Re: North American Gloranthan convention

From: Jeff <richaje_at_ECbgC1Q-6rZJnTZpl1a5H_fh3tNviggQlRwsg5rjocebENGTdgo-QnCfDv-NdD1sdD28>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:40:24 -0000

> - You will get a lot of advice and offers of support, but what you really
> need are people who will commit to doing the con and following through. If
> you don't have a good commited group, you could burn yourself out doing one
> Con, but never keep the momentum. The successful cons have good teams that
> can share the load.

This is extremely important! Eternal Con (which I am most familiar with) has five work horses who arrange things before the Con - the website, registrations, making arrangements with the accomodations, and so on. Then one person has the pitiless job of making sure everyone is doing what they are supposed to, and being relentless about it.

> - There are two type of people that will attend. Price-conscious local
> gamers and not-price conscious gamers that are willing to travel. There is
> little middle ground. For EternalCon, many of the Brits can get there very
> cheaply. The US gaming pools tend to be smaller. Pick your market and plan
> accordingly.

Yes. It is worth finding out whether you have a core of people who will definitely go. If not, don't do it.

Jeff