The joint bid with London for the 2018-19 World Junior Tournament has not been successful.
Hockey Canada has announced the bid from Vancouver-Victoria will host the event.
Windsor learned in mid-October it had made the short-list and a delegation made up of Mayor Drew Dilkens and other officials from the two cities went to Calgary October 24th to make a formal presentation.
Dilkens admits this is not the outcome he had hoped for, but he congratulates Vancouver-Victoria for putting in a very successful bid.
He says the choice was clear if Hockey Canada was looking to return the World Juniors to junior hockey communities we were their choice, at the end of the day they chose major markets.
Dilkens says he's looking forward: "we don't get discouraged, so at the end of the day we'll brush this off we'll learn from anything we could have done better in our debriefing call in a couple of weeks from now when we're moving on to other possibilities to fill the pipeline with other events to this community that both make it exciting to live here and have a strong economic impact"
Dilkens says he has spoken with London's Mayor Matt Brown, who shares the same thoughts.
The Windsor-London bid was one of five on the short list for the international tournament.
Dilkens looks at this as good experience for making future bids on any major event.