[Deptheads] SoCal Smack Down is moving weekends

[Kryssie]

Noted.  John?  Why not ask them for little postcard like flyers to toss
onto the regular "other upcoming cons" table? Maybe allow one of their reps
to come man that booth?  Just a thought. :-)

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com> wrote:

> Briefly, they jumped onto our weekend two years ago, were cautioned it
> would be foolish, mostly tried to draw organizers from us with little
> success, caused a lot of misery for some minis folks (board games didn't
> notice - their efforts were lousy), inflated their attendance numbers and
> now they are admitting defeat through this change. When they reached out to
> Heather and Devi (the OCBG organizers and Strategicon staff at the time) to
> organize their board games, I told them if they shifted weekends, we could
> work with them and everyone would be happy and if they didn't, no one wins.
> They didn't respond and Strategicon as a whole has been simply polite about
> it as they struggled and we grew. As Aldrich said, taking the high road has
> paid off. With the change, everyone wins - the community and both cons.
>
> I'll admit to laughing pretty hard when I saw Shawn's e-mail but it wasn't
> in front of anyone except the cat. Thankfully, she talks to almost no one
> in the gaming community so my mocking reference to SoCal SmackedDown will
> stay with her.
>
> ...ERB
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Kryssie <phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I guess I don't understand the gloating over them moving their con dates?
>>  Were they trying to directly compete with Gateway?  I'm just trying to get
>> a feel for what's going on... >_>  Sorry, I'm teh n00bsauce.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Tim <Tim at stugiii.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Actually John, we may want to do that... give me a couple of weeks
>>> before you do anything
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/23/2012 8:42 AM, Evil5757 at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>  Them moving to after us is only going to hurt them more. On the honest
>>> side, I would call them and offer them a Gateway Dealer Table, but I am
>>> limiting our retailers to what we have now and going after more manufactors.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>  In a message dated 2/23/2012 3:14:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>>> tim at stugiii.com writes:
>>>
>>> I agree about not being involved, but still it is hard not to feel
>>> pretty good about this...
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On Feb 22, 2012, at 23:19, "Eric M. Aldrich" <ealdrich at mac.com><ealdrich at mac.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> > And we hit it on the nose! When he announced it, it was said by a few
>>> of us -- "Two years, max."
>>> >
>>> > Gotta love Henry -- he's consistent.
>>> >
>>> > As much as I want to gloat (and you can only imagine how much that
>>> really is), we now need to patch things up. We can work together to benefit
>>> both conventions. So any public comments should be positive, if made at all
>>> (and I suggest people not them. I suspect there's some crow about to be
>>> served in certain circles, and we should not get involved).
>>> >
>>> > As much as it pained a few of us to take the high road, we must
>>> maintain it. It's worked very well so far.
>>> >
>>> > Eric
>>> >
>>> > On 22 Feb, 2012, at 21:54, Shawn Hendrix wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> From their Facebook "We read the surverys an have made lots of
>>> changes for this year's convention, but the most important is the new
>>> date...Sept. 21-23. Please let us know your thoughts. "
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Shawn Hendrix
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