word  here.

My daughter goes to USC in Columbia and lives in Lexington down the road from Columbia. She said the same thing. It's a hit and miss on some areas, but the flooding was incredible, getting somethin like 20 inches of rain within a day or so. This was called a storm that happens every 1,000 years.

One of the members of the local organizing committee posted on Hyperscale that the convention center was not affected by the storm & flooding and that they actually held a function in the center during the height of the event.

Chill

Silver

SC is flooded.

I'm sure it won't stay flooded come 2016.....

SC is flooded.

Dave Morrisette,IPMS  eBoard member, posted a summary of the process on Hyperscale.

www.network54.com/.../This+is+the+process

In that posting he said that there were only two bids for 2017

Next chapter meet ill speak with the folks who passed that on. Perhaps I'm mistaken and they were bidding for 2018. But as told, Las Vegas put in a bid for a Nationals.

The "politics" of the clubs that are putting their bid up for consideration to the powers that be for hosting the Nationals. I know that it is just hearsay, so to speak, as I was not there to be a part of witness the actual events, but the impression around here is that the Las Vegas chapter (not the local Chapter, but one we were rooting for, due to proximity) went up against a pre determined "not gonna happen" in their bid for 2017. I have not heard yet about the Phoenix pitch for the same bid, but obviously it was unsuccessful as well.  Phoenix has an obvious proven track record for hosting nationals, and I suspect that Vegas would have put on a nice show... Ah well... maybe in 2018 somewhere the West will be the host.

stikpusher

Maybe in 2017 they will remember us folks out West...

Yes, I realize that it must be bid for. I hang out with the directors from our Chapter from time to time and get to hear the scuttlebutt about such things. Just like most everything else in life, it does involve politics, shall we say. Our Chapter, IPMS Orange County, hosted 2007.  2010 was Phoenix AZ, and 2013 was Loveland CO. In past years there was a tendency to rotate between the East, Center, and West of the nation. Of course based on bids from those areas. The past three years have been all in the Eastern portion of the nation- VA and SC are Eastern Seaboard, and  OH is neither west of the Mississippi nor the Continental divide, so really not in the center either. Perhaps no chapter west of either one of those geographic landmarks has not bid to host since then. But somehow I suspect that is not the case.

A local organizing committee has to bid for it.  It is not given blindly.   If you want it to come to your area YOU must actively pursue it,  get your local IPMS club or clubs together and prepare a bid.

The bid(s) for 2017 will be heard & awarded at the 2015 convention.    If no one out west has started their bid prep -- then it is likely already too late.     You have to have the hotel & convention site firmed up and a rough idea of theme and potential side activities.    

When I was part of the 2000 Dallas committee we started planning in 1997.  The bid was awarded in 1998