I Guess I Can Go Home Now

[kevin_standlee]

Tonight was the first of two work sessions for me for Match Game SF. This was the relatively easy one, where I printed the banners (time-consuming but not difficult) and some of the behind-the-scenes paperwork for the game. I may have to redo it if conditions change, which they may. We don't actually have the entire panel finalized or a confirmed announcer, but I now know when we're "on the air"

Friday, July 4, 1 PM, Grand Ballroom A
Sunday, July 6, 1 PM, Grand Ballroom A

Our current plan is to play four rounds in each of the two games. Nothing has been scheduled after us, so we're allowed to go a little long if necessary, because we have enough time to clean up after each show. (Set-up for the first show is going to be a bit cramped because the Westercon Business Meeting is in the slot 90 minutes before the Friday show. I wish it were Saturday!)

I continue to look for more sponsors to donate prizes. If you happen to be reading this and want to donate a prize in return for a commercial and other promotional consideration, please let me know. I do like being able to give contestants some prize, even if it's a small one like a $10 gift certificate from one of the dealers. One nice thing about donating prizes is that there is a decent chance of you getting the promotional opportunity without having to actually deliver the prize.

If we end up with fewer than eight prizes in inventory, I have a backup plan that will work assuming at least two contestants do not win the Bonus Round. Details if we get there.

The really hard part is still to come: getting the question packs together. I have some new questions in inventory, but not 36 of them, so I need to try and figure out what questions I can reuse or dredge from the history without boring either our panel or the audience.

Comments

[dinogrl.livejournal.com]

Did you get a donation from Cargo Cult Books?
Sorry I cannot help out this time.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Cargo Cult is my only confirmed donor, actually. I should have said so originally.

[buddykat.livejournal.com]

Conjecture will donate one full membership. I will ask our publicity person to send you a blurb.

Stacey
Chair, Conjecture 2008

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's fantastic! Thank you! I shall look forward to hearing from you.

We're looking for something that reads in the form of a 30-second radio commercial. We read them at game breaks.

[lunarpenumbra.livejournal.com]

Remind me, are you coming to WFC 2008 in Calgary?

WFC 2008

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I intend to be there. The airfare is paid (ouch!), I bought the membership, and I have a room share.

Re: WFC 2008

[lunarpenumbra.livejournal.com]

Will you be doing Match Game there? I don't think a Con-Version membership would be a big deal while at those other conventions, but maybe at WFC this year, having one for Cv25 (2009) might seem to have more value.

We were going to be there for a One-Night Room Party, but alas.. the main organiser could not get the night off.. and Hubby and I couldn't run it (since I'll be 8.5 months pregnant, with older kids to take trick or treating). I even had the awesome idea to have Treat Bags made up to hand out that advertised our Convention and the Room Party...

Re: WFC 2008

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Nah, Match Game is not the sort of thing you'd see at a WFC; it's too frivolous and fun for a Serious Professional Convention. Besides, with all of the authors clamoring to be on programming, there's no reason to set any time aside for it. I've run programming myself at a convention, and I wouldn't give me any time. I'm mainly going to WFC because SFSFC is running the 2009 convention.

[crookedfeet.livejournal.com]

Leprecon, Inc. could donate something if you'd like.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Indirectly it already has with a FiestaCon membership; however, If LepreCon itself would like to donate something, that would be great.

It turns out that the constraint on number of games we play is almost as much prize availability as it is questions we can ask, although the quality of the questions tends to tail off if we go too deep into the bin.