Site Selection

Information about site selection including voting times, deadlines, and results

2024 NASFiC Site Selection Voting Open

~ Kevin Standlee

Voting to select the site of the 2024 NASFiC is now open at the Site Selection page on the Pemmi-Con (2023 NASFiC) website.

Members of Pemmi-Con, the 2023 NASFiC, can cast a ballot to select the site of the 2024 NASFiC. Members must purchase an advance supporting membership (voting) fee of CAD 40 / USD 30 in order to vote. Voters automatically receive a supporting membership in the winning NASFiC. Only members of Pemmi-Con may vote. Members of the 2023 Worldcon are not eligible unless they are also members of the 2023 NASFiC, per section 4.8 of the WSFS Constitution.

Members can vote in person at Pemmi-Con, can give their ballot to someone else to deliver on their behalf to Pemmi-Con, or can purchase a “voting token” on the Pemmi-Con website to pay the ASM/voting fee, then download the ballot, print it, fill it out completely including the voting token, then scan or photograph the ballot and email it to the Site Selection Administrator. Members can also send a paper ballot by postal mail to Pemmi-Con.

Paper ballots sent by postal mail must arrive by July 11, 2023. Email ballots must be received by the Site Selection administrator by 4 PM Central Daylight Time on July 21, 2023. Voting at Pemmi-Con will be open on Thursday, July 20 and Friday, July 21, 2023, and will end at 6 PM CDT on July 21, 2023. Results of the election will be announced at the WSFS NASFiC Business Meeting scheduled for 10 AM on Saturday, July 22, 2023.

The only bid that filed before the deadline is for Buffalo, New York. Other bids may file as write-in candidates anytime before the close of at-convention voting.

Direct questions about 2024 Site Selection to the Pemmi-Con Site Selection administrators, not to the NASFiC website.

Winnipeg Wins 2023 Site Selection

~ Admin

Winnipeg, Canada has won the vote to host the 2023 NASFiC. Chicon 8 reports that 343 ballots were cast in the election, with 312 in favour of Winnipeg. Orlando, USA, withdrew from the race early in August leaving Winnipeg as the only official bid. For the detailed results, see the NASFiC 2023 Site Selection Report from the Site Selection administrator. Winnipeg was also the host of the 1994 Worldcon.

Winnipeg’s Guests of Honor will be Dr. Philip J. Currie, Julie Czerneda, John Mansfield, Waubgeshig Rice, Nisi Shawl and Katherina Vermette. The Ghost of Honour will be Lorna Toolis and the Toastmaster will be Tanya Huff. The convention will be chaired by Robbie Bourget and Linda Ross-Mansfield.

The Winnipeg website is here.

Columbus, Ohio to Host 2020 NASFiC

~ Kevin Standlee

Columbus, Ohio has been selected as the site for the 2020 NASFiC. The bid received 87 votes out of 96 votes cast with a preference. There were no other officially filed bids.

The convention will be at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio on August 20-23, 2020. For further information see the convention website.

The detailed results of site selection voting held at the 2019 NASFiC (SpikeCon) in Layton, Utah, are as follows:

Candidate Mail Thu Fri Total
Columbus, OH 7 46 34 87
Grantville, WV 1 1   2
Tonopah, NV     2 2
OVFF 1     1
Arcosanti 1     1
Minneapolis in ‘73   1   1
Peggy Rae’s House   1   1
None of the Above     1 1
Total With Preference 10 49 37 96
No preference   1 1 2
Invalid 2     2
Total votes cast       100

Voting Open for 2020 NASFiC

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Voting has started for the 2020 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). SpikeCon (2019 NASFiC) in Layton, Utah has published the 2020 NASFiC Site Selection ballot on their web site and and distributed it to their members as part of their Progress Report 3.0.

Members of SpikeCon, the 2019 NASFiC in Layton, Utah, are eligible to vote on the site of the 2020 NASFiC upon payment of a $35 Advance Supporting Membership (“Voting”) Fee. This fee purchases a supporting (voting) membership in the 2020 NASFiC, regardless of who wins or how you vote. It is unrelated to any “pre-supporting memberships” (donations paid to any bid committees). Members can vote before the convention through conventional paper mail by printing the ballot and mailing it with payment, or they can vote at the convention. Payment mailed in advance must be by check or money order in US dollars. You can also designate someone else to deliver your ballot to the convention on your behalf. Credit cards are not being accepted for payment of the Advance Supporting Membership Fee.

Only members of SpikeCon/NASFiC 2019 are eligible to vote on the site of the 2020 NASFiC. Members of other WSFS conventions, including the 2019 Worldcon, are not eligible to vote unless they are members of SpikeCon/NASFiC 2019.

