[Deptheads] Preliminary attendance numbers

[Eric Burgess]

I sincerely hope so. If there was one overriding theme of the
conversations I heard it was that we needed to move. People were
already unhappy with the hotel and now they are furious. I think
people gave us a pass on this one since they knew it was a last minute
situation. But I don't think they will support us again. Orccon
desperately needs to be at a new hotel or location.

I know that a heck of a lot of legwork has already been done to find a
new place but I still think it is time to redouble efforts and come up
with other alternatives. Hey, the first two BGG.cons were at an office
building built next to a hotel.

There was a fellow on the Yahoo groups who suggested a good, formal
RFP process to help find a location. I'm not sure if this was done in
the past or not but I think we'd benefit from that. I also think if we
cannot find something on our own, we should really reach out to the
trusted members of the community for suggestions. There has got to be
somewhere in Southern California that can hold us.

To be honest, if we don't move Orccon the situation may solve itself.
We may require a much smaller venue.

...ERB
www.boardgamebabylon.com



On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Heather <heather at gibsongirl.net> wrote:
> So we're thinking about ORCCON now right?  and a new hotel???  - Heather
>
> On 9/6/08, Eric M. Aldrich I <ealdrich at penguinlust.org> wrote:
>>
>> 332 pre reg
>> 320 volunteers, staff, exhibitors
>> 273 at the door
>>
>> So 925. There will be duplicates -- I need to weed them out. But we're
>> going to come in around 900. Last year was 850. So we're up about 9 percent
>> on the high side (so we beat Mondo! Barely....) and worse case we're up
>> about 6 percent.
>>
>> Given the parking, I'm pleased. Not what I hoped for, but not bad.
>>
>> Thanks again everyone.
>>
>> Eric
>>
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