2010 Award Ceremony and Banquet

Banquet will probably start around 7pm.  Alcohol will probably be BYOB, but with serious guidelines for safety and responsibility. Please keep the banquet list reservations coming. The longer you wait to be added to the guest list, the more difficult it will be for us to plan for the food.

Is this event being catered? Or will we be bringing dishes like the Ball?

catered

Can we get a definite answer on alcohol.  I have a feeling that people are waiting for this before they will decide to go or not. If there is no answer can we get a date the decision will be made by.  I understand the banquet is 3 weeks away, and there is a need for patience, but I think its only fair that we should know what we are in for before we commit to attending.
Thanks
Tom

I'm just going to say this cause it has been eating away at me...

Does anyone honestly care about this game at all? This is an awards banquet and should be a celebration of a year of hard work. A lot of people put loads of effort into this game both behind the scenes and in-game. A lot of people have worked hard to achieve these nominations from their peers and those whom the players of Knight Realms find to be the best will be honored. By complaining about whether or not there will be beer and alchohol and saying that it will highly influence the chance of your attendence cheapens this ceramony. I understand having a few beers with a group of friends at a meal, I do it all the time, but honestly if it is that big of a deal to you don't come. You coming and deciding to drink a lot only to become obnoxious and disrespectful to James and the players of Knight Realms who are being honored is wrong.

This is not directed at any one person and if you get pissed off by this I'm sorry... but I just feel it had to be said.

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We have in the past allowed drinking at oog social events, for example: the Cons, OOG social at charlies, and all of the previous banquets. We will allow drinking, but not without guidelines. Social responsible drinking will be allowed, crazy frat party drinking wont be. The difference should hopefully be apparent, but I will spell it out in detail and how I intend to enforce it a bit later. If the confirmation of social, responsible drinking isn't good enough, than ya, maybe its best to sit this one out  

If you want to do crazy frat party drinking at a nearby hotel after the banquet that is ok, because it is no longer my responsibility at that point.

For everyone else, I will be allowing people to sleep over at the camp if they wish.