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Originally Posted by IkeRay
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I was involved in planning a couple of National Meets when I was with Volkswagen. (In a past life, before my Acura days
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Either way, we used to come across the same discussion before every big meet, and the issues we ran into are the following:
Central is always a great idea because it makes everything closer to everyone than putting it on a coast. The downside is that, it makes it closer to everyone, but really close to nobody. The East and West Coasts have the highest population, and in theory more active people. So in effect, you take your two huge population areas and make it at least a day drive (real driving) from your meet. The only people within 4 hours of Nashville are people in Nashville, etc.
Our final determination was that we would alternate coasts. That way every other meet most of the population was within a day drive. The Central area isn't really that well populated, so the people from St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, would have to drive further but that is easily negated by having the NYC. Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Charlotte people all closer. Same thing for the west coast. Putting it in a west coast area makes LA, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, SFO, all within a day drive and people from Texas (Brian) and the cities above have to drive a little further.
We put way too much thought into it, but it took us about 4 months of arguing to come to this conclusion. We also found out that the actual center of population for the country actually sits just west of St. Louis. Since there's more counties out east it throws the image off a little bit. That was one of our main issues also.
Hopefully it helps, I just figured I may be able to save some arguments.
