Wintersday Workshop 2011!

@Aeronwen & @Arghore: Would you guys be interested in helping out with future GW and GW2 workshops?
Whether it's here on over at GW2Guru?

Both your help is invaluable I have organized the party for 5 workshops now (if not mistaken), 2x halloween and 3x wintersday. I enjoyed organizing them, but I personally think that gaining some new blood into the 'party organizing crowd' is of great value to the continuation of parties being organized ... this means that i decided that i rather wait untill somebody else points out they are interested in organizing the party, whom i would then offer my experience in more of a consulting role. This will give others the opportunity to get involved, without loozing knowledge of parties held in previous years... (if there is nobody interested, and i have the time then its likely i will do it anyways seeing i have a hard time saying 'no' and rather enjoy throwing parties, but as said, idd like to give 'young blood' a chance first! )

Then there is the other thing, that i also mentioned to GeminiJuSa, and that is GW2 ... we all know that GW1 will continue to excist, but with GW2 around the corner it's very likely that halloween & wintersday will have a much larger interest in GW2. But (and some of us 'event organizers' have already discussed this inevitability (<- did i spell that right :/ ), when GW comes out this means that gathering prizes will become a whole new ballgame, and we don't know yet if there will be somewhat easily farmed items interesting enough to give away, players like us will also want to play the game for ourselves and our own characters, and we don't know yet how easy it is to build up wealth in some form to hand out.

All this is pretty well known in GW1 and some people have ecto's and other stuffz comming outof their *censorred* making it rather easy to get a nice prize pool (don't be mistaken though, if you do these things on a regular basis there is still quite some farming involved, but bigger events (like these workshops) can fortunatly also count on donations) ... unfortunatly though, it is very likely that as GW2 comes around, people will be less interested in winning things for GW1 (besides those that are trying to frantically fill their HOM), and those people rather win things for GW2 ...

This leaves events (like these workshops) rather stuck between a rock and a hard place ... not to mention the still shady "when it's done" uncertainty related to the above ... There is just one way to get these community events off the ground in this new situation. It is a strategy that related to ancient warfare campaigns, everybody chips that which he can spare, it all becomes a bigg pile, which is then distributed over the event (meaning that donations to the workshop f/e are also distributed somewhat over the party, as being part of one and the same event, and or people donate items with the party in mind (drinks f/e)) ...

This sort of means that everybody involved in these workshops, should keep them in the back of their mind as we transit to GW2, so we can pile up all the little stuff to make a couple nice prizes and throw a decent party ... and us as organizers need to also be aware that we can use GW1 prizes aswell (maybe as a sort of 'pick your prize pool' either GW1 or GW2) for those that are still somewhat busy with their HOM...

It may be all somewhat far away now, but it will come, thus best be prepaired !!