#SurvivorMeet (June 9-13) / NC Mountains [SoThis...'17?]

[SleepyKrew]

#reaction

[CuddlyCaucasian]

#edgyposts2012

[Chevre]

[xRECKONERx]

pbug flashbacks

[BipolarChemist]

i met him randomly elsewhere on the internet. he was chill af

[Drench]

i remember i worshipped pbug's av before i knew who eliza even WAS

[OhGodMyLife]

Super Tuesday! Vote for not July 4th weekend!

[BROseidon]

i remember i worshipped pbug's av before i knew who eliza even WAS

Eliza is iconic.

Now everyone tries to be Eliza and it's super fake.

[Cybele]

i remember i worshipped pbug's av before i knew who eliza even WAS

^^^

[Fluminator]

Be sure to have a camera guy give interviews during the survivor game.

[InflatablePie]

/maybe

Especially/mostly depending on Chicago meet/finances.

[Radja]

if only I lived anywhere closeby

[xRECKONERx]

Part of me hopes we do this in June so OGML can come.

The other part of me realizes Drench would come too if we did it then.

[Shadoweh]

Is there anyone that couldn't come if it was in June as opposed to July?

[xRECKONERx]

Nobody has made that know, no.

[Axxle]

I've actually just realized that June 14 I have a thing, so while that weekend isn't impossible for me, it's far more difficult.

According to this Cybele would find it more difficult.

[CuddlyCaucasian]

I most likely won't be able to come in June :/

[DeathNote]

There are a few on both sides I think. I don't think I can make the july 4th weekend but I could easily do June. Thats just because I already made plans July 4th that I would rather not break.

[xRECKONERx]

PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM

it'll help me gather information and make a final call on the meet

[xRECKONERx]

Whoever the first 3 people were to fill this out, please send me your username! It got removed from the application for some reason.

[xRECKONERx]

BASED ON RESPONSES...

Dates

The overwhelming majority of people can make it either weekend. However, there's a very close split on availability per weekend. As in, right now, it's still dead tied on number of people who would be available one weekend over the other. Still up in the air. I'm going to probably have to make a judgment call here pretty soon based on pricing per weekend. I'd imagine July 4, being a holiday weekend, will be considerably more expensive, which is making me lean towards June.

Pricing

The majority of people are good for a rental costing up to $200 per person, though a sizable chunk of the remainder said $150, so I will attempt to lock in a price at $150-200 per person.

On that note, most people have shown they are willing to pitch in to help cover the cost of fuel, transportation, and supplies for the game (not including food for the weekend). I will probably ask for about $20 per person and subsidize the rest of the costs myself. My current estimates are showing that it'll cost about $250 in game supplies alone, not counting transportation. If we wind up having to rent a van or something to get there, this amount will change.

Also: MOST people support some kind of player buy-in fee, to go into a cash purse for the winner of the game, but it's a pretty even split. Let's get discussion going on that -- what kind of buy-in amount is reasonable, and what kind of payout should we see? If we did $15/person entry fee, then we could have a prize pool of $240, which could be split up among the finalists somehow?

LODGING

Most people are okay sharing a bed with anyone and if not, people have volunteered to bring air mattresses to fill out floor space. I think we can finagle it where people will be able to sleep on something comfy and not on the floor! However, it'll be tight spaces, and with that many people, everyone will need to make sure to pack up their shit when they wake up so we actually have room to maneuver.

GAME STUFF

Overwhelmingly, people are okay doing the whole "no speaking to other tribes" thing. I will try to design the game to make this as painless as possible, as I know restricting communication for more than like one day is going to be pretty difficult! My current plan is to try and get through the tribe phase at least by midday on the second day, maybe that evening, so that people have Friday night + Saturday + Sunday + Monday morning / car ride Monday to get to know people. I'm going to try to get people to my place by like Thursday morning? That way we have some relaxation time before the road trip to the mountains. I am also considering finding a way to divide starting tribes among the vehicles making the trip up the mountains to keep things nice and realistic

We'll be doing physical challenges.

Regarding timing, I'm going to try to leave the majority of the last day and a half (so Sunday into Monday) for freely hanging out, and will try to have the Survivor game wrapped up by Saturday night, or at least Sunday afternoon. But

please

, if things get stretched out, people need to be in it to win it! I don't want to get to a point where we've all put this time and money into this thing and have a couple of people throw fits over being "over it" and ruin the game experience.

I will probably have a good mix of the challenge types. The only concern is the gross food challenge -- if I do something like that, I can try to keep dietary restrictions in mind, but I can't cater to everyone. In those situations, I would usually just assume it'd be a "forfeit" if you, for example, don't eat meat and have to eat a gross meat product. But I'm open to discussion on this one, and am also open to just trashing the idea altogether if we think it'd be too much.

[xRECKONERx]

And I just checked -- the house with the big gaming room (Option 4) in the basement is only available June 9 - 13 @ $297/night.

Option 2 (Mountain Lodge) goes from $600 to $615/night.

Option 3 (Big Ass House) is only available July 4th weekend @ $490/night.

So... yeah. We're restricted by which house we want to use. Option 4 was my preferred one because of the large gaming room that could be used for challenges. Option 2 is way more expensive than the other options. Option 3 isn't as expensive but lacks the gaming room.

[xRECKONERx]

However, I've watched the availabilities of these houses get sucked up pretty quick. So we need to make a call, collect the money, and book it within the next couple of weeks.

[BROseidon]

What's the best way to transfer funds for those of us who are picked?

[xRECKONERx]

Google Wallet would be the best, I think.

Funds won't leave the Google Wallet account until I have enough to book the place. At which point, you're locked in for the trip -- if you have to back out, we'll find someone to take your place and refund you after they have put in their deposit.

I wish I had the money to front for the whole cost up front, but I don't. Spots will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis based on who submits their deposits.