[Deptheads] Gamex Guest

[Victor B]

Good job in the past but let's look at 2012 and 2013 since 2012 is filled in with guests of honor already.
There are handfuls of gaming rock stars out there----those that the 
average gamer recognize; not just us that deal with the gaming industry 
alot
 know .We know prestige names and top designers but this does not make 
them the only choices for guests of honor for an entire year over someone with a 
currently hot game or 
someone that most people know or want to hang out with/meet at a con. 
It's about the attendees. There are top names in all gaming and fandom 
but a person that does not play historical miniature games wouldn't know
 miniature game people to have them considered before we lock in GOH. 
That is why I asked 
who is final word before someone is "inked" in as a guest of honor. Our 
guest of honor process should be unbiased including euro designers, usa 
designers, wargaming, Rpg, miniature, video game, larp, etc. all 
considered. Mix it
 up. A euro-designer guest of honor flown in from germany or england for
 every con we have in 2012? So don't bother ask or suggest anyone else 
to be a guest of honor til sept. of 2013? Once a year- yes...3 times a 
year- no. All other guests pay their own travel?

We don't budget 
guests by dept. yet so guests of honor are strategicon guests of honor 
and the ones we have had before have been good but let's look to the future. 
The amount of people in boardgaming
 does not represent an individual game. Are all of them playing
 the same game? Is that the only game they are all playing all weekend? 
Largest attendance as a "dept." does not speak for individual games. 
Warhammer, 
magic the gathering, Pathfinder rpg, house of blooded larp, rock band, 
dungeons and dragons, vampire ccg, specific hmgs miniature battles, 
paint and take, and are you a werewolf all have largest crowds each 
convention outside of "hot game of the moment" and special tourneys. 

Our
 guest of honor criteria shouldn't be "this department is biggest so 
they get the guests of honor for next 2 years". 
Miniatures has 
grown and is still growing but hard for most to see since miniatures are
 everywhere due to spacing issues. The paint and take is in one area on 
2nd floor, the 120+ warhammer players are on 2nd floor outside of 
traffic flow, large scale minis are wherever, and the other events are 
on first floor in semi-darkness even with stand up lamps. But if growth 
continues where do they go when we have no space? Some branched off to do socal smackdown and plan other cons.  As norm and chris know we could 
have 500-900 pokemon players at 
our con but we don't have the space. They talked to us about it a few 
times but we 
can't hold that many so they continue to have their events each month 
including being opposite of us on holiday weekend
 saturdays. Norm sees them. And if we had 1000+ people in ccgs because 
of pokemon I 
wouldn't say we invite different ccg guests of honor from japan or 
europe each 
con. Mix it up with our guests of honor. We should fly top miniature and other names to our con 
too as guests of honor and get some usa game designers like Donald X 
(Donald X. Vaccarino- designer of dominion). Video game vips, games 
workshop guests, and guest gms would rock too. More guests overall and 
continue to grow as an awesome 4-day convention with something for 
everyone and no one feels second class or unwanted at our con.

V


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