Coronavirus cancellations, delays, changes: Iowa State Fair, Lollapalooza more

The Coronavirus pandemic continue to wreak havoc. As people are instructed to stay at home and avoid contact with others, a cascade of cancellations and postponements has removed important events from the calendar.

Disneyland and Disney World are closed. Films from James Bond to Black Widow have been postponed. Major events like SXSW, the E3 gaming show, the Motor shows in Geneva and Detroit and Mobile world congress were all canceled. Coachella, the Cannes Film Festival and that Eurovision Song Contest were hit. The NBA suspended its seasonhow many other sports leagues. Formula 1 and Wimbledon are also off.

The latest important events: The personal conferences for Defcon and Gamescom as well as the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. Annual summer events such as the Iowa State Fair, Lollapalooza and the Taste of Chicago have also been scrapped this year.

So the outbreak with postponements, cancellations and closings affects our lives.

Sports events

• Tour de France The The bike race does not start as planned on June 27th. The organizers said they were trying to find new dates for the event.
• UFC 249 UFC President Dana White said on April 9 that the event scheduled for April 18 was canceled.
• British Open On April 6, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club announced that the 149th British Open championship will be postponed until 2021.
• Wimbledon On April 1, the 2020 tennis championship was postponed to 2021, where it will take place from June 28 to July 11.
• Tokyo Olympics On March 24, the International Olympic Committee and Japan’s prime minister said The Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be postponed. On March 30, the IOC announced that the games will now take place from July 23 to August 8, 2021. The Paralympic Games will take place from August 24 to September 5, 2021.

• NBA On March 11th the The NBA has suspended the rest of the 2019-2020 season according to Utah jazz player Rudy Gobert reportedly tested positive for the corona virus.
• formula One The Australian Grand Prix, the first race of the 2020 Formula 1 season, was canceled after a McLaren team member tested positive for the virus. The upcoming races in Bahrain and Vietnam have been postponed.
• The English Premier League English football authorities have All games suspended until at least April 3, after a player and a trainer in different teams tested positive for the virus. On March 17, the European football association UEFA postponed its national European championship tournament until the next year. This can allow leagues, including the EPL, to end their summer season.
• Major League Soccer The The MLS season has been suspended on March 12, when it “continues to assess the impact of COVID-19 with its medical task force and public health officials”.
• NCAA Several major Division I conferences at the NCAA, including the SEC, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the ACC and the American Athletic Conference, said on March 12 that they would cancel their respective conference tournaments this week. The The March Madness tournament was also canceled.
• NHL On March 12th the The National Hockey League has joined the list of sports associations that are suspending their season.

• MLB The major league baseball spring games were suspended and health was initially feared delayed the start of the regular 2020 baseball season by at least two weeks. On March 16, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published updated recommendations to restrict events with more than 50 people for the next eight weeks, the MLB said it would follow these guidelines and continue the regular season opening delay.
• The Masters tournament The Augusta National Golf Club postponed the 2020 Masters tournament on March 13, referring to “the health and well-being of everyone involved in these events and the citizens of the Augusta community”. The club has not set a new date for the tournament.
• Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby Festival postponed all events until April 4, with the Kentucky Derby race reportedly postponed to September 5.
• Boston marathon The Boston Marathon, which was originally scheduled to take place on April 20, will now take place on September 14, according to the Boston Athletic Association.
• EA esports Video game publisher EA announced that it will suspend all live events for its competitive game series, including the Apex Legends Global Series, the EA Sports FIFA 20 Global Series, the FIFA Online 4 Live Events and the Madden NFL 20 Championship Series. The suspension began on March 13 and continues “until the global coronavirus situation improves”. Online events that isolate attendees and employees will continue, EA said.
• Indianapolis 500 The event was moved to August 23. In the meantime it is GMR Grand Prix was postponed for July 4th.
• Fortnite World Cup All Fortnite competitions will be held online for the rest of 2020. This year’s World Cup is canceled due to the restrictions of the regional online competition.

