Minnesota Yo-Yoing, 2009
This past weekend was the Minnesota State Yo-Yo Contest. It was held at The Depot Coffee house in Hopkins. This is my round-up.
The venue was packed. The contest was hot. Kare11 was there. And it was by far the best Minnesota States ever, now the bad/good news… I have to follow it up next year with something even better.
I’m in charge of running the 2009 Minnesota State Yo-Yo Contest and I’m looking for specific input. What do you want to see at the contest in 2009? What kind of venue do you want? What do you think about prizes? Are you thinking about coming?
I’m looking to Chris Myers and his planning with the Missouri State Yo-Yo Contest and I’m wondering if I can do something that epic. Chris burst onto the scene last year with his first state contest and immediately established himself as the best contest coordinator by getting a sick venue and buckets of sponsorship from places outside the yo-yo community. He paid people to come to his contest to judge and I think he broke even in the end. That’s what I need to do and that’s what needs to be done.
What do you think? Where should I look to get this done?
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19 Mar 2008 2:48 pm
My recommendation is to look at what you can do. All the great plans do not matter if you can’t make them happen. It is more important to play to your strengths and make the event happen. It’ll be good if it happens.
I’ve seen too often people trying to do something epic, and in the process killing the event. Keep it simple, if simple means you can do something huge, then do that. It is much more important for the event to happen then for you to make great leaps and expand it.
That being said, if you can do it, but if you can’t, or can’t possibly have the time to do something bigger right, do what you can do right.
-GReg
19 Mar 2008 5:25 pm
The video feed was awesome! It was really cool to see the event as it happened. The angle and the lighting wasn’t the greatest, but it turned out pretty good for a test.
JonRisk