Have to say that my favorite location for AN is Lake Placid. We usually go up for the week and rent a house on the lake and enjoy. We've gone to the ski jump, been on the louge, and have had a great time. I'm hoping another Nationals will be held there soon! Also because Lake Placid is such a small place, you really get a great "feel" for Nationals. At many of the other venues you only see your fellow competitors at the rink or hotel. In Lake Placid the streets are lined with skaters in club jackets from everywhere. We see eachother in the shops, at the Olympic sites and all around the village. It's quite an experience.

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In mid-winter, Lake Placid has a wonderful annual ISI competition that's very popular. It's organized by Riverdale Ice. The village is lovely; it snows every day at that time, the shops are crowded with skaters. I also loved the "people scenery" of team jackets and pin trading. We always stayed at a hotel close to the skating center so we wouldn't need to find parking. The main street is pretty much "walking distance."

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My vote would be to have Adult Nationals in VEGAS.......ADULT being the key word and what better place to be than Vegas!

I dont think they have the facilities there!


DC would be great too....We have a new rink to open in May in Arlington right on a metro stop with two surfaces....the problem is that it is practice ice for the Washington Caps and it would be very difficult to get both surfaces while hockey is still going on.....Have to plan it while the Caps are on the road!

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Can't get Vegas out of your mind, huh? Hey, look at it this way, you get to go to Europe for the summer - there's an exotic locale! Vegas will be there for your next vacation.

And I vote for AN in DC!

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I would absolutely, positively NOT go to AN in Vegas. Personally I hate the place and end up with continual migraines there from the noise, lights, smoke, etc.

I don't think DC would work for AN; hotel prices here are awfully high. I'm waiting anxiously for IceWorks to bid. They've done a great job with South Atlantics and Easterns (standard track), and any club that can run Souths smoothly can handle any event out there. Plus they'd be able to have practice ice in the same building, which is a big plus.

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Ice works has done a great job. DC would be close, but expensive for out of town folks. If the attendance continues to decrease other 2 surface rinks will be able to bid.

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ITA. Can't stand that town.

I think the 1980 rink at Lake Placid is special. I do seem to have a whole other level of nerves when I step out on that ice a look around the arena. When I skated the exibition there in 2004 in front of that big crowd I was a wreck! But it was an experience I'll never forget.

I have always found the qualifying rounds the most stressful as a Bronze and Silver skater. The thought of messing up and not making final round always added an extra level of nerves for me. At Gold...no pressure as I just stink. Ch. events? Don't know...need to get there first! I can only hope that someday I will be able to give my 2 cents on what that experience is like.

What goes on in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas!!!

I still vote for someplace in the San Francisco Bay Area!!! My next vote after that would be LA, NYC, or Hackensack (gotta love White Manna.)

PattyP, those women are a very tough group. Give yourself a break (and heal from that injury first!) I think eventually you will break thru that group and make it thru Sectionals to Nationals.

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Today, I called the lady (Colleen) who is sending out the schedules by email. As of this morning, she had gotten through the "F" s in the alphabet and she has about 500 people on her list, so those of us later in the alphabet have not gotten ours yet. We should get them by tomorrow, I suspect.

They were in Oakland in 1998 - I was there! The compulsory figures were competed at - sheesh, I'm tired & can't remember the name, but the one that is under threat that begins with B, I'll remember as soon as I've posted this. That was my first-ever trip to the USA - a friend and I started out in Boston (only I had a 24-hour tummy-bug and missed it all, grrrr!), then moved on to Boulder, Colorado, then to Oakland, and ended up in LA! A brilliant trip!

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I vote for ICE HOUSE in Hackensack, NJ. Four incredible surfaces all lined up in a row! The last time we were there, my pairs partner and I found this incredible Whole Foods right on the Hudson--nothing like having lunch out on the dock watching the Manhattan Skyline and the boats going by--it was incredible--well, it was also summer, too!

Oh, there is also Cedar Lane with great restuarants. Fort Lee is also incredible for Japanese food, too. I love NJ, I miss it, I grew up there! The Marriott is right down the road from the rink, easy to get to, and, oh, so nice!

Berkeley!

I'll never forget my figures event there. My group was huge. I did terrible loops ... as usual. LOL.

