MA was announced

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.

03-02-2006, 02:27 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	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)
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03-02-2006, 02:46 PM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	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.
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