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BarTopDancer
03-02-2006, 01:02 PM
If anyone is interested MA was announced over on MP.

Long and short versions. Mad Scramble format mainly in DCA.

$50 a team until the cut off date (I forget when it is) then it's more.
Ghoulish Delight
03-02-2006, 01:17 PM
Oh good, it's in DCA. I won't feel as bad missing it (though I do loves me some Mad Scramble).
Isaac
03-02-2006, 01:27 PM
I better start work on our offensive shirts

:)
innerSpaceman
03-02-2006, 01:50 PM
Are you missing it, GD? Cause I have a long-standing vow not to bother with the DCA games. Bleh.


But what's the "long" version? Does that sound interesting at all?
Not Afraid
03-02-2006, 01:53 PM
Coachella is the same weekend. We will not be participating either.
innerSpaceman
03-02-2006, 01:55 PM
And not that my team must pay the fee, but $50 is outrageous!!! Just so they can give out prizes to five or six teams. Bah!
innerSpaceman
03-02-2006, 01:57 PM
I better start work on our offensive shirts
Does that mean you won't be going to Coachella to see Madonna?
BarTopDancer
03-02-2006, 02:00 PM
iSm,

Long version sounds smiliar to the invitational. DCA based but stuff all over the resort. And ya, the $50 is crazy. They cut the dinner out and passed on what that covered to the rteams.
Stan4dSteph
03-02-2006, 02:10 PM
But what's the "long" version? Does that sound interesting at all?It does to me. :D
innerSpaceman
03-02-2006, 02:27 PM
Yeah, long version sounds fun. I didn't get to do the Invitational, so maybe my team will want to go for this ... since it's free, and since I won't be going to Coachella.


The prize awards ceremony is nice and all, but it seems to me that if they can take over the picnic area for registration, they can have a much abbreviated gathering somewhere downlow on the resort property to announce the winners (and maybe use a different, more prominent location - such as the picnic area - to distribute prizes, with far few people involved)
Alex
03-02-2006, 02:46 PM
You'll notice that we no longer take over the picnic area for registration. We have a picnic on Saturday in which we do some of that stuff, but on Sunday morning we have official tables in the Esplanade from which to do sign-in.

The only reason sign-in was done from the picnic area last time was because the event people had not set up the Esplanade tables in time.

The long and the short of it is that the (very expensive) venue rental is the toll we have to pay to make sure that we won't get shut down during the game.

There are a half-dozen alternatives to renting Festival Arena for the awards ceremony (including, as we've considered, not having one at all and just mailing out prizes) but they're all pointless if the end result is that the game doesn't happen at all.
Cadaverous Pallor
03-02-2006, 04:50 PM
Aww, we're missing Mad Scramble. I do love learning things about DCA, and it's less crowded there....

But I'm still happy with our decision. :cheers:

I'd actually rather everyone pays the same than have the dinner thing. It was a bit annoying being one of the people that showed up later. Kind of an uncomfortable situation, if you ask me. Even if the $50 is a lot. Which it is.

Alex, do they charge per person at the Festival Arena?
Alex
03-02-2006, 05:13 PM
No, they charge by time and then whatever services you want. We've kept the plusses as low as possible but it is still expensive.

Did you know that if you rent one of the spaces and Disneyland and then ask to have a soda fountain available they charge almost $5/drink served? Needless to say, we passed on that.
FEJ
03-02-2006, 06:22 PM
Not sure if I have to work, So it looks like I am out this year :(
Prudence
03-02-2006, 07:23 PM
I swear I'm going to make it down for one of these one day. :(
katiesue
03-02-2006, 10:06 PM
I'm fine with upping the fee to pay for the venue. I felt a little guilty before because we opted out of dinner and basically the dinner people were paying for the venue. And it's over $10 to go to the movies so I don't think the fee for an all event is that outrageous. And divided by 4 it's only $12ish.

We just registered for the long event.
BarTopDancer
03-02-2006, 11:50 PM
I haven't played a Mad Scamble yet. Is it possible to time out of it like it was possible to time out of the Invitational?
Alex
03-03-2006, 12:29 AM
Yes. Since it is time based, we do need to have a cut-off point or some teams would finish sometime Wednesday morning.

We do try to make sure that most teams will be able to finish (which means it may be a relatively short event for the fastest teams) but there is no guarantee.