personally i think that you guys should wait for either RGT to get back on thier feet again to hold next years, or you could wait for another TGC associate company to do such.
usually find that individuals that try to setup conventions have them fail cause they oftenly lack the organisation skills that people who run companies tend to have for such events.
it is some work to get a place, figure out a fair price, cough up the cash in the first place, setup a few machines to work, setup the snack needs (or hire a barman for the place) ... really if you were sensible you'd pick a Lan Gaming Arena, which is why i suggest Nottingham or London for the UK convention as they both have very large Lan Arenas setup for gaming needs - for a retainer they allow you to also install software needed and such.
It solves 2 major problems hiring places like such, first is computers (as they tend to have around 32-64 machines in places like this all of very high athlonxp/pentium4 grade with damn'd good graphics cards and ram) - second being food & drink which they oftenly have a kiosk there selling stuff you need.
you can also hire these places for entire weekends and are allowed to sleep at them ( i've done this a few times on Lan Parties
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add to this it also means that if anyone isn't particularly interested in DB/DBP stuff and more in the social aspect they have a place where they can sit and talk, or even just have some frantic games of stuff like Warcraft3/CounterStrike/JediKnight2/etc...
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i mean it is just an idea after all, but if i remember these places usually cost like $400-500/day which shared between around 20-30people is around $15-20 a head, which no doubt people would be more than willing to fork out.
