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

[thatericn at aol.com]

If we are talking pre-Westin, Hyatt (what's the Radisson now), then it was
1) The "driveway" rooms were heavily used for high attendance events, like the 5/6/7 table for Diplomacy
2) All the rooms by the pool were heavily used, for RPGs, as well as day-long tourneys, such as ASL
3) The rooms along the southwest hallway were just about constantly used for longer, mid-sized tournaments, like Civilization

We remember the Westin - but those were not the peak attendance years...

Eric N.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim <Tim at stugiii.com>
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Sent: Fri, Jun 11, 2010 10:38 am
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] SoCal Smackdown (Was: Get games up ASAP!)


So how did we manage greater attendance in the past, when we have no room for the lower attendance we have now?

thatericn at aol.com wrote: 
2) That there is some blatantly untapped and therefore ignored pool of gamers in Southern California that we have been too dense to identify or too snobby to acknowledge. While different segments of the gaming community have grown, peaked and declined over the decades, attendance has kept a certain baseline, with broad economic factors and broad public perceptions of the convention administrations effecting the trends in attendance. Back during stronger gaming "eras" the higher attendance was not shockingly or amazingly higher than now. Gaming in different forms as a favorite hobby is somewhat generational, and often runs for a varying number of years during an individual's life. People move, people raise families, get interested in sports, change careers, get involved in Renaissance fairs, historical reenacting, ballroom dancing, sailing, motorcycles, or start bands, etc., etc - or get older, and do not get out as much. It would be interesting to see how cable television, computer and home video games and the internet have effected gaming as a hobby.

Thus ends my venting.

Eric N.


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