...and other LoT swankers who were not able to attend the just happened Spring 2005 MA. I would love to participate in this.

I like mhrc4's idea of a "semi-competitive, non-official, Mini MA meet"! We just have to make sure those of us participating in this are honest and don't get the answers from others who already competed in the Open MA! ;)

Gee, hmmm. The passing out of the Open quests was really meant as a bonus just for the Invitational teams. I'm a bit uncomfortable with the xeroxing and passing out of the MA materials to those who did not sign up and pay for the event, ykwim?

I totally kyym.
If you're saying that the Invitational participants shouldn't share, I'd probably disagree. The challenges were clearly time-sensitive and are no longer useful to the organizers.
But as someone who didn't participate in MA, I'd actually have no problem tossing a few bucks toward MP (I'm a fan of the tip jar at cool sites, anyway). Clearly, I wouldn't get the benefit of all the "day of event" work that the folks who put it on gave, but from a karmic standpoint, I'd be all for paying my way.

Jesse, you could be on our team.

But, I'm not sure if it's you and Heather coming down.

I'm pretty sure Steph will remain on the East Coast for this one.

i originally posted this for the invitational teams that already killed themselves in the new format, for us to get together again, make a day of it, dinner or something together to recount the stories of the event, and also to do the mini meet / open tourney - for fun.

Now that the topic of non-MA competing teams has come up, i would be wary of the toes we would step on with the organizers at MousePlanet, and the fees that people payed to play in it, Invitational or Open.

Does anyone else have any opinions on this? I would hate to be exclusive, but I understand where the concern from the MA Organizers come from.

What about the option of each team member that didnt already play in MA, kick in like $5 per person?

Anyone else have any ideas?

I really like the idea of having our own unofficial contest with the invitational people involved (and perhaps those who wern't on an invitational team could join one with extra slots) but no extra teams could be formed.

I think it's a true bonus that we were given the quests and key (I didn't get one, I wasn't at the ceremoney). I think charging anything more than the cost of the copy (if they give us permission to do so) is a bad idea too unless the money was going to the MA organizers (which would be a whole other can of worms). I don't want them to not do this again.

Mhrc, you have a great idea and I'm sure that there is some way us invitational teams can *play* against each other for fun. We just have to figure out how, and whatever we do there can be zero profit other than fun from it.

My thoughts:

New people can play as additions to other teams. As this wouldn't be super serious, I'd be up for allowing another couple to join GD and I unless he disagrees.

No fees or charges of any kind.

If new people want to donate to MP, they may.

I can talk to the staff at MP before we do anything at all, once we've come to a consensus about what this would entail.

No prizes, but perhaps we'll make up some certificates?

No claim at all that we have created this game. No renaming the game. It's "MousePlanet's MouseAdventure Open."

We don't need a staff to run it, do we? I guess this depends on what kinds of quests it entails. Hey! Perhaps Ponine and other Open participants would want to be a skeleton staff?

The Mouse Adventure quests are clearly MP's intellectual property, they own the copyright. It's really up to them if and how those quests should be distributed.

That said I'll PM Alex a link to this thread and let him voice his opinions.

Thats what I was thinking it was going to come to, because like i said above, I didnt want to be "exclusive" with just the MA Invitational members who have their Open packets we were given, however, I did, at the same time....

Oh well, look forward to hearing Alex's take... I am all up for throwing a few bucks the way of MP if Alex wants it for us doing this....

I would think that since we were given these packets to keep as a bonus there would be nothing wrong with those who were given the packets all showing up at the park on the same day at the same place and start working on them at the same time and ending at the same time. However I think we need to wait for final word (which is what we're doing).