Hi, there!!!

Since they've announced it early last year (around this time, AAMOF...) I was wondering if there are any hints as to where AN 2011 could be?

My guess is that it will be on the East Coast, since we've had the last one and this coming one on the Midwestern section. Of course, being on the Left Coast, I would LOVE to see it somewhere in the PST timezone (or even Arizona, which is an hour later). I'm sure doubletoe would agree with that!!!

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I'll rumor-monger and say that Pittsburgh has shown some interest in bidding.

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Champagne in 2005, 2008, 2009 - who's next out of the pre-bronze club...?

Wang chung!

They don't even have the bid packet out!

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I could do that!

wow, if it's really, really close (like maybe near Philly or even upstate Delaware like U of De) I might be tempted....depending on my schedule (I start nursing clinicals in January 2010. Pittsburgh is a bit of a hike as is Hackensack, Baltimore is a bit closer......

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

I could do these locations too...easy peasey. Let us pray....

OOOOh that would be awesome, it's not even 1.5 hrs away from me. Although quite frankly, I wouldn't mind somewere warm (STAR OF TEXAS, SDFSC, LA OR ORLANDO-AREA CLUBS DO YOU HEAR ME, HINT HINT). I've been to 3 synchro nats in San Diego, 1 in Tampa, and a PSA synchro conference in El Segundo, and it's always nice to lay on the beach when you're not at the rink...

I want my club here in Cleveland to host it, but I'd have to make a huge push and put in a crapload of work and I just don't have time to take that on until after I finish school and pass the bar exam. My rink would be perfect tough. 2 surfaces, rink has a bar right inside, 2 hotels share a parking lot with the rink (a holiday in and a newly remodeled cheaper hotel, I think it's a Red Roof Inn), a nice mall and every chain and quick-service restaurant and big box store you can imagine right down the street. We'd just have to shuttle people to another rink for practices (there are 2 different ones about 15 min away, one managed by the same company who owns my rink). We're 10 min from the airport, which is a Continental hub. We did adult mids a few years ago (want to say '06, before I was back in the area), we were the official practice rink for US Nationals last year, and next month we're hosting JNs for the 2nd time in 3 years.

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So how many of y'all would die if we held it in CO at altitude? It's only a mile, hello double run throughs!!

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Ha ha! Me-I'm at sea level and would suffocate from no oxygen!!!!!

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

I would be all for CO. If it's earlier enough that my husband can ski it would be all the more easier to get there. Honestly I have never felt an altitiude problem there. It's really not that bad.


lwalsh

Nooooooooo-! I will die. . .

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Last year, while waiting for my departing flight in Grand Rapids after AN, I got to talking with one of the Phoenix based skaters. She asked me if Phoenix hosted AN, would I attend? The answer was a definite yes, especially since it's been ages since AN was held out west.
As much as I'd like to say that I'll be there in 2011, given my life issues of late, I can't really say right now.

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I'd be fine with that, I've competed in CO for synchro and the only time I really noticed any difference was on official practice ice (where we did back-to-back run thrus of our programs). If you train all season with it in mind, you should be fine. I have asthma that occasionally flares up from cold/dry air, but I went on Singulair a few months before as a preventative measure and had no problems. (I had more issues at synchro mids in '08 in Nashville when we had to skate in a rodeo barn--we didn't know this until we got there. I couldn't be in there for more than 10 min without my allergies flipping out, I couldn't breathe).

If you're sick it does suck, though. The Haydenettes had a bunch of skaters come down with the flu while at nationals, and after going out and skating a perfect long program, they were all collapsing in the kiss-and-cry while waiting for their socres and some of them had to have oxygen. I felt so bad for them. They still ended up winning by fractions of a point that year, though.

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2010-2011 goals:
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I wouldn't mind Pittsburgh, that's an easy drive for me. Phoenix would also be awesome, or anywhere in California.

My club's board has expressed a small amount of interest in hosting ANs - we have a four-sheet rink and have hosted Regionals many times and JNs once. But AFAIK they aren't bidding anytime soon. Adult skating is fairly scattered around here, unfortunately.

Bumpity bump.... NOW is it too early to ask the question of where AN could be?

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Probably. Ask after ANs. Have bid packages even been sent out?

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My bet is on Hackensack, NJ.

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I haven't heard anything but I don't think I'm going to ANs next year, anyway. I'm going try out one of the summer skating camps instead.

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I've got mad salchow disease!

I've heard a few places, but don't know if bids are out yet...

I will go anywhere for Nationals! Please have Easterns in New England, and I will dust off my competitive skates, dig my unseen/half choreographed champ masters program out of the bottom of my skate bag, and be there!

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I'll second that, I really want Easterns in New England again too! I heard this past weekend that Pittsburgh was bidding on it, though.

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I repeat my annual request: somewhere warm PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bid on ANs!!!!!

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I'd LOVE that!!!!

To which herniated replied...
My reply:
White Manna burgers!!!!

Hell, even the Indian place is decent... just as long as you make sure they hear the words specifically "I want to take this home! I do NOT want the food thrown out!!!" (Well, if it's the lunch buffet, then you don't have much of a choice.)

Seriously... meh... they've bid a few times and never got it (mainly b/c of cost to rent the rink out) so I think it's not gonna happen. But in the wise words of Jeremy Abbott "Stranger things can happen. Pigs can fly."

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Cheers,
jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

From what I understand, the main reason was not cost but lack of hosting any major event. They've now done this in succession (Moran, followed by North Atlantic regional), so their bid might now be more acceptable since they have "proved themselves." Time will tell.
As for cost, this year's adult easterns--in NC--occurred on ice that cost ~$350/hr.

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