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Update to Gaelcon's website.

  • 31-03-2009 12:24pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭


    Gaelcon's website will be updated at midnight.
    www.gaelcon.com


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    Ohh the suspense...


    *This better be better than the big Sony announcement today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Popcorn, anyone?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    http://www.gaelcon.com/gaelcon/
    ndex
    GAELCON 2009 CANCELLED


    I am sorry to inform you all that Gaelcon has been cancelled due to the economic circumstances we find ourselves in.

    I have, for the last three months, been privileged to be the con director Gaelcon 21. During that time I've had little time to myself but in all honesty I've loved being part of this committee. They have all been positive and diligent in getting their respective departments ready for the con. I honestly believe that this year would have been spectacular.


    The problems have been around since my inception as con director. Moving to a larger, more central location brought with it financial burdens as did the new merchandise we'd planned.


    There have also been some personal issues which have made everything a struggle when it comes to organising things and trying to go to other conventions to promote Gaelcon. These all pale however in comparison to the trouble caused by the simple fact of the recession we find ourselves in. Trade, sponsorship, attendance, even shirt prices have been affected


    In the past Gaelcon has seemed to me to be the unmissable event of the gaming calendar. I met many of my closest friends at Gaelcon in Croke Park and renew acquaintances there that I meet nowhere else.

    I remember some of the troubles surmounted by other con directors and I have to admit feeling humbled. Between us the committee has tried to think of any and every way out of this problem.


    I'm sorry. We couldn't.

    Gaelcon is cancelled until further notice and I'm so sorry.

    Andrew


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    ...fuck...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    :(

    I guess I'll have to find somewhere else to spend my bank holiday weekend.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭the evil lime


    Now... the question is: is this a joke, or just a really poor choice of date?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Thankfully, April fools.
    Not the joke I was expecting to see, but I was expecting one...
    Real web page up now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    It was an April Fools' Joke!



    Gaelcon is bigger and stronger than ever. Don't believe me? Come inside our site and take a look!
    I'd like to appologise to everyone upset or hurt by this joke, but I'm honestly not a good enough person.
    This has been hilarious. Thanks everyone who believed me.

    Everyone else? You are a cynical, cold person and I am ashamed of you.....


    The full site ,with a proper address from this years Gaelcon's con director is, up for your reading pleasure at www.gaelcon.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Well it's too late now, I've already booked my flights to Sweden.


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