WC2006 - Early Location Discussion

[Trafton]

A few early suggestions:

- Seattle, Washington
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Portland, Oregon

Any other early nominees?

[Monolith]

Southern Californa. I don't find the northwest as interesting.

[mirrow]

Cologne/West Germany I don't think America as interesting :-)

[White Rabbit]

Washington is also on the east coast of North America. :p

Oh, darn, you mean the state? :D

[Anubis]

Seattle.

[MaGoo]

CALIFORNIA

[Black Ninja]

My vote goes to Seattle, WA. I know the area fairly well, and I have a cousin who lives there and knows lots of good geeky stuff to do.

[GuMmYBeAr!]

CALIFORNIA. Please god. I want to see palm trees and feel like a hippy. ..and things.

[Radium]

ALASKA

You can hunt POLAR BEARS. And ESKIMOS.

[Spotty]

I would be in favour of Seattle or Vancouver, not sure which I would want more yet. I obviously know Vancouver very well as does Mike so we could easily plan it if it was selected. As for Seattle I was there recently with BN, and I'm sure Trafton knows the area fairly well.

[minmay]

Tokyo please. I want you people to be as far away from me as possible D=

[Fawriel]

Tokyo please. I want you people to be as far away from me as possible D=
That would be best achieved if you moved into the core of the earth.

[Ninja]

I might actually be able to come. :D

Definetely California.

[Radium]

That would be best achieved if you moved into the core of the earth.How do you figure that? That would simply put you equally far away from everywhere.

[Fawriel]

Well, that way he would be the farthest away possible from all the members of this community, I think.
Unless he wanted to go into space! =D

[MSB3000]

Lafayette Indiana, please. We have a hotel and everything.

[iCeD]

The people suggesting "California" need to be a bit more specific, seeing as how California has a ton of different significant cities. From San Francisco to San Diego, to the absolutely crap inland valley region. Of all of the options I would endorse either San Diego or Santa Barbara County. But seriously, I'd vastly prefer something in the northwest. We did CA for WC2004 already, after all.

[Link]

Seattle and Vancouver both sound good. I'll also suggest Banff, Alberta, which might be more difficult but very worthwhile. Banff is a sort of mountain resort town, with lots of shopping and touristy things but also mountain activities like hiking, hot springs, and whitewater rafting.

[LittleFreak]

Tokyo please. I want you people to be as far away from me as possible D=

Then you should send them to Australia, actually.

[cooba]

Tokyo would work if the world was flat ;|.

[GuMmYBeAr!]

southern california. please. please. beaches, and things.

[Iri]

It's less likely that I could make it to WC06 if it was in California... so I vote for Seattle.They've got the Space Needle, the IMAX theater (which always has good movies), the University district has some awesome places.... And I'm sure we could find more stuff to do. We could even do a day trip to the islands where I live (kidding)!

Oh yeah, we COULD take the duck tours... ;] (Amphibious vehicles that ride around Seattle and give you a bit of history as well as provide you with quackers.)

Anyways, I wouldn't mind California, or Vancouver either. California would be more work, but I've only been there a few times, so it would be a bit of an adventure.

[Trafton]

If we do go for Cali, I would rather stay away from L.A. as much as possible.

I personally vote Seattle because we've already done California.

[BoArDeR]

Seattle, and Bder is there. Don't you want Bder to come? ... Yeeeeeeeeeesssssss...... Seattttttttleeeeeeeeeee *hypnotizes* ...... Seaaaaaaaattttttleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *fades away*

:oDD

[GuMmYBeAr!]

You mean you wouldn't actually be able to come down to CA? ;P

[Monolith]

By southern California, I basically ment anywhere along the coast, so we could go to the beach should we choose to. I don't really care where along there we stay.

[GuMmYBeAr!]

Blah, seattle sounds so ordinary though...

[Black Ninja]

Seattle isn't really ordinary, it's kind of a freak show. ;p

I think I am leaning most towards Seattle at the moment. They have the Space Noodle, the Sci-Fi Museum (which is rux), and many other things. We could probably spend 2 whole days just wandering around Seattle Center.

[BoArDeR]

Seattle. Heh... And Gem, the percent chance of me going to a Seattle meet would be like 89%. The percent chance of going to California would be like ... 18%.

Seattle has lots of stuff. You can watch them throw fish in the market. YaY. You can .......... Go see the seals .... You can spit off the needle... You can hang out with Bder ..... ++Seattle... Hehe :oDD

[Sonyk]

I'd vote Seatle, because if it's in Washington, I might actually have an extremely small chance to go and <s>bug</s> meet all of you fine people.

[UNKNOWNFILE]

I shall have to remember to ask my parents if I can attend if WC2006 is ever finalized.

[Black Ninja]

I should mention that if it's in WA, I'd be able to do a lot of planning and etc, and I'm sure Trafton would be able to as well. My parents both know the Seattle area very well, and I have an aunt who lives there, so I'm somewhat familiar with most of the cool things to do in Seattle.

