[MR] Fall Coronation

[Orla Carey]

Not that I disagree with your point, I know the preception exists.
But you raise a question in my mind.  It can take weeks/months to put
together a bid for an event.  With business meetings only once a month
it limits the window of when bids can be approved for submission.  So
my question is this, do the Barony's that have strong contendors in
Crown talk about the possiblity of putting in a bid dependant on who
wins?  Not to the point of voting on it of course, but have someone
working on putting together a bid?

Because if not, then the whole idea of the new Prince/Princess
selecting a bid close by the sentimental value of the group/site seems
kinda self defeating.  By the time the winner is determined and the
local group decides to start working on a bid it's really too late to
do the work and get a bid approved for submission.  Especially if the
affordable local sites fill up quickly as they do here in the north.

The first that I heard about the possiblity of a Coronation happening
in Aethelmearc was on the Branch Seneschal's list on May 9 in an email
discussing the Curia at Crown.  The topic was raised and there was
something about a viable bid needing to be submitted within 10 days.
That email went out 2 days after Crown so the window for putting
together a bid, if groups were waiting to see who won, would have been
12 days.  It seems a very unrealistic amount of time to put together a
bid for a major event.

It sounds to me like it would be better to remove that perception at
least until we get to the point of having multiple bids to select
from.

Curious,

Orla



On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM,  <baronjc at verizon.net> wrote:
<snip>
>  Not due to a site being "too far," but due to a tradition of the new Prince and
>   Princess wanting to be crowned at a site special to them; and those are
>   normally close to home.
>   Please be assured this is no slight on Windmaster's Hill; but we
>   assumed that Windmaster's or one of the cantons would have a bid
>   delivered within a few days after crown.  <snip>

   Baron Jean Claude, Tir-y-Don