[Deptheads] Re: Moving the Convention

[Robert Lionheart]

DB <noldor at gmail.com> wrote:
    I’ll say right now that I would NOT be a fan of putting the Strategicons in multiple locations.
   
  That would be a disaster.   Moving conventions down the block is bad enough.   Telling people to go to different cities for different cons is a nightmare. 
   
  I am unsure about moving the cons to the OC.    You would draw more OC / IE folks, but you would lose lots of Valley / WLA people.   But Denys is right that there has been a demographic shift since 1980.  I do not know how much more SD people you would gain.   
   
  Also, OC has a bad history for cons.   Games University was a really nice little con and most of the people I saw there were the same people who came to our events.   Also, OC/IE did not turn out in droves for GenCon SoCal. 
   
  - Robert
   
   
   
   
   
  




On 2/12/08 10:18 AM, "Evil5757 at aol.com" <Evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:


    This was one of the reasons i was pushing to move the convention to Ontario, nearer gamer-rich Riverside area.  
 
MAYBE, we might look into moving ONE of our conventions to the Ontario area IF there is a problem with the hotel at some point in time.  I'm not saying make it happen, I'm just saying it would be a good solution adn research IF we get shut out of the LAX hotel sometime.
 
John
 
In a message dated 2/11/2008 10:34:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, noldor at gmail.com writes:
  If we’re truly  serious about aiming for families, long term plans might be to move the con to  family-friendly Orange County.   I’m just saying that having the con  at a hotel near crummy-neighborhood LAX on a street full of strip clubs isn’t  exactly a family environment.  Plus, since real estate in Los Angeles  urban area is so high, the middle-class family audience that would show up at  the con doesn’t live anywhere close.  Plus, if we were in Orange County,  we’d be that much more accessible to bedroom communities in san diego,  riverside and san bernardino counties.  When the con started in the L.A.  Area all those years ago, it was a very different demographic that lived in  the city.  We might need to reconsider our location in the coming years  and make the jump to where our intended attendees actually  live.

 - Denys




  
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