2nd Annual Inter-Club Meet - Location: Likely Montreal

[Broli]

It is time to start preparations for the 2nd Annual Battle for the Capital. For those who don't know what this meet is about; it is an event jointly held between the torontomazda3 club, the ottawa mazda club and the mazda3quebec club.

We are in the preliminary phases of preparation. stage one is date!

so this poll is to see who may be interested in which days!

[bubba1983]

judjing by the way everything unfolded last year...i dont see a dire need to start soo early in teh year as we thought about it last year. It went off without a hitch last year, and im pretty sure by word of mouth it was a great success ( as we all know it was) and that its by no means going to be forgotten this year.

[mEtH]

Yah I agree with Bub's, its going to be beating a dead horse. last time the date didn't get set because a few reasons. If people are going to come they will have enough notice when it is. Interested days really dont tell us anything because we had 30 votes or so for last years and guess who showed...

i'd give it until late feb early march to start the talks. Maybe a poll regarding whether we should move it around or not would be a better place to start. Has anyone discussed that option? We threw the idea around last year and people liked it.

[Broli]

we talked a bit about moving around, however, Bruno told me it is not likely that many from quebec will make the trek to toronto. It may be best to run it in ottawa for a few years and let it establish itself.

last year it came together, but in terms of sponsorships, and prizes and what not, we didnt have any really, for certain not from toronto.

some of us are not as flexible as you guys, and can't let the date be up in the air, as we need to take time off from work and from writing our thesis!

so . . . if you are flexible, i ask that you set a date now, if you dont care and can accomodate whatever date add that in, i will edit the poll!

[mEtH]

I am not saying dont decide a date for a long time just dont do it right now. if its decided by the beginning of March that gives 3 months for people to arrange the time off etc. I definately dont have the best schedule to work with all the weddings going on this year myself.

But has there been talks going on or something? Have you just pulled these dates out of thin air? I mean trying to get a consensus for when people can go is nice and all but it just never works. Especially this early in the game. We can have 30 people say yah this day is kewl and the true people that would of showed would choose another day. I mean Darknights, MOM any of those events dont send out surveys. Maybe we can run a poll between people that went last year as they will probably put more of an attempt forward to show again. Rather then a board wide vote, we set a date and people who want to come will try to re-arrange their schedules. There will be more then enough time to do the shifting. By all means we can do the vote now and try setting the date now but I think we should take another approach for it.

I still think it is too early to try setting the date, I personally dont know whats happening six months down the road. I am sure half the people who vote wont either.

Nonetheless you can take what I say into account or not. Its really your call then since it seems you have been in contact with the other boards.

Keep us/me posted.

[Broli]

it was agreed upon that making it a bit earlier this year would increase the quebect attendence (i.e b4 their big annual meet) these are all the weekends not including holidays that are in late june early july, this way it avoids MOM and maybe DKN (though the 21st is my guess for the DKN weekend). the other boards posted up, so i figured i would also. bubbs u recieving the emails? meth, you want to be recieving the emails?

i think if we narrow it down and say we will do it in late june-early july that is probably good enough for now. but it doesn't hurt to plan it in advance.

ideally, we will stick to some sort of regular schedule for the years to come.

i.e second week of july every year
or last week of june every year!

[mEtH]

it was agreed upon that making it a bit earlier this year would increase the quebect attendence (i.e b4 their big annual meet) these are all the weekends not including holidays that are in late june early july, this way it avoids MOM and maybe DKN (though the 21st is my guess for the DKN weekend). the other boards posted up, so i figured i would also. bubbs u recieving the emails? meth, you want to be recieving the emails?

Thats all you needed to say =P
I'll talk to you later about some of the other details etc.

[Broli]

guy, what email address you want used?

[MAZDA Kitten]

No one told me about the first one

But I will be attending this one

I am worried thought because it falls around the same time as Waterfest

[Broli]

haha the first one was on the board for like 6 months at least!

[CoolColombian]

I'm also in this year for sure, having the missus finally in Canada!

[MAZDA Kitten]

July 21st is def a no since waterfest falls on the same weekend

[phidubble0]

Just out of curiousity...what's wrong with Canada Day wkend?

[Broli]

i think alot of people may have other plans that weekend, and may not be interested in taking the weekend for this, also maybe more difficult ot be in ottawa during that weekend??

perhaps if this event gets large enough, we can move it to a long weekend?

[bubba1983]

Just out of curiousity...what's wrong with Canada Day wkend?

ever been in ottawa for canada day? its a huge cluster ****!

