Can we narrow down to those top three dates (weekends of 6/26, 7/11, and 7/18), which the pimpers can use to get solid numbers, and now move on to official Providence (I assume you want to take point, sj?), NYC, and Philly pimpage?

My suggestion is that if one of those dates doesn't work in your city, you do a combo city/date pimpage for the ones that will. Thoughts?

Also, can we set a deadline for the vote so everyone know how much time they have to put together their sales pitches?

Like I said a while ago, 6/11 and 6/25 are out for New York. I don't know about July dates since they weren't on the table when I had the discussion with the hotel.

I'm not sure if I can get the same bid with multiple dates even if its only a few multiple dates.

Why is it we can't put up a poll for the usual number of days and pick a date?

Then the pimpers can have that information (both date and an estimate of participants) and negotiate with the hotels. THEN we can say what each option is and vote on location.

What's happening in NYC on that weekend?

My suggestion is that if one of those dates doesn't work in your city, you do a combo city/date pimpage for the ones that will. Thoughts?

Sounds like a plan!

That seems good to me, Pix.

re-posting because I edited and the conversation went on. sorry for the dupes.

Like I said a while ago, 6/11 and 6/25 are out for New York. I don't know about July dates since they weren't on the table when I had the discussion with the hotel.

I'm not sure if I can get the same bid with multiple dates even if its only a few multiple dates.

Why is it we can't put up a poll for the usual number of days and pick a date?

Then the pimpers can have that information (both date and an estimate of participants) and negotiate with the hotels. THEN we can say what each option is and vote on location.

Sorry if I'm sounding snippy.

It's just very frustrating to be dealing with hypotheticals when there are decisions we can actually make (and which the hotel I'm dealing with demands).

Isn't there one way we usually do this? As in a certain order to what we choose first, etc.? I don't remember because I couldn't come last year and didn't participate, but it seems like it might be worth hammering out one agreed-upon way to choose date/location each year.

As I recall, we go back and forth, usually someone suggests one way or the other.

I don't know all of the stuff going on in Philly this summer, but I do know that there are two triathlon weekends during the proposed dates. The Philadelphia Insurance races take up the weekend of June 25-27 and the Philadelphia Women's Tri is the weekend of July 10-11. The June one is a lot bigger than the July one but both might impact hotels and restaurants.