BETEO Unofficial meet Birmingham

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

This thread is not to be confused with the official Nottingham meetup.

Basically, Me and a few other people are in the process of organising a pre-PAX meetup in Birmingham, and I thought I would invite all you folks too :luv:

SavyGamer wrote:

Me and a few other British folk who are going to be going to PAX this August (including my Mum!) thought it might be a cool idea to all meet up before we go. We decided that a good venue for said meet up would be Omega Sektor in Birmingham, Europe's largest LAN and Gaming Centre. Then we thought, "why not invite a whole bunch of people, the more the merrier!".
All the readers of SavyGamer are officially invited to the 'Pseudo-pre-PAX Birmingham meetup 2k8'.
The vague itinerary so far is:
1. Meet at Omega Sektor around 11:00 a.m. have a mooch around, see what's what and where it is.
2. Play various games for around an hour or so.
3. Have lunch somewhere - probably not in Omega Sektor, but depending on prices.
4. Play for 4/5 further hours.
5. Find a pub.
6. Drink alcohol until it's time to catch our train home.
We only officially started planning this a couple of days ago, but already there's about 6 confirmed attendees, and if we get a big group of us together, it might even be worth trying to get some bulk discount, and split into teams for some big games.
If anyone in the Birmingham area, or anyone who fancies a trip to a cool LAN centre to play a bunch of games, then let em know either by email or a comments here, and I'll keep you posted as the plan develops.
APZonerunner (resident Brummie) has given a great (albeit slightly outdated now) write up of Omega Sektor here and here if you want to read more about it.
It would be great to meet any/all of you guys face to face, and I'm sure it'll be a wicked day.
Update: It's probably useful if I tell you the date isn't it. It's on Saturday the 26th of July.

If any of you could make it that'd be ace!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:58

OOh! I might be up for this.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:02

Me too.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:15

What date in August? I'm on holiday during the last week, loike.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:16

Quote:

Update: It's probably useful if I tell you the date isn't it. It's on Saturday the 26th of July.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:16

Coolio, 24th of July in August. *checks diary*

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:18

My diary only has July and August as separate months. Do I need to get a new one?

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

It's PAX that is in August

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:54

so this is PREPAX?

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Don't have too much fun, otherwise the later event will be a very FlatPAX.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

myoptika wrote:

so this is PREPAX?

indeed, initially so that me and a few other UK peeps going to PAX could meet up beforehand, but then we decided to widen the scope.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 13:08

Dudley wrote:

Don't have too much fun, otherwise the later event will be a very FlatPAX.

I'm glad there's only one of them. MultiPAX would be confusing.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

I wish I'd thought of that... a PAX on you sir.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Too southern at present in the stink of london. Have fun though.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 14:29

Dudley wrote:

I wish I'd thought of that... a PAX on you sir.

I don't want us to fight - it'd end up like A-PAXalypse Now.

Let's stop now.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Yeah, that's aPAXimately enough of that.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 14:45

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GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jun 05, 2008 14:46

All these puns and no reference to a certain Kevin Spacey film? Or stuffing?

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

Enough's enough. PAX it in now guys.

CUS · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 18:04

If LeweiP's mum is going*, then I'm going! Count me in guy.

no offence meant

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

If CUS is wearing that tight pencil skirt I sent him, then I'm there.

RBR2 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:26

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 10, 2008 13:04

If this really is sponsored by SavyGamer (ie. free beer) I'll make the journey too

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Jun 10, 2008 13:05

If Grim..........'s gonna be there, I'm definitely gonna go.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 10, 2008 13:13

Dimrill wrote:

If Grim..........'s gonna be there, I'm definitely gonna go.

Is that because I'm awesome, or because you're getting confused and think I'm rich in real life and will buy you drinks?

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

By sponsored, I mean like, SavyGamer are going to be covering the event, there will be a writeup and pics posted afterwards.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 10, 2008 14:27

That's properly not what sponsored means

CUS · **Posted:** Tue Jun 10, 2008 14:44

By that definition, my local rag is sponsoring Euro 2008.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Aha, it will be exclusive coverage.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 10, 2008 17:23

What if it gets mentioned here? Foul, I call, sir!

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

This is today guys, if any of you are still up for it, email me at lewiep at gmail.com and I'll send you my phone number.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:26

Uh-oh, I'd totally forgotten about this. You might have done well to bump this a week ago or so and I'd have come down.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

I'm a bit tied up today, so I'm not going to be able to make it.

CUS · **Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:11

I can attend! Erm, I'm going into Birmingham today anyway, to shop for old games. How coincidental and stuff. Can't stay too long, but can certainly attend for a bit... might be able to bring another forumite along also.

CUS · **Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 16:26

Sigh. Myself and Another wandered along for about 2.

"Hi, sorry, you need to pay to go inside."
"Oh. Can you check to see if someone we're meeting is here, please?"
"Do you know his surname?"
"Erm. I know many things about him other THAN his surname..."
"Sorry, we really need his surname or we can't do anything."
"Oh. But, if I pay, there might be nobody here - I've not heard anything from him yet, dunno if... *realisation dawns that I just want to go home and eat ice lollies and play old console games*... oh, fuck it, let's go bowling."

And so, given that we'd been walking around birmingham for the last two hours, buying all kinds of SUPER AWESOME console stuff from the market, and in my case, delighting in the cheap and delicious slush puppies from a stall outside the Omega Sektor, we came home.

LewieP - thank-you for your text message. Unfortunately, I received it shortly after the train left Birmingham. Tsk, eh kids?

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