What is going on??? Why is everyone backing out of the megameet??? You all asked for this and now you are all backing out??? Everyone here at AGD (Tom, Myself, the office gals) worked very hard to coordinate with Team Effort Events to bring you an event that was to be huge and now we are getting a lot of people backing out.
You all knew about the megameet from the original post by Tom dating back to January so there is no excuse about not having enough time to know about this. The AO NJ 2 day drew about 100, if not more, people on less than a month's worth of planning. And Tom was not even there. The SC AO day drew the same amount of people with a little over one month's worth of planning as well. You guys have known about this for over 4 months now.
The agenda is even listed in the very same thread.
It makes us feel that you don't appreciate the efforts we put forth to organize a national event for our members and their friends and families. It really feels like a slap to the face to see everyone hype the megameet only to have it shut down by everyone that said they would go back out last minute and say, "oh we can't make it anymore"
Take, for examples, the NE AO meet. There was approximately 50 people that said yes and cancelled last minute. I still had fun but was disappointed by the poor turnout, as well as the organizer Dansim, and the field owner, Jon, who limited other parties and hired more refs, to accomodate us. Look at the Indy AO day, at Manny Francia's new field, where only 15 people showed. Is there no love left?
I am very very upset. Because of this, it makes me feel that I should not even bother to attend anymore AO events and give Tom the same recommendation. I don't even feel like attending any chat parties and telling Tom to stop all of them because people whine and complain that the prizes are fixed. Well to those that say that, I AM the one who picks the winners on a random basis, while sitting right next to Tom. Like I said, you all make me, as well as everyone here at the factory, very unappreciated.
If the turnout for the Megameet turns out to be very poor, don't expect another Megameet next year and don't expect Tom nor I to attend anymore AO events, whether it has already been planned or not. We will still be at the tournaments but there may not be anything more than just a doughnut orgy. No dinners, no afterparties, no anything. Those that said yes and are backing out are really destroying it for everyone that already committed and have already made the travel arrangements.
THAT IS MY GRIPE.
You all knew about the megameet from the original post by Tom dating back to January so there is no excuse about not having enough time to know about this. The AO NJ 2 day drew about 100, if not more, people on less than a month's worth of planning. And Tom was not even there. The SC AO day drew the same amount of people with a little over one month's worth of planning as well. You guys have known about this for over 4 months now.
The agenda is even listed in the very same thread.
It makes us feel that you don't appreciate the efforts we put forth to organize a national event for our members and their friends and families. It really feels like a slap to the face to see everyone hype the megameet only to have it shut down by everyone that said they would go back out last minute and say, "oh we can't make it anymore"
Take, for examples, the NE AO meet. There was approximately 50 people that said yes and cancelled last minute. I still had fun but was disappointed by the poor turnout, as well as the organizer Dansim, and the field owner, Jon, who limited other parties and hired more refs, to accomodate us. Look at the Indy AO day, at Manny Francia's new field, where only 15 people showed. Is there no love left?
I am very very upset. Because of this, it makes me feel that I should not even bother to attend anymore AO events and give Tom the same recommendation. I don't even feel like attending any chat parties and telling Tom to stop all of them because people whine and complain that the prizes are fixed. Well to those that say that, I AM the one who picks the winners on a random basis, while sitting right next to Tom. Like I said, you all make me, as well as everyone here at the factory, very unappreciated.
If the turnout for the Megameet turns out to be very poor, don't expect another Megameet next year and don't expect Tom nor I to attend anymore AO events, whether it has already been planned or not. We will still be at the tournaments but there may not be anything more than just a doughnut orgy. No dinners, no afterparties, no anything. Those that said yes and are backing out are really destroying it for everyone that already committed and have already made the travel arrangements.
THAT IS MY GRIPE.
I WISH I COULD BE THERE!
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