View Full Version : UK NC Meet | Piss Up #7 -London 5th to 7th February 2010
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Chosen Location: London
Dates: Friday 5th to Sunday 7th February 2010
Attendees
Brammers
Dribble Joy
Dont Mess
Hoder
nobby
Paralax
Scarus
silent000
Snedex
StevenJ
Trivaldi
Those in italics seem to be coming but i can't make head nor tail of their vague responses...
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Please see above for the current relevant information
Ok this is the new thread for the discussion of the NC - UK Piss-up.
The old thread can be found here. (http://forum.neocron.com/showthread.php?t=144013).
The date is for this is Friday 5th February 2010 to Sunday 7th February.
What needs to be decided is the location for the meet.
1. Pick your 3 cities from the following list.
* Bristol
* London
* Manchester
* Newcastle
* Sheffield
* York
2. Reply in this thread, saying "I want to come", so we do know you want to come and then put a choice of 3 different cities in order of preference. Like as follows.
Hey I want to come to the UK meet. My 1st choice for the meet is City X, 2nd is City Y, and my 3rd is City Z.
Your replies need to be posted in this thread no later than Friday 11th December 23:59 GMT.
Then the votes are counted for the 1st choice cities. If there is tie of votes, then people's 2nd choices are added to the Cities that are tied.
If there is still a tie after then people's 3rd choices are added to the Cities that are tied. If there is a tie after that, then we are screwed. ;)
So get replying.
Hey I want to come to the UK meet. My 1st choice for the meet is NEWCASTLE!!, 2nd is manchester, and my 3rd is sheffield.
William Antrim
08-12-09, 23:51
I want to come, sheffield manchester york.
put a choice of 3 different cities in order of preference.That's more like it :) Stops the futility of me voting for every city.
Okaaaay... "Hey I want to come to the UK meet. My 1st choice for the meet is Manchester, 2nd is Newcastle, and my 3rd is London."
If there is a tie after that, then we are screwed. ;)Nah, if there's a tie after that, we go to Hannover and have a party at the KK office!!
Snow had better hide the hamster...
I plan to attend... London, newcastle, manchester
I want to get drunk with the Neocron Community, first choice is Newcastle, followed by Manchester, and... London third.
It's going to be time to meet up by the time we decide and we'll end up in bloody Nottingham again :p
Hey I want to come to the UK meet, and go into the pub in just my boxers again. My 1st choice for the meet is Bristol, 2nd is London, and my 3rd is Manchester.
Also close to my birthday so you can all wish me Happy Birthday :angel:
I plan to attend...
Sheffield, Manchester, York
Manchester, York, Sheffield.
Hey I want to come to the UK meet. My 1st choice for the meet is NEWCASTLE!!, 2nd is manchester, and my 3rd is sheffield.
Hey I want to come to the UK meet. My 1st choice for the meet is NEWCASTLE!!, 2nd is manchester, and my 3rd is sheffield.
Either this is someone's other half... or a poor attempt at casting an additional vote... :lol:
Either this is someone's other half... or a poor attempt at casting an additional vote... :lol:
other half
Dribble Joy
09-12-09, 18:16
Sheffield
London
York
So we count all second choice votes in the event of a first choice tie?
The other method (used in a lot of electoral systems) is to start eliminating the least popular choices and taking the second choice votes from those. You can either keep doing that (using 3rd choices if necessary) until either you have one winner or (more frequently) one choice has >50% of your vote. This system has the advantage of everyone only having one vote and that as an individual you will never cause your second choice to beat your first choice, which is a possibility we have here.
No, only votes from the cities that are tied are counted. So if Bristol and York are tied from the 1st choice, then only the 2nd choice votes for Bristol and York are counted.
Seraphin[69]
09-12-09, 23:38
I'll only come if it takes place in London and the meeting date is arranged early enought
The votes so far...
* Newcastle - 3
* Sheffield - 3
* London - 2
* Manchester - 2
* Bristol - 1
* York - 0
So a tie for Newcastle and Sheffield, so counting the 2nd choice votes for those cities.
* Newcastle - 2
* Sheffield - 0
Keep the votes coming, bug people who you know have come to a meet before to come!
City 1st 2nd 3rd total attendance
* Newcastle 3 2 0 5
* Sheffield 3 0 3 6
* London 2 2 2 6
* Manchester 2 5 2 9
* Bristol 1 0 0 1
* York 0 1 3 4
If this would have corresponded with your graph I wouldn't have said anything, but according to this only 5 people can make Newcastle, while 9 people can make it to Manchester (almost double), of course its only the second choice for most people
if this table is not appreciated, feel free to delete my post, as I said before, just trying to help
Sorry was Away
this is for me and Rozzer187
1st Sheffield
2nd Manchester
3rd York
That puts Sheffield at the most 1st choice votes, and Manchester at the most overall.
