TrashFest Mid-Atlantic, May 2nd through 5th, 2014

Ladies and Gents, the invite is official. TrashFest Mid-Atlantic will be at Bethany Beach Delaware May 2nd through 5th. Tell your friends.

This is a BIG vacation house with a 16 foot table in the dining room and half a dozen other rooms well suited to gaming, sleeps about 20. Contact me via PM if you're interested and I'll forward you the nitty gritties. We used the place last year and frikkin' loved it, a great venue for a bigger crowd.

AND . . . it will be my 50th birthday so with any luck there will be some festivities.

S.

Already got a few weddings booked that weekend. Bummer.

MattLoter wrote: Already got a few weddings booked that weekend. Bummer.

Bring them.

S.

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Alright, some additional details. This is the place: See the details here.

Six bedrooms, four bathrooms. The place has beds to sleep 23 and plenty of other space to crash in case Loter invites the staff of Taco Bell to stay over with us. Basement with Foose and a Pool table, poker table. Dining room table seats 18 and we had three big games running on it simultaneously without getting in each others' way last year.

It's already rented, so this is happening. Since it's off-season we get the place for $900 and that's split by all that attend. We have eight already (prior to getting word out beyond our local group) so top cost is $100 for the entire gig. Arrival is after 2 on Friday, we're out by 10 on Monday. No hotel costs, no rental cars. Last year we cooked meals in the house most of the time (and that will always be an option for someone looking to save some bucks) but went out a few times for meals.

Straight up -- we played late as hell last year and just rolled into bed afterwards. I had my name on my cup so I could just pick up where I left off when I got up in the morning.

Ocean City is just down the road.

We'll need at least 15 minutes notice prior to the event. No exceptions.

S.

Where does one fly into and how to get from the airport to the hotel?

Closest major airports -- Baltimore (BWI) and Philadelphia. Both are two hours away from Bethany Beach by car. I can arrange a ride from BWI with some advanced notice.

This may be doable. I'll have to see...

Last weekend with the wife before she flies to Africa for three months. Sounds like a good time, though.

Gary Sax wrote: Last weekend with the wife before she flies to Africa for three months. Sounds like a good time, though.

She'll be gone for three months; what's one more weekend?

A favor please -- a few of you have expressed interest in attending. If you think you're going to make the trip send me a PM with your email address so that I can forward you a small form to fill out. Nothing legaleze, just an attempt to get a head count and an admonition to not bring your children!

S.

Things are getting serious now. My friend Sippi-Steve sent an email around to the attendees looking for game requests and I already have abou 30 hours picked out just based on what people would say they would bring. Quebec 1759, Sekigahara, Maria . . . Kick-ass titles being knocked around and the email was only 90 minutes old!

Seriously pumped this year.

S.

I've gotten three games of Quebec in the last couple of weeks and looking for more. It even sports my new Artscow movement cards. Pimpin' a 40 year old game seems appropriate for the Sag Age-Festival.

I for real thought I might be able to make this but it's not going to happen. Another time, I hope!

jgriff wrote: I've gotten three games of Quebec in the last couple of weeks and looking for more. It even sports my new Artscow movement cards. Pimpin' a 40 year old game seems appropriate for the Sag Age-Festival.

All the more reason to leave at 3am Monday morning with a fine selection of other people's games under a blanket in the back.

I stumbled across this game in the forums a couple of years back and saw some pretty solid, pretty consistent endorsements for it. Not a lot of 40yo games pulling that kind of feedback, especially on BGG which doesn't favor this sort of title. I've been looking to pick it up used but my group rarely plays 2-player games and ain't exactly built for solo play, so it's going to be a shelf-toad from day one. Getting a chance to try it out would be great.

S.

Making me sad I didn't pony up and commit to going. Sounds like it'll be a great weekend.

First night in led off with Quebec 1759, followed by lighter fare and ending with Mississippi Queen. Bogies for tomorrow include Sekigahara and Nexus Ops. Hoping to get a Bolide in as well.

Early to bed tonight!

S.