SyTy Nationals
Huge Member
First, thank you all for your patience, we know this is a long time coming but we did not want to prematurely announce anything without 100% certainty of at least a few things. There are some other things still being ironed out, but those details will come as soon as they can.
The 2016 SyTy Nationals will take place in Bowling Green, KY. The event dates are Thursday, July 21st – Sunday, July 24th.
You may discuss this in the thread, however this is some background in how this all came to be.
Before the hating begins, there was a Date Thread in which only 62 people participated, so if the date is the issue and you did not vote, please do not voice your opinion now. We already know we will never please everyone, just know we took every vote into account.
There was also a general thread on how far you would be willing to travel to an event such as Nats, at the time we were not sure if it was going to be "Nats" or something different. An awesome 164 people voted in this, as well as provided their zipcode either on this forum or in the SyTy.net FB Group.
Your zipcode and max. distance you would travel was entered into a database and calculated against every track we came up with where we could hold this event. We went North, East, West and South. We started with some general locations such as St. Louis, MO, Indianapolis, IN, Bowling Green, KY and even Cecil, GA.
The attendance numbers dropped when we went south, as well as west, even though we were trying to bring back Nats to Kansas City, even contacting 6 different private or municipal airports in a 12 - 45 minute drive of the old Double Tree Hotel, but unfortunately those did no pan out, but we really really tried.
In the end, Bowling Green and Indianapolis were nearly identical in 100% attendance (those who fit into the category based on mileage and zipcode), but there were considerable more people who fit into the "maybe" category, which were those who were 100 miles or less from fitting into the 100% attendance category.
For those who would like a visual, this is what everyones' location looks like in a map. This does not represent distance those dots are willing to travel, that was calculated in not so visually appetizing spreadsheets.
CLICK HERE FOR MAP
So in closing, this how choosing a location and date was made. This is as transparent as we can say it, we know there will be people who are going to be disappointed, we are sorry, but we can only do so much.
The 2016 SyTy Nationals will take place in Bowling Green, KY. The event dates are Thursday, July 21st – Sunday, July 24th.
You may discuss this in the thread, however this is some background in how this all came to be.
Before the hating begins, there was a Date Thread in which only 62 people participated, so if the date is the issue and you did not vote, please do not voice your opinion now. We already know we will never please everyone, just know we took every vote into account.
There was also a general thread on how far you would be willing to travel to an event such as Nats, at the time we were not sure if it was going to be "Nats" or something different. An awesome 164 people voted in this, as well as provided their zipcode either on this forum or in the SyTy.net FB Group.
Your zipcode and max. distance you would travel was entered into a database and calculated against every track we came up with where we could hold this event. We went North, East, West and South. We started with some general locations such as St. Louis, MO, Indianapolis, IN, Bowling Green, KY and even Cecil, GA.
The attendance numbers dropped when we went south, as well as west, even though we were trying to bring back Nats to Kansas City, even contacting 6 different private or municipal airports in a 12 - 45 minute drive of the old Double Tree Hotel, but unfortunately those did no pan out, but we really really tried.
In the end, Bowling Green and Indianapolis were nearly identical in 100% attendance (those who fit into the category based on mileage and zipcode), but there were considerable more people who fit into the "maybe" category, which were those who were 100 miles or less from fitting into the 100% attendance category.
For those who would like a visual, this is what everyones' location looks like in a map. This does not represent distance those dots are willing to travel, that was calculated in not so visually appetizing spreadsheets.
CLICK HERE FOR MAP
So in closing, this how choosing a location and date was made. This is as transparent as we can say it, we know there will be people who are going to be disappointed, we are sorry, but we can only do so much.
