[Deptheads] Renaming the Cons

[Eric M. Aldrich I]

I suspected this too. Especially since the other pre-GAMA show folded after one run.

Eric

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:16:03PM -0800, Eric Burgess wrote:
> I assume he is planning that weekend for ConQuest LV because it leads into
> GAMA 2008 (in Vegas from 4/20-4/24). I can only imagine he's trying to link
> to that in some ways (perhaps getting some people attending GAMA to come a
> few days early and show up for his con).
> -- 
> ...ERB
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> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Robert Lionheart <spinachcat at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > The owners of PacifiCon broke up and one group of owners formed ConQuest
> > which was only a Labor Day con as the Peninsula's response to the East Bay's
> > DunDraCon.
> >
> > Years later, they sold to Mondo who was going to launch his Avalon
> > Conventions, but then decided to keep ConQuest across his events.    He
> > still uses Avalon like we use Strategicon.   He has been ballsy in his
> > promotion of new cons in Sac and Seattle and now Las Vegas.
> > Personally, I think April 18-20 is a bad weekend but LV is a good
> > location.  Kinda surprised GenCon didn't do Vegas instead of SoCal.  LV is a
> > great multi-state hub and much cheaper than Anaheim.
> >
> > His success or failure in LV should give us a good glimpse at how much
> > advertising we should aim at Nevada in the future.
> >
> > - R
> >
> >
> > *Janice Sellers <janicemsj at gmail.com>* wrote:
> >
> > And let's not forget, ManaCon became KublaCon. With ConQuest, they
> > started out with different names and then have come around to having
> > them all be ConQuest. My first thought on why it's called CruiseCon
> > is because the whole emphasis there really is the cruise, not the
> > gaming.
> >
> > > BTW, we might want to offer a full page ad trade. If they give Gamex a
> > > full page in their Vegas con book, we trade for a full page to promote
> > their
> > > Alaska CruiseCon which happens in July.
> >
> > If we want to start doing this type of exchange and marketing the cons
> > more aggressively, we should probably resolve the naming thing first.
> >
> > Janice
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