GenCon 2003 in Indy -- Why it will be better

[kkoie]

I know I'm geared up! It will be my first gen-con, mainly because I won't have to pay hotel expenses since I live just outside of Indy!

K Koie

 

[alsih2o]

1st round at my brothers bar is on me!

p.s. o'rourkes...in castleton!

woo-hoo!

 

[Alaric_Prympax]

I couldn't afford to go to GenCon this year, I went down to New Orleans (well really Meterie) for Crescent City Con but I started a GenCon fund a while back and I'm saving for next year. I would have liked to have gone for the last one in Milwaukee, I haven't been to Wisconsin yet but I haven't been to Indiana either; though I've flown over it a couple of times from Chicago to Hartford. I will be there next year!

 

[Limper]

I know I'm geared up! It will be my first gen-con, mainly because I won't have to pay hotel expenses since I live just outside of Indy!

K Koie

Look we've all been invited to stay at K Koie's place!


I've always liked Indy and its a MUCH shorter drive.

 

[Fayredeth]

Well, the move to Indy represents a doubling of travel time for me, but it looks like my friends and I shall be going without parental supervision, so that means the hotel bills will be set upon our shoulders. I hope they run cheaper in Indy than in Milwaukee? The thing is, I've never had much complaint about Milwaukee except for the housing shortage, so that's really the only thing that I'll look to see improve. How recently built is the convention center that GenCon will be housed in? I liked the pretty modern Midwest Express Center (that's it, isn't it?).

 

[drothgery]

Well, if by one days drive you mean 24 hours, then you are probably right. But if by one days drive you mean the reasonable distance an ordinary person would be willing to drive in one day, I think you are wrong.

Well, Mapquest says it's 9 hours from Atlanta, 10 from DC, 12 from NYC, 16 from Boston ... and 35 from San Diego.

I think that 8 hours on the road, while not exceeding the speed limit by too much, is about all I can handle, and multi-day car trips are right out.

Of course, I also think that GenCon in Indy isn't much different from my perspective than GenCon in Milwaukee. It's still the midwest in summer in a city where there aren't any direct flights from San Diego.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Of course, I also think that GenCon in Indy isn't much different from my perspective than GenCon in Milwaukee. It's still the midwest in summer in a city where there aren't any direct flights from San Diego.

It's the midwest, in the summer, at an event where you'll be inside 90% of the time you're there. Having lived in both areas, the midwest in the summer isn't terribly different from southern california in the summer, except the air is breathable.

And neither San Diego nor Indianappolis are hubs for any major airlines, so of course there aren't any direct flights. I'd expect you don't have direct flights to very many places other than hub cities like Phoenix or Atlanta.

Is a one hour layover at a hub really that much of an inconvenience?

 

[Mark]

Well, if by one days drive you mean 24 hours, then you are probably right. But if by one days drive you mean the reasonable distance an ordinary person would be willing to drive in one day, I think you are wrong.

Though that would be implying your average gamer is similar to your ordinary person, which is probably false...I've seen gamers refuse to bathe or sleep for 3 days straight before for a con, so what's a 16 hour drive?

Wow. You tend to be one of the most negative and disagreeable knuckleheaded trolls I've ever seen posting on these boards.

Nope. Half the population of the US is within an 16 hour drive of Indianapolis, In. Nothing to do with the ability to maintain one level of hygiene or another, simply a distance thing.

(Yup. I know you will read this and question it, stating that you think it is wrong. In that, you will again be wrong.)

I think you were planning to post something regarding another theory you had wished to dispute with your own personal take now that some Gencon goers might be back around to answer? Something about Wisconsin? Please find my Email and send the link when you've had the chance to draw out some experts with you preposterosity...

 

[qstor]

what are the EXACT dates? I saw July on the WOTC site and August 21-24th on my 2001 GenCon registration book?

Mike

 

[Henry]

Here's another future attendee for you, assuming nothing goes wrong in the next year. I really hope to see there some of the people who attended this year, because of my inability to make it.

DOES anyone have the true dates, BTW? It would be nice to know, because if it is too far into august or september, my wife (who was looking forward to it) will not be able to attend.