*S36 Ultimus Host City Bid: Québec City, Québec

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Hello, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to look into my Ultimus host city bid! This season, I'd like to propose the championship game be hosted in Québec City, Québec .

Why Québec?

I took a look at some of the previous host cities like Côte d'Ivoire, Munich, Seoul, Hong Kong, etc. and noticed that some teams (specifically teams furthest in each of the cardinal directions) were travelling a lot further than others potentially. Fans of such teams who had acquired tickets to the big show only to see their team falter in the playoffs and miss their chance at glory were undoubtedly left debating if it was even worth travelling the long distance at all. And the resale market for Ultimus tickets, as I'm sure you know, has been in the toilet for years. I think it's time we change that.

Here's a map overlaid to show two lines indicating equidistant measurement between the two selected cities. I chose for north and south points Yellowknife and Sarasota, and east and west points Berlin and Honolulu. Excuse the fuzziness as I was using a third party website and snipping tool to get the screenshots:

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As you can see, the intersection falls in the upper Québec province, somewhere between the unorganized territory of Caniapiscau and the municipality of Kawawachikamach, as anyone with an elementary understanding of North American geography would have instantly recognized. Unfortunately for us, there doesn't exist a stadium large enough to house a popular sporting event such as the Ultimus in the region closest to the intersection. Conveniently, there is a venue just over a thousand kilometers south of the intersection, which can seat over 60,000 screaming ISFL fans. I'm speaking of course of Olympic Stadium:

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Built originally in the 1970's for the 1976 Summer Olympics, Olympic Stadium has since been home to a number of Canadian based sports teams, as well as hosting large events such as Women's World Cup matches and international boxing championships. One summer Pink Floyd blew the roof off the place to over 70,000 fans, and in 1992 fans literally burned down the house at a riot after a Metallica and Guns N' Roses concert. Needless to say, this stadium is historic, and would be well served hosting such a prestigious event such as the Ultimus.

Now, before you say anything, I know Olympic Stadium isn't located in Québec City, it's located in Montreal. So why not make a bid for Montreal?

first off, Montreal is further southwest of the desired intersection by about 300 km than Québec City, so even though fans would need to travel to the game (it's about a 2 hour drive) they would still technically be closer to the intersection if they stayed in Québec City rather than Montreal
second, Québec City, Québec looks/sounds cooler than Montreal, Québec
third, as Montreal is the proper home of Olympic Stadium it sees more tourism than Québec City, so drawing fans to a city that sees less regular tourism would boost the local economy
finally, although Québec City does not even rank in the top ten Québec cities by population, it is the capital of province, and one of the oldest European settlements in North America, originally settled in 1535 and founded seventy years later in 1608, only forty years after the first American city was founded

Here's a picture, beautiful isn't it?

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So anyways, we have the Ultimus game in Olympic Stadium, but we host the thing the week prior in Québec City, we'll figure out buses or something I swear I'm not making this decision because I made the logo for Québec City and didn't realize I made a mistake with where the stadium was located until after I made the logo (which I could have fixed but let's be honest I'm way too lazy to do that). Speaking of the logo, it's about time I show you the thing. Without further ado, here's the logo to convince you all to vote for this bid!

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The design is a play of the Québec flag, which features four white fleurs-de-lis surrounding a central white cross on a blue background, here we have the opposite with crosses surrounding a single fleur-de-lis. The ripple affect is a call to the Québec City waterfront, the city being located on the St. Lawrence river.

I also prepared an endzone logo, which totally wasn't designed as the original logo and altered after I reread the submission rules and saw that we need to shrink the logo to 150x150 px. Let this further sway your decision to vote for this bid!

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