26th/27th March 2005 Debenham Robot Rumble

[babeth]

Marien (president of the DRG) has noted on the DRG forum that the prices for the EC will probably be in the 8 to 10 ‚ range. The problems regarding the Debenham and WC events have certainly educated us on the need for better more wide-spread publicity and lower prices. An added bonus is that our EC event will happen in the same time/place as the Party Extreme LAN=LIFE / Xlerate event at an easily reached venue near the capital city of The Netherlands. But its gonna be all hands on deck !

(People who happen to be in Brussels on 28, 29 and 30 April are kindly invited to hop in on the Science Fair at Palace 2 of the Expo Heizel where we will have a small demo arena / information stand at which this crazy idiot is going to make as much publicity as she can before collapsing from exhaustion after the German Raptor event the weekend before and the subsequent Science Expo.)

Poetic justice in favour of the Storm team really although no one likes to see the cancellation of any event.

Its a shame that it had to be cancelled and so close after getting confirmation of the final event details, then another Email informing that the Saturday night show was cancelled due to poor ticket sales I assumed that it meant the other shows were doing fine, surly the organiser knew there were problems but for whatever reasons decided to keep us all in the dark. Maybe he could give us all an apology on here!

[robjones]

Sounds like a crisis in confidence. Last year my Welsh Event sold 1150 tickets, but 600 of these were in the last four days. 200 on the door.

For the record, the Wrexham Wrumble 2 years ago sold a total of 1700 tickets.

2 days before the event I was looking at a loss of £4500

The event went ahead with me willing to loose the money, but thanks to tickets at only £5 each, 1700 people showed up, on mothers day!!

Not saying I did anything special, it was my first event so I did lots wrong, just saying that at £5 a ticket, my event worked, and looking at a large personal loss I went ahead anyway.....

Things are very different with other events I know, and I am not saying anything against other people who have cancelled their events. Just offering advice to anyone in future.

A good, well publicized event, with cheap tickets and low costs is my personal view, and Ill probably be running one in chester one of these days so I still have faith in the comercial viability of the robot wars type events.

Any one who had made this weekend free, a few of us are planning on going Alton Towers on Saturday. If any one is interested, could be a roboteers outing. Tickets cost £18 each, or buy one get one free at the price of £28. http://www.rialtoticketing.com/app/rial ... gAgentId=1 If orderd online, you can pick tickets up at the park.

If any one is interested we could all meet up at gates or before.

Cheers,
Dave
teammad.co.uk

[stu]

Im going.
Love Alton Towers.

Mr Stu

[kane]

Dont use firefox to order online... Ive had trouble... But booked now. See you there.

Kane

PS Let me know if you are local (on the way) and want a lift. Will be going up the M1 from Hemel Hempstead.

[dinowarrior]

But surely this means well never GET another DRR...once one event gets bad ticket sales, itll never recover, surely!