Re: The fun of convention organizing...

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Jon Davis wrote:

> 
> For a good laugh.
> 
> I received a convention support packet from Wizards of the Coast 
> this week for the Ground Zero Games East Coast Convention.  It had
> all kinds of information on running sanctioned tournaments for 
> Magic and D&D and advertising deals.	Of most use for us is the 
> prizes packages that we could get from them.
> 
> Just think!  Instead of cool UNSC or Islamic Federation ships as
> prizes we can be handing out Pokemon packs!  
> 
> :-)
> 
> Jon
> 

The sad part is that I've seen Pokemon packs going for $4.99us to as
high as $11.99us.  For 11 cards per pack.

It's cardboard crack.  I've seen 8 year old kids lined up 10 deep,
*shaking*,
waiting to buy Pokemon.  It's an addiction.

Mike