Political events

• Wisconsin primary On April 6, Governor Tony Evers signed a regulation that suspended personal voting for the April 7 elections and postponed them to June. The state’s Supreme Court blocked the offer. The US Supreme Court also overturned a lower court order that gave voters more time to return postal ballot papers.
• National Democratic Convention On April 2, the Democratic National Convention was postponed from mid-July to the week of August 17. It is said to still take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Rallies Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have canceled rallies in several states prior to the primaries.
• Maryland primary school On March 17, Maryland postponed its presidential and congressional primary to June 2. It was originally scheduled for April 28th.
• Ohio elementary school On March 16, the governor of Ohio ordered polling stations to be closed, just a day before the state presidential election. The Ohio area code is expected to take place on June 2.
• Louisiana elementary school On March 13, Louisiana postponed its presidential primary, originally scheduled for April 4, to June 20. On April 14, Governor John Bel Edwards again postponed the election to July 11.

Cultural events and institutions

• Iowa State Fair The annual fair was canceled this year.
• Lollapalooza The gigantic Chicago music festival will not take place, but instead a livestream event will take place over the weekend from July 30th to August 2nd. The taste of Chicago was also canceled.
• IBC show The annual The International Broadcasting Convention, scheduled to take place in Amsterdam in September, has been canceled.
• The Kennedy Center All planned ticket presentations until August 9th have been postponed. This includes a 14-week run from Hamilton.
• MGM resorts All shows and attractions at the Vegas resorts have been reported to be canceled until June 30.
• Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance The event was part of the annual Monterey Car Week celebrations in California canceled.
• Oktoberfest Munich canceled its Oktoberfest from September 19th to October 4th.
• Elton John The singer postponed the rest of his upcoming tour dates in North America.
• Gathering of the Juggalos The Insane Clown Posse said the annual music festival, which is scheduled for August 5-8, has been canceled.
• Scripps National Spelling Bee The 2020 national final was canceled for the first time since World War II.
• Proud Parades Cities like New York and San Francisco will not be holding pride parades this summer.
• Anime Expo The event, scheduled for July 2-5 in Los Angeles, has been canceled.
• San Diego Comic-Con The pop culture convention planned for July 23-26 was canceled.
• Taylor Swift The artist canceled all live performances and appearances this year and postponed the US and Brazil shows of her Lover Fest tour until the next year.
• Shakespeare in the park The New York Public Theater has canceled this year’s free summer season.
• Burning man The annual countercultural festival does not take place this year in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Instead, it will be an online event in Virtual Black Rock City 2020.
• Peloton April live courses On April 6, Peloton announced that production in the studios in New York and London would be discontinued by April 30. On April 21, the company announced that it would resume live streaming from its teachers at home on April 22.
• Movie blockbuster A number of The release dates for high-profile films have been postponed, including Black Widow, A Quiet Place 2, Mulan and the next James Bond episode, No Time to Die.
• Coachella The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was postponed to October.
• Glastonbury The legendary British Glastonbury Music Festival, which Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar and Diana Ross are slated to attend this year, will no longer take place on June 24th.
• Hit ball On March 16, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour announced that this year’s Met Gala, scheduled to take place in May, has been postponed.
• Tony Awards Postponed to an indefinite date from June 7th.
• Peabody Awards The ceremony, which was previously scheduled for June 18, has been postponed.
  
• 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will not take place in June as planned, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement on March 19.
• Ultra Music Festival This Miami festival has been postponed to next year.

