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Posted by D Roman
on December 29, 2008, 7:35 pm, in reply to "TagFest NW 2009"
Just an update...
Nothing in concrete yet. This is what is currently going on in my mind. Our Christmas sales were pretty much nilch this year. The sales we did do with Phoenix units overseas all just about broke even due to the riddiculous shipping charges - tried to help out as best we could to share the fun. Rentals did good, but we are working on opening up a second office in Chicago to cut down on shipping costs for people on the East coast. Getting that branch set up is going to pretty much wipe out most of our excess funds from rentals, and trying to get ourselves out of financial debt from last year when Cathie was out of work for 5 months is going to consume the majoriety of the rest. What little is left has been set aside for various other projects - leaving the TagFest funding empty when at this point it generally has close to $1000.00 in it. If rentals continue to do well and our Chicago branch does okay, then there will be funding available, but it will be a slow accumulation.
With this in mind, I'm leaning on attempting to go with the local site this year. As my only true expenses will be getting porta-potties and maybe covering a lunch. I thinking of going the way of Ft Warden for breakfasts and dinners and just designating a place to meet, and let people fend for themselves. That would make the only served meal be a lunch.
The schedule would be Thursday=Setup, Friday = first day of play, Sat Play all day, Sunday wrap up for those who have to work Monday and games for those who want to play till about noon.
Since the drive is just 30mins across town..setup and teardown will not be as big of an issue as I will have multiple days to do it.
This will greatly cut down on the cost of throwing the event. I know alot of people that normally attend will not be able to make it and I fully understand. That will be offset by a large number of local players probably attending...which might push the numbers into 30-40 people attending if schedules don't conflict.
All and all this will depend on the property owner, who to be honest I havnt' had a chance to talk to yet.
The alternative is to do the tree park and knock the event down to Fri/Sat only, with only lunches being provided.
Currently I'm looking to late June...but once again I will need to work that out with the property owner.
Hopefully I'll have a chance to get back out there soon and take some pictures.
...Dave acka 1SLT
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