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Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
Prepare your liver.
As far as everyone is aware, this party is still all ages right? I'm three shy from 18, and I'd like to secure a ticket soon for the party.
Edit: Great way to make an introduction... by missing the post saying it was all ages, just disregard this, sorry.
Glad to hear things have only gotten bigger and more awesome in the last few years and that you are still running this. I'd tell you guys to have fun, but that would be pointless, I already know you all will.
EDIT: The x2 embarrassment combo- missing the post that missed the post. Woo.
Danimal Cannon (http://danimalcannon.bandcamp.com/)
Jonny Nero (http://jonnyneroactionhero.bandcamp.com/)
A_Rival (http://rivalrivalrival.bandcamp.com/)
Klopenflop (http://klopfenpop.com/)
These are some of the best chiptunes musicians on the scene right now, so if you were on the fence before, buy your tickets now! A big thanks to Coldbrew for helping put our lineup together.
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
Same with Klopfenpop; people wanted to see him, and he could definitely use some more exposure.
Ticket sales have slowed pretty dramatically. I don't think it's a cause for concern yet, but it's definitely slower than any other year I've done this.
As has always been the case with this party, no one's fronting the cost. We take the entire cost of the party, divide it by X number of tickets, and that's the price per ticket. If we don't sell them all, either a) we have to make the party cost less by cutting things like menu items, bands, drink tickets, etc or b) we don't do the party at all. No one's footing an unequal share of the bill.
It falls on everyone to signal boost and get the word out. Make sure your friends are coming, RT the link, post on Facebook, etc. We still have about 200 tickets to sell in the next month.
Signal boost, plz!
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
Thanks for the help!
As for the party itself...if you can remember high school where you see a person blend in with the cliques no matter which clique it is. You are that person when it comes to this event. No one is singled-out and you can always find a friend (old or new) in the areas.
The only other thing happening that night is a Protomen show at El Corazon. But who want's to see them outside of PAX anyway? They're a bunch of jerks who steal peoples' chairs and then book shows during your shows to try and ruin you.
So... yeah... :P
Shamelessly blowing up Twitter with reminders is always a good strategy.
Huh, they hadn't done a mailer about that so I had no idea. Fuck, this will be the first PAX Protoshow I've ever missed. I feel like I'm about to cause some sort of Warp Storm by breaking my multi-year streak. I even flew down to see their Vancouver show with Tenacious D. >_>
Yeah, PAX events are awesome like that. You're pretty much guaranteed to find people to hang out with, even if you don't know anyone. I've made a lot of really good friends over the years just because PAX bros and broettes are the best bros and broettes.
I'll have to do that. I always dig on checking out acts I haven't heard of. I don't follow the chiptune scene as much as I honestly should.
But yeah, Klop is good people. I'm pretty stoked to see him perform.
Yeah, I'm honestly not sure they've even announced it publicly yet, but Murphey let us know about it.
They are playing Vancouver on the Wednesday before PAX, so I might be taking a drive up there to see them. I hate missing out on their non-convention shows too, they're so much fun!
This party is pretty great. It's a lot of familiar faces, a very relaxed atmosphere, lots of different varieties of fun... it's just a great way to end the trip. I really had no idea what I was putting together when I started, and really, the party has taken on a life of its own because of people's preferences. In the beginning it was supposed to be a sit-down dinner, but that pretty quickly changed.
I love doing it. I'm going to continue to do it for the foreseeable future.
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
How much of a slog is it from Seattle to Vancouver? I'll be in town by then and have plenty of time to kill.
Then it really depends what the border is like, sometimes you can go straight on through & others you have a decent wait time but seeing as its a wedsnesday I could see the border being relatively quiet
Oh my Dayum
Oh my goodness
They goin' Ham
I dunno, if ya got the time to kill and money to spend on gas and whatever else, then go for it.
Just remember that you need a passport to cross the border now. Unless you're a WA state resident and have an enhanced ID like I do.
Yeah, I've got one. I went to Vancouver to see Tenacious D and The Protomen last year.
Passes: ☑ ▬ Hotel: ☑ ▬ Flight: [color=red]☑[/color]
I'll do what I can but no one I know could secure passes this year. Any chance this will be cancelled if tickets don't sell enough? I wouldn't mind even pitching in an extra $10 or so per ticket if it's needed.
I doubt it, we'll find a way to make it work. One of our musical guests is traveling a good distance to be out here and is relying on this to help pay for his trip, so the idea of us not being to come through with that is unacceptable for me. So I wouldn't worry about it, we'll do whatever we can to work it out if it comes down to it. It doesn't help there's two other shows/parties on the same night that are giving us competition. Pretty good competition too...
Honestly I think the worst case scenario is that we have to pull some from the raffle fund. But that will be up to Arco.
To those of you who have purchased tickets, thank you. You know that whatever happens, it will still be a super fun party!
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
Ticket sales are still sluggish, so I appreciate any signal boosting y'all are doing. I've seen lots of retweets and I appreciate all of them.
I've spoken with the venue and they've assured me that we can still throw the party with reduced numbers. We're well above the minimum number of people required for the top floor, so that shouldn't be a problem.
Less people does mean less fun, and a smaller raffle pool, so we should still be spreading the word and driving ticket sales. (Or, an alternate theory is that people could donate to the raffle pool and a smaller party means better odds. Still, though. :P)
Thanks, everyone! Be seeing you in a few short weeks!
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
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Yea, we're also flying out early on Monday. I did go to this last year and had a lot of fun, especially in the arcade area! So if anyone is on the fence about it, stop contemplating and just buy the ticket!
Do donations count towards the cost of throwing the party? Or does it go solely to the raffle?
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