04-13-2003, 10:48 PM
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| ooh, 1st post. so. what was your favorite location for a tournament?
well, as the topic states, what was/is the best place you have ever been to for a competition? any possible future destinations that would be ideal?
i loved the tournament in palm springs. what a place. california! i like texas, so i am especially looking forward to austin.
i think we should have a NAC in chicago. i love chicago.
what do you think.... | 
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04-14-2003, 12:58 AM
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| Once I went to a tournament in Las Vegas... that was fun. I'd love to have a tourny in Chicago... I've always wanted to go there. Somehow Overland Park and Greenville don't wake in me much of a sense of adventure. 
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04-14-2003, 02:08 AM
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| I like Columbus as one of the best places. There are so many places within walking distance of the venue and hotels to eat. The North Market right out the door from the place in the Venue was fun to shop in!!
You get a lot of exercise just walking around, there is a cyber Cafe.
There is room, there are seats out of the way.
It seems to work well. No rental car is needed either.
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04-14-2003, 02:15 AM
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| NYC
I would LOVE to go to the World Cup in NYC but no one in the family is fencing in it. : (
The finals will be held in Grand Central Station. That is the most amazing place. It is huge and cavernous and has just been restored. If not for the expense and lack of funds, just going to see it would be amazing! 
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04-14-2003, 03:40 AM
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| New York is very good.
Athens is cool also: interesting place, very friendly people and some sort of festival where people buy plastic battons/hammers and hit everyone else walking down the street (what is that about?!?)
Las Vegas is also very cool: they should hold an a-grade there...
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04-14-2003, 05:03 AM
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| Cape Town! had an interuniversity tourney there 2000: very memorable experience not least due to the place itself.
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04-14-2003, 12:25 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Boo Boo
New York is very good.
Athens is cool also: interesting place, very friendly people and some sort of festival where people buy plastic battons/hammers and hit everyone else walking down the street (what is that about?!?)
Las Vegas is also very cool: they should hold an a-grade there...
Boo | why don't we have a festival like that?!?! That sounds so... sabrish (my new word). and fun.
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04-14-2003, 03:22 PM
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| I don't think you would get away with that in the US, you would either get lots of people suing each other or someone would get out a gun and shoot the person who hit them over the head/bottom with a plastic batton... ;-) (actually that isn't funny, 'cos I am sure it WOULD happen.... :-( ).
Go to Greece and enjoy the hospitality and the pain...
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04-14-2003, 06:38 PM
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| Re: ooh, 1st post. so. what was your favorite location for a tournament?
Quote: Originally posted by thyme_daniels
i think we should have a NAC in chicago. i love chicago.
what do you think.... | That would make me so happy! And with the new club open downtown...I can't wait to get home and fence there | |
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04-17-2003, 11:25 AM
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| yeah, the new club down there,t he chicago athletic association fencer's club is great. i went to a tournament recently there. it was pretty good. the facilities are mind blowing compared to some other fencing clubs. if you are in town, definetly check it out. | |
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04-25-2003, 05:39 PM
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| I thought the LFC Youth Classic in Lincoln, Nebraska was cool- but like Dorothy said, "There's no place like home!" I just like tournies in my good ol' Overland Park, Ks!  | |
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04-29-2003, 07:26 AM
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| Re: ooh, 1st post. so. what was your favorite location for a tournament?
Quote: Originally posted by thyme_daniels
i think we should have a NAC in chicago. i love chicago.
what do you think.... | Back in the 80's, Chicago always hosted one of the NAC. Even in the late 70's, before the NAC tournaments, there was the annual Chicagoland tournament with all the top dogs. I don't know why they stopped. Anyone know?
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05-01-2003, 03:57 PM
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| Re: Re: ooh, 1st post. so. what was your favorite location for a tournament?
Quote: Originally posted by muaddib
Back in the 80's, Chicago always hosted one of the NAC. Even in the late 70's, before the NAC tournaments, there was the annual Chicagoland tournament with all the top dogs. I don't know why they stopped. Anyone know?
Muaddib | I just started fencing in Chicago three seasons ago. The feeling I get is that the Chicago fencing community is lacking in that unity and organization that it sounds like it once had (it hosted several NACs in the '90s as well). But I'm a competitor, so I'm just looking on the outside on that one and don't really know the real deal.
It would be fun to get people out here for a NAC. | |
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