Neal

Thank you for all your hard work including making two zone mortalis boards which I think everyone really appreciated. IMO the missions are good and the tenor is fine which are the two main things you have control over.

As far as people not attending.

1 - it is the summer time and there are constantly people out of town and a lot of things to do other than stay indoors. John's attendance at Dragon's Lair is down as well.

2 - I am not sure Austin can support multiple communities and tournaments. South Austin has their own events and has no real reason to come to Dragon's Lair or Wonkos to play like they have in the past. The Dragon's Lair guys seem to prefer a tournament format instead of the Narrative and/or prefer to play on Sundays. Finally, there are about a dozen players I have seen drop off the local tournament circuit since I started playing 3 years ago. Bottom line I don't think Austin can support more than one weekend event per month.

3 - Wonkos does not have a community. It pains me to say this but it is true. They don't have a 40k play night. I don't think they do anything to promote the tournament. Wonkos is a Magic shop that has a 40k tournament once per month and depends on the Dragon's Lair community to come to it.

4 - One constructive feedback would be for you to do more marketing and promotion yourself. Maybe there are guys in the South Austin community that would come. However, you gotta post that on their page. Spam this page, spam the centexwar and adeptus shenanigus pages on facebook.

5 - The elephant in the room is that you did allow 30k in and it made John angry and divided your crowd. It also caused a reaction out of Ray on this board. IMO it was unnecessary and controversial and AFAIK brought no one new in and alienated at least two of your regulars. One thing you have to keep in mind when running things at Wonkos is fear of losing. Whether or not it has any basis people don't come to Wonkos to play some unknown army that will bamboozle them and that was the concern about allowing 30k. Dru bringing war convocation does not help either.

I hope this helps and you find it constructive as I care about you and I know you try to make a good experience for everyone.