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HalveElven

HalveElven

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What conventions would people like us to be at? If I can get a list I will see if I can hustle us i to a few more conventions.
 
All of them to wich such nerdery is appropriate (so basically all of them). Advertising, even if its just a table, needs to be increased and held at a certain level. Exposure, exposure, exposure.
 
I'm an advocate of quality over quantity, personally. There is a small pool of regular volunteers for cons, and often difficulties getting enough people to volunteer. It's also a lot of work behind the scenes to get the equipment there to run mod demos, specifically. (Table = way easier!) Personally, I have concerns about burning out the already somewhat small pool of volunteers by attempting too many con appearances. Of course, if there is a larger pool of volunteers, that largely alleviates most of my concerns! :)

Denver ComicCon is the major exception I'll carve out. It's indisputably a huge show... of travelers who don't live within easy commuting distance of our events in Woodland Park, CO. Sure, many locals attend, too -- but there's so much competition for cool things to look at, check out, space at the con. Even if you can identify people local to Colorado, in a big audience like a major comicon, there's no guarantee they're roleplayers, gamers, cosplayers, interested in Fantasy as a genre, and so forth. It's my personal opinion that with DCC, "the juice is not worth the squeeze" for Alliance to do either table or mod-demos -- but that's just my voice there.

Shows that we've talked about attempting in style for Alliance include the following:

GenghisCon
CosmiCon
AnomalyCon
Starfest
Conclave of Gamers
Malcon
Rocky Mountain Fur Con
Tacticon
MileHiCon

I'm all for trying new shows once or twice, and see how they do for Alliance. If they seem like a good fit with our general vibe, great, let's add them going forward!

Trace
 
I agree with that sentiment about DCC, If you need help at a convention I definitely could help especially with logistics if you need it. I'm pretty much guaranteed to be at major conventions because I help the adventure league with running games and odd jobs. At conclave after I run a game, I was going to tell people about alliance, and if we have demos, guide them there. That should help the toes in the water dive in.
 
That list looks accurate to me as of now....
As I find more, I will add to our list in Gdrive.
 
My two cents is to add some more cons down here in Colorado Springs, I know there is already Ampgard down here but it would be good to recruit people who are like me who look into it and went that looks cool but I want more RP. I think we could do some more to recruit more in Southern CO especially since our site is in the South and I do not mind vol to help in those cons. I would have helped the Starfest but damn strep throat kept me away from that.
 
Cea, do you have some specific recommendations of appropriate cons in the Springs you think Alliance should attend?

Thanks,
Trace
 
End of August- Colorado Springs COmic Con
October- Colorado Cosmic Con

Those are the only two I know of... I think there's a Toy and Comic con too... but I don't know details about it... or if it pertains to us.
 
I would also like to point out this event... may or may not be worth a look. Not really a con, sorta looks like a craft fair... but... I dunno, a strolling presence for advertising could be worthwhile depending on how the thing is set up... They do seem to have the space for demos tho.
https://www.facebook.com/ColoradoMedievalFestival/?fref=ts <- Not the same as the Ren faire in larkspur
 
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Jesse Grabowski said:
End of August- Colorado Springs COmic Con
October- Colorado Cosmic Con

Those are the only two I know of... I think there's a Toy and Comic con too... but I don't know details about it... or if it pertains to us.
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Those are all good and there is another one in http://www.galaxyfest.org/ The good thing about this one it is before our season in Feb so a good time recruit.
 
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