Just a quick public service announcement:

Today, May 31, is the last day to order t-shirts for pickup at GPNW 2010.

Some important upcoming dates for registration and refunds:

• May 31: Last day to order or refund t-shirts
• June 8: Last day to sign-up for or refund the Friday Night Feast
• June 15: Last day to register online (walk-ins allowed if there are still remaining tickets which is looking less and less likely)

We’re sorry, but we can’t refund t-shirts or the Friday Night Feast after their respective cut-off dates because we’re placing the orders with the vendors immediately.

We only have 20 registrations left for GPNW 2010. Get yours here.

As we posted earlier, we’re well past 2009’s attendance that for those of you keeping track was 75. Hugo House is bigger than Freehold (just look at the pictures), so there is room for more attendees than last year, but registrations are going fast. As with every year, the rate of registration increases the closer we get to the event. At this point, it’s on track to sell out.

Just about everyone has signed up for dinner which is pretty exciting. I know it’s the lure of game-inspired desserts.

Monday was supposed to be the day the Early Bird registration period ended and the ticket price went up.

But we were sitting around talking about how money’s tight for a lot of folks “in these troubling economic times,” and the Early Bird discount started to sound like a catch-22: people who were tight on cash might not have the money on hand to buy a ticket early, but if they were forced to wait the price would go up. Ouch.

So we made a command decision: this year we’re keeping the price where it is all the way up to the event. Just a little gift, from us to you.

Fair warning though: if you want to come, buy a ticket as soon as you can. We already have more registrations than the entire attendance of GPNW 2009, and it’s still three weeks away. It’s going to sell out.

Were you at Go Play NW in 2007? If so, you can help us out! Way back in 2007 we didn’t use nifty tools like online forums for scheduling. As a result, we don’t really know what games were played. We’re reconstructing events on the Go Play NW forum for historical purposes. Please come and tell us what you played in 2007!

And while you’re at it, let us know about pickup games you played in which may not be recorded in the archives for other years. We’ve all had some great times at Go Play NW and it would be really great to have a complete archive to reminisce, ruminate, and boast over.