On April 11, 2015 will be hosting an
International Table Top day at my Millgrove Brewing Company, in Allegan
Michigan. It will be 2 to 10 pm. It will be open format, meaning that playing
any game available at any time, I will bring my library, and some of my friends
will bring theirs.
I find
myself worrying about 2 linked but very different things:
1: What if no one shows up? Of course that is something that everyone
hosting an event worries about. I will
have humiliated myself and wasted a day I could have done something more
productive like rake a yard clean a bar or even better brewed up some
beer. Ironically this scenario is my preferred
of the two worries. At least it will be semiprivate.
2: What if, to the surprise of everyone it
becomes packed at the bar. We get so
many people that show up that we have to turn people away because of fire
code. I know this event is very unlikely
but it is not impossible. It would be a
disaster. Not for my event that day, but
for my goal for the event.
What is my goal?
My goal is to
showcase board games and card games both old and new, to people of my small
town. To bring together people to play
games in person, to look someone in the eye, not in the video screen. To build a base of people that can get together
and play games at public or private events later. To build an email list, use my group page for
a place to organize events.
Time
will tell what will happen, even if it is just me paying Zombie Dice with
myself at that bar, so be it, at least I tried.
Can’t wait until the 11th!
Here is the link to my event page.