• Upcoming films Many films and TV shows that are currently in production have been discontinued, including The Matrix 4 and some of Disney’s Live action films.
• WonderCon Anaheim On March 12, the WonderCon Anaheim, which is scheduled to take place in April, was postponed.
• Cannes The prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which was originally scheduled for May 12-23 postponed on March 19 for a later date in summer. On April 14, the festival organizers said the move was “no longer an option” and “it is clearly difficult to assume that the Festival de Cannes could take place in its original form this year.” The organizers said they are still considering options for this year’s event.
• Tribeca The Tribeca Film Festival, scheduled for April, was postponed after New York banned events with 500 or more people.
• SXSW Extensive South by Southwest tech and entertainment festival, planned to take place in March was one of the first to be canceled.
• Tallinn Music Week was postponed for August.
• Broadway The Broadway theaters are closed on March 12th.
• Eurovision Song Contest The famous extravagant The Eurovision Song Contest, which is scheduled to take place in the Netherlands in May, has been canceled.
• EDC and Beyond Wonderland SoCal The dance music festival Beyond Wonderland SoCal, which was to take place in March, was postponed to June. The EDC Las Vegas was moved from May to October 2nd to 4th.
• Edinburgh festivals The world’s largest art festival, Edinburgh Fringe, was canceled on April 1st along with the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh International Festival and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. It is the first time in over 70 years that the Scottish capital no longer hosts festivals in August.
• Billie Eilish As if it wasn’t enough that the Bond film she sang the subject for is delayed, Billie Eilish postpones her tour dates for North America.
• The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and his friends were supposed to continue their world tour in North America, but the Rolling Stones have shifted their summer dates from San Diego to Atlanta.
• Madonna canceled shows in France.
• The Foo Fighters have pushed back their 25th anniversary tour.
• Avril Lavigne has postponed plans for European shows.
• Slipknot has canceled shows in Japan and throughout Asia.
• My chemical romance was forced to withdraw from long-awaited reunion shows.
• Pearl Jam has canceled a tour of North America.
• Green day was on tour in Asia.
• Pixies did shows in Australia.
• Action Bronson has drawn shows.
• Mariah Carey has postponed a Hawaii concert from March to November.
• Anger against the machine canceled live appointments Let the jewels run.
• The WHO has canceled shows in the UK and Ireland.
• Camila cabello has postponed her romance tour through the US and Europe.
• Talk Shows A handful of late night shows, including The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, have gone on to virtual interviews where presenters broadcast from home.
• The mead The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on March 12 that it would be temporarily closed.
• Washington Monument The National Park Service has closed the famous Washington Monument.
• White House Easter Egg Roll The First Lady’s office has canceled this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll, scheduled to take place on April 13. “The health and safety of all Americans must be a top priority right now,” said First Lady Melania Trump in a statement.
• iHeartRadio Music Awards The annual award ceremony, scheduled to take place on March 29, has been postponed to an unspecified date.
• The Jonas brothers Her stay in Las Vegas from April 1 to 18 was canceled.
• Kelly Clarkson Another disappointment in Vegas: Kelly Clarkson postponed her stay in Las Vegas from April 1st to July.
• Mandy Moore An Instagram post from Mandy Moore revealed the shift in her tour dates.
• Alicia key The singer tweeted that her More Myself book tour and new album will be postponed, though the book will still be available on March 31.
• Little big city The shows for the band’s Nightfall Tour were postponed until later this year and early next year.
• Zac Brown Band The music has canceled their tour dates for 2020.
• VidCon The annual online video tech conference scheduled to take place in Anaheim in June has been canceled.
• Academy of Country Music Awards The event was postponed from April 5 to September 16.
• Introducing the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame The event, which was scheduled to air on HBO in May, was postponed for later this year.
• Lady Gaga The singer went to Twitter to announce that she will postpone the release of her album Chromatica.
• Comic palooza The Texas comic and pop culture convention has been canceled.
• Garth Brooks The country singer postponed his appearances in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Cincinnati, Ohio, to June.
• BTS The band is postponing their tour dates for North America after canceling their April concert dates in Seoul.
• Harry Styles The singer postponed his upcoming tour in the UK and Europe to 2021.
• Governor’s Ball The NYC festival planned for June has been canceled.
• Download festival The UK Rock Festival is not taking place this year.
• QuakeCon Video game investor ZeniMax Media’s annual conference, scheduled to take place in August, has been canceled.
  
• Pokemon World Championships All approved competition events are suspended, including the North American International Championships June 26-28 and the Pokemon World Cup final in London August 14-16.
• Women Tech Global Conference This year’s physical event in San Francisco will be replaced by a virtual event that connects “women, minorities and their allies in technology”. It will take place from June 10th to 12th.
• Gamescom The video game fair takes place digitally from August 27th to 30th and shifts a few days from its original time frame. Instead of the traditional show in Cologne, it will serve as a “content hub” for news and publishing events.
• Nintendo E3 Direct VentureBeat will delay the presentation of upcoming games in June.

