London Meet @ Stunfest 2014 (Fri 2nd May to Sun 4th May)

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London Meet @ Stunfest 2014 (Fri 2nd May to Sun 4th May)

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As you guys may be aware, there is some kind of shooting game event being held at a big fighting game tournament in France. I hear it's going to be decent. ^_-

Last year, there were four of us down there - myself, DEL, CHI and Plasmo - and much comedy was had by all. This year, I've already been contacted by a few more who would like to join our little band of merry men, and since I didn't want to fire a bunch of PMs around the forum, I'd thought I'd start up the usual meet thread to get people together and keep discussion in one place.

There's nothing concrete just yet in terms of booking travel and accommodation, but by all means feel free to get time off work early so you know you have it free. ^_-

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Copy-pasting the information I have sent to a few people already:
Icarus wrote:As you're probably aware, it'l be held on Friday 2nd May to Sunday 4th May. Usually we travel down and meet up a day before that, and leave on the Sunday (for those driving back aka DEL and Plasmo) or Monday morning (for those going back by train or plane). Of course, it's entirely up to you how and when you want to travel down, although since you're in London, you could meet up with CHI and travel together, since he knows how to get there. I personally get the Eurostar all the way from Newcastle to Rennes via two connecting trains, though if CHI is definitely coming this year, I might try and come down a day early to head out together with you guys.

As for accommodation, last year the four of us stayed at the Citotel le Bretagne, a small hotel right across the street from Rennes Central Station (Gare).

details: http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetail ... c&sc_pos=2
map: http://goo.gl/maps/BtlY2

It's £21 per person per night, if you want a private double bed room to yourself, or £25 pppn if you want to split singles with people. Four nights therefore will come up to a maximum of £100. The most beds we've stuffed into a room is 3, and I think CHI and DEL will be sharing this time since they snore like a train, lol, though we haven't booked anything in regards to accommodation yet, so the plans are still to be finalised regarding who shares with who.

This hotel is suitable this year as the venue is just around the corner, literally.

http://goo.gl/maps/OvV4V
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Keeping it tentative so far, but there's a few of us planning to come:

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Icarus, DEL, CHI, Plasmo, Smraedis, ptoing, spadgy
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• Travel:
CHI has booked four of them, for: myself, himself, Smraedis and spadgy.

Departing London:
- 1st May 12:25, arriving 19.27

Departing Rennes:
- 5th May 08.03 arriving 13.30

As usual, we need to be at the respective stations as early as possible to get our tickets, and to get through passport, customs and check-in. In London that means we have to be at St. Pancras at around 9.30am to 10am to be sure to beat the crowds. On the way back, we can be a little bit more flexible, but we have to be at the Paris terminal on the way back at least an hour early.

• Accommodation:
Looks like we've finally managed to sort out the rooms as well.

Room 1: Plasmo, ptoing
Room 2: DEL, CHI (at Inter-Hotel le Sevigne)
Room 3: Icarus, spadgy, Smraedis (at Kyriad Hotel Central)

Checkout is expected to be around 9am, but our first train is 8am, so that makes things easier.

This is currently final! Let's get ready to sortie! :arrow:
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Just to add, I won't be online much at all from tomorrow until March, so if any tickets and rooms are booked, then assume that I will be going too.
I've booked Thursday and Friday off work, could always set off to London late on the Wednesday if needed.
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Looking forward to it already. Last year was a Blast!
Worth the 6 hour drive.

Icarus - Yes you should head to London early and join CHI, then make a group journey.

The May 2nd wait gives me more time to push further into Manpuku's 2nd loop.
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I'm definitely planning to head down from London. Been a bit busy to finalise any details, but I've talked briefly with CHI and Icarus. Be good to travel down as a group from London.

And it should be wicked fun!
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For those travelling to and from London, I've put up a simple document with prices for travel to and from Rennes via various places.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9wr8ustcf52tz ... nprices.md

We're going to need to work out who's staying with who, who's travelling with who, and so on pretty soon, as I expect prices to go up and availability to drop as time goes on.
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Looks like there is a train with only one stop, so considering the whole thing is in the centre of Rennes this time.....I'll go by train.
Should work out cheaper than the car with those large French highway tolls.

Icarus - Just let me know the day before you book the Hostel.

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Right - I've made sure I'm free, so I'm definitely on for this. And I'm seeing CHI saturday, so I'll try and get final travel plans sorted then. Then, I'd be ready to book things on Sunday.

So... who's travelling from London? Myself and CHI. Icarus and .SM... will you join us. And, if it helps, you could crash at mine the night before we travel down, so you can wake up in London on the day of travel.
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spadgy wrote:Right - I've made sure I'm free, so I'm definitely on for this. And I'm seeing CHI saturday, so I'll try and get final travel plans sorted then. Then, I'd be ready to book things on Sunday.
Awesome. I spoke to CHI on the phone earlier this week, hopefully he'll be able to sort out his time off. I've already put in for mine and I don't see a problem with getting time off, considering I have only taken one day off work since I started this job last May. :3
spadgy wrote:So... who's travelling from London? Myself and CHI. Icarus and .SM... will you join us. And, if it helps, you could crash at mine the night before we travel down, so you can wake up in London on the day of travel.
I'm coming down but I believe I'll be staying with CHI if things go to plan.

