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Re: Next National Meet
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Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:06:50 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Melody Brown writes:
> > 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??!!??
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 point of view, does make it possible for more of us to get
our act together.
> 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.
I guess as long as it is a long weekend all over. Mind you, I'd have been
just as happy to focus on the June long weekend - that seems to be popular
more or less all over.
> 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.)
I guess if people want to put their hand up for this fine. Brisbane worked
ok without anyone in charge in Sydney, and I wouldn't want some poor bugger
having to run around chasing people up to do think about stuff when they're
not interested, when we could just let people sort themselves out at their
leisure.
Seems to me that the one key thing is a local organiser in terms of schedule
and venue, and letting them do things the way they want. Mel did a fabulous
job in Brisbane. The idea that this is a local fest, organised by local
folk, to which interstate visitors can come if they want, seems to me to be
good tone. Let the local guys sort out whatever they want to do and the
blow-ins can more or less tag along.
Last thing one wants is the out of towners causing grief.
> 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 :)
This is probably doable as long as a lot of people turn up. Unfortunately
air travel is not generally considered compatible with large MOCs. Armies
(bags of figs and a few sturdy vehicles) are fine - stately Melbournian
residences might have difficulty surviving Virgin Blue's baggage handlers
(and I use the term 'handlers' loosely - they seem to me to be more in the
line of beta testers for baggage manufacturers).
> We could also have an interstate brickwars competition...if
> there's any takers.
Brisbane's was certainly fun - I'd sign on, in more or less any theme but
aquanauts. Oh, or insectoids.
> 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 :)
Dunno about the grand plan. It seemed to me that part of the success in
Brisbane was about the way that we did not focus on state v state, nor have
any grand alliances or complex objectives. In the true sense of BrikWars,
it was really more about a bunch of meatheads running around blasting neat
circular holes in the terrain, buildings, and each other - some of the holes
even had attractive flaming perimeters :-)
The 500 point limit (while egregiously stifling - What? No Rothana
gunships?!), seemed to be successful too.
Conscious again that I'd be happy to leave the decisionmaking to the local
dude in charge (or his specific designate).
Do we actually have anyone in Canberra who wants to take this on?
Do we have anyone in Adelaide want's to take this on?
Perth?
(Dunno if I'd be able to go to Perth, but some folks might)
And if not all round, I'm sure we could find someone in Sydney (or Mittagong
:-) who would be happy to start the cycle again...
Richard
Still baldly going...
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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