Adepticon has a huge PP presence. I'd like to see that at BOLScon next year. Demo game booths, awesome freaking swag, and wayyyyyy more events!
Adepticon has a huge PP presence. I'd like to see that at BOLScon next year. Demo game booths, awesome freaking swag, and wayyyyyy more events!
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Sadly, we tried very hard to get swag from PP, but they said the Adepticon thing was a one time deal and wouldn't give us the same...Originally Posted by Caldera02
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If WarGamesCon gets huge, PP will have no choice but to kick in some swag. All we have to do is be dedicated to making it the biggest it can be.
There was a great showing from the Warmachine group this year-- too bad they were in a side room where it was hard to see if you were just walking by.
That is true. I felt like a red-headed stepchild when I first saw the room. However, I got over it. While it would have been nice to be in the same area as the Warhammer players, I kind of liked having a room all to ourselves. Perhaps some larger signage to indicate where the Warmachine/Hordes players are would be helpful for next year.
If next year's Steamroller is a qualifier as well, I think you'll see more people pre-register.
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but adepticon is huge. And ben could run demo games because he is a PG, but he has to run the events. The swag also go with the size, and this year they were doing a special push to get people involved in their game. I doubt you will see the same swag next year at adepticon.
I know I want to focus on helping the PP systems have more of a presence and to be a money maker for the con. That will go a long way with being in the main room.
Truth is they are going to cons with thousands of attendees not small cons/tournaments. Our goal should be boosting attendance.
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If you guys want more of a Privateer Presence, seriously get people to sign up early and commit to the tournament. Talk to the people who play Warmachine and Hordes and tell them to sign up and pay right away. The more people we know ahead of time and committed the better we can be prepared and the more we can leverage barging wise with the vendor. We had a total of 10 people the week before the convention and all of a sudden we had an influx of 32 people.
We can't call up Privateer and go hey guys, we have 10 people coming to our event at Wargames con can you send us free stuff or merchandise to help support the event. They look at it from a business stand point and it doesn't make sense. Now if we have 32 people sign up and we are 6 weeks out we now have a different story. We can say we are expecting a influx of 15 to 20 more people than Privateer is willing to do help out in catching net new customers from other events because their event is healthy as well.
So in short, sign up early, talk up the event and get more people to come. Create leverage for us to use with the vendors and you can get bigger presence.
More momentum the community creates the bigger it gets.
Last edited by Darkwynn; 08-01-2011 at 03:35 PM.
This.
Why would you schedule more events for 10 people?
From the point of view of a new player, I wouldn't have signed up for wargamescon if locals hadn't been talking about it at dlair.
- I wasn't able to find detailed information about the WM/H events on the site. No schedule with actual times, no link to rules, nothing but the registration links.
- It was announced as a qualifier for warmachine weekend just a few days before the actual con. Chances are this is why you had the influx of people (and even then I saw complaints on other forums about how it wasn't fair that a 35pt steamroller was a qualifier, since all of the others were 50pt).
Basically, I'm saying that clear information in advance would help people commit earlier to going to the con.
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