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Technology industry events

Several major industry events have been canceled or revised due to corona virus concerns. They include:

• WHEN A The annual electronics fair in Berlin is not canceled, but it does not run as it normally does. Organizers said in a vague series of tweets on April 21.
• WWDC Apple said on March 13 that it is The global developer conference would move online this year. In early May, Apple announced that the The online WWDC will take place on June 22nd.
• Microsoft Build Microsoft announced on March 12 that it was canceling its personal Build 2020 developer event. The build show will take place virtually, officials said, in the same window of mid-May that the regular conference was scheduled. In April, the company announced that external and internal events would only be digitized by July 2021.
• E3 The biggest gaming event of the year should open in LA on June 9th. Some exhibitors, including Microsoft and Ubisoftwill hold online events instead.
• MWC Mobile world congressAn annual industry meeting that was scheduled to open in Barcelona on February 24 was an early victim.
• Detroit Auto Show The annual The North American International Auto Show has been discontinued After the Federal Emergency Management Administration named its venue, the TCF Center, a coronavirus field hospital.
• Facebook F8 Facebooks Marketing summit in March and F8 developer conference were both canceled.
• Google I / O. Android fans will miss it Google I / O., the largest event of the company of the year, at which the technology giant presents its latest products and initiatives.
• Geneva Motor Show The Geneva Motor Show, one of biggest motor shows of the yearwas hit after the Swiss government banned all events from 1,000 people or more.




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• Adobe Summit The annual Adobe Summit in Las Vegas is closed, although some content is available online.
• Nvidia terms and conditions The keynote and product announcements for Nvidia’s GPU technology conference, which is typically held in San Jose, California and attracts approximately 10,000 people, were canceled on March 16. The company had previously announced plans to host the event online only. Nvidia said online training will continue from March 25th.
• Snap Partner Summit The annual Snap Partner Summit, which focuses on the messaging app Snapchat, is a purely online event. The keynote is scheduled for April 2nd.
• GDC The annual game developer conference, originally scheduled for March 16-20 in San Francisco, has been postponed to an unspecified date after exhibitors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Epic Games, Sony, EA and Facebook failed.
• Google News Initiative Summit Alphabet Inc. has canceled the Google News Initiative Summit scheduled for late April in Sunnyvale, California.
• Google Next The annual Google Cloud conference, attended by 30,000 attendees last year, was postponed even after it became a purely digital event.
• right: MARS Amazon has canceled the upcoming re: MARS conference in Las Vegas, which focuses on AI and robotics and is already in its second year. All guests who have purchased tickets will receive a full refund of registration fees.
• Dell Technologies World Dell has reportedly told attendees at its 2020 tech conference that it was moved to a “virtual environment” due to concerns about the corona virus. Keynotes and some sessions will be online according to the notice. Dell Technologies World was scheduled to take place in Las Vegas from May 4-7. Dell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
• Photokina 2020 The largest photo conference in the world, which was to take place from autumn to May 27-30, this year, was canceled on March 18 by the organizer Koelnmesse. It’s a semi-annual show, which means we won’t be seeing it again until 2022.
• Bethesda digital storefront The Elder Scrolls developer decided not to highlight his upcoming games in June.
• Techonomy East The New York conference, scheduled for May 19-20, has been postponed. Instead, a free online conference will take place on these days.
• Defcon 28 The hacking conference was canceled for 2020. At least the personal event has. An online version in “safe mode” is planned for August 6-9.

Corinne Reichert from CNET, Ben Fox Rubin, Jackson Ryan, Shara Tibken, Lynn La, Sean Szymkowski, Dara Kerr, Queenie Wong, Oscar Gonzalez, Dan Ackerman, Stephen Shankland, Chris Paukert, Erin Carson, Edward Moyer, Sean Keane, Eli Blumenthal , Richard Trenholm, Lori Grunin, Nick Hide, Ian Sherr and Shelby Brown contributed to this report.