[Deptheads] Miniature Bootcamp

[Eric Burgess]

Yes - I agree. What we did discuss doing was giving people who played board
game demos credit towards the Euro Pick event so it would encourage people
to try out the games and give them a small incentive there. This will be
better at Orccon when I can get more demos in there. I didn't run anywhere
near as many demos as I normally do for obvious reasons - although we'll
deal with that for next time.

Honestly, most board game demos are well-attended because there is a large
group of board gamers that just love playing new games all the time and
we've managed to get most of the latest/greatest. I can see where getting
people to an established game might be harder.

I think Vic's got the right idea - the publishers or even the stores should
be able/willing to promote an event like this one. If a particular stores is
given exclusivity on Flames of War and anyone who plays the demo gets a
dealer-specific dollar amount supported by them (really, a discount coupon
and not dealer dollars), then I don't have an issue with one department
giving out that kind of compensation for playing in a demo. Getting the
store to agree to it might be another thing but my inclination is to think
even a small sale is a good sale since it gets them hooked into the game.

Sending a report from Essen soon and slow on e-mail since I'm in India now.
I will get back to everyone who has written to me soon.

...ERB
www.boardgamebabylon.com
www.strategicon.net


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Gayle Charboneau <monkedoodles at yahoo.com>wrote:

>  Wargame Boot camp has never (to my knowledge) given out dealer dollars to
> demo a game  ( and same for the rest of the boardgames).   Karl has secured
> games from GMT and gives raffle tickets when someone participates in the
> demo, then does a drawing for the games.  I agree Dealer dollars have no
> place with Demos.
>
> Gayle+
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> *From:* Tim Keennon <Tim at stugiii.com>
> *To:* deptheads at strategicon.net
> *Sent:* Tue, October 20, 2009 7:31:37 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Deptheads] Miniature Bootcamp
>
> I think it is a bad idea to play people to play demo games.   If we do the
> bootcamp correctly, they should be games people want to learn.  We can track
> that with the numbers.  If you offer "pay for play" the numbers are of less
> value.
>
> Tim
>
> Janice Sellers wrote:
>
> I don't think we should be handing out dealer dollars for demos.  That  said, my opinion is that if we have dealer dollars for some demos, we  should have DD for all of them, in all departments, for exactly the  reason Robyn says -- it looks like favoritism if only some demos have  payments.    Janice    On 10/19/09, Robyn Nixon <robynln at gmail.com> <robynln at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Paying of dealer dollars to event participants:  This was not done for all  demos, creating an inequity situation.  This also was recognized by  participants as well as GMs who did not get the dealer dollars to distribute  to their demoees.  I have since received several inquiries of whether their  demos will also receive this support.  My question to department heads is  whether the distribution of dealer dollars to demo participants is the  correct action for our convention, and if it is, what is the appropriate  amount that we should be distributing to people who participate in demos,  and whether we should be doing this for all demos, or only ones demonstrates  as our favorites (favoritism?).
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