Meeting : USA summer 2012 (Seattle & San Francisco)

So next summer, 2012 on August I will meet the american community. I have now my flight booked :

- I arrive at Vancouver the August 5th : 6:45pm
I meet Kevin there and we move by bus together, cross the border and go to Seattle.
See more details for the Seattle meeting here :
http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/showthread.html?t=2025

- Kevin and I move by flight on the August 11th to San Franciso and arrive at 11:15am
See more details for the SF meeting here :
http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/showthread.html?t=2026

- Kevin and I go back to Seattle the August 16th at 8pm and arrive at 9:56pm

- I leave the continent from Vancouver the August 17th : 11:30am

I will try to visit a bit the country, around this 2 cities Seattle and San Francisco, if someone leaving around has good suggestions...

 

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I would like to have a big Tetris Concept meeting at SouthTown Arcade, as it is one of the two locations in the United States with a publicly operating Tetris Grand Master 3 machine. They seem willing to accommodate us for an event, so if we coordinate with them we could probably bring other boards and maybe even set up a stream of the event.

Zircean will be coming to California in the summer for his internship, Kevin has expressed interest in visiting at some point, and we also have a pretty good number of members that are standing California Bay Area residents. So, I'm throwing in my chip for San Francisco at the moment.

 

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If you don´t remove this "piece of shit", I cancel this trip

 

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He is talking about the "piece of cake" under his nickname

 

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But how are we ever going to be good at Osaka style if we don't follow Rule 3?

 

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Kitaru, the only reason why I suggested that Amnesia come via Seattle is because he might be able to get a cheaper flight, stay for a day or two up there, then take the train down with me to SF/Bay Area. I hate hate hate hate hate flying so I would really prefer to take the train anyway, so if Amnesia wanted to check out Seattle as well it could be a possibility!

 

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If this happens in SF, there's a good chance I will make the trek! It's about time I meet some of you crazy loons!

 

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I think there's no question that it's gonna happen in SF; it's just a matter of where Amnesia initially arrives. Should be fun!

 

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Oh oh, I see! Kevin's plan sounds good.

@mikehaggar: Awesome, glad to hear it!

 

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So it is 99% going to be between 11th and 17th August for me, + or - 1 days. I actually will stay 2 weeks max, but I don´t intend to do 2 weeks of full TGM nerd meeting, I think there are enougt things to visit in this part of the world.
Wait a moment to have the exact date of my arrival...

 

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Shit it seems to be around 1000 euros for both Budapest-Seattle or San Francisco..Whatever if I arrive the Saturday 11 or Monday 13.
3 months ago I had some stuff under 800.
The most frustrating is that it costs around 500 if I make it in June, but I tried to negociate with my boss and it is not possible...And I don´t want to lose my 3 years place in the "safe" Hungary with these rumors of 3rd World War coming soon..

So what do you prefer ?? I have to choose quickly now or prices will become insane soon. And I sure, won´t do this trip every year.
So it mosly sounds like this but I have not bought it yet.

ALLER : 11/08 - 09:50 Budapest (Ferihegy) - San Francisco 18h45
RETOUR : 23/08 - 10:45 San Francisco - Budapest (Ferihegy) 13:10 (+1)

 

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I'll respond to this in the morning; it's 3am and I don't have time to write out something now but I'll do it ASAP tomorrow.

 

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First post updated

 

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Just want to post here to remind me that I'm thinking about doing this (on vacation with my family in New Orleans and am currently fairly drunk):

I'm possibly considering joining everyone else in LA (assuming that's the plan that actually happens during some point in Amnesia's stay) for a weekend or something similar during this meetup. I'd certainly be able to join in for a weekend, possibly a few days extra (depends a little bit on what my boss at work thinks given that I'm joining the company full-time in mid-June and would need to discuss vacation time); I'd probably fly down and would probably need pickup from an airport or something similar, but it seems like a good opportunity.

We'd obviously need to work out details but I'd definitely look forward to meeting some TC peeps in person.

 

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I think it's going to be in Norcal (SF, Bay Area, etc), but otherwise that sounds pretty good! I'm sure we can get a ride arranged. I would definitely come out this time; it's probably the last event I will be able to attend! Should be great!

 

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Oh, my bad. I'll blame the intoxication for the wire-crossing on that.

Anyway, I'll need to determine how long I'd be in the area (I'll probably know next Wednesday at the absolute earliest--next one-on-one with my boss) and would probably want to figure out good hotels to stay in or other lodging options.

In any case, I definitely look forward to it!

 

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Just a heads up: this is still happening! As an incentive to try and get some people to come out to Seattle for the Seattle wing of the event, I should mention that there can be free accomodation and food for up to, say, 4 or 5 people for the duration of the Seattle meetup. If you want to fly in but don't want to spend stupid money on a hotel and food, hopefully this can help convince you to come! We'll have TGM1, 2, and 3 available in candy cabs along with other awesome Tetris games such as Tetris Plus, Tetris Plus 2, Sega Tetris, Blockout, and more! A dual angle recording setup will be available for creating some awesome gameplay videos! We'll additionally be having a tournament (likely at Full Tilt), although the format is undecided yet. The California wing of the event will also have a tournament (likely at Southtown Arcade), and we'll have the same boards available for play. Recording setup should be able to be transported down there as well.

 

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Might actually consider this. I'll probably have the monies to afford it, and could combine it with seeing a fair few other people I know over the interwebs who live in the Vancouver area.

Definitely would still place myself as "not going" but will have a think and look into it a little bit.