You may or may not have known that DragonCon held a staff meeting yesterday. Unfortunately, I could not attend myself. My good friends and Tolkien Track Staff Members hazelrah1 and deej_1 were kind enough to ask a few questions about the Pirate Party in my stead.

After last year, the biggest change we requested was a bigger room. In 2007, due to occupancy (?) issues, some pirates were turned away at the door. The Pirates spoke and DragonCon listened. In a big way, so THANK YOU DragonCon for listening and taking action to help us out.

The tentative plan is for The Pirate Gathering to be (again) on Sunday night (time TBA) in the Hyatt Regency 6-7 (VI-VII). If you don't know where that is, it's the floggin' huge (huge!) room beside the room we had last year. At the end of the corridor. It's the same room that they hold the BIG Fabrications costume contest in. Whoa. We're talking room for 1400 pirates. Also, as of right now, they haven't scheduled anything in Regency 5 (V) and they may use it as overflow (!) if needed. Last year, the Gathering was held in Regency 5. Since DragonCon has only worked up a tentative schedule of events, this could change. The cool thing is that if the location is changed, it will be put in an even bigger room, but not smaller. I hope it stays put myself.

So, sorry for the tease last night. Yeah I know, I'm evil, I have accepted that. Pirate.

Drink up me 'earties and discuss this here.