William Antrim
10-12-09, 14:58
SHEFFFFFFFFFFIIEEEEELLLLLLLLLDDDDD
Ive just found out im being posted to bedfordshire in january so i need somewhere easy to get to and preferably northern (ie good) so sheffield should be picked! Plus we have 3 residents there who can sort out some local "entertainment" hopefully (girls and casinos hopefully).
Sorry ill be quiet now.
Biglines, love the table, feel free to fudge it some in favour of my votes. The euros are on the way.
City 1st 2nd 3rd total attendance
* Newcastle 3 2 0 5
* Sheffield 5 0 3 8
* London 2 2 2 6
* Manchester 2 7 2 11
* Bristol 1 0 0 1
* York 0 1 5 6
updated with napper's and rozzer's
Sorry was Away
this is for me and Rozzer187
1st Sheffield
2nd Manchester
3rd York
Sorry, one vote per person. Can you get Rozzer187 to post here please?
james_finn
10-12-09, 16:31
Hey I want to come to the UK meet. My 1st choice for the meet is London, 2nd is Manchester, and my 3rd is York.
Although chances are I would only be able to make it to a London one....
on brammers' request I will stop posting those tables that give another insight into the votes so far but isn't exactly his chosen method of polling
Table doesnt work properly anyway...
Sorry, one vote per person. Can you get Rozzer187 to post here please?
Other then posting from my pc he has no Internet
But i did ask him when i posted if he wanted to go
he said just use same as me
I will try and get him to post but no promises
This isn't fair...
All the meetups have been up bloody north :(
I vote London as first and nowt atm else
This isn't fair...
All the meetups have been up bloody north :(
I vote London as first and nowt atm else
I wont be able to go to london i will be out i have no way of affording London untill after June.
But Newcaste i can if it comes down to it
Hey I want to come to the UK meet, and go into the pub in just my boxers again. My 1st choice for the meet is Bristol, 2nd is London, and my 3rd is Manchester.
Also close to my birthday so you can all wish me Happy Birthday :angel:
Lol we could just let u fall asleep in a take away like in Lancaster lol
yeah me and Dribble Joy can play Poker and i can lose with the first hand
Dribble Joy
11-12-09, 06:06
I would actually prefer London, but I know most people can't/won't make it there so I said Sheffield.
This isn't fair...
All the meetups have been up bloody north :(
I vote London as first and nowt atm elseDude, if you got a lift from peeps on the way down to London, there's nothing stopping you getting the same from anyone on the way up. You're close enough to the M1, and so is Sheffield. Nothing wrong with northern cities, you know ;)
Where are you from Hoder?
Alright then, I'm still counting london as my first... but having the other 3 open
Alright then, I'm still counting london as my first... but having the other 3 open
where do you live nobby... I could maybe give ya a lift if you aint too far from me
ahh... That quite a distance from me... Could pick you up on the way down if london was chose though...
* Bristol - 1 vote - silent000
* London - 4 votes - danmalone, Seraphin[69], james_finn, nobby
* Manchester - 2 votes - Hoder, CMaster
* Newcastle - 3 votes - hybok, Trivaldi, penas
* Sheffield - 4 votes - William Antrim, L0KI, Dribble Joy, NAPPER
* York - Zero votes
A tie for London and Sheffield. Counting the 2nd choice votes for those cities.
* London - 2 votes - silent000,Dribble Joy
* Sheffield - No votes.
So London it is then.
London sounds good. I'm sure I still have a few pence left on my oyster card :p
Where are you from Hoder?I'm near Manchester, but I'm happy drinking anywhere there is a bar open.
Dribble Joy
12-12-09, 19:04
I'm near Manchester, but I'm happy drinking anywhere there is a bar open.
You wouldn't have liked that random bar we went into in... was it Notts? On a random pub crawl during the day.
We drank our beers very quickly and the left before they could murder us with pool cues.
You wouldn't have liked that random bar we went into in... was it Notts? On a random pub crawl during the day.
We drank our beers very quickly and the left before they could murder us with pool cues.I wasn't there or that wouldn't have happened :p What did you say/do to upset the locals?
Was that the tiny little pub where we all huddled around a tiny round table at the back out of the way? As i know i got to Notts reasonably early for one visit.
Was that the tiny little pub where we all huddled around a tiny round table at the back out of the way?
Where else would internet nerd hang out :cool:
And Triv I want another hug!
