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Re: How about a Brickfest West?
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lugnet.events
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:22:42 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Steve Bliss writes:
> Agree and disagree. You are right, if there were more fests in different
> areas, many people would be more likely to go local/regional than to go
> national. Some would still go to a 'national' fest.
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> But I disagree, to the extent that regional fests and this 'dilution' would
> be a bad thing overall. It would get more people to large 'fests, and that's
> a good thing.
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> Look at the BrickFest map <http://www.brickfest.com/peoplemap2001.html>.
> It's outdated/inaccurate, but it does show the extremely sharp inverse
> relation between the attendance rate and the distance traveled. So having a
> West Coast 'national fest' would actually have very little overlap with
> BrickFest -- only a few people would be cross-incentivized. And many of
> those would be likely to go to both anyway. And the net positive is that
> many more people would show up at the West Coast 'fest, who didn't go to
> BrickFest anyway.
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> Also, about rotating locations for the fests: don't do it. Having BrickFest
> in the same area every year, will help grow BrickFest and Wamalug, because
> it will attract and hold people from year to year. With rotation, you'll
> lose all the advantage gained from repetition; it will be like a first-time
> event in each location.
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> Steve
YES! Testify my brother! *AMEN* *A-MEN*
8?)
Matt
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