Australia's First MEGA EVENT ???

GhostGums · Post by **GhostGums** » 17 October 08 1:51 pm

Does it have to be in one location? Can it be a number of smaller gathering held simultaneously across the country?

Like nominate a weekend and then have local groups organise smaller local events. They each have their theme/structure, ie camping, local town etc. We seemed to have done a a number of smaller get togethers already, so it will be like having them all on at the same time. Mind you it will still require a fair amount of work by a lot of people.

Webguy · Post by **Webguy** » 17 October 08 2:02 pm

I believe to even get a mega event listed, you have to show that you will get 500 people attend the same event. The reviewers probably have more info on the procedure for getting a mega Event accepted and listed.

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 17 October 08 2:12 pm

A Mega Event, like any other event, needs to be at a location, not scattered across a continent!

The ridiculous extreme, otherwise, would be an event that was held in every place where a cacher happened to be at a certain time. Hey Presto, super-mega-global event!

Cheesy pigs · Post by **Cheesy pigs** » 17 October 08 8:23 pm

Papa Bear_Left wrote:A Mega Event, like any other event, needs to be at a location, not scattered across a continent!

The ridiculous extreme, otherwise, would be an event that was held in every place where a cacher happened to be at a certain time. Hey Presto, super-mega-global event!

Hmmm - I think you are on to something......

Jardry · Post by **Jardry** » 17 October 08 8:40 pm

Cheesy pigs wrote:
Papa Bear_Left wrote:A Mega Event, like any other event, needs to be at a location, not scattered across a continent!

The ridiculous extreme, otherwise, would be an event that was held in every place where a cacher happened to be at a certain time. Hey Presto, super-mega-global event!
Hmmm - I think you are on to something......

Or should that just be "on something".

GhostGums · Post by **GhostGums** » 17 October 08 8:40 pm

Yes I know it was a dumb question, just broadening the scope

Facitman · Post by **Facitman** » 17 October 08 9:24 pm

This is an interesting discussion, I personally don't think we have the numbers to get a Mega-Event up.

Webguy wrote:3) Masses of caches for all types and levels and colours.
4) Plenty of places that can hold a huge amount of people for a conference.

Webguy's post highlights a significant aspect of a Mega-Event for me. As much as I like an event, for me to "invest" in driving over 6 hours or flying to an event it would need to be more than a bbq and a couple of days caching. We can easily fill in a long weekend within Victoria, so a Mega-Event would need to offer something I can't get normally. Briefly looking at US Mega-Events, they are like conferences, they have information sessions, company demo's, multiple activities, meals, competitions etc. This is the problem IMHO, we don't have the population to draw the companies and good luck to anyone wanting to run it. It would be a huge undertaking!

So when's it on?

Peter

Post by **caughtatwork** » 17 October 08 9:56 pm

Facitman wrote:So when's it on?
Peter

Whenever paegle boy organises it

I'd love to go to a mega event. It's not all about the numbers. I'd love to meet people I've only ever abused, er I mean, "spoken to" on teh intarwebs. Finding a few caches would be nice too, but I'm not a huge numbers run guy, so 10 a day would be more than enough. 3 days = 30 caches to find and that would be nice.

Alansee · Post by **Alansee** » 18 October 08 5:17 pm

A mega event would be great fun, but..

We get - 30 to 40? at capital city events. We ate NOT going to get hundreds at a mega event, just yet. As 2Dudes says lets give it another couple of years.

On the bright side we are still growing so it is possible.

vk3jap · Post by **vk3jap** » 19 October 08 1:07 am

I assume you're referring to me there C@W .. how nice, I'm touched..!

Seriously.. would be nice to go to an event like this. Meet up with all those I peeved with my initial post on GCA forums a while back.

C@W and vk3jap in Sumo suits.. yehaa...

Still with an event so big the practical reality is that the chance to mingle would be less, better off with more smaller events I'm thinking - like Bullengarook etc.

Udderchaos · Post by **Udderchaos** » 21 October 08 12:23 pm

we had around 120 ppl at the SA event in mt gambier in june 2007

its do-able but i pity the organisers

Alansee · Post by **Alansee** » 21 October 08 4:30 pm

Notwithstanding that we almost certainly don't have the caching population at present to put on a mega-event, it would be great if a city/town were to put on a big event. With plenty of notice and some good organisation I'd like to think that very good numbers would turn up.

Maybe it would be a precursor to a real Mega event further down the track.

zoratz · Post by **zoratz** » 26 October 08 3:48 pm

Maybe someone should have a topic that just has a poll that shows where the best place for a mega event cache could be held?

roostaman · Post by **roostaman** » 03 November 08 9:09 pm

OK, it's time for this to progress.

A poll is being held on a new topic to resolve this now.