DtJ Hilt
Little Lizard
Midwest Smash Bus
Alright, I've already talked to quite a few people about this, but I thought I'd go ahead and start this thread to keep it all organized. A big group of us in the Midwest are going to be taking a Greyhound Bus from Springfield, Ohio.
For those that don't know about Pound 4 or Greyhound
Pound Thread: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=237419
Greyhound Site: http://www.greyhound.com/home/
The whole trip is going to take up friday evening, saturday, sunday, monday, and about half of tuesday. School and work should all be canceled on monday, as it's MLK day, but you'll most likely end up missing school on tuesday. We're going to try to leave sometime late in the evening on friday so we don't interfere with people's school schedule.
Bus Information
I'm gonna go ahead and deliver the bad news
There will be no electric outlets on our bus, so no smash on the drive there. The only buses that have outlets are the ones leaving from the New York area.
First of all I just want to reemphasize that this trip is going to be expensive. Not just this bus ticket in particular, but this trip in general. This bus is not meant to make things easier on anyone's wallet but instead easier on those that do not want to drive through the Appalachian Mountains. And considering this trip is hours away having to drive and finding a driver is unlikely, especially in the midwest. And flying is no cheaper.
Alright, here are our three main options:
Indianapolis: Departing at 4:10 pm, arriving at 5:55 am, roughly two hours before the doors to the venue open. This is currently our best option except for the fact that we would be leaving not long after a lot of people would get out of school and it may be inconvenient due to the time we would be departing. It's a friday after all, and I know not everyone is available at this time of the day. $98 Bus Ticket. If you select "no" for whether or not the credit card holder is traveling it's an extra $18. If you select yes, it isn't. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by mail it will be an extra $3. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by will call it isn't, but you must pick them up yourself form a location that would distribute them.
Indianapolis: Departing at 7:20 pm, arriving at 9:15 am. This is another good option due to its central location, however, melee doubles starts at 10:00 am. this gives no breathing room for any melee players planning to enter doubles, and if the bus ends up being late at all, it's highly likely they will miss registration. So unless no melee players enter melee doubles, we will not be using this method. $98 Bus Ticket. If you select "no" for whether or not the credit card holder is traveling it's an extra $18. If you select yes, it isn't. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by mail it will be an extra $3. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by will call it isn't, but you must pick them up yourself form a location that would distribute them.
Springfield: Departing at 7:00 pm, arriving at 5:55 am. The best of the above two options with the lack of being a centralized location. Springfield will be a bit of a drive for many people, but the fact that it's closer to the east coast means that the ticket will be a bit cheaper and we're able to get and leave at the perfect times with it being a shorter bus ride. As long as people are still willing to make the drive to Springfield, Ohio (should only be three, maybe four hours at most). With this, however, we will be forced to leave from the hotel earlier, meeting our bus at 10:50 in the morning. I do not like this idea because expecting a bunch of smashers to wake up that early in the morning just after a tournament as big as this one, isn't going to happen. There's always the option of staying one extra night at the hotel and hanging out in Maryland for another day after the tournament just to chill, but I don't know how many people would be up for this considering it'll be an extra $15 and you will miss school or whatever on wednesday. We would be able to leave at 8:00 in the morning on wednesday morning and get home around 7:00. I currently like this option the best just because hanging out with everyone after a tournament would be ****in awesome But for convience's sake, this may not be the best option for everyone. $85.60 bus ticket (with tax). If you select "no" for whether or not the credit card holder is traveling it's an extra $18. If you select yes, it isn't. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by mail it will be an extra $3. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by will call it isn't, but you must pick them up yourself form a location that would distribute them.
If none of these options will end up working I have one backup plan, though it sacrifices organization, which we need for this. I'm worried that with our fourth option things will go awry and I don't want this trip to fall apart.
Housing
Hotel Registration will need to be made before December 25th. I will start making lists of who wants to room with whom after I get a complete list. that will give me a month to get things organized which should be enough time. Hotel registration will need to be done in groups. All of the money for one group will need to be in one place. For instance. If I, Crash, Overswarm, and Kel are all staying in the same hotel room, everyone would have to send their money for the hotel to one person, say, Overswarm. OS would then register the hotel room for each of them as a group. I will either do it this way or just have people send me the money through paypal and have take care of it myself. Either way works, I don't mind. Just as long as if the first option is taken, no one ****s it up. Hotel rooms will be $90 a night, split among everyone staying in the room. We are for sure staying on saturday, sunday, monday, and maybe tuesday if people choose my third option for travel. We would leave from the hotel on wednesday before checkout.
Travelers
This use to be a list of those that were confirmed and/or thinking of going. I'm reducing this to only people that have confirmed that they will be going. We are not renting out a bus anymore so I'm not as worried about people backing out as it wont hurt others. But for hotel purposes and general organization, I'd much rather it if you knew for sure that you'd be able to go.
IF YOU ARE GOING I NEED TO KNOW BEFORE NOVEMBER 25TH
I will start organizing everything between then and the beginning of January.
You must order your ticket at least 21 days in advance or the price for it doubles.
You must have your hotel room reserved before December 25th or you do not have housing.
You must preregister for Pound 4 before the beginning of January or you cannot enter.
Confirmed:
Hilt
Crash
Kel
Y.b.M.
Infern
Smash64
Reneblade
Reneblade's Friend
Today
Kassandra
Mayling
If you need to contact me, post in here or send me a PM.
If you need to reach me by other means, you can contact me on Aim (Lixth@aol.com)
Discuss!
