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pretre wrote:

culsandar wrote:

pretre wrote:

culsandar wrote:No event in SC, NC, only one in GA and it's not even in Atlanta. Next closest is Alabama or Virginia. Wow thanks GW, big middle finger to the southeast.

Geeze, internet peeps like to bitch. The Lawrenceville location is in the outskirts of Atlanta at 42 minutes away. What more do you want?

Wow, did you really just mapquest that to respond to my post? One event in three states, and yet Idaho gets two? A more even spread of events, that's what I want.

Yeah, I did, because you were complaining for no reason. Sure you might not have one in every place you want it, but ask the Dakotas how they are feeling about their semis locations.
Idaho's locations are 8 hours apart by car. One of them supports Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana. the other supports Idaho, Wyoming and Eastern Oregon.

Atlanta has one. Alabama has one 2.5 hours out of Atlanta. Jacksonville probably covers north FL and south GA. NC/SC are probably screwed and have to go FL/VA/GA. If no stores in there area took up the flag for Semis, then that's the store's bad.

No reason? Driving 6+ hours with gas at 4 dollars a gallon sounds like enough reason for me. You realize that the Dakotas had 4 prelims between them right? And it's usually based on density? 27 > 4. Guess how many Montana, E. Oregon, E. Washington and Wyoming had? 6+0+3+1= 10. Plus Idaho's 10. 27 > 20. They still got two.

Jacksonville? There's not one in Jacksonville. Orlando and Miami.

culsandar wrote:No reason? Driving 6+ hours with gas at 4 dollars a gallon sounds like enough reason for me. You realize that the Dakotas had 4 prelims between them right? And it's usually based on density? 27 > 4. Guess how many Montana, E. Oregon, E. Washington and Wyoming had? 6+0+3+1= 10. Plus Idaho's 10. 27 > 20. They still got two.

Jacksonville? There's not one in Jacksonville. Orlando and Miami.

My bad, misread Florida.

Sorry about it then, but I guess you'll miss the free tournament. :( Either that or get a hold of a store that is central to your area and have them get a hold of trade sales to make a case for having Semis.

I will be at Norfolk. Excited to meet some of you folks!

Got to love it, my FLGS got the semis again, less then 10 min from my house

I was excited when I saw my FLGS got the semis for us...then I talked to the owner and he said it was a mistake on their site and they are working to figure out who in the area does have the Semis... ...oh well...at least I get to go to semis

Its sorta amusing cause every year GW pulls this kind of stuff.. I mean I agree its dumb that they refuse to understand USA population densities but its expected by now

gardeth wrote:Got to love it, my FLGS got the semis again, less then 10 min from my house

Yeah, I know what you mean.

This time the semi's (Legends in northern CA) is about 15 min away from my house.

they denied my FLGS again ... which is quite disheartening as the closest game store to me is 40 minutes away in another state -_-

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:they denied my FLGS again ... which is quite disheartening as the closest game store to me is 40 minutes away in another state -_-

40 minutes for a shot at a 2500 pts. army? Not too bad. I have 2 FLGS and 1 of them is hosting Semis.

We go through this every year.

The semis are picked by the same people that run every aspect of hardboys: the North American Trade team.

Locations are chosen based on geography, volume of business, size of store, and many other factors.

Polonius wrote:We go through this every year.

The semis are picked by the same people that run every aspect of hardboys: the North American Trade team.

Locations are chosen based on geography, volume of business, size of store, and many other factors.

Yup. I game at the Post Falls Idaho store. The have a huge space, more then enough terrain and boards for 40 people, and ability to expand to 50+ with some outlay. I doubt many stores in metro areas can do that easily, nor have the volumn of a store like Gh when competing with the bunkers and GW stores.

Also they had a great turn out at last years semi's, 30-40 if I recall (not sure though, I was getting married that day lol). and not only USA but Canadians as well, who had 8-12 hour drives in some cases.

My choices last year were a 3 hour drive east or a 3 hour drive north. This year I'll get to play in the same store I qualified in, which is about 30 minutes away for me. (The store in Alabama is East-Northeast of Birmingham, and is actually only about 1.5 hours away from Atlanta...at least the western side of Atlanta.)

A lot of it boils down as well to what stores want to actually host this thing. It is a lot of intense gaming. I have never seen a lot of product sold at these events, due to the emphasis on gaming. Some stores may not want to displace their regulars, who are possibly more interested in Clix, FOW, card games, etc. And the store needs to be able to accomodate 20+ players. If a FLGS only holds 6 tables, then it cannot really accomodate the number of people that might potentially want to show up at a semi-final. A lot of smaller stores might be willing, but just too small; and a lot of larger stores may think it is too much of a hassle.

