At the moment, my reading of the relevant rules leads me to believe that the only clear-cut way a Worldcon can default on its responsibilities is either to explicitly declare that they have defaulted (this has happened with a Westercon relatively recently) or by "sleepwalking into default" by having the dates of their convention pass without them doing anything.
Furthermore, while it may seem obvious that a Worldcon must be held during the calendar year for which it was bid (not necessarily on the originally contracted dates), there are people who have tried to make a case that a given Worldcon could just keep postponing their convention over and over again, even to the point of "overruning" their successor. I think that this is a flawed interpretation, but we may have to actually amend the WSFS Constitution to provide more explicit guidance on this. See once again "ignoring traditions and precedents" and just saying "But what if we didn't?"
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Date: 2023-02-09 05:21 pm (UTC)Furthermore, while it may seem obvious that a Worldcon must be held during the calendar year for which it was bid (not necessarily on the originally contracted dates), there are people who have tried to make a case that a given Worldcon could just keep postponing their convention over and over again, even to the point of "overruning" their successor. I think that this is a flawed interpretation, but we may have to actually amend the WSFS Constitution to provide more explicit guidance on this. See once again "ignoring traditions and precedents" and just saying "But what if we didn't?"