Well, we haven't announced it yet, but we do have a large winter event coming. (Definite. Locked in place.) As for being hush-hush; I didn't know that we were. But MAYBE if you had about 12k or thought that people would pay $100+ a seat we could have had a summer event. With energy prices going up and summer being a time for weddings they are going to take events they can charge more for during that time frame. And I know we could have found a venue that would be cheaper, but there are things that we feel are necessary. Not just to make the LAN Party possible, but enjoyable for everyone. We have many people who travel a great distance and would like to have sleep and bathing facilities within walking distance. Also during the summer the venue has to take account for cooling the place. That take a ton of energy with all our little space heaters running. That is another thing we have to consider for every venue, POWER. Will they have enough or do we have to rent a large clean power generator. Most places are not suited for our power needs so we would have to rent a generator. The rental fee isn't too bad, but have you seen the price of diesel fuel? Almost $5 or more a gallon. And I think last LAN we had to fill it twice.
I know I have gone on for a long time, but I want you to understand where we are coming from. We aren't blowing you guys off. We wanted so so so badly to have a summer LAN, but also we wanted to have a nice venue were everyone can have a good time without it costing an arm and a leg. And for the facilities available that everyone has come to expect. We want everyone talking about how much of a great time they had, not how much it cost or how bad the venue was.
Bottom Line: We want to have a fun event that won't drain your bank account and make each one of our events even better than the last one!
