Origins 2009 Pizza Party Debriefing Transcript

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Chairs have been placed, the group is gathering. (With Great Justice)

Ryan is MCing for the early present

Contents

[edit] Starting with Booth!

  • Sam-
    • The booth was gorgeous this year
      • Cheers were given to Alison who made said booth
  • scott
    • Larger booth was a good thing.
    • 10x30 good size much happiness
    • Cost outweighs profit?
  • Jean
    • More chairs, or higher chairs for cocktail tables so children can play
      • Perhaps a footstool?
  • Dayle
    • Nice to have specific jobs
      • Keep it clearly defined.
    • Keep it extremely organized
  • Were shifts good?
  • We try to keep 3 people in the booth
  • Had good flow
  • Felt like attendance was down, so there were more lulls
  • Dayle
    • Was good to have Robin and Alison to help promote
    • Good to have temps
  • Must have 3 temps. For breaks
  • Jean
    • Could the volunteers man registers?
  • Kristen
    • Could we shut a register down for a bit
  • Robin
    • Too unpredictable.
    • Came in spurts
  • Kat
    • Good that we had two registers
    • FOR THE WIN!
  • More props to Alison
  • Do we want more rabbits for cocktail tables
    • Depends on what is being promoted for next year
  • Sam
    • Forth role
      • Coordinating the lurkers
      • Done by Robin, Alison
  • Robin
    • Way too many people when there is a lull?
    • Don't to overwhelm the customers
    • If you aren't on duty, be aware of how long you stop in lab coat; again don't want to make it look like we have a zillion rabbits.
      • Make aware that there are no flash mobs…
      • Come back later or take off lab coat
    • Do not challenge booth workers to floating tourney rounds
  • Dayle
    • Are the demos the right length of time?
      • Robin- not really a problem. Only have been a couple times
      • Timer may be needed next
  • SHIN HAS RETURNED! (THANK YOU RYAN FOR HELPING)
  • Kat- were there enough people to guard
    • Response, sounds good
  • People like seeing Andy at the booth.
    • Dayle made a joke about people not recognizing him
    • It was good to have a place to be able to meet him
    • Andy had more autographs this year
    • Can we also have a booth appearance on Sunday?
      • Shouldn't be a huge problem, as long as homeworlds is able to be saved

[edit] BOOTH BUGOUT

  • Thanks to Annie for many multiple trips.
    • 18 charisma is a great power!
  • Robin
    • Much more organized
    • Planning works
    • Went very well aside from unforeseen complications
    • People couldn't stand around well
      • Almost got in the way
  • Jean
    • Do we have to do the carpet at the beginning?
      • We were working with the minimum and it worked out
      • It interfered with the packing a bit
  • Anything we liked
    • Loved the roleplaying aspect
    • Can we have character sheets

[edit] Day pass????

  • What does it cover?
  • Is it just dealer room?
  • Robin
    • She tried to put it in emails
    • They can come in for a demo or two, but if they want to play in a tourney or more than a demo or two, they need to have a badge
    • No generics from day pass people
    • Use the momentum to get them a badge.
  • Someone said they had a day pass and were shooed out of the lab
  • Kristen- "doesn't hurt GAMA to let them have a little fun"
  • Should we put the GAMA rules up?
    • No because we don't really follow them
    • Also makes the top just start listing things
  • Mainly just a few demos and hopefully the next time they'll come 'for real'
  • Taking people places is also a way to gain camaraderie

[edit] PREP

  • Big thanks to Robin for all the emails and packets and keeping it listed as to who it was for
  • Personal schedules were for the win
  • Next year we are going to consolidate the stuff that we have
  • PLEASE HELP WITH THE RABBIT WIKI
    • Use the stuff we are doing and update it so we already know how to run such as thing
    • Also make sure we post to the list that the wiki has been update
    • Can an email with the wiki link be sent to the origins list because people can't always find it?
      • Make it an intro to the page
    • Not very accurate this year.
    • Can someone send a message that tells us how to edit wiki
      • Make a wiki page that does just that
      • Just click the edit thing
      • Marissa wants a cone for her head


[edit] TOURNEMENTS

  • Multiple complaints about people that are running tournament playing in them
    • We also have people winning the tournament that they are playing
    • Person had be kicked out and then the game master had to play
      • Grab someone else for lab?
      • Fewer rabbits
    • Some tournaments are more conducive to play and run
      • Icehouse for example
      • but because it has an impartial judge
    • we need to define which?
    • It is hard to make exceptions
    • Even playing even if one can't win, one can still influence the results
      • Plus what happens if they do win
    • Which games were causing the problems
      • Chrononauts tournaments?
      • Table played slower because she was playing
      • And she also didn't see when people had questions
    • Problem is that people who run tourneys are people who like to play in the game and want to play in the game
      • Perhaps people who are not as big fan run it so the people who love it play it
      • But then they don't know the rules as well
    • The appearance of the conflict of interest
    • As we keep getting bigger and newer players the perspective will change
    • Some could be sour grapes but still be valid point
    • Especially for the more popular games, don't play in the game
    • For the smaller games, ask the players?
    • We need to make a policy. Exceptions are not cool?
    • Would it be okay for the organizer to play if there was a referee?
  • Also should we really have the tourney if it is poorly attended?
  • Signing up ahead of time?
  • You don't know ahead of time if you are going to be in the building