[swales]

Good to see the discussion has started. I know it's really early to start talking about date etc, but it's good to get some dates out there early so hopefully we won't have as many people back out like last year because of the date. I also don't think long weekends during the summer will ever work for a meet, as most people spend those with family or going camping/cottage etc.

In regards to location, I was all for switching every year, but as Broli mentioned, I also got the impression from the QC guys that they wouldn't travel any further then Ottawa.

[bubba1983]

lazy bastids!!

and wasn't it, Battle IN the Capital?

[Broli]

yesyes it is battle in the capital

[roge]

Good to see the discussion has started. I know it's really early to start talking about date etc, but it's good to get some dates out there early so hopefully we won't have as many people back out like last year because of the date. I also don't think long weekends during the summer will ever work for a meet, as most people spend those with family or going camping/cottage etc.

In regards to location, I was all for switching every year, but as Broli mentioned, I also got the impression from the QC guys that they wouldn't travel any further then Ottawa.

Hey all, it's roge from mazda3quebec...

to answer swales:
It's not that the Quebec guys don't want to travel further than Ottawa. Me and Microdude actually went to Toronto last year for a meet. But last time in Ottawa only mz3qc members from Montreal went to the meet. So it's more of a question that we want people from outside Montreal to come to the meet too. Guys living in Quebec City would need to drive more than 5 hours just to get to Ottawa, so any further for them is a real pain. We're just trying to attract as much people as we can.

Remember we're the Quebec club, as in the province of Quebec not just 1 city.

But seriously, I also suggested to Bruno that we can do this somewhere else, like in Kingston or Cornwall or even here in Montreal/Mont Tremblant.

Anyways, I'm planning to go to MOMs this year in T.O.. Depending on which week-end it's on.

[swales]

Hey Roge

I know some people don't mind driving (us Ottawa guys go to TO all the time for meets) but I remember last year that even some guys from the Mtl area weren't too happy about driving to Ottawa because they had to drive to your summer meet a few weeks later. The thing is, no matter where a meet is held (even local club meets) there's always going to be people that don't want to drive far (pretty funny considering it's a car club...lol) so if we can find a location that makes most people happy we should stick with it.

I don't mind having the meet in Mtl or Tremblant if you guys want to take the meet over next year (or even this year). I don't think Cornwall is that great of an idea as there isn't much there and Kingston is probably out too as it's best to do it in a city where some members live so they can organize everything

[Broli]

I think that the people from toronto who will go, will go as far as mtl.
If we keep Ottawa this year, we can see if the quebec club gets more representation from quebec city. then we can make better decisions on possible locations.

I do agree, that cornwall or kingston are likely no good,

[mEtH]

Its only fair that if this ends up in Montreal that it comes to Toronto one year whether the people drive or not. Its not like we aren't doing the long drives either here.

If we can find a place that will work more neutral that would be kewl but as mentioned, planning will be more difficult. In which case maybe one or two representatives from each club help on the planning.

[Broli]

for sure, if we do mtl, then we do toronto also!

i am still gonna say that a neutral spot like kingston is no good, i would rather it be in ottawa than kingston, i would drive the extra 2 hours

[roge]

Hey Roge

I know some people don't mind driving (us Ottawa guys go to TO all the time for meets) but I remember last year that even some guys from the Mtl area weren't too happy about driving to Ottawa because they had to drive to your summer meet a few weeks later. The thing is, no matter where a meet is held (even local club meets) there's always going to be people that don't want to drive far (pretty funny considering it's a car club...lol) so if we can find a location that makes most people happy we should stick with it.

I don't mind having the meet in Mtl or Tremblant if you guys want to take the meet over next year (or even this year). I don't think Cornwall is that great of an idea as there isn't much there and Kingston is probably out too as it's best to do it in a city where some members live so they can organize everything

??? Not really. You remember wrong... The few guys from Mtl who cancelled at the last minute just couldn't make it. The others who cancelled were from outside Mtl and so driving 5+ hours twice in the same month for a car meet was a bit too much. In the end, we were still 8 or 9 from the Quebec club to show up in Ottawa, so it wasn't that bad.

And of course I wouldn't mind having the meet in T.O.. I actually prefer T.O. I get to shop at Pacific Mall...

[Broli]

haha

well if we do T.O one time, we can try to schedule it during the MOM weekend, and have our own event on the day that is not MOM

edit: of course a Pmall shopping trip is in order!