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    Freeroll: Guess where Amazon’s HQ2 will go

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Amazon is looking to make one city great again by building a second headquarters for up to 50,000 employees with an avg compensation package exceeding $100k. You can read the RFP for their site requirements here:
    https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....516043504_.pdf

    Over 50 cities are expected to submit a proposal. Proposals are due by October 19th. A short list is expected to be announced by the end of the year with the winning proposal announced early 2018.

    Contest rules: Pretty simple. Predict which city will land HQ2. You may only chose 1 city and you may not chose a city that has already by picked. If you post a city that has already been posted, you’ll have to repick or be ineligible. Also, you cannot change your pick. Once you post your pick, you’re locked in.

    Prize: $50 (back). Can pay through Venmo, PayPal, cash in envelope, or Firecoin

    People who are not eligible: Unfortinately there are a few select members of this forum who I deem will not be eligible for this contest, mostly scammers and other unscrupulous members. They are: Anybody with fewer than 99 posts as of today, Mumbles, Bryan Micon, TheSparten, Jasep, 4Dragons, and OSA. I regret to inform these members that there is no appeals process.

    Contest deadline is whenever Amazon makes the final selection. Yes, you can wait for the short list to be official, but by then all the cities may already be picked.

    Picks so far:
    Updated:
    PLOL - Chicago
    Sonatine - Pittsburgh
    Simpdog - Toronto
    The_Lurker - Atlanta
    Handicapme - Boston
    Suicide King - Denver
    Marley - Austin
    Wrenchjockey - Minneapolis
    Wiganer- Wigan
    Srslysirius - Dallas
    Flipper - Cleveland
    Daly - Raleigh
    HoodedN - DC
    Grenada - Coeur D'alene, Id
    YUUP, - Flint
    GamblesPenis - Nashville
    Snowtracks- Las Vegas
    Adamatium - Vienna, WV
    BetCheckBet - Ottawa
    NaturalBornHustler - Baltimore
    JohnCommode - Hartford
    BaronVonStrucker - Portland
    TellAFriend - Jacksonville
    Lewfather - Detroit
    IAmGreek - Salt Lake
    BritneysClit - Columbus
    Gringo - Schaumburg
    Hockey Guy - Fort Worth
    Hongkonger - Indianapolis
    MintJew - Round Rock
    Lordofthefraud - Mexico City
    Chinamaniac - Billerica
    IndyRick - Cincinnati
    Dagreek - Philadelphia
    Duped - Tampa
    FTPJesus - Phoenix
    DRK Star - Anchorage
    Tigerpiper- Kansas City, MO
    LegalizeMeth - San Diego
    Forum Wars - NYC
    Shortbus - Birmingham
    Gordo - Milwaukee
    WilliMcFML - Saint Louis
    Last edited by PLOL; 09-29-2017 at 08:52 PM.
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    And yes I will be participating myself by picking Chicago (obv)
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    Pittsburgh.
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      Tellafriend: fucker - that''s my pick

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Lurker View Post
    Atlanta
    Boston.

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    Minneapolis

    But I have a qualifier. The Twin Cities is a 7-county metro area and likely the HQ would go to a suburb rather than Mpls or St Paul proper. Are we picking Metropolitan areas or just the actual city the HQ will physically be?

    EDIT: After PLOP's post below, I will stand with Minneapolis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Lurker View Post
    Atlanta
    This would have been my pick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wrenchjockey View Post
    Minneapolis.

    But I have a qualifier. The Twin Cities is a 7-county metro area and likely the HQ would go to a suburb rather than Mpls or St Paul proper. Are we picking Metropolitan areas or just the actual city the HQ will physically be?
    This did come to my mind as something that could be tricky. Here’s what I think is fair. You are picking the city, not the metro. BUT, if nobody picks the city, then the person who picked the nearest metro will win. So let’s say somebody picks NYC, and it ends up going to Newark. NYC would win unless somebody else specifically picked Newark. If somebody picks Newark and another picks NYC and it ends up going to Hoboken, then NYC would win. Make sense?

    Also, neighborhoods and boroughs are irrelevant as they’re part of the overall city (so you couldn’t pick Brooklyn, for instance).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daly View Post
    Nashville.
    I'm going to change my vote to Raleigh NC

     
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    So to clarify, Wrench, right now you own all of Minneapolis. But somebody else can pick say, St Paul, and then you’ll own all of Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, except for St Paul

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daly View Post
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    Nashville.
    I'm going to change my vote to Raleigh NC
    Against the rules but I’ll allow it. Nashville is now back up for grabs.

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