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I'd be down - I anticipated that the MAGFest experience would be completely different with the hotel room issue, and was super frustrated by the hotel booking process/expense (it's bad that 6 nights in central London was cheaper than 3 nights at the Gaylord...), so I rage quit going essentially...plus getting a lot of pile on vitriol by MAGFest staffers when I tried to suggest options to improve the process based on basically every other event I participate/attempt to participate in that have the exact same issues but solve them in a reasonable fashion several months before the atrocious booking process was announced. IMO such a meetup shouldn't be tethered to a con, and should probably rotate locations so as to give a better chance of others in the community to join in, as well as give fresh sights/stuff to do. I also recommend being flexible with dates since ideally we could pick dates that work best for the community/aren't as expensive to travel on. I'd definitely be up for helping out covering some costs & would be willing to fly out to such an event.

So after this past MAGFest, I was left feeling like we need a different focal point for an annual community meeting. A chance for people of the OCR tribe to get together and hang/game/rock the fuck out, without being hampered by an inability to get hotel rooms at the Gaylord. The overall impression I got from talking to other people is that I would not be the only one interested in such a thing. SO If, hypothetically, I were to rent a bigass mansion (say, something like this) for a weekend in the summer (say, July 6-8), and distribute the cost among participants, how many people would realistically be likely to sign up? The goal would be to keep the cost under $250/room for the weekend. Keeping a list of people interested, just so I can keep count: Taucer + S Bahamut Nabeel Ansari Earth Kid Dyne zyko Theory of N +1 Sixto Shaggy Hemo Arrow Gario Prophetik Phonetic Hero Liontamer Mazedude JohnStacy Garpocalypse DA + OA Flexstyle DarkeSword Rama EDIT: IF SOMEBODY ELSE CAN STEP IN AND TAKE LEAD, I THINK THIS WILL HAPPEN. IF NOT, IT WON'T. I don't have the time or organizational skills to run this, and I don't have the money to make the up front deposit. I can provide contact info for what looks like a great place to hold it, if somebody else wants to step in and take over.

No, they're not.

Definitely interested. I had a similar idea with renting places on the beaches of the NC Outer Banks, but those would be 3-5 room beachside cottages, and so getting more than 10-15 people together would require renting multiple cottages. This might work better.

I'm interested! Keep me in the loop on this please.

Jill and I are potentially interested, but it depends on the final dates because.. uh.. you know why.

Yes, please.

Now this is more like it

Maybe with 11 months time, I do not forget to vote this time.

All right! I think I have an idea for this one - I'll see if I can pull it off!

One of these days, HoboKa will get the dates right on the first post Not sure what I would do with this one that keeps within the MnP guidelines - Sounds much more like something to riff from.