Site Selection

Worldcon sites are selected two years in advance, by a secret ballot of WSFS members. All Adult and Young Adult Attending and Supporting members of Chicon 7 are eligible to take part in the process. Ballots may be submitted by postal mail (in which case they must reach Chicon 7 by August 11, 2012) or in person at the convention, up to the close of voting at 6 p.m. CDT on Saturday, September 1, 2012. All ballots must be accompanied by an Advance Membership (Voting) fee of $40, which will automatically be converted to a Supporting membership in the 72nd Worldcon.

Site Selection in the Constitution

The Site Selection process is governed by Article 4 of the WSFS Constitution. Section 4.6 defines the requirements for a bidder to be included on the Site Selection ballot. There are two key requirements:

• The bidding committee must submit file certain documents with the administering committee no later than 180 days before the start of the administering convention (in this case Chicon 7).

• The proposed site must be at least five hundred (500) miles or eight hundred (800) kilometres from the site at which selection occurs (in this case, Chicago, Illinois).

The only bid to have formally filed by the deadline of March 2, 2012, is London in 2014. You can read the London team's filing at the bottom of this page.

Site Selection Ballot

Site selection is undertaken by written ballot, on a one member, one vote basis. Votes can be submitted by post prior to the Convention, or by hand at Chicon 7 itself.

Mail-in ballots must be received by August 11, 2012. Voting at the convention will close at 6 p.m. CDT, Saturday, September 1, 2012.

The printed ballot can be downloaded here or found in Chicon 7 Progress Report 4 which will be mailed out to members during May 2012.

• Site Selection Ballot - standard letter format
• Site Selection Ballot - A4 (UK) format

Completed ballots should be mailed to:

Chicon 7
Attn: Site Selection Administrator
P.O. Box 13
Skokie, IL 60076 USA

At-Con Voting

Voting for the site of the 2014 (72nd) Worldcon will take place at the Site Selection tables located in the Riverside Center Concourse near the Fan Tables. The hours are 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 30, and 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31 and Saturday, Sept. 1.

The Site Selection Advance Supporting Membership is $40 US, and will automatically make you a Supporting Member of the 2014 Worldcon. All voters must be at least a Supporting Member of Chicon 7. The choices on the ballot are 'London in 2014,' 'Write-in,' 'No Preference,' and 'None of the Above.'

The results of the vote will be announced at the WSFS Business Meeting on Sunday, Sept. 2.

Bids

The only bid to have formally filed by the deadline of March 2, 2012, is London in 2014, headed by Steve Cooper and Mike Scott as joint Bid Chairs. The bid proposes to host the 2014 Worldcon in London, UK, from August 14 to August 18, 2014.

The following documents are included in the London filing and are published here for access by all eligible voters.

1. Cover letter and official filing notice
2. London in 2014 Bid Brochure
3. Letter of support from the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson
4. Official constitution setting out the rules under which the convention organization would operate
5. Letter of Intent for the ExCeL exhibition and conference center which would host the convention
6. Campus map showing the area immediately around the ExCeL site
7. Connectivity map showing travel connections from the site to the rest of London.

The official site of the London in 2014 bid can be found at www.londonin2014.org.