With myself and Dave Taylor now let go from GW US, I guess Chris Go-Go Golinhurst and John Shaffer are now the people to help get this organized.  I live here in MD and am hoping to see a presence at Baltimore again.  Since I am not working there anymore I am hoping to be able to play this time around.  

Anyone planning on coming back around this year to Baltimore?  Looks like its in May now.

Farseer, did we meet?  I ran the tournament last year at Baltimore.  I had no idea that Dave Taylor was gone and I'm sorry to hear that the two of you lost your jobs (that is never good news).  

I was planning on doing the tournament again this year on May 9th and I emailed Go-Go to find out what GW was going to have available for us in terms of prizes, table space, etc., but I haven't heard back from him yet.  I also posted at the GW forums in event planning to see if anyone had any ideas.

Much of the planning is hypothetical until I know the details, I've been batting around some ideas to make the tournament more appealing - ten people was nice to have but I would like to have more.

One idea is to simply start earlier - other clubs were let in early that same day so I think we can too.

Another idea is to have team play where partners switch control of a single army each turn.  It would give people an opportunity to see more of Games Day and still play.

A tutorial game might be a good idea if anyone wanted to run one.

I'm open to other ideas.

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I am hoping to make it this year, with it being in May now. I'd be up for switching an army off between two players. With the option of letting those who's rather game the whole time do so and not switch off.

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I worked in Trade Sales, Patrick Weaver.  I came over to say hi and meet you.  I was the one who saw all the fuss on the firum last year and pointed Dave in the right direction to get your support.  

I did not have time to actually spend much time in the Epic area (someone had to worked LOL), but I did hear good talk from teh staff that saw it and snuck a peak.  It actually got some folk thinking what else they could get done/do.

Stick to hounding Go-Go and John Shaffer.  Looks like for now the two of them are the Events dept and with the reduction of staff, I'm sure they are more worked than ever.  I'll see if I can get someone in Trade to give one of them a poke for you.  


I also hear you recently traded some Tau with a friend of mine.  I'll see what we can do to play this year.  We have been VERY LOTR focused so we'll see what happens.  Worse case, I am going to promote this to everyone I know  

If your friend is from Delaware or Maryland than I can figure out who it is.  I had sixteen Tau auctions and 7 buyers though.

Patrick Weaver - I do recall meeting you right at the beginning - thanks for sending Dave my way here on the forum.  I am saddened to see the two of you have lost your jobs though. Big bummer.

Go-go emailed me today, as did one of the fellas from Direct Sales.  The tablespace won't be an issue.  Go-go said there is a meeting next month to discuss prizes and trophies and such, so I feel good about the progress.  Even if they give us a fraction of what we had last year, I'll be satisfied.  My only concern is getting the info out to prospective players now so they have time to paint their armies adequately.  We gave out $100 in prize vouchers for best looking army but we didn't find out about the money until the day of the competition.  Had people known they may have been more inclined to participate.

I threw out the idea that SG have Epic on site to sell to prospective buyers.  Have a few flyers by the tournament or maybe even a display and it would be a great way to sell to those who catch the Epic bug.  Once they have a few models, they will probably continue to collect them - it's getting that initial commitment that is the hardest step IMO.  GW wants the money and I want the players - it's a good deal.

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it was my buddy in DE.  he's logged on as Colkrone on the forums now.

Being unemployeed sucks, but now I can go actually make some real money....

Keep on with Gogo and make sure you get all you need.  I still have a few friends back there in the office, so im sure we can get any barriers knocked down.

Go-go has been good to us.  He emailed me at the beginning of the week and told me he'd be getting some answers by week's end.  I guess he had a meeting to discuss the prizes and trophies and start times.

If all goes well, I should have something officially posted by next week on GW's site and the various forums.

Yeah, Colkrone and I have been in communication.  Good fella - funny though that I met him through an ebay auction.  It all turned out for the best though and I'm hoping between the two of you, you can motivate some other players to show up for the tourney as well.

The latest is we may run a 3-round tourney and one Big Game with multiple players.  Perhaps a team effort type of event.

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