[Deptheads] Intel from West Coast Meeplefest

Tue Aug 9 10:38:01 PDT 2011

Might I suggest we take the high road on this one. If we let Kubla know we
are annoyed with the Wallace situation they will know they got to us and are
on the right track (in their mind).  I am a very big fan of Wallace's games
but think it is better to get him later and have his visit be better than
Kublas then make a big stink over it.

Just a suggestion :)

Thanks for all the work you are doing Eric, you are getting some great
guest.   :)

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Tim <Tim at stugiii.com> wrote:

> **
> It is a shame that he has picked a smaller, more insular convention that is
> loosing attendance over us.  Especially when compared with Orccon numbers.
> I wonder if he knows he's been duped?
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 8/9/2011 8:10 AM, Eric Burgess wrote:
>
> I haven't spoken to him in person since  Essen 2009. But we've exchanged a
> few email. He emailed to say he had to cancel on us because of 'other con'
> commitments but didn't say it was Kubla. Trying to decide how annoyed to be
> about it in my followup.
>
> On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Tim <Tim at stugiii.com> wrote:
>
>   Has anyone actually talked to Wallace?  Any chance we can steal Wallace
> back?  We can make a pretty good argument that Kubla is not the "Premier
> West Coast Convention".
>
> Tim
>
> On 8/8/2011 9:07 PM, Eric Burgess wrote:
>
> Just got back from West Coast Meeplefest, an invitational board game
> convention in San Jose with some intel:
>
>  1) Martin Wallace - Apparently Martin Wallace (who was supposed to be our
> Guest of Honor for Orccon 2012) cancelled because the Kublacon folks got to
> him at Alan Moon's Gathering of Friends and said he should debut in the U.S.
> at Kublacon because it's 'The Premier West Coast Convention'. I was also
> told that Kubla realizes that Gamex is getting stronger and they're bothered
> that we've had so many marquee names come to our convention. They feel we're
> cutting into their numbers and so they wanted to reassert themselves. The
> one Kubla staffer there was quite proud to loudly proclaim that Wallace was
> a big win for them. Pissed me off but Martin is notoriously flighty so I'm
> not surprised. They are trying to ensnare Friedemann Friese away from us for
> Kubla 2013 as well but I'm hopeful he'll still join us ahead of that because
> he has some good friends here in L.A. he wants to visit when he comes. Very
> annoying that they got Wallace to change his plans (he's said he'll still
> come to see us in 2013 but after he's just been to Kubla it's a little less
> appealing). I'm working on his replacement for Orccon 2012. We still have
> Borg for Gamex 2012 and I'm betting on Friedemann for Gateway 2012 (when
> we'll have Rich as well). I'm looking into Dirk Henn (Alhambra), Antoine
> Bauza (7 Wonders) and still going back and forth with Uwe Rosenberg
> (Agricola). Also circling back with Greg Costikyan (Old School stuff),
> Donald Vaccarino (Dominion - but he's a nut!), Leo Colovini (Clans,
> Atlantis) and Corey Koniecza (Fantasy Flight stuff). I also met up with
> Qwirkle (just won the Spiel Des Jahres 2011) designer Susan McKinley-Ross
> and she'd come down any time but she's less of a draw for gamers because
> it's quite a casual game. She's a friend and just up North so we could add
> her to another US guest sometime to fill it out. Suggestions from other
> non-board game types welcome!
>
>  2) Pacificon have their own SoCalSmackheads - Apparently most of the
> board gamers are draining away from Pacificon and going to Celesticon, a
> rival Labor Day event. The organizers were actually at WCMF and apparently
> they are building into the 250 range. That's part of what Pacificon are
> losing. I heard a lot of negative energy about Pacificon as well - poorly
> organized, bad facility and not enough going on.
>
>  ...ERB
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