[Deptheads] Get events up ASAP!

[Eric Burgess]

No. Board games will run it until we talk to Dan.


On Saturday, June 5, 2010,  <Evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:
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> As soon as someone else is ready to take it over, the Cribbage is all
> theirs. We just want to do it because it should be offered and we want to get in
> it as well. So we should plan on doing it this convention and having someone
> else do it from Orccon on then?
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> John
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> In a message dated 6/5/2010 1:27:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> ealdrich at penguinlust.org writes:
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>   Cribbage, I'd hold off on that. One idea that has been tossed around a little
>   is to bring back the traditional card games as a sub department under board
>   games (much like Karl runs war games). We even have a potential person to do
>   this -- Dan O'Farrell -- however, I don't think we'll do it for Gateway. And
>   no, we haven't talked to Dan yet.
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>   Right now this is in the development stages. One of the purposes is to
>   broaden the appeal to families with "non-gaming" spouses. But it's just in the
>   idea stage tight now, and has been tossed out on occasion over the last couple
>   of years. I now think we might want to seriously consider it.
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>   Eric
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>   On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:54 PM, evil5757 at aol.com wrote:
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>     Oh, I definitely agree on your points here. I brought in 2 LARP
>     specialists last convention to get the lay of the place and get ready for
>     possibly doing some in 2011 (they have new baby...can't do it right now). We
>     are looking at Boardgames because I actually left open the Sunday noon
>     timeframe so we could get in the Cribbage tournament, and there was none. So
>     we will do the Cribbage tournament and a couple of my guys like the complex
>     space games that are out, and I think they want to do one of those. We are
>     also kicking around bringing back the Mega-Colliseum Circus Maximus
>     event.
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>     There are some events we were going to do but have backed off of since
>     others have started them, such as an on-going Formula De event and the
>     Battletech Mega-Arena, both now being done by someone else.
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>     John
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>     -----Original
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> From: Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com>
> To: deptheads at strategicon.net
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>     Fri, Jun 4, 2010 11:45 am
> Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Get events up
>     ASAP!
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>     I can see where Gayle is coming from here. Board Games hardly needs
>     help at the moment, especially with the revitalization we've just had with
>     Neil's hard work as our Events Manager. We just had more events than ever
>     before, a huge turnout for the Settlers and TTR events and the two special
>     guests at Gateway 2010 are board game focused.
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>     As much as you all know I like to get resources for Board Games, if the
>     purpose of Special Events is to ignite some interest in departments that
>     could use a boost, perhaps now is the time to focus on LARPS and
>     Collectibles instead of Board Games.
>     ...ERB
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>     On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:33 AM, <evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:
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>       Special projects was never meant to be just miniatures or anything in
>       particular. When originally planned with Eric in 2007, Special Projects
>       was going to be a group that ran large and special events in all
>       departments. Our job is to fill gaps and run events that you can't do at
>       home, things that will be associated with the convention. We will be
>       running events in all genre of games, and we will be getting back into
>       boardgames and RPGs this convention. We were doing both before we were
>       needed to help out in the Miniatures area, and now that Miniatures is back
>       on it's feet and growing, we are going forward with our original plans.
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