Voting in advance closes June 29, 2019. SpikeCon/NASFiC 2019 must receive your ballot by that date. (Postmark date does not count.) Voting at the convention opens on the afternoon of Thursday, July 4, 2019 and closes at 7 PM Mountain Daylight Time on Friday, July 5, 2019.

Bids for future NASFiCs are listed on the NASFiC Bids page. One bid qualified for the 2020 NASFiC Site Selection by filing the required documents with SpikeCon/NASFiC 2019: Columbus in 2020. However, World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) rules allow for write-in votes and votes for “None of the Above.” If None of the Above wins, there will be no 2020 NASFiC. Because of the rules on the counting of site selection ballots, the only possible outcomes are a qualified bid (including a qualified write-in) or “None of the Above” winning the election, or a tie between qualified bids and/or None of the Above. Non-qualified bids (write-ins that don’t file the necessary papers, hoaxes, jokes, etc.) cannot win the election.

The results of the election will be announced at SpikeCon/NASFiC 2019 at a time/place to be determined. There is no WSFS Business Meeting held at NASFiC, and therefore no formal announcement of results before a Business Meeting.

Voting Open for 2019 NASFiC

~ Kevin Standlee

Voting has started for the 2019 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). The Worldcon 76 San Jose has published the 2019 NASFiC Site Selection ballot on their web site and distributed it to their members, according to an announcement on their web site.

Members of Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California are eligible to vote on the site of the 2019 NASFiC upon payment of a $30 Advance Supporting Membership (“Voting”) Fee. This fee purchases a supporting (voting) membership in the 2019 NASFiC, regardless of who wins or how you vote. It is unrelated to any “pre-supporting memberships” (donations paid to any bid committees). Members can vote before the convention through conventional paper mail by printing the ballot and mailing it with payment, or they can e-mail a signed PDF of their ballot, or they can vote at the convention. Payment mailed in advance must be by check or money order in US dollars. If voting by e-mail or paying by credit card, members can purchase a “voting token” from the Worldcon 76 membership web site using the instructions published on the ballot. If voting at the convention, payment can be by cash, check, or credit card in US Dollars. You can also designate someone else to deliver your ballot to the convention on your behalf.

Voting in advance closes August 11, 2018. Worldcon 76 must receive your ballot by that date. (Postmark date does not count.) Voting at the convention opens on the afternoon of Thursday, August 16, 2018 and closes at 6 PM Pacific Daylight Time on Saturday, August 18, 2018.

Bids for future Worldcons are listed on the NASFiC Bids page. One bid qualified for the 2019 NASFiC Site Selection by filing the required documents with Worldcon 76: Utah in 2019. However, World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) rules allow for write-in votes and votes for “None of the Above.” If None of the Above wins, there will be no 2019 NASFiC. Because of the rules on the counting of site selection ballots, the only possible outcomes are a qualified bid (including a qualified write-in) or “None of the Above” winning the election. Non-qualified bids (write-ins that don’t file the necessary papers, hoaxes, jokes, etc.) cannot win the election.

The results of the election will be announced at the WSFS Business Meeting on the morning of Sunday, August 19, 2018.

San Juan to host 2017 NASFiC

~ Admin

San Juan in Puerto Rico will be the site of the 2017 NASFiC. It won a site selection vote against Valley Forge, PA at MidAmeriCon II this weekend.

The convention will be called NorthAmeriCon ’17. It will be held at the The Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel and Casino over July 6-9, 2017.

The Guests of Honor will be: Daina Chaviano, Tobias S. Buckell, Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, George Perez and Paula Smith.

For further details of the event, see their website.

For full details of the voting, including the daily breakdowns, see the 2017 NASFiC Site Selection Tally.

2017 Site Selection Ballot Issued

~ Admin

This year’s Worldcon, MidAmericon II, has issued the site selection ballot for the 2017 NASFiC. This allows WSFS members to decide which of the two competing bids (San Juan, Puerto Rico or Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) will host the 2017 North American Science Fiction Convention. A NASFiC is held in North America when the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) is outside of North America. The 2017 Worldcon, Worldcon 75, is in Helsinki, Finland.

You can download the ballot, and also information posted by the two bids, from the MidAmericon II website (scroll down past the information about the 2018 Worldcon site selection).

You can only vote in the site selection election if you are a current Supporting or Attending Member of MidAmericon II. In addition you will need to purchase an Advance Supporting Membership of the 2017 NASFiC. The price of this has been set at $35 by agreement between the two bids and the administering Worldcon. Voting in site selection automatically makes you a Supporting (non-attending) member of the 2018 NASFiC. You will be able to upgrade that supporting membership to an Attending membership of whichever bid is selected after the votes have been counted.

For NASFiC purposes, North America includes Hawaii, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean.

Further instructions are available on the MidAmericon II website and on ballot itself.