Quote: "I'm sure Kansas City is nice Michael, but I think you missed my point: in the future, I think this should be held in places where people would want to vacation, since many of us would be taking vacation time away from work to attend. And if anyone in Europe (namely people from the TGC staff) were to fly across the puddle to attend, I'd assume they would want to make a vacation out of their trip as well, since there's a chance they've never been to the United States before. It saves everyone time, money, and jet lag .
Maybe we could have a rotational thing... next year it could be LA, 2010 could be NYC, and 2011 could be, I dunno, Chicago or New Orleans. This way, we won't have a hard time talking our spouses/ significant others into letting us go, lol. While we're at the convention, they could be shopping, visiting historical and tourist sites, sampling local cuisine, etc. And if we rotate them around the country, it makes it so everyone can attend a convention.
Or the more complicated and probably impossible version would be to hold three different conventions at the same time in three different cities, and have them all sync somehow. streaming video from all three events perhaps . But I'm getting ahead of myself as usual lol.
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Oh ok I totally missed your point lol.
I was just saying where not going to have an argument on location. But yea I think having a different place each year would be great.
This year its in the big KC (well actually the OP
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The plan is for everyone to arrive a day before the start of the convention that way people have a chance to tour the area before hand.
The length of the convention will be most likely 3 days as its very very expensive to do this.
We will do it Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
So everyone will arrive Thursday and check into their hotels.
Then they are free to tour around.
What will probably happen is we will all meet up at like a restaurant and have lunch around noon Thursday. Then from there we will all car pool around town.
I have 1 car and Taylor has a car. So hopefully the people who do drive to KC will be willing to drive people around ont eh tour too.
That will probably go until like 5 or 6. Then we will drop people off at the hotel (Which has yet to be decided.)
Then the 3 days of convention.
The total cost for JUST the room space is $2,700.
So if your wondering where your ticket payment is going....there ya go
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and Daniel wright 2311 is covering $500 worth of it so that puts us at:
$2,200.
Then Im going to try to put in at least $500.
(This is just the space mind you there is still other expenses.)
So that brings us too,
$1,700.
I am going to see what special perks I can throw in for people who donate.
Ok so with all the price stuff up, who is going to bring what to the convention?
As far as content like things to talk about. New and upcoming games or stuff to show off and other big announcements.
And is there anything in particular people would like to see at this thing?
Since its a bit less than a year away we have a lot of time to decide. So all suggestions are welcome.
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I found a Holiday Inn thats 15 Minutes away. So you can get on the interstate and go strait from there to the convention.
Also they offer a big discount if we get more than 10 rooms
DOUBLE-EDIT!!!
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Another possibility is holding the convention at the
Overland Park Sheridan.
I have to call the sales dept. on Monday for rates and deals and all that fun stuff but that's another possibility.
Ok so while I wait off to put together events.
If anyone wants to help let me know.