William Antrim
13-12-09, 15:39
Well if im in bedfordshire then i can swing by and pick people up on the way, north or south.
Nick tell Roz if it ends up being in London I will sort out our accomodation (you to Mr Fang) as I can get a cheap room for myself and up to 3 guests on my card. It will be about £20 each for the room basically, its just a shame I cant sort out everyone.
I will be attending! In what progress are the planning stage? A cheap hotel site somewhere in the center would be nice for early drinking and late reurns (without worrying about damn underground trams)also somewhere close means we could make snap descisions where to go, but ofcourse anything of this scale should be done asap.
A full list of names of attendees and maybe's should be in order <3 Also,Chris contact me asap as regards to the room.
Well I shall be there wherever it turns out to be. I haven't been in NC for ages now owing to a lack of access to the net but would still love to come up and get plastered with all you fine fellows.
I'm all excited :p
Please bear in mind that Nobby is quite a weak drinker (AKA Light weight :p )
Be nice :lol:
if anyones coming from the west country, I'm in little old bath :)
Dribble Joy
15-12-09, 00:26
Please bear in mind that Nobby is quite a weak drinker (AKA Light weight :p )
Carling for you then :p.
I was thinking more along the lines of Kaliber ;)
Ok, so hopefully we shall avoid any dodgy pubs that DJ may find but Nobby be warned...everyone drinks a lot at these meets. ;)
Now here is the general plan for the London meet.
Some of us will turn up on Friday, and of course some of us will turn up on Saturday. Contact numbers will be dished out, so don't worry about not being able to meet up with us.
The main day will be Saturday, where we shall drink lots...take silly pictures, and drink more...maybe end up in a club somewhere... who knows? Of course if you are coming, and got a good idea where you like to go over the weekend, post it here!
Sunday, is the day we all depart, after a quick meetup somewhere.
Now this is where I call for the help of the London peeps. What are the best drinking area's in London. (I know Convent Gardens area myself)
As for accommodation, I'm looking at staying at a Travellodge. As London is fairly easy to get around on the tube, I'll be looking for one that is near a tube station.
Apparently i 'could' have a 3month wait to get my car (which cant be ordered until beginning of Jan) which could fuck up my transportation very badly.
I would be planning to get there for about 2ish in the afternoon to maybe have a wander about before drinking commences.
I believe mystic is in the process of trying to book that weekend off work... If he succeeds (he better do) then i'll most probably bring him with me.
I'm out chaps. Can't do London due to time restraints & travel costs.
Next time it's on the north side of Watford, I'm in.
Just so we can start to organise this, as February is not that far away can people please start stating whether they will there between the 5th and 7th of Feb in London and we can start adding an attendance list to the first post with other details ASAP.
Something similar to this will do:
I will be in London between 5th and 7th of February 2010 for the NC meet!
(Yes, that is my confirmation)
I am considering driving down from near Newcastle so may be able to pick people up along the M1 on the way, especially if they are willing to chip in on petrol, however i have not 100% decided my travel plans.
I will be in London between 5th and 7th of February 2010 for the NC meet!
I shall be driving, so can pick up anybody on route via the M6, M42 and M40.
Sunday, is the day we all depart, after a quick meetup somewhere.Hmm.. dunno about anyone else but I quite fancy that nice sushi restaurant again near Picadilly Circus that Nobby showed us :)
Good idea Triv. :)
Just to re-confirm, I will also be in London between 5th and 7th of February 2010.
I'm most likely to be taking the train from Chippenham to London.
... dunno about anyone else but I quite fancy that nice sushi restaurant again near Picadilly Circus that Nobby showed us :)
Don't think I've had Sushi before, maybe give that a try - anyone else?
I will be in London between 5th and 7th of February 2010 for the NC meet!
Brammers I should meet you on the train if you tell me what time you are leaving ;)
I will be in London between 5th and 7th of February 2010 for the NC meet!
I shall be driving, so can pick up anybody on route via the M6, M42 and M40.
Hmm.. dunno about anyone else but I quite fancy that nice sushi restaurant again near Picadilly Circus that Nobby showed us :)
Heh :p
Sounds good :)
Dribble Joy
16-12-09, 16:21
I will be in London between 5th and 7th of February 2010 for the NC meet!
I live in Loughborough, which is on the M1, so a lift from Triv would be teh win.
I'll give you munees or beer in return.
I will be in Lhandan between 5th and 7th of February 2010 for the NC meet!
Should be coming down with Triv - no confirmed travel plans yet though.
I shall do my best... :angel:
I shall do my best... :angel:
You're coming Mr Steven!
the algebraist shall attend, to distribute hugs!
Michael Myers
20-12-09, 23:32
party time count me in
party time count me in
how very sexy!
