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Re: Next LUGOZ National Meet - (was Re: LWC Mag No. 2 02)
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Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:19:33 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Melody Brown writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > > If anybody is seriously interested, let me know and I'll see what venue I
> > > can arrange etc.
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> I guess anywhere away from home is always interesting :)
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> > It sounds like there is genuine interest. I guess the next question is the
> > time frame. Traditionally (if we've been doing it long enough to have a
> > tradition) we've used long weekends, as that lets people coming by car from
> > further afield travel on Saturday, meet on Sunday, travel home on Monday.
> > Unfortunately there's a bit of a shortage of long weekends between now and
> > Christmas.
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> Nope, there's not.
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> > How important is it to people to use a long weekend? If so, then the
> > Australia Day weekend next January (assuming it is gazetted as a long
> > weekend -- the 26th is a Sunday this year) will be the first opportunity.
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> > While that sounds a long way away, on the other hand, we probably don't need
> > to hold a national event every month either. 2-3 per year is probably
> > plenty.
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> I would have thought making the LUGOZ 200? thing a yearly gathering, a
> better idea and something to look forward too... I'm sure not all of us
> could afford to attend more than one a year if outta state. Whatever the
> outcome I still think atleast one major event to be held atleast once a year
> (the one most would hopefully attend)... afterall anyone can turn up to any
> of the state/local area meets we all hold often anyway??!!??
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> With something more major, it's much easier to organise a few goodies ;)
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> Just my thought.
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> > Kerry
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> Mel
Sounds like a good idea...and the Australia day weekend is one of the few
public holidays held on the same date in all states [as opposed to the
Queens birthday, labour day, Melbourne cup, etc.] and that isn't generally a
family type weekend like christmas/easter.
Just a thought on the planning on this though...would it be better if each
state provides a spokeperson and these people decide on the host state, take
'bookings', handle the passing on of info to the people in their state,
possibly contact LEGO Australia and see if there's any chance of getting
advertising in the World club magazine / some form of display from LEGO, and
generally organise all the small things to make the weekend go as well as
possible. This would also prevent lots of people posting similar questions
here, with lots of threads, and the possibility of some being missed, and
important queries/information being ignored. (this would also help with
lurkers/those who don't use LUGNET, as they could still receive the
information they need.)
Another idea would be the potential for a large combined model/scene, with
each state working on a part of it, without knowing what the rest will look
like...we could even end up with a town entirely of houses, as opposed to
LEGO's towns entirely of construction equipement and race cars :)
We could also have an interstate brickwars competition...if there's any takers.
Of course if this was the case, each state would have to be given a points
limit, an it would be up to the entire state group/contingent to create
their force [plus additional units/equipement for tweaking between matches]
instead of having a group of entirely mis-matched forces.
This is not to say that the state force would be run by one player, but
instead that the state team is based around similar equipement, with
different commanders controlling different groups/areas [ie, all players
have identical forces, but control a different sector of the battle,
assisting those in neighbouring sectors if required, OR one/two player(s)
controls air units for the entire state, another for armour, another for
infantry, etc.] Also, if a state wanted, they should be able to get the
assistance of non-playing states members to control some part of their
forces...or if there are players for a state with only a small force, they
could get the opportunity to enlist another states forces/vehicles to get
them to a fair level. [I can't see Tasmania fielding as many commanders at
present as NSW can, for example, and it would give those states that don't
have the commanders they need a bigger chance. And those non-playing
commanders for each round could be responsible for the placement of
terrain/obsatcles, and for the oversight of rules.]
And who knows...maybe have a prize/award for the winning state as incentive
to field a force. (plus the option of writing the review of the
battle...after all, it's the winner who writes the history books :)
Anyway, just my thoughts/ramblings :)
Benjamin Whytcross
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| (...) Annualish does kinda make sense to me too. We had two last year, and that seemed like too many. We've had one this year and it seemed to be a treat. And the long weekend, while its a bit of a drag from a traffic, tourists and double demerits (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) I guess anywhere away from home is always interesting :) (...) Nope, there's not. (...) I would have thought making the LUGOZ 200? thing a yearly gathering, a better idea and something to look forward too... I'm sure not all of us could afford (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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