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[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

This is meant to be a piece of advice for Russ and PGI, not a bashing. The next time you're going to have an event, be it business to business, business to employee, business to public you should probably hire some professionals to handle the things you have no understanding about. My wife and I have an event planning business handling hundreds of thousands of dollars for our clients to put on great events and after reading about, listening to people talking about the Launch Event I can safely say that you really needed to hire professionals. Professionals to handle the Event Planning which means hiring the vendors (caterers, security, ushers, etc), doing the timeline, coordinating and to have that event planner leading it. You may shrug it off, but those are the people who make events happen with what seems like no hitches, when in reality it was lots of planning (usually starting a year out) and the Event Planner running around putting out fires in such a manner the public generally has no idea.

If your event looks and runs poorly then that's the impression people are left with. Hire the right people to do the right jobs and you will come out smelling like roses. DON'T call an event planner with 2 weeks to go, the more time you give them to do their jobs the better the event will be. Usually a year in advance you should pick the right event planner and start having meetings to plan the event, then let the planner go out and get the right vendors for the job. After that it's a matter of the Planner keeping things on track and making sure everyone is on the same page leading up to the event. Planners are indispensable assets, and a good one can make your event the one everyone is talking about for the right reasons.

[Sandpit]

I think it just helps represent how the management has handled this entire ordeal. They are gamers and I really think that they look at a lot of things as such instead of looking at things as a multi-million dollar professional company. Yes it's the gaming industry but that's not an excuse to look, act, and represent a professional image