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  • kalimac
    9 Apr 2021, 18:05
    DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
    And that was the problem with the Hawaii bid. The half-assed, seat-of-the-pants way it was put together at the last minute by people who should have been at least thinking if not planning ahead…
  • kevin_standlee
    9 Apr 2021, 13:19
    DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
    Remember, I was there. Yes, there was dissatisfaction. The Toronto SMOFCon was viewed, as people told me at the time, as the last chance for at least one of the bids to pull themselves together. When…
  • kalimac
    9 Apr 2021, 12:36
    DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
    Well, I disagree. I remember hearing of extreme smoffish dissatisfaction with the prospective bids before the filing deadline, but nobody was minded to do anything about it.
  • kevin_standlee
    9 Apr 2021, 11:40
    DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
    ...there was nothing about the existing bidders for 1993 which revealed itself after the filing deadline, so there was really no excuse.
    Not true, although in those mostly-pre-internet days, it…
  • kalimac
    9 Apr 2021, 05:12
    DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
    If people are unhappy with the existing 2023 bids, what would they have done about it had Discon not changed its dates? (I don't imagine there's anything about the dynamics of the election for 2023…

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