Back to basics.
The EEC shall travel to distribute the load, the load to travel as well as the load to organise.
Also you can assume that the interest in the organising country will peak in that year. Hopefully getting more players not only interested in the EEC, but Epic itself. Every new player is a win.
The organiser should be from an (ex)participant to build up some sort of continuity and hopefully a tradition to attend and if you attended twice, the third time will be less intimidating.
Epic is not Warhammer, the player base is much smaller. So the most important issue is to find somebody interested and able to organise it.
It’s nice to demand that the event will be held on a major airport with free catering by an airline and sleeping in the first class section of a Jumbo parked over night, but not every organiser is able to pull that off.
Basically who attends, will have to expect to add one or two days for travel. We do so even going from Berlin to Birmingham. Whether you spent two or three additional hours on train on a travel day doesn’t really matter.
If two additional days are too much of a problem we could have one game on Friday evening allowing to close early on Sunday, to make sure you get away with only one ”travel day”.
Anyway, let’s find willing and able organisers first, and let them tell us where, when and how they can organise the event. Than it is on us to check whether we want and can attend.
Let’s not scare off potential organisers, because of demands that will in the end probably be secondary, that will be invalid, because their strongest supporter will not attend or that can’t be met anyway, like finding a date that fits all.
So please if you are willing to organise the next EEC, think about whether you have the resources and think about the when and where, trying to make it as attractive as possible within your limits.
And of course tell us
