Posts from Voting for the location of the CIS-2107 tournament.

Personally, if 20-25 people show up and we have to chip in for the conference room (17,500 per day), which would be 5,000-6,000 rubles each, plus some amount for internet per day, then I'd rather play my games on my laptop at a cafe or in my room. 17,500 is too much!

No, maybe I'm just stupid and don't understand something, but what's wrong with many people from the city coming to the CIS championship in the city, and it being convenient for them?

The same thing happened with the points system - the bureaucrats claim that there was no alternative system, but when and with what quorum was the current system voted on?

bribe the judges, etc.

I think that, as a potential future location for the CIS tournament, we in Yekaterinburg can take note of the feedback and make the next application much better (deadlines, prices, gifts for the right people, bribing the judges, etc.).

don't forget about simply buying votes (I sent the price list in a private message) :)

I risk incurring the righteous wrath of Siberians, but I would like to point out that Volgograd has a more convenient geographical location in terms of gathering people from different regions of the CIS.
This is its original advantage. :smile32:
And I'm sure they will vote for Korolev for the same reason.

I have great respect for Yekaterinburg and its residents (mainly because of its rock history - it can't be a coincidence).

Therefore, I appeal to the best qualities of its residents and ask them to pay attention to the essence of the matter - in this case, the votes were indeed divided (22/20 - even a simple calculation shows that it's approximately equal), but the slight advantage of Volgograd is due not to Merlin's machinations, nor to a "biased" point-counting system, and I would even venture to say that it's not even due to certain expected weather conditions (although this is also a plus).

Just look, using common sense, at who voted. Those who really need to leave their current location and travel somewhere are generally more inclined towards Volgograd. This is evident from the list of votes, regardless of Merlin (and everything has already been mentioned in the thread multiple times).
I risk incurring the righteous wrath of the Siberians, but I would like to point out that Volgograd has a more convenient geographical location in terms of gathering people from different regions of the CIS. This is its initial advantage. :smile32:
And I'm sure that people will vote for Korolev for the same reason.

I'm not trying to claim that Volgograd is better in 2017. I don't have any experience to make such claims.
I want to reduce the tension and subtly encourage the discussion to move from subjective preferences to objective criteria.
There are objective advantages for Yekaterinburg as well, but to articulate them convincingly, perhaps we should try to look at the situation not from within Yekaterinburg, but from the scale of the CIS?

Why is Volgograd closer than Yekaterinburg? Planes seem to fly to both cities in roughly the same amount of time.

.... I definitely won't be able to come to Ekb.

ready to cover the delivery costs for your mortal self to Yekaterinburg, as a former champion, but you owe me one game of full-VT on Jebus... like in the good old days))

don't forget about simply buying votes (I sent the price list in a private message) :)

Thanks, of course;). But the reason is more serious than money (and it's a secret for now). To put it briefly - we won't be going to the cold ;)

Thanks, of course;). But the reason is more serious than money (and it's a secret for now). In short, we won't be going to the cold weather;).