I shall be attending London between the 5th and 7th of february for the Neocron PISS UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I should be driving down from Hull along the M62 then down the M1, can divert to pick up anyone (within reason) just let me know.
party time count me in
Mike Myers is coming ! yayyyyy :p
Nobby's looking forward to this gathering :lol:
I will pop down seen as your in my neck of the woods !
Seraphin[69]
28-12-09, 17:03
What is scheduled for the 3 days ?
Dribble Joy
28-12-09, 19:28
A lot of drinking.
I suppose we could wander the sights of London too....
Attendance updated, let me know if i've missed anyone and please if you've not stated yet, let us know so we have a better idea of the group size for travel type plans!
We need to start planning the area of London we're going to be staggering around in pretty soon so we can get some decent accommodation prices...
james_finn
06-01-10, 02:18
Woop first neocron piss up I can make (as long as its central London, and not some stupid zone 6 place :P).
/Delphi
Woop first neocron piss up I can make (as long as its central London, and not some stupid zone 6 place :P).
/Delphi
You have no excuses for not turning up this time, and it's not in a Zone 6...more like Zone 1. :p
So where is everyone staying? I've booked in at http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=50 From about 45 quid a night.
It's the Park Royal, near Ealing and has easy access to both the Piccadilly and Central underground lines. For those who are driving there is parking, it's not that far off the M4 and it's not in the London Congestion Charge zone.
However places are limited so if you want to sleep here, book quick!
P.S. My room is a family room, space for 2 more people in exchange for beer tokens and cash!
Booked. Nice to see the ball rolling again, now to save some beer pennies.
Dribble Joy
07-01-10, 02:13
Do you have to pay in advance or on the day you check out? I am currently devoid of munnehs.
Do you have to pay in advance or on the day you check out? I am currently devoid of munnehs.
For Travellodge - you pay in advance.
Well i am all booked for Feb. I am at a different hotel to brammers, i am staying at the wembley Travellodge http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=309
It is about a 10-15 minute walk away from brammers hotel looking at the map and is a bit cheaper, but very few rooms left.
I have a Twin room so if anyone needs a bed and is willing to chip in just give me a shout.
And don't forget i can offer a lift if needed i plan to travel M62,M1 but can detour if needed. you got a lift yet DJ?
Bah shame, working friday and saturday of that weekend :( Doh, shame as i only live down the road in basingstoke :(
Dribble Joy
01-02-10, 02:49
I do need a lift. I also could do with a place to stay, a random hotel floor would be fine. I must report that my current financial situation is best described as 'perilous'. Mostly due to the actions of Charnwood Borough Council. Hopefully by the weekend I should at least have spending money.
I fully intend to attend the meet, though I may be forced to either drink nothing and sleep on a bench or borrow off someone (family member or someone who trusts me).
I do need a lift.Ok, I'll warp you to your ap... sorry.. pick you up on route to Nobby's :p
There's room for one more for anyone living along the M1 / A1 corridors south of Sheffield.
Ok to anyone who is coming, and doesn't have my mobile number - PM me for it.
Right very rough plan, most of the people I've spoken to are aiming to arrive for 3pm at the Travellodge.
What I'll do is hang around in a pub close to where my Travellodge is, until everyone has arrived who are staying at the Travellodges.
Then we will move onto Convent Gardens, and find a pub that is close to the Convent Garden Tube station to allow any other peeps to come. From there, we will find food, more beer and also make a rough plan for Saturday!
P.S. If anyone knows any good pubs in Convent Gardens, list them here.
And one other note, I'll be tweeting location updates of the meet from the Techhaven Network twitter account. So follow @techhaven or just bookmark https://twitter.com/techhaven in your mobile phone browser.
Although please note, the more beers I have the less tweets I'll send. (I may get someone else to Tweet as well!)
Anyone on the A1/M1 south of Newcastle who may still need a lift, i should be able to squeeze you in. I've one space left in my little car. Hoder if it makes it easier on you for me to do a pick up in Sheffield (assuming it's one person) i can arrange that if needs be.
PM me if i can help anyone out.
Full nights rest tonight chaps, we've a lot of pub crawling to do in the next few days to make up for the lack of a second meet up last year!
I still haven't been paid (dad was supposed to see me yesterday and didn't make an appearence with my wages :( )
So I'll only be able to make one of the days it seems.
I'll probably come saturday then by train
Dribble Joy
05-02-10, 14:07
Hoder mobile inbound!
See you lads in a few hours :).
Some one PM me their number please
All over until next time :)
Continuation thread here. (http://forum.neocron.com/showthread.php?t=144171)
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