I remember skating interpretive in Oakland- Schindler's List. I went to get practice ice and told them I was bronze, but that a silver session would be ok. They were insistient that I skate on a bronze session. I made final rounds and went back to get more practice ice, and remembered to tell them I was bronze. By that time the volunteers were exhausted and eye's were glazed over. She looked in her book, said "this will do" and signed me up for a master's practice ice! It was an interesting session at Berkley.
Right now I'm having a glass of wine from the vineyard in Lake Placid.

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Let's list the places with three+ surfaces if not in the same facility at least within 5-7 miles away (Kansas City's 3rd surface was a bit far).

(1) Chicago (Bensenville, Northbrook/Glenview)
(2) Philadelphia/Aston (IceWorks...I beleive they did bid for AN 2007, and Dallas won)
(3) Hackensack, NJ (IceHouse)
(4) Ann Arbor (IceCube)
(5) Washington DC (Gardens Ice House, though they are not WFSC run, I bet it could be held there)
(6) Lake Placid
(7) Delaware (UDel/The Pond could probably do it)
(8) Dallas
(9) Westminster, CO (Ice Centre)
(10) San Jose
(11) Oakland/Berkeley (though I don't think it would ever go there again)
(12) Marlboro, MA

Any others?

Then hopefully you can all convince your clubs to bid on it. It's not hard...I was in the very small group of us that got the Chicago bid together. It's nice to say on the boards how you'd love it to be held at this place or that place, but it's UP TO US to get our clubs to do it! So get cracking people!!

(9)San Jose
(10)Oakland/Berkeley

We've already been to (10)! I don't belong to (9) so I can't do much about it...

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Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Ice Centre at the Promenade in Westminster, CO (northern suburb of Denver) is great facility, with 3 ice surfaces. Junior Nationals was there back in December.

Ice Works (Aston, PA [near Philly]). 4 sheets I believe

(Easterns was held there several years ago and Souths is being held there next season)

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Marlboro, MA has 5 sheets now in the same building. They had AN a few years back. I loved hosting AN!!

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I can think of lots of 2 sheet rinks in the Detroit area, and all of them are within 5-10 miles of another rink with one, two or three sheets. That's one of the joys of living in this area.

However, you hit the nail on the head -- you got to convince the clubs to host it! It's a huge undertaking. I applaud any club doing it - including Dallas! (Especially since the schedule snafu wasn't their fault.)

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Well being from CO I can say Jr. Nats was nicely done at the Promenade Center in Westminster CO, my rink w/ 2 sheets is just 15-20 minutes away and is also pretty nice we have a huge pool with slides and stuff for the kids and daycare plus gyms and all that, not that I've ever used that stuff. You can always ski after your events just about 2 hours away at huge resorts like Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone, Steamboat Springs or down south in Telluride or Aspen. What about the Legendary Broadmoor, skating in that main rink, it would be cool. Only problem, the altitude, you can always practice this summer @ Vail in July, at a scant 8000 ft of elevation, it welcomes adult skaters I've done it a few times.

I did like Lake Placid, and Marlborough, MA sounds interesting, I keep hearing the Aston rink is freezing cold not a plus, but hey 4 sheets is good. The rink in San Jose has 3 or 4 sheets, Pennisula is out of there, it was very nice. I would like to go west eventually, Dallas is a good start. I think Chicago will be fun for 2007.

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Thansk for the reminder. That was a great location. Please host again!

Montclair, NJ has two sheets in house on the College campus. The town has a seasonal indoor rink a short distance away.

Morristown, NJ has three sheets at Mennan Arena, and there's a fourth indoor sheet at a private tennis/skating complex nearby.

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Berkeley was my home ice then. I skated figures there everyday for years, but when it came time to compete, you would have thought I'd never seen ANY ice before based on how poorly I skated the Bronze figures!

San Jose now has four sheets.. but the rink is the Sharks' practice facility... so either we have to hold AN late and make sure the Sharks don't qualify for ANY NHL play-offs... or schedule them for a very long road trip. But I don't think we'll have to worry too much about it. Peninsula is not a very adult-friendly club.

Well we are hoping to host another one in the next few years. We had as much fun hosting it as the competitors in the event. I worked the registration table for the 2004 competition and it was great to meet a lot of you as well.

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