Jeff Herne Posted June 26, 2023 Report Share Posted June 26, 2023 Please do ME, the 2024 Nats Team, and the E-board a HUGE favor by NOT calling the 2024 Nationals venue asking for information. It is NOT their job, nor is it their responsibility, to satisfy your personal need to have information ahead of everyone else. The venue has already contacted me directly asking for the phone calls to cease. No IPMS member should be contacting the venue and demanding free parking and lower hotel rates, neither of which are the venue's responsibility. I have instructed the Monona Terrace staff and my personal POC (Point of Contact) to not field calls from anyone within IPMS EXCEPT for the 24 Nationals team and the Executive board. This behavior is unacceptable. All it does is convolute the process and spread rumors, false information, and outright fabrications pertaining to the '24 Nats, which I am already having to deal with, and we aren't even past San Marcos yet. We are more than one year out from Madison, so there are LOTS of things that haven't even been discussed yet. The Monona Terrace staff only knows what I and the E-board have told them thus far pertaining to the convention. They know nothing of the floorplan, or the menu, or the schedule of events, because none of those items have been addressed yet. The sole purpose of this forum is to address questions you have. There's already a list of things we can and cannot answer at this time. Please show the team a little trust and respect and let them do their jobs instead of running around responding to half-truths and rumors. If you have LEGITIMATE questions for the venue, such as handicapped accessibility or things of that nature, we will be HAPPY to convey those questions to them in our regularly scheduled meetings. But PLEASE, bring your questions to US, not the venue. (EDIT - This situation today, over the weekend, and then the personal attacks from IPMS members already accusing us of not doing our jobs, has put me in a not-so-friendly state of mind.) Jeff Herne 2024 IPMS National Convention Chairman IPMS/USA Region 5 Coordinator. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctruss53 Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) Well, IPMS attendees are the same people that complain about the price of kits. Because kits should still be $1 at Ben Franklin Crafts or the local drug store. So I am not surprised. Here is a friendly tip. If the hotel at the convention is too expensive, book an AirBnB. And how expensive can parking possibly be? Price out an Uber and you will see parking is cheap. Edited July 17, 2023 by ctruss53 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66Foxtrot Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 People suck. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRechlicz Posted July 27, 2023 Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 Who do you talk to about bringing a large diorama to the convention? Mike 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFGrune Posted July 27, 2023 Report Share Posted July 27, 2023 San Marcos? Tom Moon, tmoongm at gmail dot com Next year? Wait until after San Marcos is done & the staffing is set, then contact the Contest Coordinator 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagdtiger46 Posted August 13, 2023 Report Share Posted August 13, 2023 Sorry to hear about this, Jeff. Sounds like a real pain in the neck. Our guys here in St Louis dealt with much the same back in '91. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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