[Deptheads] SoCal Smackdown (Was: Get games up ASAP!)

[Nekojin]

Polly and I did some searching, and came up with very little. As RJ said,
their web presence is virtually nonexistent. The fact that they're hosting a
Regional Invitational Qualifier (Is that a qualifier for an Invitational
event, or an invitation-only Qualifier for a grand championship?) is good,
but the fact that they're going up against us, time-wise, is bad for both of
us... and I'd have to say that it's worse for them than for us.

I'd never heard of Warmachine (I assumed that it was talking about
Warstorm), but I can see that it's by the same people who do
Monsterpocalypse, and I've heard of that. It sounds interesting enough, but
I stopped playing miniatures games about 15 years ago, when I lost all of my
40k/Necromunda figures. The cost of (re-)entry and the time commitment make
them unappealing these days, for the exact reasons you mentioned. I don't
even play Talisman at the convention any more, and I really LIKE Talisman.

If there's any way to manage it, we should try to get in touch with the
operators of SoCal Smackdown. I know it's extremely unlikely to get a date
changed once it's announced (Califur had the same problem for its first
convention - once they realized that Memorial Day put them in conflict with
many, many other events, they realized that it was too late to change.
They've (obviously) gone with other weekends, now), but there's still a
chance that they can, and it'd be good for the two conventions to cooperate
(or at least avoid stepping on each other's toes), rather than try to
compete over the same limited pool of players.

As a side note, SoCal Smackdown is also the name of a Roller Derby event...
the convention managers might want to consider a name change to something
that's somewhat less evocative of professional wrestling. IMO, it smacks of
immaturity, but YMMV.

Jason

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Robyn Nixon <robynln at gmail.com> wrote:

> Always funny to see others perception of the miniature games.  The
> Warmachine players (who this convention is wrapping around) and the
> Warhammer players (who play whfb and wh40k) would be horrified to be cross
> identified.  Rather like calling bridge and Euker the same card game, or
> Magic and Yugio the same.  :)
>
> I expect that Socal GW league will run some good Gamesworkshop Rogue trader
> tournaments at our convention, so we won't lose them, but it will
> definitely
> hurt us on the WM/Hordes group, but we haven't had a great turnout from
> that
> group for a few years now, since every store and its mother offered the
> same
> events that we were able to offer at the convention.
>
> It does require a unique event to bring out the miniature players, such as
> HGMS did this past con with their Boxer Rebellion display and event.  We
> definitely need more events such as that.  One problem with miniature
> tournaments is that they take such a long time that many of the players do
> not want to play them, but would rather participate in a larger selection
> of
> one-up games.  They want to sample whats out there, expecially miniature
> games that they don't get a taste of at their Local gaming store, due to
> failure to reach critical mass at the store.
>
> Robyn
>
>
> On 6/6/10 1:22 PM, "RJ" <the1ring at the1ring.net> wrote:
>
> > I have to echo that last comment a bit.
> >
> > I have done several web searches and they are almost invisible.  How
> would
> > anyone even know about them that was already going?  haha.
> >
> > It appears to be mainly 40K people, which could be bad for that area of
> our
> > convention - but I think Strategicon has a good selection of players and
> > parts that are going to be hard to "steal".
> >
> > Maybe someone could go spy on them?  Maybe we could "bring them into the
> > fold"?
> >
> > RJ
> >
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