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[RING][WEBSITE] Labyrinth Training Events
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aliendial
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 		Wow, people, you rock!

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Melody
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 		thebruce... great job on the photos!

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mr.judkins
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 		It's fantastic to see the first pics and videos of training events up! I'm really looking forward to the start of our practicing here in New Zealand.

Just passing on a message from Ariadne from a brief chat I had with her yesterday - she's asked that all those planning Lost Sport events please do use the Yahoo Upcoming Events site, even if they don't expect anyone from their location will use it - simply so she's got a record of what events are coming up...

Personally, I don't know anyone who has ever used this site in the past, but sounds fair enough to me...

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Avatrix
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 		That was great to watch, though it makes it feel a bit more intimidating! A lot of chaos. I think that in recruiting people who have not been part of the ARG, it will be a challenge to teach them the rules without overloading them right away. Melody's steps of starting a straight wall, then a labyrinth without the blindfold, and working up, should really help.

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thebruce
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 		I set up a page to catalogue events as they happen, and link to information. So far we've got 2 Smile
When's the next upcoming one? Yahoo says there are two on Saturday... any others not yet reported there?
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Avatrix
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 		Between my post here, and the e-mail I sent out... I have gotten not a single response of interest for Boston. Sad I still have to post to LJ and ask Codex (my Mystery Hunt team), which will probably draw more. But without agonothetai, there can be no labyrinth.

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Melody
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 		Avatrix:
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That was great to watch, though it makes it feel a bit more intimidating! A lot of chaos. I think that in recruiting people who have not been part of the ARG, it will be a challenge to teach them the rules without overloading them right away.


It actually wasn't that intimidating... this is what I did: sent out emails and phoned friends inviting them without even explaining the back-story.

When you have written instructions, it helps... remember, it looks chaotic, but after a few dry runs, most people realized what's going on.

I say if you're running a personal training event marketed to your own friends and contacts.....FIRST get people to show up, and then worry about them catching on. Food is a draw! Have it as part of another party, for example?

Now that this has happened, I could likely run another one in a month and get 3 or 4 times as many people if I re-invite all the original folks and get them to bring their friends.

We had fun!! I hope others try to run one.

P.S. Today I sent a follow up email to all the folks who were a part of our training run, explained how I got interested in this ARG, and posted them to the CNET article referring to the video thebruce put together... who knows, more involvement in this ARG?

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mr.judkins
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 		One question for our upcoming event, Melody - how long did it take you to draw the human-scale labyrinth on the ground? We're working out how much time to allow between us getting there and inviting everyone else... Smile

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Hikaro
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Melody wrote:
P.S. Today I sent a follow up email to all the folks who were a part of our training run, explained how I got interested in this ARG, and posted them to the CNET article referring to the video thebruce put together... who knows, more involvement in this ARG?


Here is the link to that article for those who missed it.

~Hikaro

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Melody
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 		Mr. Judkins wrote:
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One question for our upcoming event, Melody - how long did it take you to draw the human-scale labyrinth on the ground? We're working out how much time to allow between us getting there and inviting everyone else


It took me around 30 minutes total: a bunch of false starts to figure out what I was doing. I ended up drawing a 3-circuit training labyrinth on snow. I brought copies of the chapters with labyrinth diagrams, spray paint, twine, and a tape measure, and, after drawing the centre-most curved wall, i set the tape measure to two feet and marked off the dots 2 feet out from what I had already done. I continued with these dots as a guide (ie: a 'dot to dot'), as a guide, then I connected the dots.

If I were you, I'd use markers such as stones, chalk on pavement, or what-have-you to keep an equi-distance for the walls.

I wish I had drawn two labyrinths beside each other: one for the runner to start practicing on before the event, and one for the walls to practice on... that way before the timed-event, everyone can practice they're respective responsibilities.

-thanks for the link Hikaro... still haven't gotten used to posting in these forums.

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mr.judkins
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Melody wrote:
I wish I had drawn two labyrinths beside each other: one for the runner to start practicing on before the event, and one for the walls to practice on... that way before the timed-event, everyone can practice they're respective responsibilities.


Genius idea! We wouldn't have thought of that.

Thanks on the timing, we've allowed ourselves around 45 minutes - so all going well that will be plenty.

Oh - and I've just been chatting to thebruce - we're planning on paying homage to your use of "Small World" (and the person in the wall who just started humming it). Wonderfully appropriate number, and would be brilliant if it becomes a running theme in training vids from around the globe... Very Happy

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Melody
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 		mr.judkins:
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Oh - and I've just been chatting to thebruce - we're planning on paying homage to your use of "Small World" (and the person in the wall who just started humming it). Wonderfully appropriate number, and would be brilliant if it becomes a running theme in training vids from around the globe...


great, looking back, I realized that it was incredibly funny and fitting that frazer (who initiated the tune) had NO idea as to the global implications of what he was taking part in....

Smile

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mr.judkins
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 		Hello all, just wanted to stop in and say the Wellington NZ training event went really well! Very Happy

We will upload video and still frames tomorrow, and make a post in the Reports thread (didn't want to clutter it with this message...).

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