The final decision on the host city will most likely include other factors, not all of them so easily measured.
The host city will be announced on 7 September 2013.
A year before each national convention, the Republicans usually hold their summer meeting in the host city.
Games are held over the course of several days in and around a "host city," which changes for each competition.
It is now held in a different host city each year.
The final decision of host cities was announced on 29 September 2012.
But the best measure of a host city's success might be long-term development and new jobs.
The vote to choose the host city will be July 13.
Scholars would also go on strike, leave the host city, and not return for years.
On 15 March 2011, the draw for the running order took place in the host city.