As Pollonius suggested, there are a lot of factors that go into this than just GW arbitrarily awarding or penalizing certain geographic areas.

puma713 wrote:

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:they denied my FLGS again ... which is quite disheartening as the closest game store to me is 40 minutes away in another state -_-

40 minutes for a shot at a 2500 pts. army? Not too bad. I have 2 FLGS and 1 of them is hosting Semis.

Also, crying for that guy. I drive 40 minutes to the one that is in my major metro. lol

pretre wrote:

puma713 wrote:

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:they denied my FLGS again ... which is quite disheartening as the closest game store to me is 40 minutes away in another state -_-

40 minutes for a shot at a 2500 pts. army? Not too bad. I have 2 FLGS and 1 of them is hosting Semis.

Also, crying for that guy. I drive 40 minutes to the one that is in my major metro. lol

I drive 40 minutes to work every morning...someone needs some perspective...

gardeth wrote:

pretre wrote:

puma713 wrote:

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:they denied my FLGS again ... which is quite disheartening as the closest game store to me is 40 minutes away in another state -_-

40 minutes for a shot at a 2500 pts. army? Not too bad. I have 2 FLGS and 1 of them is hosting Semis.

Also, crying for that guy. I drive 40 minutes to the one that is in my major metro. lol

I drive 40 minutes to work every morning...someone needs some perspective...

This..I've got the same commute. I'll drive anywhere up to about 1-2hrs for Semis without a second thought. 3hrs+ will be what takes a little more thought...

I was surprised there was no location in NC or SC. In NC, there are 3 shops within 1 1/2 hours of each other than can host 30+ person event. One of the shops ran a GT this year alone. NC had the semi finals locations for at least the past 2 years.

Oh well. At least there's the NOVA and 11th Company event coming up for us in the South.

Now the debate for myself begins. Do I just go to the local one in Minneapolis or do I drive a few hours and hit up the Wiscounsin store. I'll have to think about this especially since I don't know how many people Monster's Den can accomodate.

Everyone should just come to Pittsburgh! We got room for 50

Just not worth the drive/expense for a 3 game event, especially with the 'meh' support GW provides for this.

Hmm, doing a little googling the closest place to me is 8 1/2 hours away. Although apparently the ones in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas are all about the same distance.

Sarigar wrote:Just not worth the drive/expense for a 3 game event, especially with the 'meh' support GW provides for this.

Yep, we got the idea the first time you said it.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/390633/3205985.page#3205985

It was in response to Kirasu's post. Should have quoted I suppose.

Hulksmash wrote:Now the debate for myself begins. Do I just go to the local one in Minneapolis or do I drive a few hours and hit up the Wiscounsin store. I'll have to think about this especially since I don't know how many people Monster's Den can accomodate.

Sadly Hulksmash, the Den will not be hosting. They hosted the fantasy Semis, but were not supposed to host the 40k. GW is figuring out who was actually supposed to run the minneapolis Semis...it's really kinda awkward

Brilliant!

Well there are 2 stores that can probably hold 20+ without to much trouble. We'll have to see who they lock down for it. I don't really want to drive to Nebraska or Wisconsin is I don't have to.

Sarigar wrote:Just not worth the drive/expense for a 3 game event, especially with the 'meh' support GW provides for this.

2500 point army for free....meh?

Battleforce for free...meh?

Hulksmash wrote:Now the debate for myself begins. Do I just go to the local one in Minneapolis or do I drive a few hours and hit up the Wiscounsin store. I'll have to think about this especially since I don't know how many people Monster's Den can accomodate.

Hey Hulk, have you ever been to Mother's Den? I have not heard of that store till now.

Ok kept reading down the thread. Hopefully they pick Tower Games. Legion would be my second choice. Omaha will be pretty full as there are a lot of people going. They can accomidate a large number, but that would be a horrible drive for ya.

Kirasu wrote:Everyone should just come to Pittsburgh! We got room for 50

Darn you and your multi-acre store!! Only have room now for about 40 comfortably, I'd have to re-configure all the 8 footers to 6 foot tables to fit 50. And I'm too lazy to that except for a multi day GT

But we'll have free lunch for everyone. Not sure if it'll be Chili dogs or steak sandwhiches. Maybe both.

Anyone not in Canada has no reason to complain about semi locations.

For those complaining about Idaho having two: they were also fed by the Canadian players in the Western half of the country, and had huge numbers show up there compared to other semis locations.

Out of the blue here, but how are they giving out certificates this year, I competed a few years ago and I got a physical certificate the day of. This year I got nothing for my placement, anyone know the exact procedure this year. Or should I just go to my TO and ask him to make me one, or perish.

The 1 store in NC that got asked to do t couldn't because of lack of space due to a previously scheduled magic tournament, and a second store is talking with GW trying to get it there, bc store owner was out of town when they called him but he is working on getting it scheduled at his place, it is Endless Gaming Raleigh NC