Gen Con Review and plans for the future
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 4:20 pm
Hello all, First I want to say we did a great job at Gen-Con, we over sold the tables by approximately 58 people +/- 15, from the soft numbers that are coming in from the ticket confirmation scans.
For the most part we had a great turn out, only two hiccups of major concern, the first was a rifts game on Saturday had only 2 people show up the G.M still ran a fantastic game from the reports I took from the players after, The other was we had two G.M's leave late Saturday which left their Sunday games in a lurch, I want to say a big thanks to the two G.M.'s who opened their tables to the disposed players and ran a great game.
The coupon idea for the con was arousing success from what I gathered and moved a good bit of product at the booth, so this is an idea to keep in mind for our other MA's out there to generate some interest at the convention games on their own, we will always send swag but also to see if the sales room has a book store or dealer who carries palladium partner up with them for a discount coupon for those players, increase there sales and in return palladium's when those players go there and buy Palladium products
I spoke to the Gen Con staff, and they where very impressed with our numbers, if every one remembers they where hesitant to the number of games we had set as this was the first time Palladium had this many games in play at their convention.
I have a soft approval that if we can get five G.M's to run tactics next year each day they can find us a spot in the Miniatures room for free . While I was down at the Booth, a gentleman was speaking to Kevin and I over what he was hoping for next year, when he started talking about an elimination tourney for Robotech tactics in the form of the old War hammer tourneys. So my first big question on this to you our MA's would this be something you would sign up for and if so what would you like to see as a grand prize?
Say a double elimination round tournament, possibly have three tiers for those who want short versus long games say first tier, full army small point buy to keep the battles at an hour a piece. Second tier squad based use the small board from the booth design, and the last Tier using the small board again, a gladiatorial style game one piece, with mod cards, playing for kills, each round has a minimum buy in the longer the piece goes with out defeat, will wins a prize,
This way each level of enthusiast can get in on the Robotech tactics fun and the word gets spread of the versatility of the game in general.
the Robotech Tactics games where a smashing success, the GM for the four games (Phaze) in the Palladium room, had a sold out house each night and standing room most of the time, many of the players and observes I witnessed down at the booth later on also checking the pieces. And pre-order forms.
I will post videos on Facebook at the https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palladiu ... =bookmarks as I get them collated off my tablet and phone.
So until then game on
For the most part we had a great turn out, only two hiccups of major concern, the first was a rifts game on Saturday had only 2 people show up the G.M still ran a fantastic game from the reports I took from the players after, The other was we had two G.M's leave late Saturday which left their Sunday games in a lurch, I want to say a big thanks to the two G.M.'s who opened their tables to the disposed players and ran a great game.
The coupon idea for the con was arousing success from what I gathered and moved a good bit of product at the booth, so this is an idea to keep in mind for our other MA's out there to generate some interest at the convention games on their own, we will always send swag but also to see if the sales room has a book store or dealer who carries palladium partner up with them for a discount coupon for those players, increase there sales and in return palladium's when those players go there and buy Palladium products
I spoke to the Gen Con staff, and they where very impressed with our numbers, if every one remembers they where hesitant to the number of games we had set as this was the first time Palladium had this many games in play at their convention.
I have a soft approval that if we can get five G.M's to run tactics next year each day they can find us a spot in the Miniatures room for free . While I was down at the Booth, a gentleman was speaking to Kevin and I over what he was hoping for next year, when he started talking about an elimination tourney for Robotech tactics in the form of the old War hammer tourneys. So my first big question on this to you our MA's would this be something you would sign up for and if so what would you like to see as a grand prize?
Say a double elimination round tournament, possibly have three tiers for those who want short versus long games say first tier, full army small point buy to keep the battles at an hour a piece. Second tier squad based use the small board from the booth design, and the last Tier using the small board again, a gladiatorial style game one piece, with mod cards, playing for kills, each round has a minimum buy in the longer the piece goes with out defeat, will wins a prize,
This way each level of enthusiast can get in on the Robotech tactics fun and the word gets spread of the versatility of the game in general.
the Robotech Tactics games where a smashing success, the GM for the four games (Phaze) in the Palladium room, had a sold out house each night and standing room most of the time, many of the players and observes I witnessed down at the booth later on also checking the pieces. And pre-order forms.
I will post videos on Facebook at the https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palladiu ... =bookmarks as I get them collated off my tablet and phone.
So until then game on
