[Deptheads] Re: Moving the Convention

[DB]

I¹d love to see data on how many folks actually fly into LAX to attend the
con as opposed to driving in from out of town.  If the number isn¹t
significant, moving the con east towards IE wouldn¹t be a bad idea.

As far as I¹m concerned, L.A. proper is a wasteland for gamers and the con
should move closer to suburban areas where gamers are at.

But barring that ‹ john, how do propose we appeal to the IE crowd?
Strategicon disenfranchised a lot of people in the Œ90s ‹ the IE folk are on
a lengthy list.


On 2/14/08 11:09 PM, "Evil5757 at aol.com" <Evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:

> A big reason for IE not showing up at GenCon was because very few had free
> passes.  I know one store in South OC that gave away 50 free passes for GC
> SoCal that they were given to bring attendance up.  IE stores didn't get any
> (if so, very few).
>  
> Honestly, I really feel the reason IE people don't do Strategicon is because
> Strategicon abandoned them.  There was no real effort to include IE in the
> mix.  All expansion was aimed at Long Beach, OC, everywhere along the coast
> where the main stockholders lived.  We need to give them a reason to drive 70
> plus miles to pay to come to our conventions.
>  
> At this point, most IE people have other things planned for our weekends
> because it's their "program."  We need to give them a reason to break out of
> their "program" and come and try us out.  It will need to be a targeted
> campaign to be sure, but the GT event WILL have IE attendees, hopefully
> bringing back word of what we are doing.
>  
> John
>  
> In a message dated 2/13/2008 4:18:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> spinachcat at yahoo.com writes:
>>  
>> 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
>>  
>>  
>  
> 
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