Chicago FFR Meet-up

[OneHandNow]

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I'll be at Chicago (University of Chicago) during July I think.. I can go!! What are the chances?

Also, let's have a West Coast meetup too. Cali this **** up.

[colt.45]

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If it does happen in Chicago there is a high chance I can't go anymore as I have no money for hotel. No way to Chicago atm and Chicago is a city filled with crime... *scared* D:

[HammyMcSquirrel]

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If it does happen in Chicago there is a high chance I can't go anymore as I have no money for hotel. No way to Chicago atm and Chicago is a city filled with crime... *scared* D:

Didn't St. Louis get voted as the most dangerous U.S. city recently or something? xD I may be able to help out with a hotel discount because I have a family member who works for Marriott. I'm not 100% sure how many people I can get in on that. Right now I'm going to try to use it for two rooms between myself and four others. I doubt a discount on a third room would be hard to get but I don't want to make any promises at the moment. If you are able to plan your travels to Chicago, let me know.

[ddr_f4n]

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Go to anime north this year, I guarantee at least 400 people there have played or play FFR.

Does that count?

Seriously, the DDR/ITG section is the meet-up :V

Someone should try to sneak in an FFR panel somehow :V

[colt.45]

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Didn't St. Louis get voted as the most dangerous U.S. city recently or something? xD I may be able to help out with a hotel discount because I have a family member who works for Marriott. I'm not 100% sure how many people I can get in on that. Right now I'm going to try to use it for two rooms between myself and four others. I doubt a discount on a third room would be hard to get but I don't want to make any promises at the moment. If you are able to plan your travels to Chicago, let me know.

Ahh thanks!.. and yes St. Louis is a city similiar to Chicago xD. But the thing is I don't have to stay in St. Louis I will drive back everyday. High high chance I can't go though if it's outside of Missouri, If it was a city very close to the missouri border that's better for me when it comes to outside states. I've notified my parents about it maybe being at Chicago now, but they are weary about me going to a hotel and stuff by myself. :/ lol
But if you do , plan to host it in Chicago that's fine. Whatever is better for all of you !!

[who_cares973]

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When is this again? I might be able to barely get there.

The best time for me to go to an FFR meetup would be around August... 2012 lmao.

Hey I thought you said you'd be carpooling with me

[5.points]

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I'll be driving by then so anywhere I could try and make it, especially if it's during the summer. I'll be in Florida this summer so hopefully it's in the south...

[cry4eternity]

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Nerds meeting other nerds yay!!! Chicago is about 5 hours closer to me so I guess that gets my vote.

[Izzy]

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I'd go if it was in the central time zone.

[LoveHurts67]

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lol it depends on where you're going. The city's all ****ed up I know that

[TC_Halogen]

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sorry if I come across as an ass here, but:

to those of you who are like "you should have it in (yada) city omfg everyone else is far away bad placement" - coordinate your own meetup. Hammy is the one putting everything together, and he's got his locations set out, and you guys butting in with where you "think" it should be is rude considering he's the one spending time trying to get things together. Choose your place, coordinate a meet-up for your own venue, or don't go at all. It's really that simple.

Now. There's a few of you who are saying that Chicago is a very dangerous city. I will assure you this from the 18 years that I lived there: there are dangerous areas around the city, but they will be completely obvious to you. They will be heavily boarded up, very industrial looking - etc. It will look as intimidating as it feels. There are other parts of the city that are very nice and are well worth the visit. Travel is very easy once you get there as well.

Another thing to note: ACen 2011 happens in May, in Rosemont, IL. It's very close to Chicago and is extremely easy to get to when you find the CTA Blue Line - it's a nearly straight shot to the convention center.

[MetalAtlas]

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chicago is nice and has a lot of history, i was sad i couldnt stop when i was driving through it before. It would be pretty cool to see the sights and meet a bunch of people lol (especially some people that ive been trying to see forever and lacking the funds >.< )

[tangomango]

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I'll be at Chicago (University of Chicago) during July I think.. I can go!! What are the chances?

Also, let's have a West Coast meetup too. Cali this **** up.

Whoa, you live pretty close to where I'm at. It seems like everyone else in Caifornia is So Cal =\

[5.points]

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TC_Halogen: I perfectly fine with both locations, they both are relatively accessible from most areas of the country. I was just wondering if they where there any other options...

[HammyMcSquirrel]

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I'd go if it was in the central time zone.

Both St. Louis and Chicago are in the central time zone.

Btw, has it been settled that St. Louis and Chicago are the only two options?

Yup, those are the only options.

And thanks Halogen for the statement. It was getting annoying seeing all of those posts. Sorry that this can't work out easily for everybody. I'm giving six months for planning so there's at least some potential for the non-central folks to make it. Otherwise there's not much I can do to accommodate everybody.

At this rate it looks like this will end up in Chicago. Around the first week of January (probably right after New Years) we'll settle on whatever option has the most votes and then we'll move on to specific dates. As I said in the first post it'll be late June or early July, so I had in mind either June 24th and the 25th or July 1st and the 2nd. If the St. Louis convention idea takes the lead then we'd use the dates for the anime convention of course. Anyways, just giving you guys a heads up on the next step.