[edit] ANOTHER GOOD REASON FOR THE WIKI

  • Best wiki medallion for next year?
    • Highly possible
  • Are there tournaments that we had that we didn't want?
    • Family flux
    • Binary homeworlds
  • Will be dealt with by the BESC
  • Length of Zendo tourney?
    • Speed zendo for first round
      • Would change flavor of game enough that it would be counterproductive
    • Having a separate prelims and finals
      • Fudge it around the blackout (which is why we didn't do that this year)
      • Like the IIT
      • Blackout definition (nothing can start between 4 and 6)
  • Question about floating tourneys
    • How to find people
      • Have multiple meet ups
      • Do it as a free seminar
      • They work really well to have them
      • We could work with gama because they already have a ribbon
      • Also people have more people sign up
      • Make sure more people are invited when they first come in?
      • Can we do informal meet ups
      • Or could we have a floating tournament meet up table?
      • Lots of support for that
      • In the lounge perhaps
    • If you play people or demo to them then ask them if they want to join
    • Someone to make a pegboard with pictures
      • Denied
    • Floating tournaments work
      • Should we have more?
      • Treehouse works great with it!
      • Volcano can take too long sometimes to grab a person
    • Can we have a leader board
      • If we have the laptop, it would be easy
      • Would it affect how people play?
      • Perhaps have a sign for ask me how I'm currently ranked?
    • Moment of silence for Nathan's awesome spreadsheet program
      • We were able to run the program later
    • Having a monitor for misc stuff
      • Put ads as well
      • (andy loves diet mountain dew)
      • Tourney ranks
      • Would it ruin the atmosphere?

[edit] LOONEY LOUNGE

  • Seems to have more use more this year
  • People think that it is a rabbit area because of the partition
    • Seems like a walled off space for special space
    • Have the demo rabbits show them
    • TRs are supposed to be telling them but have too much too say
    • Perhaps have demos there?
    • Less comfortable for some people.
    • More rabbits there because they are informal and that is just how we are
    • Someone asked for a wet bar, but probably not
    • Perhaps have at least one higher table for those who don't like chairs
    • Perhaps have it in another area so it can be more separate from rabbit kitchen
  • Is there really a problem to be solved?

[edit] Discussion about be moved

  • Lower space downstairs that is more open
  • Will we still be able to have kitchen?
  • Less secure because GAMA staff can get in and out the back
    • Things have gone missing in the past from the boffers
  • All moves will see pros and cons
  • Werewolf would still not work down there
  • Security is very important because auction computers were stolen this year
  • Plus purses were stolen this year from outside events

[edit] KITCHEN

  • Greykell and shin will be trading notes
  • Big things
    • Larger trash cans and recycling bins
    • Messiness seemed worse this year
    • Fruit flies are NOT our friends
    • North market fruit not as good
    • Let's simplify rule needs to be played
      • Most people don't use all the stuff that is there.
      • Perhaps don't need all the varieties of foods
      • Keep the yummies in rein
      • Perhaps still some variety
      • People nervous about opening stuff
      • Stuff needs to be more visible?
      • People need to be informed that the food in the kitchen is for everyone (same for drinks)
    • It is only for rabbits. We could lose kitchen privileges from the convention center, but we are on the line.
    • Perhaps make a sign that says that the food here is for rabbits
  • Greykell and Shin are both planning to do stuff again next year
  • Make sure that people tell group what is being brought
  • ALL FOOD MUST HAVE LIDS
  • Keep our rabbit area clean
  • We all need to make sure we aren't leaving half eaten food in the rabbit area.
    • Again trash cans would help

[edit] DEMO FLIP BOOKS AND CONES

  • We like the cones
  • We need to remember to remove orange cone when it is no longer possible to join
  • One of the main demo rabbits disagrees that they were less useful
    • That people would play with them instead of the real use
  • TD and TR have too many things that need to be communicated
    • People would leave lab before walking in because of backlogs
    • Processing issue
      • Perhaps have top by door and td on other side of hutch?
      • Do we give them out to each person who comes in to the lab?
      • Depends on the TD seems to be the answer
  • Put it in the lab report
  • Scrolling screen with words
  • More demo flip charts
    • Need to have all the games (or a better system of games)
  • Scheduled demos and open demos
    • Perhaps just have scheduled demos for the new/promoted games
    • Perhaps just have fewer
    • Keep to open demos?
    • Give GAMA ticketed events
    • More open demos during blackout
    • Get the people started then get available again
      • Show them rules then get another
    • Organized play instead of demo (with rules are taught)
      • Is it the same thing as a meet up
      • Meet up makes it seem more like a meet and greet instead of a dedicated play time
      • Use wording of Happy Hour instead of either
    • Envelopes are harder to manage envelope for open demo
    • Have a scheduled demo day instead
      • Have events in schedule for all days?
    • Open demo envelope was for open gaming tokens
      • Label it suchly
    • Do we ticket the free flow people who join in later?
      • How do we handle it?
      • Not fair to the ones who paid at first?
    • This morning with the your favorite game (3 hour slot, getting 15 minutes of game)
      • That was actually a scheduling gaffe
    • Do we want to put actual scheduled demos in the book?
    • Make sure rabbits know they have to stay for the full demo slot
    • Better structure this year?
    • If people show up for scheduled demo, can they use the balance in the lab?
      • Make sure they know they can
      • Again with the hitting the floaters
    • Have a icehouse/treehouse pyramid demo slot that shows multiple games?
      • Have someone write it up and volunteer to run it.
      • Needs to be well versed in games

[edit] Children not being supervised

  • Need to make sure rule is enforced.
  • Needs to be a point
  • Any kid that is not a teenager should have a parent or adult with them.
    • If not, they need to be taken to the info center by GAMA volunteer
    • Actual con center rule

[edit] TDs

  • We need to make sure that all of the tds are recording all of the information and that they are all passing stuff on.
  • Again give both roles their own books
  • Have a TR/TD meet up at the beginning sometime?

[edit] Andy has points

  • Free cards?
  • Free hat?
    • Shane wins it for GenCon!
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