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Venue: Citadel Theatre - The David Bentley Multipurpose Room.

This room is literally everything we could have hoped for in a venue. It's a
large, well-lit room with windows, plenty of overhead clearance, and big 
enough for at least 40 or 50 shredders. There's bathrooms nearby, a small 
kitchen if you want to bring a lunch and microwave and/or refrigerate it, (and 
a sink for water of course) and they have no problem with us playing music at
all (see below for that). It's across the street from a large arts festival
 that's going on during the weekend...we're actually looking at the 
possibility of being able to play there if it's nice out. Its in the center 
of Edmonton's insane, crazy, always lots going on "downtown"!

Music: DJ BryZe will be spinning some house, breaks, and trance for the
 Saturday shred, and maybe the Sunday as well. He's a good DJ folks, he knows
 his stuff. 

Players' Party: Will be held at Ben Cochrane's house. We decided against
 having it at a bar, because we didn't want to exclude underage players. This
 way, everyone can chill at the same place. He's got a big screen plasma TV
 downstairs to watch shred videos on.  

Elements yet to be Finalized: 

Dinner on Friday Night: A freestyler gathering on opening night, most likely
 to be held at either Boston Pizza or Blue Chicago. Friday will feature less
 formal freestyle footbag schedules...the schedule will pretty much begin with the
dinner.

Outdoor Venue: Like I said above, there's a large arts festival going on 
during the same weekend, so we may not be able to kick on Winston Churchill 
Square. We're going to talk to the City to look at that possibility, but aside 
from that, we have a few other neraby locations in mind. Namely, the Alberta 
Legislature Grounds...a great area a number of blocks away. There's a big 
wading pool, a fountain, tons of open space on both grass and cement, and lots
 of stairs of varying heights for trials/street. If it's really nice out,
 there will literally be hundreds or people there, if not thousands throughout
 the course of the day.
 
Host Hotel: We're looking at the University Residence, Lister Hall. It's a bit
 of a dive, but that seems to be par for the course with footbag tournaments.
  To update this, its not far.  Take the LRT (Its 4 stops) and its cheep (2 
bucks) and it is 1 block from Lister (the Hotel) and it stops right under the
 citadel.

T-shirts: Will be made, and included with the registration fee. A few more
 will be available for purchase. (And they will surely be collectors items
one day on e-bay)

Sponsorship: We've already got two sponsors (I think? One?) and we've got some
 good leads on more. We're looking into the possibility of providing lunch on 
Sunday, water to the players, beer for the party, a discounted rate at the 
host hotel, a discount at the players' dinner...etc.

Media: We may get some competition coverage...I need to call A-Channel 
Edmonton again. At the least we'll probably get on the morning show for some 
exposure in the days leading up to the jam.

Players' packs: Again, this will be based upon the amount of sponsorship we 
receive.

Web Site: That's Rory's job, last I talked to him, he's in preliminary stages
 of creating it. It will have additional information a player might need, like 
maps to the venue, which bus to take, some Albertan phrases to help you get by 
in this strange town, etc.

Numbers: This is where you come in. We're aiming to bring at least 30 
shredders out to this event. Right now, the "Most likely for sure I think I'm 
certain" list has approximately 22 people on it.