Triples, Sheffield

[Leman]

In most of the shows the same menu is on offer. As a consequence I limit myself to York (start of the season and free entry owing to age), St.Helens (I usually run a game and it's local), and Reading (again involved in running a game and travel with other club members). I have also heard that Triples is expensive to get in and expensive to park, so it does need to be something special under those circumstances, which apparently it wasn't.

[Techno]

That seems very poor, Leon.

Your headcount of 400...Did that include the people running/playing the games ?
In the photo...There seem to be as many people 'playing' around the tables as customers around the edge of the hall. 

Three shows in three weekends, all relatively close distance wise......It doesn't seem ideal, at all.

Cheers - Mr Disappointed for you.

[Steve J]

Blimey, that's even quieter than I thought

[Leon]

Your headcount of 400...Did that include the people running/playing the games ?
In the photo...There seem to be as many people 'playing' around the tables as customers around the edge of the hall. 

I tried to include only the ones playing the game, rather than the guys running them.  It was only a rough count, just blocking people into approximate groups of 10.

[Orcs]

That does seem very poor.

I am disappointed for you and all the other traders.

We used to go as a group, stay over somewhere cheap and enjoy good cheap real ale over the weekend.  That stopped when we started doing  4 day holidays to Normandy, Arnhem Etc.

Why diid they move the date, especially if there are two other shows nearby in a month.

I am afraid that Ebay has killed the bring and buy, and the internet has killed the need to attend shows.  You might find a new trader that has stuff you want or check out a range before buying, but that's about all. 

Two day shows were really for the competition games. and competition gamers are not usually big spenders.   

For a trader they are a huge expense in Time, money and the loss of production. 

[Leon]

Why diid they move the date, especially if there are two other shows nearby in a month.

There was a rumour that the venue was booked for May so they had to move back to March, but I'm not sure on that.  I think they thought that it was the date change into May that was causing the decline of the show, so by bringing it back to March everything would be fine again.  Obviously that wasn't the case and it's deteriorated further.  I believe they've already booked the venue for March 2017 and 2018 as well, so I don't know how that's going to work out for them.

[Womble67]

Very sad really used to be my favourite show but it's steadily declined over the years

Take care

Andy

[Steve J]

I am afraid that Ebay has killed the bring and buy, and the internet has killed the need to attend shows.

At our local show most people are checking their 'phones to compare show prices to ebay ones. I attend a show to see what's going on in the hobby and not really to shop. It is nice to see stuff in the flesh as websites vary in your ability to see how nice or otherwise stuff is.

[Ithoriel]

For me shows are for

Bumping into old friends
Bumping into friends you hadn't met until then
Seeing what the figures from the websites with no pictures actually look like
Bending the ears of traders about figures/ ranges you hope you can persuade them they should make
Despairing of ever achieving the the standards of figure painting and terrain building shown in the best demo/ participation games
Saving on postage by picking up stuff in person
Buying random stuff I didn't realise I needed (and possibly didn't!)

Pretty much in that order. A sufficiency of attendees is therefore quite important to me.

[Leman]

Bit like going into a new (or old) coffee shop and finding you're the only customer.