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In response to the demand from some East Regional proponents who want the west to find an ideal set of West Regional Tournament sites I have spent the time I would have spent getting ready to go to Boston (I went to Fairbanks at the expense of enough domestic tranquility that Boston was out of the question well before the regular season ended) by doing the spade work to come up with the Ideal West Regional Venues. With apologies in advance to both Alaska schools (and with further apologies to Jeff Partnow for even considering 'that other' whateveritis) the ideal location is Auburn Iowa ("if you build it they will come"). Sorry Ben, Omaha is too far west, a bit too far south, and above all NOT a neutral site. The closest next larger town is Carroll ("if YOU build it first they will come"). An alternative site is Fort Dodge. But taking off fro this, there are two realistic alternatives - both neutral sites (one will remain so unless Drake University emerges with a hockey team). One is Ames on the Iowa State University campus - viable until the club team graduates to Div I, the other is Des Moines (does Drake still play football?). The tournament could alternate between these two sites with every 6th one being held in Fairbanks to compensate for their travel distance. [If you haven't been in Fairbanks, you haven't lived yet and you owe it to yourself to get there - I don't know enough about Anchorage (sorry Jeff, there's that word) but they could alternate depending on who won the most games in the intervening 5 years. Now there are two other possible sites, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids if the East proponents of West sites want more than two to choose from. These selections are near the centroid of the CCHA/WCHA territory (sorry Alaskans, but we have built in a compensation - it is too bad that the regionals come so late in the spring - Fairbanks best is at New Years time - they are raising petunias by March). BTW, Albany would be OK for West Regionals for me - I can get there a lot easier than I can get to MPLS/St Paul and about as easy as Madison. SO - Auburn in '02, or failing that - Ames in '02. By '03 Iowa State will be Div I so we'll be in Des Moines. [These date are Year 2000 compliant, be sure you read them that way.] Stay tuned for the next solution to the World of Hockey profound problems. -glen- HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.