IMPORTANT LAN INFORMATION!!

This morning I woke up to an very interesting voicemail. I had been waiting for a call letting us know that the building is free so we could go ahead and start taking things over and to start laying out power. The voice mail mentioned that we were good to go but to make sure we were cleaned up before Sunday morning.. Wait WHAT? As it turns out when we booked the building a year and a half ago they had us down for a one day event with a reoccurring event scheduled the day after. This was news to us. As you can imagine my day has not gone well. The reason I am making this post is to let everyone know where we are at on the event because we will obviously have to make a few changes because of this news. As of right now we don't have any official word but I will be sure to let everyone who is attending know through email as soon as we know ourselves.

After setting up a war room here at the office and taking a tour of the area looking for ANY possible location we had a list and we had Cory and Adam on the phone with me taking down the information. We have lined up a POSSIBLE location but the cost is considerably more than what we were paying for our current building (lets put it this way, the cost is more than what we brought in total). To add to that short of our building costs all of our funds have been spent on new power cables, name tags, the projector, ect. The potential building is hinging on one question with the power and we are talking to them about possible deals we can make.

The reason I want to point this out to everyone is obviously if this deal goes through we are going to have to move the event to a new location around six miles from our current one. More importantly if the deal does not go through we are stuck in our current building with us having to have the building cleaned out and ready for the next person by 6am. If this happens the staff and I have been going over options on how we can still make everything work. We are willing to open up the event tomorrow on Friday and pack all of our raffles in on Saturday for those of you who wouldn't be able to make it out.

I'm really sorry to have to let everyone know this. But I found out at 12:45 this afternoon and the craziness after trying to find a location has kept us busy. We strive to put on the best event we can possibly do and we hope that even with this devastating problem we can still do that for everyone. Please keep an eye on this thread and your email for updates. We appreciate everyone's understanding and support in this very stressful and costly issue.

Let me be clear. The lan is going to happen no mater what! I just want to make sure everyone knows what is going on, why, and what are are trying to do to correct the issue.

L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote:

Leonresevil2 wrote: Personally I'd rather see the event cut short than you guys take a financial hit just because of a calendar issue.

+1

All of the staff are willing to chip in. We are looking at options to help raise some of the money at the event itself also. If anyone has any suggestions please post them up.

yeah this forced us to look at the buildings a little sooner than we had planned. The building change was the reason we hadn't set a date for our next event.

that was the first thing that I tried to do but could not do it

We will not know until tomorrow morning on how this should effect us. I really hope you all can make it down. Remember if we are forced to cut the event down or if we have to open early we will not be doing raffles during any time other than the planned time. Just to make sure everyone has a fair chance at those.