AWA AMV Creator Gathering

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Postby Red Wolf » Sat Sep 07, 2002 4:58 pm

Okay, we now have reservations made at KiKu for 8:00 PM Thursday, September 26. I will be calling them up earlier that week to give them a more exact number of the number of people we will have there but we have at least two tables being held for us at this point in time. As the arrangements stand now if we arrive with 20 people or less they will give us two Hibachi tables which will be connected to each other in the main dining room. If we arrive with more than 20 people we will get our own private dining room (the Sakura Room). Obviously it would be better for us (and the other restaurant patrons :twisted:) if we get the private room so everyone should make every effort to attend.

The reason for the 8:00 PM reservation is because the restaurant closes down at 10:00 PM (as does the rest of Fayetteville on a weeknight) and I wanted to give us enough time to get there, get seated, watch dinner being made, eat, and socialize. I apologize to everyone who will be arriving too late for dinner but this was the best arrangement I could make. We will need to meet at the AWA hotel lobby at 7:30 PM and leave there by 7:45 PM that night. I expect we will get back around 10:30 PM which, hopefully, won't be too late for those wanting to be up early Friday.

For more details on the gathering, including a menu for the restaurant, check out http://homepage.mac.com/red_wolf/awa.html and hit the AMV Creator Gathering section. That page will be updated as we get closer to AWA. I will also ask later on that people contact me if they will be coming to dinner Thursday so I can know how many people and cars we'll have.

We're still open to suggestions for late night Thursday events and a gathering during the con itself. If there is an interest I can start to arrange some kind of lunch gathering Saturday afternoon. Just post if that is something you would like to do. I will leave the late night Thursday events to those coming in late (I have to be at work Friday morning myself).
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sat Sep 07, 2002 9:03 pm

Bloody bloody hell, I want to go dammit... there better be a saturday meeting, bloody hell...
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Postby Adiamante » Sat Sep 07, 2002 9:22 pm

I am game for a saturday meeting or something of the sort since I don't get there until friday afternoon
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Postby Sephiroth » Sat Sep 07, 2002 9:31 pm

Yea Mabye we should have a gahtering every day of the con. I wouldn't mind planning a trip to see spirited away since it's supposed to come out about september 20th. Just some thoughts.
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Sep 08, 2002 2:39 am

Say, for those of us who are attending teh saturday meeting but not the thirsday one. Where will we be meeting precisely? this will be my first time at AWA so I don't necessarily know the layout. Oh well, back to trying to scavange money.
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Sun Sep 08, 2002 4:19 am

There is a large VAT room where all the action happens in terms of amvs. Hanging out there or near there will result in meeting tons of AMV creators so it's hard to not meet up and easy to make plans to go to gatherings, etc....

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Postby Red Wolf » Sun Sep 08, 2002 11:17 am

Okay, the Saturday Gathering:

It looks like a Saturday lunch is a welcomed idea so let me ask would you like to leave the con to go out for lunch or would you rather eat at the hotel/convention center and do a picnic? Going out has more potential for fun and gets people without cars away from the con for a while (which may or may not be desirable). Staying in means our gathering won't eat up (sorry, bad pun) as much time since we aren't traveling so there will be that much more time to do AWA stuff.

I don't know how easily we could do a Friday gathering. A lot of people still aren't showing up till late afternoon/evening that day and if I remember right the AMV Dance Challenge is that night and I'm most everyone here wants to be there. As Vlad said the VAT room is a great 24 hour meeting place for spontaneous gatherings (I plan to live there myself barring a few other con activities). A Sunday gathering would also depend on when everyone was leaving town. Let's get a Saturday plan down then we'll work on the others. After all, we still have 20 days till AWA (which is probably just enough time to plan things out :P).
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Sep 08, 2002 2:28 pm

And now that there is a saturday gathering another problem has occured for me. My girlfriend wants to go to Yaoicon and since I don't get to see her much as is due to college I'm going to take her so I can be with her. So there goes my money for AWA, so have fun guys and update me on it allright?
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Postby jbone » Sun Sep 08, 2002 2:49 pm

How about Friday afternoon? I know I'll want to get some sort of meal at some point before the night's festivities, and there'll be people arriving Friday morning/afternoon.
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Postby mexicanjunior » Sun Sep 08, 2002 2:57 pm

jbone wrote:How about Friday afternoon? I know I'll want to get some sort of meal at some point before the night's festivities, and there'll be people arriving Friday morning/afternoon.


That sounds like a good plan to me. :D
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Postby Red Wolf » Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:54 pm

There's a good sized mall 8 miles (maybe a 15 minute drive given traffic) from AWA. The food court there could make for a good lunch spot.
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Postby Skeebadeetz » Sun Sep 08, 2002 7:45 pm

Red Wolf wrote:There's a good sized mall 8 miles (maybe a 15 minute drive given traffic) from AWA. The food court there could make for a good lunch spot.


You talking about Southlake?? Southlake or not, malls have a great variety of food and space. The only thing is catching it at a non-busy hour because it CAN get crowded at times - especially when the world gets hungry around noonish.

On another note, I remember last year, I got to the hotel early and nothing pretty much was going on until noon or one, so how about an early lunch for Friday? Saturday is a possibility as well. And for those who don't care or want the closest thing....... I haven't eaten at Ruby's in two years.
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Postby Red Wolf » Sun Sep 08, 2002 8:50 pm

Skeebadeetz wrote:You talking about Southlake?? Southlake or not, malls have a great variety of food and space. The only thing is catching it at a non-busy hour because it CAN get crowded at times - especially when the world gets hungry around noonish.

On another note, I remember last year, I got to the hotel early and nothing pretty much was going on until noon or one, so how about an early lunch for Friday? Saturday is a possibility as well. And for those who don't care or want the closest thing....... I haven't eaten at Ruby's in two years.


Yeah, Southlake. Shannon is in the area too but when you have a mall who's lost two of their four anchor stores you get bad selection on everything else. The other problem (other than the crowds) is that a lot of the cars we're using for Thursday night are local and I don't know how many of them will be available during a work day. Technically I'm working that day too but I'm thinking about making other arrangements :D Maybe we should just gather at the VAT room or something at a set time on Friday and decide from there?

As for Ruby Tuesday, if you go to the one near the hotel you'll be waiting another two years to eat there, especially on Saturday :P
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Postby bloodyfang » Sun Sep 08, 2002 9:14 pm

after reading all the info from the link in your sig red wolf it sounds like it will be great. Though i don't exactly call myself AMV creator yet (my stuff sux major ass) it would still be great to talk to some of you guys and gals face to face ^_^

AWA will be my first Convention. And hopefully i won't be marred by my experience to where i am afraid to go outside or trust anyone =P
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Postby bloodyfang » Sun Sep 08, 2002 9:16 pm

*smacks head*

damn my skipping over one major detail. I won't get there until friday or saturday.
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