National Meet 2008 Poll !!!!

[FatFergie]

I thought Ireland was a independent country anyway

OOOOOOOOOOOOoo

Dangerous ground here Vader, start running.

Ireland comprises TWO countries; Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom of Gt Britain and Northern Ireland and Ireland, which is independent.

Have you not heard? we've been arguing about it for hundreds of years!

[Lord Vader]

OOOOOOOOOOOOoo

Dangerous ground here Vader, start running.

Ireland comprises TWO countries; Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom of Gt Britain and Northern Ireland and Ireland, which is independent.

Have you not heard? we've been arguing about it for hundreds of years!

I know nothing about these things.I am German,we invade country's not share them

[HUDDERS]

The poll should at least be fair

As wheelie says QUOTE - dug out new members to vote

Kymmy you always no your stats as you have Quoted them on my posts before. Are there a lot of new members? If so could the mods remove votes to anyone who has not been a member for say over a month?

This is just a thought so it makes it fair

P.s. I will go where ever & have never been to Ireland. So would not be a problem for me

[AIRWOLF]

This friendly gathering appears to be becoming something of a political hot potato.
As a fairly new forum member, joining after attending the 2007 National meet I would like share a few thought's.
I am led to believe that last years National meet was the best attanded so far.
The central location most probably had a bearing on attendance, being equally accessible from Scotland or southern England or Wales, or Ireland for that matter(apart from the little matter of crossing the Irish Sea).
At the 07 Nat meet I met people with scottish accent's, welsh accent's and various english accent's, but I dont recall hearing any Irish accent's. (obviousely I did'nt meet everybody). This would suggest the logistic's of a weekend trip from Ireland to England or vice versa is not very favourable.
Wheelie's suggestion makes good sense to me.
An Irish meet for those of us who can take the extra time and expense to travel seem's to be a good idea.

[Lord Vader]

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At the 07 Nat meet I met people with scottish accent's, welsh accent's and various english accent's, but I dont recall hearing any Irish accent's.

Helllloooo how about the German accent than.Surly i was not that quiet

[alpslapper]

Helllloooo how about the German accent than.Surly i was not that quiet

How many more times You dont HAVE an accent

[HUDDERS]

Helllloooo how about the German accent than.Surly i was not that quiet

Think it was more to the point who didnt hear you

[alpslapper]

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I am led to believe that last years National meet was the best attanded so far.
The central location most probably had a bearing on attendance, .

Im inclined to agree - a mainland location will probably result in a better attend meet, albeit the venue rotates year on year.

Could have an XRV International Meet say every 2 years say, where the national on that year is replaced by the International meet?

Or an annual International meet along with the National.

I'd be just happy to get to one lol - and am happy to go anywhere thats agreed.

[Lumiya]

The poll should at least be fair

As wheelie says QUOTE - dug out new members to vote

Kymmy you always no your stats as you have Quoted them on my posts before. Are there a lot of new members? If so could the mods remove votes to anyone who has not been a member for say over a month?

This is just a thought so it makes it fair

The admins have been watching the voting to make sure that it is a fair vote. Although a number of new members with no posts have voted (6 altogether and all for Ireland) only one of them have had the same IP's as current members (and that one instance was a spouse, as for the others why someone would join just to vote is a bit weird). Also one member has voted for Ireland using a duplicate account with thier primary account originally voting for Scotland so Ireland should have at least one vote docked and NO we will not name the member.

Before anyone else asks Admins can NOT remove single votes, NOR can we change votes and even if we could it would not be fair.

On a personal non admin note: I think that if Ireland gets the win then it'll be a mainly Irish affair and should be organized by someone local which is exactly the same as if Dartmoor wins it's be mainly a British affair as few can afford to travel by ferry and few have the luxury of knowing that far in advance whether they can make it and hence book a cheap fare. So it's swings and roundabouts as to whether an Irish meet is any better than a GB meet (I use GB as that constitutes England, Scotland and Wales and I use Irish to specify the Northern Ireland and Rep. Ireland Mainland)

No matter who wins it's really gonna split the membership down the middle and probably shouldn't of been put to a vote like this. Instead numbers should have first been taken as to who would like to make it, where they are and how far they're willing to travel. Using this information a number of locations could have been formulated with perhaps a couple of weekends taken up during the year thus ensuring that as many members had the chance to enjoy at least one of the events.

Kymmy

[McVicar]

As I understand it the locations were agreed BEFORE any voting started and in my opinion no other locations should have been added AFTER voting had begun.
I for one will not be going to IRELAND just for a weekend no matter how much I love the place.