Alright, I've already talked to quite a few people about this, but I thought I'd go ahead and start this thread to keep it all organized. A big group of us in the Midwest are going to be taking a Greyhound Bus from Springfield, Ohio.
For those that don't know about Pound 4 or Greyhound
Pound Thread: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=237419
Greyhound Site: http://www.greyhound.com/home/
The whole trip is going to take up friday evening, saturday, sunday, monday, and about half of tuesday. School and work should all be canceled on monday, as it's MLK day, but you'll most likely end up missing school on tuesday. We're going to try to leave sometime late in the evening on friday so we don't interfere with people's school schedule.
Bus Information
I'm gonna go ahead and deliver the bad news
There will be no electric outlets on our bus, so no smash on the drive there. The only buses that have outlets are the ones leaving from the New York area.
First of all I just want to reemphasize that this trip is going to be expensive. Not just this bus ticket in particular, but this trip in general. This bus is not meant to make things easier on anyone's wallet but instead easier on those that do not want to drive through the Appalachian Mountains. And considering this trip is hours away having to drive and finding a driver is unlikely, especially in the midwest. And flying is no cheaper.
Alright, here are our three main options:
Indianapolis: Departing at 4:10 pm, arriving at 5:55 am, roughly two hours before the doors to the venue open. This is currently our best option except for the fact that we would be leaving not long after a lot of people would get out of school and it may be inconvenient due to the time we would be departing. It's a friday after all, and I know not everyone is available at this time of the day. $98 Bus Ticket. If you select "no" for whether or not the credit card holder is traveling it's an extra $18. If you select yes, it isn't. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by mail it will be an extra $3. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by will call it isn't, but you must pick them up yourself form a location that would distribute them.
Indianapolis: Departing at 7:20 pm, arriving at 9:15 am. This is another good option due to its central location, however, melee doubles starts at 10:00 am. this gives no breathing room for any melee players planning to enter doubles, and if the bus ends up being late at all, it's highly likely they will miss registration. So unless no melee players enter melee doubles, we will not be using this method. $98 Bus Ticket. If you select "no" for whether or not the credit card holder is traveling it's an extra $18. If you select yes, it isn't. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by mail it will be an extra $3. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by will call it isn't, but you must pick them up yourself form a location that would distribute them.
Springfield: Departing at 7:00 pm, arriving at 5:55 am. The best of the above two options with the lack of being a centralized location. Springfield will be a bit of a drive for many people, but the fact that it's closer to the east coast means that the ticket will be a bit cheaper and we're able to get and leave at the perfect times with it being a shorter bus ride. As long as people are still willing to make the drive to Springfield, Ohio (should only be three, maybe four hours at most). With this, however, we will be forced to leave from the hotel earlier, meeting our bus at 10:50 in the morning. I do not like this idea because expecting a bunch of smashers to wake up that early in the morning just after a tournament as big as this one, isn't going to happen. There's always the option of staying one extra night at the hotel and hanging out in Maryland for another day after the tournament just to chill, but I don't know how many people would be up for this considering it'll be an extra $15 and you will miss school or whatever on wednesday. We would be able to leave at 8:00 in the morning on wednesday morning and get home around 7:00. I currently like this option the best just because hanging out with everyone after a tournament would be ****in awesome But for convience's sake, this may not be the best option for everyone. $85.60 bus ticket (with tax). If you select "no" for whether or not the credit card holder is traveling it's an extra $18. If you select yes, it isn't. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by mail it will be an extra $3. If you select to recieve your ticket(s) by will call it isn't, but you must pick them up yourself form a location that would distribute them.
If none of these options will end up working I have one backup plan, though it sacrifices organization, which we need for this. I'm worried that with our fourth option things will go awry and I don't want this trip to fall apart.
Housing
Hotel Registration will need to be made before December 25th. I will start making lists of who wants to room with whom after I get a complete list. that will give me a month to get things organized which should be enough time. Hotel registration will need to be done in groups. All of the money for one group will need to be in one place. For instance. If I, Crash, Overswarm, and Kel are all staying in the same hotel room, everyone would have to send their money for the hotel to one person, say, Overswarm. OS would then register the hotel room for each of them as a group. I will either do it this way or just have people send me the money through paypal and have take care of it myself. Either way works, I don't mind. Just as long as if the first option is taken, no one ****s it up. Hotel rooms will be $90 a night, split among everyone staying in the room. We are for sure staying on saturday, sunday, monday, and maybe tuesday if people choose my third option for travel. We would leave from the hotel on wednesday before checkout.
Travelers
This use to be a list of those that were confirmed and/or thinking of going. I'm reducing this to only people that have confirmed that they will be going. We are not renting out a bus anymore so I'm not as worried about people backing out as it wont hurt others. But for hotel purposes and general organization, I'd much rather it if you knew for sure that you'd be able to go.
IF YOU ARE GOING I NEED TO KNOW BEFORE NOVEMBER 25TH
I will start organizing everything between then and the beginning of January.
You must order your ticket at least 21 days in advance or the price for it doubles.
You must have your hotel room reserved before December 25th or you do not have housing.
You must preregister for Pound 4 before the beginning of January or you cannot enter.
Confirmed:
Hilt
Crash
Kel
Y.b.M.
Infern
Smash64
Reneblade
Reneblade's Friend
Today
Kassandra
Mayling
If you need to contact me, post in here or send me a PM.
If you need to reach me by other means, you can contact me on Aim (Lixth@aol.com)
Discuss!