So I definitely vote for Seattle. ;p

[Link]

This may be a bit early, but if anyone is thinking about activites yet it's a suggestion. The activities don't necessarily have to be major attractions of the chosen city (presumably Seattle). It's generally more fun to go to things that are just enjoyable and allow socializing, such as the LAN party and Playdium at EC2005. Laser tag and bowling are two activities that are usually very successful and enjoyable. People who live in Seattle or know it well should suggest places that they would go themselves with their friends.

[MaGoo]

I'd like to change my vote to Seattle.

[Spotty]

I'd like to change my vote to Seattle.
Good Job >)

[UNKNOWNFILE]

I vote Seattle aswell

[Brian]

Southern CA didn't seem to interest me much. It pretty much all looked the same to me when I was out there. It was all a combination of traffic, brown buildings, and once you got out of the cities, sand and low brush. Not very appealing, really.

Plus it's a bit weird how everyone seems to speak spanglish. Even the TSA agents who check your luggage at the airport. It doesn't give me a good feeling when I'm asked by the baggage checkers at the airport (LAX in this case) if I have a gun in my luggage and I don't even understand what they are talking to me about. (answer wrong, and you might not make it home....)

I think that the more northern the location, the better.

[Monolith]

Southern CA didn't seem to interest me much. It pretty much all looked the same to me when I was out there. It was all a combination of traffic, brown buildings, and once you got out of the cities, sand and low brush. Not very appealing, really.

Plus it's a bit weird how everyone seems to speak spanglish. Even the TSA agents who check your luggage at the airport. It doesn't give me a good feeling when I'm asked by the baggage checkers at the airport (LAX in this case) if I have a gun in my luggage and I don't even understand what they are talking to me about. (answer wrong, and you might not make it home....)

I think that the more northern the location, the better.
Concidering you basically went from the center of LA, straight out to Las Vegas, I'm not too surprised that that was the impression you got. ;P The interesting parts are more along the coast, or in the mountains.

[kangaroo]

wc stands for waht?

[Black Ninja]

<s>Wizard Convention</s>

West Coast.

[Tik]

Seattle is my favourite so far. Though I wouldn't mind Portland or Vancouver. Southern Cali I'm not too fond of.

And I will hopefully be able to go this one ;| We'll see.

[UNKNOWNFILE]

There is a 51% chance as of now I will be attending.
That is all.

[UNKNOWNFILE]

Make that 75%.

[Black Ninja]

This has been idle for too long. If it remains idle, I will take it upon myself to start working on planning.

[Black Ninja]

Sure. Trafton, I know you're reading this. Want to help me think of rux stuff to do in the Seattle area? I've already got a few ideas:

(Seattle center area:)
Space Noodle (even though it's sort of expensive, it pwns)
Sci-Fi Museum (This place pwns with a capital 'p')
The Pacific Science Center could be fun, too. They have some rux stuff there.

Please provide feedback, people.

[UNKNOWNFILE]

sweet! this topic is alive again.

I'm going to attempt to ask (bribe) my parents to let me go next August.

[MaGoo]

That sounds a lot like EC.. and we all know how those little events turned out.

[NovaStar]

Then you should send them to Australia, actually.

He'll be near me. D:
Make it Australia! Please! It's near me!

[Black Ninja]

Ok, no one is showing any interest in helping, so I guess I'll take it upon myself to start work on plans.

[Blackraptor]

It's still rather early though, since this will be happening in around 8 -9 months.

[Link]

That sounds a lot like EC.. and we all know how those little events turned out.

It might also depend on the people attending, but it would be good to choose at least some events that are not really tourist attractions or museum-type things. On the previous page I suggested laser tag and bowling. There should also be plenty of 'hanging-out' time, as VelK mentioned in her post that now appears to be gone.

[NovaStar]

Did anyone listen?
Victoria in Asutralia!

Or if this is in March 2006 you can see the Commonweatlth Games in Melbourne while you're there!

[The SlaYeR]

Lancaster county, PA!!!

[Grytolle]

I live on the West Coast...^^
I shall have to remember to ask my parents if I can attend if WC2006 is ever finalized.What if they discuss sex when you are around at the meeting? :(

[snzspeed]

I live on the West Coast...^^
What if they discuss sex when you are around at the meeting? :(
why would they ? :S

[Sonyk]

To annoy UNKNOWNFILE. I know I would.

[UNKNOWNFILE]

I'm less than likely to come now.

[Blackraptor]

What's wrong with discussing sex? ;(. As long as you don't continously start sex-related conversations everyday at the meeting or do it to intentionally (-) someone off, I don't really see what the issue is...

[UNKNOWNFILE]

It was a repetitive discussion topic in #jj2, along with ops not doing their jobs correctly.

[Grytolle]

pfff.

[Link]

Just for consideration, I heard very little sex talk at EC2005. People are far less comfortable with such discussions in person. And people are also a lot nicer in person.

[Trafton]

I don't even remember any sex talk at EC2005. The only thing I remember happening in that area is Nimrod sending an offensive link (which I laughed at nervously at the time, but was rather annoyed at). It was pretty PG.

[MaGoo]

I think that during EC, most of us were having too much fun to think about sex.