Actually, I always check college town football and basketball schedules whenever there's a SF/F con or Physics conference in said town. It makes for fewer surprises. Once I was at a national American Physical Society March Meeting -- the largest single gathering of Physicists in any given year -- in Kansas City MO and we found out that one of the Regional NCAA March Madness tournaments was not only in town, but that a team had won their first game and so weren't giving up their hotel rooms which we had previously booked. Chaotic, but Holiday Inn put us up at another hotel at their expense -- we took the savings and blew it on a monstrous KC barbeque dinner. (grin)
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Actually, I always check college town football and basketball schedules whenever there's a SF/F con or Physics conference in said town. It makes for fewer surprises. Once I was at a national American Physical Society March Meeting -- the largest single gathering of Physicists in any given year -- in Kansas City MO and we found out that one of the Regional NCAA March Madness tournaments was not only in town, but that a team had won their first game and so weren't giving up their hotel rooms which we had previously booked. Chaotic, but Holiday Inn put us up at another hotel at their expense -- we took the savings and blew it on a monstrous KC barbeque dinner. (grin)
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