The main question is: if we're all planning to travel down together, we'll have to all book tickets at the same time to ensure we all gets seats together. Who'll be the pack mule and do the booking of the tickets? As it stands, there's at least five tickets to be booked at once if you include Illyrian in this.
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Hi everyone, I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand right now.
Was planning to do whatever Icarus does.
Can only travel down to london after 6pm on Wednesday and I'd stay at Spadgy's if he'd let me.
Can't really book all the tickets from here.
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I'll let you!

And New Zealand?! What you up to all the way down there?
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Was my brother's wedding yesterday here, all so on holiday, been at Sydney for a week too, pretty worn out.
Thanks Spadgy I'll have to sort travel down to you soon
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Well this is all fantastic. Looks like I will be in Devon at the time of this event, so I am cancelling my plans to go.

Hooray.

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Sortie :arrow:
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Yup, we're finally all good to go.

• Travel:
CHI has booked four of them, for: myself, himself, Smraedis and spadgy.

Departing London:
- 1st May 12:25, arriving 19.27

Departing Rennes:
- 5th May 08.03 arriving 13.30

As usual, we need to be at the respective stations as early as possible to get our tickets, and to get through passport, customs and check-in. In London that means we have to be at St. Pancras at around 9.30am to 10am to be sure to beat the crowds. On the way back, we can be a little bit more flexible, but we have to be at the Paris terminal on the way back at least an hour early.

• Accommodation:
Looks like we've finally managed to sort out the rooms as well.

Room 1: Plasmo, ptoing
Room 2: DEL, CHI (at Inter-Hotel le Sevigne)
Room 3: Icarus, spadgy, Smraedis (at Kyriad Hotel Central)

Checkout is expected to be around 9am, but our first train is 8am, so that makes things easier.
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Icarus wrote:• Travel:
CHI has booked four of them, for: myself, himself, hisself and herself.

Sortie London:
- 1st May 12:25, arriving 19.27

Sortie Rennes:
- 5th May 08.03 arriving 13.30
Fixed :mrgreen:
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Train tickets now in my possession.
Sortie :arrow:
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CHI wrote:
Icarus wrote:• Travel:
CHI has booked four of them, for: myself, himself, hisself and herself.

Sortie London:
- 1st May 12:25, arriving 19.27

Sortie Rennes:
- 5th May 08.03 arriving 13.30
Fixed :mrgreen:
Am I the 'herself'?

Anyway - only took 100 pms, but we're pretty much sorted. I'll buy the Stunfest tickets as soon as they're available. Covering me, CHI, smraedis and DEL (although I only need to buy three, as Icarus has his own and a spare through crowd funding Stunfest 2014).

Sortie!
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I just realised something funny...
It's like a Namako and Royale meet (with a couple of stray bullets) at Stunfest :!:
Well hyped, why cannot be May now... GET READY TO SORTIE BITCHES :wink:
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Got my train tickets to and from London sorted, looking forward to sortie with you all!
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Hello chaps

I know I'm pretty green, but I'd love to come to this! If only to meet all the European players!
I'll have to come up with a decent excuse to get the time off because I work in education and it doesn't fall during the school holidays! Bummer!

I think Blinge is also interested so perhaps I can persuade him?
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Yes JWS, you'll have a great time. Last year was a Blast. Bring Blinge.
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Yeah - do come along. A few of us (Me, CHI, DEL, Icarus, Smraedis etc) have already booked train and hotel, but at least that means we can point you where to go.

Be wicked to have more of the UK crew along!
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I looked in to this but yeah, teacher, can't choose holidays etc. Have fun guys, take plenty of pictures! :o
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Guys, how did you go about booking train tickets? Just trying to get some prices together,
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I've just bought Smraedis' and spadgy's Show Tickets.
CHI - What's the deal? Do you have a Stunfest 3 day Pass? If not, I'll buy one. Let me know. OBEY
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Thanks DEL! :oops:

I think the spare Icarus has is going to our Lord and saviour CHIsus.
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spadgy wrote:I think the spare Icarus has is going to our Lord and saviour CHIsus.
Lord CHI, Savior of the World is getting the spare I have.
DEL wrote:I've just bought Smraedis' and spadgy's Show Tickets.
I hope you bought a three-day pass and not a tournament registration. :mrgreen:
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Yes you are ALL registered to the fighting Tournaments.
spadgy will win the Blazblue Tournament
Smraedis will win the Tekken Tournament
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Kidding

ICR - Thanks for letting me know CHIsus has been sorted.

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Oh yeah. BlazBlue is mine. I'll master all the kickies and puncherises there are.

Thanks for sortie-ing us DEL! Can't wait!
nuskool wrote:Guys, how did you go about booking train tickets? Just trying to get some prices together,
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