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[Kat Kid]

Saturday, April 20th, 2019?



4/20!

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Also, an April Saturday would allow for a Royals watch party that night (for those that care to partake) and those games are almost always at 6:00 pm. To many around here, that would be a good time as well.

Ah, this could be really good.  A reason to stick at Mae's and keep pak'n together, but not something that people feel they need to pay undivided attention to and stay below a 5 for.  And when the Royals are down by 2 runs in the 4th inning and everyone declares the season over, we can completely flip over to full-blown getting pak'd wherever.

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2019

Why settle for 2019 when 2018 is available?  Unless that'll be too much work for us so soon and we need to have a summer or fall 2018 one to bridge the gap, or let the hype build for a full year and a half.

[pissclams]

I'm actually getting pretty excited about the possibility of a fine FF afternoon followed by watching the Roys with a bunch of gE buds. (The Royals thread is the most popular thread on this blog by over 40K replies!).

i think it sounds fantastic
spring weather can make planning events a nightmare though

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Takeaways so far:

Summer = meh, fun as a way of getting back to MHK after not having been for a while but that could also be accomplished with spring 'fest

Fall = was good, but possibly too much going on already in falls to justify a trip to MHK on a road football weekend

KSU sports tie-in = also meh, was fun this year but not a needle-mover on attendance and maybe not worth the scheduling headaches

Food = good, but again not a needle-mover and would be fine with nothing or something easier if the scheduling is still screwy and difficult

[Kat Kid]

2019

Why settle for 2019 when 2018 is available?  Unless that'll be too much work for us so soon and we need to have a summer or fall 2018 one to bridge the gap, or let the hype build for a full year and a half.

I wanted to make a 4/20 joke and it is on a Friday this year.

[Kat Kid]

WAIT A SECOND!

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Lazier jokes: weed or trump?

[mocat]

I'm actually getting pretty excited about the possibility of a fine FF afternoon followed by watching the Roys with a bunch of gE buds. (The Royals thread is the most popular thread on this blog by over 40K replies!).

i think it sounds fantastic
spring weather can make planning events a nightmare though

does mae's basement flood or something?

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I'm actually getting pretty excited about the possibility of a fine FF afternoon followed by watching the Roys with a bunch of gE buds. (The Royals thread is the most popular thread on this blog by over 40K replies!).

i think it sounds fantastic
spring weather can make planning events a nightmare though

does mae's basement flood or something?

Travel issues.  But I've always remembered the absolute shittiest stuff happening during NBA Finals time.

[Phil Titola]

Middle of March average high is 57 degrees. Sounds about perfect

[mocat]

final four semis are usually on saturday night right?

[star seed 7]

Yes

[kso_FAN]

final four semis are usually on saturday night right?

This year is Saturday, March 31st with the Champ game Monday, April 2nd.

[mocat]

final four semis are usually on saturday night right?

This year is Saturday, March 31st with the Champ game Monday, April 2nd.

roys are hosting the white sox that day, could be fun to watch these events after trivia with gE bros...

[XocolateThundarr]

I agree on the food.....I was focused more on drinking than eating.  Spring and fall are the best times for me personally. 

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roys are hosting the white sox that day, could be fun to watch these events after trivia with gE bros...

Will we need to make sure the royals are playing in like minnesota in order for people to not justify skipping FF because the royals are at home and/or it's opening weekend or whatever?

[kso_FAN]

roys are hosting the white sox that day, could be fun to watch these events after trivia with gE bros...

Will we need to make sure the royals are playing in like minnesota in order for people to not justify skipping FF because the royals are at home and/or it's opening weekend or whatever?

I don't think so, but Roys are at home March 31, April 14 and 28. Road games April 7 and 21. I think most would choose FF over a Roys home game unless they got free great seats or something. I would (choose FF) and I like the Roys a lot.

[pissclams]

*i think it's feedBAK

[kslim]

was there any feedback from the radio bros listeners/themselves?

[ChiComCat]

I don't think many people will pick the '18 or '19 Roys over FF.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

I also think it wouldn't hurt if you did it in KC or Wichita, etc. Mix it up.

What an awful idea.

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[Mrs. Gooch]

#1. Anyone suggesting a location other than MHK is an idiot.
#2. I think having food there keeps people at the event and engaged, instead of leaving to get food. (Doesn't have to be too complicated though.)
#3. If contemplating scheduling for Spring 2018, consider whether that is too soon after the last event...Will people donate as much if they just donated? 
#4. Do you want to try to get more non-gE people attending? If so, consider advertising options.
#5. Try not to change the date once it is set so that people don't have to reschedule stuff. 

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#1. Anyone suggesting a location other than MHK is an idiot.
#2. I think having food there keeps people at the event and engaged, instead of leaving to get food. (Doesn't have to be too complicated though.)
#3. If contemplating scheduling for Spring 2018, consider whether that is too soon after the last event...Will people donate as much if they just donated? 
#4. Do you want to try to get more non-gE people attending? If so, consider advertising options.
#5. Try not to change the date once it is set so that people don't have to reschedule stuff. 

This is good.

#2 will be easy to optimize if we have a known timeline and do better at getting tickets/headcount done in advance.

#3 is a consideration, but I guess I don't care if people don't donate quite as much at an April 2018 'fest because it'll be money we'd see in 6 months from now instead of a year from now.

#4 was combination of us still not having crap taken care of far enough in advance and it being a little harder to market when we didn't have a firm itinerary.

#5 is hopefully being solved in part with this thread!

[Mrs. Gooch]

Oh, also I don't know how much advanced sales you got (as % of total) but I liked having that option to pay online rather than having to have so much cash.