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Re: How about a Brickfest West?
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Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:37:39 GMT
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
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> Well, I've been looking at the pics of Friday's Brickfest activities on
> Brickshelf, and checking out the webcams, and I'm jealous! I wanna go too!
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> How about a Brickfest Northwest? Anyone in Seattle up for organising
> something like this? I don't think there are enough of us in Vancouver to
> pull it off yet.
I haven't read all the posts yet, so someone else may have already
mentioned this...
Denise floated the idea of Brickfest when WAMALUG had 4 members.
Some things to think about in chosing venues:
- At least 2 good sized rooms (the trainiacs will want lots of space and
you need room at least for everything else - if you want gaming like
Brickwars or the Pirate Game you need some space [more for the Pirate
Game]).
- Lockable rooms, or ability to provide round the clock security (along
with professional security).
- Rooms close together (it was a real pain this year that the Pirate
room was off mostly by itself (it was moderately near the Space/Mecha
room, but those rooms were all on another floor from everything else and
off down a side passage to boot).
- 24hr access. The Pirate Game has been very difficult to run and allow
participation in anything else during Brickfest because the rooms are
only available 9:00 AM to 9/10/11 PM (Brickfest advertises 9:00, tells
people to leave at 10:00 and security will probably get annoyed if they
have to boot you out at 11:00). Both years, had we had longer access
(even 1:00 AM which was when my college's student union closed would be
much better), setup would have occurred Friday night instead of Saturday
morning (in the case of last year) or Saturday afternoon (this year). I
do understand that especially colleges like to not have places like
student unions open 24hrs to discourage "freeloaders" (not sure if
there's any common or official term for students who avoid paying for
housing by sleeping on the student union couches and slipping into the
gym once a month for a shower). I think this is sometimes a concern for
hotels.
- Consider the possibilities of how much better a space you could get if
you applied $20-25 of each registration towards a better space. Gaming
and Science Fiction conventions manage to work in hotels and still keep
a registration fee which is affordable by college students who save up
for it, though I'm not sure how many cons with an attendance of 100ish
manage hotels, it's a lot more manageable at 500+ (if you get enough
people, you can actually get function room space free based on how many
rooms are booked by guests).
--
Frank Filz
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