2013 Alliance Summer Games

The 2013 Alliance Summer Games officially known as the VI Alliance Summer Games, were a scheduled major internationalmulti-sport event for the Alliance of Independent Nations. It is the only Alliance Games to be cancelled due to a lack of interest and no bids completed. This called into question the recent lack of interest of participation of AIN nations in the summer of 2013 and eventually lead to large reforms for the proceeding games, the 2014 Alliance Games.

Requirements
The requirements set up by the Alliance Games Federation (AGF) for bidding cities include that the bid much have a Logo and Slogan and be in a city with a population of at least 450,000 that is endorsed by the National AGF of the bidding nation.

The venue must make up an Alliance Village, Alliance Games Park and Media Centre, as well as plenty of local hotels and easy to access transportation to rest of the nation and to the rest of the world. It was also requested that 3 optional sports out of 22 optional sports laid out by the AGF. Further information was also required on the tourist locations, cities and countries bidding.

The bidding was scheduled to close 30 July, 2013 which was realised and the games sequentially cancelled the day after on 1 August.

Dainia Bid
Dainia announced it's bid July 9 showing the logo and slogan of the games, the slogan being Unleash the talent but was commented that it would be subject to change. Information about the city was also giving, stating it's geographical location south of the capital of Takyoto, Toyokin as well as population of nearly 4 million people. It also advertised for the city claiming it was filled with rich historical landmarks, movie studios, and other fun options for entertainment. It also commented that the city was connected to the capital with a 15 minute train ride to Toyokin. it also mentioned of the casino rich Tekunoka, the shopping district of Akihabury and the Toyokin Disney Resort.

The bid was the only one posted before the closure of the deadline at the end of July, but never proceeded from the state described above, with no comment on the 3 optional sports nor about the Venues, Athlete Village or Media City.

Cancellation
These games were infamous for being the first games to be cancelled since the Alliance Games started. After 3 weeks of time to submit bids, there was only one bidder with a non-completed bid and no nations showed interest in bidding. This event was commented on as an "incredibly embarrassing for a union of [AINs] size and status." An enquiry was suggested to find the reason for the failure and the union-wide issue of inactivity.

Alliance Games Enquiry
5 days after the Ninth AIN general election ended on 25 September, 2013, an enquiry was set up by MCAS Minister at the time Ying Blanc. The enquiry simply asked why members of AIN did not participate in these games.

The enquiry found a flurry of reasons for why the games were a failure, which included the fact that the time set for the bidding process was too short for people to be able to create a bid, and that generally people were too pre-occupied with other events to bid and host. Another issue found that the bidding requirements were too long and were difficult to read, with the listing for sports being long and made it easy to confuse Core Sports and Optional Sports. The final issue mentioned was that the games were cancelled too quickly instead of alternatively extending the period for bidding.

The changes this made to the proceeding Alliance Games included dropping a majority of sports and removing the Optional Sports technique all together. The time given for bids was also increased from 3 weeks to 5 weeks and the process for preparing graphics given an even longer time period.