[Deptheads] GATEWAY DOES:

Sun Jul 17 20:59:57 PDT 2011

While I agree with many of your guys statements, I also believe that taking
the high ground seems to have bitten us on the ASS!

Look at it, we did not bad mouth them last year.  We had one of our best
GATEWAYs last year, and what did we get for it?

HGMS kicked us in the ASS this year and didn¹t even give us a kiss!! (Sorry
Biill, gotta call it as I see it).

But your right, you have some great suggestions, but you miss the point of
the thread:

Give us the bullet points that we should be advertising.

Rules of the GAME:

1. You must begin your sentence with ³GATEWAY DOES....² and complete the
sentence.

Lets get some good talking points and advertising points for the con.  Don¹t
be meally mouth about it, don¹t talk around it, don¹t talk about what we
should say.....Give us the words!!

You have your marching orders!!

If I am wrong about this.....

On 7/17/11 5:07 PM, "Victor B" <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree 100% with Bill.
> They are the challenger trying to give reason for people to attend their
> convention. We need to just promote ourselves like we do in february.
> 
> Total event numbers are a bigger deal to con organizers than gamers. Sally
> doesn't care you have 500 events if you have 0 of the events she wants to play
> or participate in. Looking at what is offered morso than how much overall.
> And california cons are notorious for fudging events. The open gaming room (10
> am to 1 am) at a con in sacramaneto lists every hour of the open game room as
> an event each.  That is 15 events per day and 45 total for the 3-day weekend.
> 1001 ways to inflate  numbers. Guests, seminars, special events, major
> tourneys, etc. are the eye grabbers for early promos not total events.
> Especially when gamers can go to the sites for these cons and add up the
> events.
> I also would not say anything about volunteers, owners, etc. Debating money,
> ownership, volunteer compensation (like hotel room), etc. serves no positive
> purpose and will have the gaming community scratching it's head...as well as
> game companies, industry people, other cons, and potential guests.
> 
> Let's take the high road.
> Promote what we have- d20 girls, boardgames library, demoes of newest and
> hottest games, video game room, wargames bootcamp, rock band tourneys, big
> tourneys we have, guests, unique rpg events, movies and anime,
> costume contest, vip dinner, game designers and companies attending showing
> their products, monday game auction, play with creator and playtest games,
> larps, saturday night dance, etc.
> Add that with our regular schedule of events all over and it speaks for itself
> as a great overall convention experience.
> 
> 
> V
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Bill Witthans <vonkluge at ca.rr.com>
> To: deptheads at strategicon.net
> Sent: Sun, July 17, 2011 12:30:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Deptheads] GATEWAY DOES:
> 
> GATEWAY DOES:  
> I would remove the line (unlike other conventions) since I thought the idea
> was to provide a better con making people want to come, not by bad mouthing
> the competition and lowering yourselves to their level. I would toot your own
> horn but refrain form appearing to engage in a battle of accusations, take the
> "High Road"
>  
> Bill Witthans 
>  
> PS Robyn, I never received a reply if there was anything we could help with?
> Stands? We will have a pretty good HMGS/PSW presence once again at "Gateway"
>>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>  
>> From:  Robyn Nixon <mailto:robynln at gmail.com>
>>  
>> To: deptheads at strategicon.net
>>  
>> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 12:06 PM
>>  
>> Subject: [Deptheads] GATEWAY DOES:
>>  
>> 
>> Ok, new thread, to get things started.  I want to  post this to various
>> forums but want to get everyone¹s input to add to this  topic.  Put your
>> thinking caps on, and here is my  start:
>> 
>>  
>>> GATEWAY 2011  is just around the corner.  Get involved with the regions
>>> largest  gaming convention, that includes Role Playing, Miniatures, Card
>>> Games and  Collectibles, Electronic Games, Board games and More!!  Rub
>>> elbows with  over 1000 fellow gamers in the longest running community based
>>> gaming  convention in Southern California.
>>> 
>>> All ages are welcome at GATEWAY,  and with over 600 events running
>>> continually from 2pm Friday through 7pm  Monday, this makes it the best
>>> gaming value in the area.  If you  preregister the weekend badge is only $40
>>> and this means less than 7 cents a  game, and GATEWAY collects no additional
>>> fees for events and games held at  its annual convention.
>>> 
>>> GATEWAY is organized and run by volunteers who  take no salaries, truly
>>> community giving back to community, its owners are  not out to make a profit
>>> at the expense of other gamers (unlike other  conventions), the owners all
>>> have regular jobs outside the gaming  community.
>>> 
>>> GATEWAY turns back a percentage of the admission fees as  'dealer dollars',
>>> which are given to participants as prizes for games and  tournaments held at
>>> the convention.
>>> 
>>> GATWAY rewards other gamers who  wish to contribute their time by providing
>>> Volunteer badges for GMs who run  events at the convention, and doing
>>> partial reimbursement for volunteers who  go above and beyond, by
>>> contributing most of their weekend to the games and  enjoyment of the
>>> convention for other gamers.
>>> 
>>> GATEWAY is inclusive  and welcomes the contributions and participation of
>>> groups and individuals  who wish to contribute to the health of the gaming
>>> community in Southern  California.  They enjoy partnerships with various
>>> gaming groups that  come in whole and organize events throughout the
>>> convention.  Most of  these partnerships gain reduced entry for their
>>> members by this  partnership.
>>> 
>>> GATEWAY provides space for various groups to host large  scale tournaments,
>>> removing the onus of hall rentals, table and chair  rentals, janitorial
>>> services, environmental control, and allows these groups  to concentrate on
>>> running great events.
>>> 
>>> GATEWAY hosts industry  insiders and guests to provide presentations and
>>> lectures on topics of  interest to the gaming  community.
>> 
>> 
>> Add to  this list, provide your thoughts, improvements and corrections.  I
>> plan  on posting this in the next day or so to various lists.
>> 
>> Its time to get  fired up!!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  
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