That’s right, registration is now open for Go Play NW 2011. And we’re thrilled to be able to keep our ticket prices the same for the third year in a row! On our Eventbee page you can register for the whole weekend or just one day, sign up for the Friday Night Feast too, and order a t-shirt*.
Early registration helps us pay our site deposit and plan better. It also makes us happy to know you’re coming. And it ensures you’ll be able to attend—we sold out in advance last year, we’ve got room for a few more people this year but don’t count on a last-minute registration.
So, you’re here reading this post: you might as well register now. Right? Right.
*We haven’t got the Sasquatch to pose for a design yet; we think he’s nervous about how to top last year’s. As soon as we can get him to sit down for a moment and pose, we’ll get a t-shirt design worked up to show you all.

That’s right, it’s on! Go Play NW 2011 will be held Friday July 8 to Sunday July 10 in the Northwest Rooms (naturally) at Seattle Center. (Really, it’s hard to get more Seattle-centric than playing yards away from the Space Needle.) It’s a great location at a great time of year to be in Seattle, and who doesn’t want to spend a whole weekend having an awesome time playing games? You want to, that’s for sure.
We’ll be getting more information up in the next few weeks and opening registration soon, so keep checking back here. For now, mark those dates on your calendar, and start dreaming…

We’ve put up two new forums for post-GPNW basking:
What We Played — Talk about what you played, and reconnect with everyone you played with. Making separate threads for each game is good, even if there’s very little in them. That way other people in the same game can come along and add their 2-cents, and folks who want to learn more about your game can jump in and ask questions.
The Good, The Bad & The Awesome — Did you have fun? This is the place for all your post-event reflections and feedback. Tell us what we did right and what we did wrong, so future events can be even better, or just come bask in the afterglow…
There’s GPNW 2010 talk all over the intersphere. We can’t keep track of it all! If you are posting elsewhere (other forums, blogs, whatever), drop a link in the forums so other Go Play Nor’westers can find it. If you wrote game summaries you can copy-paste into threads here, link to those discussions, whatever you want.

No more waiting, it’s game on. This is where you’re going:

You will be greeted by this charming fellow:

It’s June, but this is Seattle, and the weather-watcher mice can’t get their story straight. So, y’know, bring a warm jacket.

Go Play NW 2010 is officially sold out for the weekend.*
We’re going to have a full house this year which is amazing. But now that the roster is set, it’s all about getting on the forums, talking about games and assembling your survival kit. Go!
*We do have a very limited number of Sunday-only registrations remaining.

Just a quick public service announcement:
Today, May 31, is the last day to order t-shirts for pickup at GPNW 2010.

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.

The Go Play NW forums are up! Brainstorm games, share cool places to eat, or just weep about how long you have to wait until the fun starts.
There’s a separate forum RSS feed, plus you can see the latest posts on the right hand side of this page. See, there they are!
We’ve also made forums for all the previous years to archive all the fond memories. If you have old discussions from other forums, blog posts, pictures, etc., make a thread, put up a link and share the love.
Why So Yellow?
Anyone can join the forums, but we configured it so that posts by users registered for GPNW 2010 look different from those who aren’t. That way you’ll know if the person you’re talking to is even committed to coming.
When you sign up for the forums, we’ll check to see if you’re registered. If you use the same email to sign up on the forums as you did when you registered for the event, we’ll be able to match you up. If we miss you, drop us a line and we’ll tag you proper.

Are you in Brisbane (or heck, anywhere in Australia and open to road trips)? Make a note that Go Play Brisbane is coming up on March 20.
With a name like Go Play Brisbane, what’s not to like? Then again, if we’re Go Play in the far northwest corner of the globe (assuming you believe in that whole dateline thing), and they’re in the far southeast corner, does that make them our mirror universe evil twin or something? Or are we the evil twin? All I know is that someone is secretly left-handed and sporting a goatee…

Event registration for Go Play NW 2010 is up and running. Jump in now and reserve your place at the table.
The sooner you register, the sooner we’ll know you’re coming, and that will make us happy.