Hey guys... haven;t been her ein a while, since i been in contact with those of you who have already registered. But i think its time i update everyone else, in case others are still thinking about registering.
So far, Trinidad leads the number of Caribbean confirmed Registrations with about 10. We expect even more of you to come, and probably end up going with a lot of prizes too! Also, Prez, a native trinidadian who lives in Canada (street fighter champ there) will be coming to the tourney also as a guest too.
Anyway, here is some important details about those of you who want to come (all dollar references are USD).
Hotel
Most of you have elected to stay in a hotel, and lots of you have also agreed to share rooms. For those of you willing to share rooms, i think i would suggest you get in contact with eachother. Trinidadians will be getting a very special offer! One of the premier hotels on the island, Royal Palm Hotel, will be offering a discounted rate. Their rooms are Big, beautiful and very comofrtable. It has 3 TV's (plenting of gaming for you while you at your room) one of St. Maarten's nicest pools and its close to eh beach and partty area of the island. It's only about 10 minutes from the event location (depending on traffic), but we will provide transportation anyway. The unit has 2 bedrooms each with a kingsize bed and a king size couhcbed outside. It has a kitchen too, so if you wanna cook up your own dinner you'll be free to to do so. Here is a link to the hotel:
http://www.royalpalmbeachresort.com/The cost will be $140 per night per ROOM. This is very good, since you guys can choose how many of you wish to share the room. Personally, i suggest sharing it between 5 of you. That way, you end up paying only about $120 in accomodation EACH for the entire duration, from thursday to monday. You can even have 6 (2 per bed) and the savings would be even greater. We leave that much up to you.
For those of you who do not want to share rooms or would prefer something simpler, we have mid-town motel offering about $40.00 per night for a single-bed room. Of course, your
own rooms costs you more money, so we STRONLGY recommend sharing rooms.
Hope this is clear... let me know what you think
Airline
For trinidad, this is our biggest holdup. We have ben trying to get a discounted rate but have not received any repsonce as yet. However, i can show you the regular rates that you can expect, travelling with Liat, to attend the competition.
The reuglar fare on Liat amounts to just over $160, plus tax. So to be safe, $200.00 would be the regular fare you could expect in the WORST case scenario. In the event that we do not succeed to gauranttee any lower price, we will advize that you take this offer.
For those of you willing to spend a bit more, or if you have frequent flyer deals with BWIA, you can also fly to St. Maarten using that airline. Caribbean Sun also offers flights, but none of the airliens are cheaper than Liat. We recommend liat, but as you can see, we also recommend you fly on the day before the competition just in case!
Cost
So as you can see, so far you are looking at about $120 for accomdation and about $200 for travel. The regsitration fees have been at the site for some time (hope you saw it already) and those would amount to:
INTERNATIONAL PACKAGE:
Registration Fee (Entire Weekend)
$ 65.00
Price per Game
$ 5.00
Re-entry fee*
$ 3.00
So, say one of you come and sigs up for 4 games, you can expect a total expense of $400.00 whcih includes accomodation, flight, breakfast, lunch and transportation, plus other specials. You can choose how much you want to walk with to spend on shopping (St. Maarten is one of the Nuber 1 shopping destinations!) and dinner. I personally recommend about $20 per day.
Payment
VxG only requires you to pay your registration fee in full BEFORE june 14th 2006, whcih is $65.00. Your hotel reservation will be made, but you will have to pay on your arrival. Your ticket will have to be paid for in trinidad, depending on whether you book online or with a travel agent. The payment will be made to a bank account in Trinidad, and your proof of payment can be faxed to us, or you can scan and email it. We will give you further information as soon as this bank account is set up (expect in 1 week).
The registration fee is non-refundable since as soon as we receive your payment, we would have already begun printing your shirts, badges and processing your reservations. We encourage you to please register on time! There will be a much higher price for late regsitrations (after the june 14th deadline) is any are allowed at all.
Your ideas
Many of you have given some great ideas, such as including portable gaming and PC Gaming. Thanks a lot for the ideas.... Keep them coming. You can email us at this email (info@vxg2k6.com) anytime with you ideas, or drop a post in our forums.
Prizes
The games will be given prizes accoridng to our tradiontal approach, where the highest grossing game gets the highest prize. In other words, the more people you had to beat to win, the better your prize. This makes sense, to reward your efforts and to ensure that those who had the hardest time winning get good prizes. Of course, ALL prizes will be good. Last year, we gave away nothing less than "slim version" ps2 consoles (very new at the time), along with several PSP's, Flights with american airlines, home threates, and more. Expect the prizes to be MUCH improved this year. We will also be offering 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes this year, with the tradional 60-20-10 routine.
Expect a total purse of over $10,000 US Dollars. That at least 750 USD per game.
Well thats about it for now. You now know how much you can expect it to cost for you to come.
We thank you so much for your interest in VxG, and we really look forward to seeing you here.
Best Regards,
Rolando Brison
Chief Coordinator, VxG
info@vxg2k6.com
