UpperSouthClave

USC was a series of relaxacons with a rather convoluted history. It began as an attempt by Irv Koch to start a rotating convention for the northern part of the South to parallel DeepSouthCon.

UpperSouthClave III became the first Kubla Khan. {Were USC 4–9 also Khubla?}

In 1980, UpperSouthClave spun off from that and became Concave. As Gary Robe wrote, "{After Concave 1/USC X}, Nobody else bid for the USC, so we decided to do it again. The site selection meetings have been a part of the Concave tradition ever since; to date, no other bid, either joke or serious, has edged out the Bowling Green group, and Concave still retains the USC as a subtitle."

See Gary Robe's History of Concave.

Convention	Dates	GoHs	Location
UpperSouthClave I	1971	Knoxville, TN
UpperSouthClave II	1972	Johnson City, TN
UpperSouthClave III / Kubla Khan Clave	1973	Frederik Pohl	Nashville, TN
UpperSouthClave IV	1974
UpperSouthClave V	1975
UpperSouthClave VI	1976
UpperSouthClave VII	1977
UpperSouthClave VIII	1978
UpperSouthClave IX	1979		Bowling Green, KY
UpperSouthClave X / Concave 1	March 14-16, 1980	P. L. Caruthers
Continues as Concave

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Convention
	1971—

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