[Deptheads] Broadside Bash rumours and news

[Eric M. Aldrich I]

We did this last year. We did this because the regular flea market ran  
right through their event and they wanted a flea market. We might have  
to tweak the hours this year. This is handled just like the normal  
flea market, with an obvious emphasis on GW figures and related stuff.  
Note that it's open to all convention goers, both buyers and sellers.

This was all coordinated with me directly last year. I'll handle it  
again. We might change it so it coincides completely with the actual  
flea market (so it won't be a special event for them).

Eric

On 16 Nov, 2008, at 08:48, Robyn Nixon wrote:

> Well, the Broadside bash (pacific marauders) have posted a really  
> nice web site to promote the GW 40k/Fantasy GT event for our  
> President’s day weekend convention http://www.broadsidebash.com
>
> Interesting things while looking at it is the inclusion of an events  
> page on the site that includes trading tables: http://www.broadsidebash.com/events.php
>
> Question, are they simply advertising tables for us at $10/hour
>> Saturday 7:00PM–9:00PM – Broadside Bash flea market. Bring your  
>> miniatures and other gaming items you want to sell. Tables will be  
>> available for $10 per hour. You are welcome to share a table with a  
>> friend.
> Or are they running a competing flea market table event within our  
> convention and keeping the $$ for themselves?
>
> 2nd question, did they coordinate this flea market with our  
> departmental manager who is responsible for this and is this the  
> time we already decided to have the flea market?
>
> Rumours:
> None of the Pacific Marauder group participated in the most recent  
> Socal GW gamers own GT in Garden Grove, November 1st and 2nd.  The  
> organizers of this GT (Socal Slaughter) are very upset and stated to  
> me that now the entire Socal GW league is boycotting the Broadside  
> Bash GT in protest and anger.  This is the primary GW league in LA/ 
> Riverside/OC and I expect that this will have a major impact on  
> attendance of the Broadside Bash.
> I am under negotiations with these organizers to at least bring some  
> GW mega events to the con in order to encourage the Socal GW members  
> to continue to support Strategicon.
>
> Given that the Socal GW league members have attended our events in  
> numbers for the past two years, I see any boycott by them as a  
> further stake in the heart of Strategicon, while the Pacific  
> Marauders did put on a good GT at the President’s day convention,  
> their members have continued to NOT attend our conventions on a  
> regular basis, with only two of there members even showing up on  
> Memorial day weekend and Labor day weekend, while the Socal GW  
> league members were the primary attendees of GW events at all 3  
> conventions this past year.  In fact, Labor day weekend I saw no  
> Pacific Marauders at our convention.
>
> I perceive this as a crisis event, and possibly even a tipping point  
> for miniatures at our conventions.
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