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BomanTheBear
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Anyone want to tell me what Sealab is (aside from the show)? Is it a party or something?
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*The rooms being way way way way too small
*Some asshole who has yet-to-be-killed announcing the location of the invite-only party during PAX
*People getting let in too early (granted, I was amongst that group too)
*Minors who couldn't handle their booze or shut the fuck up
*Crowne Plaza threatening to call the cops for the above
Needless to say, a lot of people were pissed off, like the people who came out of the concerts who didn't know the party died a half hour before, or the people who spent lots of time and money on booze specifically for Sealab (like BigRed).
Not sure if you'll be able to get any more information about last year's out of anyone else, since it's kind of a sore subject that can only be described as an "unmitigiated clusterfuck".
The Friday night party was open to everyone not an invite only.
They people running Sealab were pretty adamant about checking IDs at the door. I was at the concert at the time so I have no idea if the guy letting people in early was checking but they had plenty of reason to check IDs and not a single good reason not to.
Now that the facts are cleared up try to keep the thread from becoming another "ZOMG Sealab" flame war cause Moe probably won't be happy closing a third thread about it and telling all of us to stop bringing it up.
Uhm, it was NOT word of mouth that caused massive amounts of people to converge upon the Sealab hotel room. It was DoNotPursueLuBu who walked around with a large sign at the Convention Center for SEVERAL HOURS advertising what room number and hotel the party was in. He did this WITHOUT the permission of any member of Sealab.
Therefore the "Invite-Only" party was shut down before it started due to large numbers of uninvited people showing up, lots of noise, and the hotel threatening to kick Sealab out of their hotel room. Basically anyone who had been invited got screwed over by LuBu, because there was no way they would have known the party was cancelled until they showed up with bags of booze and denied entry.
Anyway, in response to the original question: Sealab is a kick ass group of people. The Party at Sealab Party was an awesome, pre-planned hotel party that crashed and burned due to one person being an utter douchebag idiot.
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LAME!
We should pool some dough and rent a space (ballroom/meeting room) at a hotel. Then we can be much louder and there may be more tolerance for alcohol.
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Artificially create a "party floor" or something like that.
Looking online at venues to rent it seems most only require a few hundred dollars to reserve and the full cost range anywhere 100 dollars an hour to several grand. But the major issue is the cannot have alcohol brought in from the outside and cannot serve alcohol after 2 Am due to state law. Which is way too early for us.
If the hotel in question is contacted early enough and by enough people they may see it our way (keep the ruffians on one floor as to not disturb normal folk who sleep).
Intimidation is always the best route with these people
This is why I'm looking into planning a big open bar crawl. It's impossible to get as many people as would want to come into a hotel room, because as Sealab illustrated, they're just not big enough for it. There's 12 bars within 6 blocks from one another near the WSCTC, and if too many people show up to cram into one bar, it can be split into teams.
I won't have the details worked out until it's a lot closer to PAX, but unless some catastrophe stops me from going, it will definitely happen. Probably on Thursday night, so it can start early enough for a reasonable amount of drinking time before last call, then on friday and saturday people can just enjoy smaller hotel parties that can go later into the night.
edit: And enterprising bar crawl attendees could always throw an afterparty at their place if 2am is too early.
It will be too expensive and they won't stay open late enough.
I'll tell you exactly how I think the Sealab party will go down this year. Most people won't be invited, it will be a closer knit core group of PAX veterans and their friends. It will not be discussed and advertised on the forums and that's it.
Either that or they find a hotel who would tolerate it, and I doubt they'll find that.
I'm not trying to be a pessimist, I'm just speaking from experience. I'm very much an optimist and hoping that things go much better for Sealab this year.
Highfire and I were sharing a dinner table with 2 others on the west coast train trip home with two others, and at one point the conversation turned to Sealab and how we'd love to get our mitts on the little bastard who walked around with that sign...
"Uh, guys..." one of the guys starts quietly, "I'm LuBlu. I'm the one who walked around with the sign, I'm sorry, I didn't know better."
awkward
A party of AWESOME!
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Because its doomed to failure or because they are all crazy like splicers?
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A little from column A and a little from column B.
I was underage last year,
as were my accompainiers.
We steered clear of the Sealab-ness for those reasons,
as we didn't want to cause trouble for others..
Anyhow, I'm turning 21 this year..
so I wants me some Sealab.
Yeah, it was a clusterfuck alright.
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Hopefully this year we can rent space for Sealab.
Oh god yes. Is there an aquarium nearby and can we book it for a night?
(Goes to look far an aquarium)
FOUND! I can't believe it is so close to PAX. It is about 2 blocks West then 9 blocks South (.8 miles).
http://www.seattleaquarium.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?&pid=257&srcid=183
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800?! Really? I thought that Sealab was shrinking in size. I was thinking there would be less than 200 people invited.
Also, people drink beers and liquors at weddings and some weddings do get pretty wild. I imagine that we could convince them that "gamers" are just like other humans in many respects...
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RUN, BOB! KILLER KIDS, LIKE ON TEEVEE!
But seriously, Sealab could be huge, the question is mostly logistical. However, for practical purposes, we are probably looking at sub 200 for this year unless a miracle happens.
OK maybe the above statement might not be completely true, but the truth is it would be hilarious and fun.
Unfortunately the whole, be out of the building and the under 21 thing is going to make it impossible, among other concerns.
In fact, forget the Blackjack, and the BYOC...
... eh, forget the whole thing.