I will put a call out for a team of volunteers nearer the date to assist with things like tables etc. I would far rather have a handful of people helping than everyone piles in and tries to help. The venue has very specific requirements regarding how tables, chairs, etc are stacked.
As a heads up to people (and I'll put the call out next week once my world is less "on fire" than it is now in a separate thread), I will, however, need the following:
- 0800-0900 - 2 x Venue Layout team (Mainly tables)
- 0800-0845 - 2 x Arena Crew (Likely to be me + 1 if my arena)
- 0830-1000 - 1 x Car Park
- 0845-1000 - 2 x Front Desk (Check-in)
- Throughout day - 5 x Judges - You cannot judge your own fights so 5 are needed as 2 judges may end up fighting each other
- 1700-1745 - 2 x Venue Layout team (Ideally same 2 as morning)
- 1700-1745 - 2 x Arena Crew (Likely to be me + 1 if my arena)
If you can help with any of those duties please
wait for the thread to go up next week once I confirm exactly what I need.
As an aside: Anyone who knows how I run events knows that I "worry" about
everything until I know it can't be an issue any more. It's in my nature, and it's virtually impossible to get rid of it from me. I like to have everything planned down to the last little detail, and I don't like to leave anything to chance. In reality, I've had too long to plan AWS55 and it's allowing me to worry about stuff. It's possibly a mild form of OCD. Maybe it's because I used to run a competitive paintball venue where we had to run a really tight ship, I don't know. What I do know, however, is that, yes, I am obsessive about perfection (to a point) - and I want to know I've done as much as possible to limit the number of things that can go wrong. I have a lot going on personally as well at the moment, *probably* shouldn't be running AWS55 - but I will because, a) I said I'd do it and, b) it takes my mind off the other stuff that's going on.