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From Brian Youse at CSW:
Guys, after a lot of searching we have discovered we're in the not unique position of being a bit to large a convention to make finding room easy.
Particularly when you're trying to find a convention/meeting room space that can be donated so that we can raise money for the The World War II Foundation.
Best case we've managed to find, that isn't in Northern Virginia (which we were trying to avoid since we know there's a late spring/early summer convention there), was near BWI airport and had several major flaws. First, we would have had to cap attendance at 135 persons (allowing for MMP employees, owners, etc.) the space was in two separate rooms. We couldn't have "honor keg", we had to use hotel restaurant for Saturday pizza or pay a hefty fee, and had no complimentary breakfast. And most importantly (to us) using this site would cost us 6-8k which is 6-8k we would NOT be giving the The World War II Foundation! To us that's a deal breaker.
SO, we have decided to go back to Bowie, Maryland. The Comfort Inn. HOWEVER, we are paying for private security starting each day from 10pm to 8am. We will have two guards whose job is to monitor/patrol/protect the parking lot. We may try to shift their schedules to gain more evening time, we don't think we need more morning coverage - that has NEVER been an issue.
The dates have moved, they are January 29th through February 1st 2026. Thursday evening (many come early afternoon) through Sunday. Yes, this is the week before the Super Bowl so there will be NO NFL games to miss while you're playing ASL, Gamers games, GCACW, and evening euros.
We will have a registration link on our website shortly, this coming week we hope.
And we will continue to look for a more suitable location. We talk about this on our podcast (check out YouTube look for "We're not dead yet").
We hope to see you at Winter Offensive 2026!!
Guys, after a lot of searching we have discovered we're in the not unique position of being a bit to large a convention to make finding room easy.
Particularly when you're trying to find a convention/meeting room space that can be donated so that we can raise money for the The World War II Foundation.
Best case we've managed to find, that isn't in Northern Virginia (which we were trying to avoid since we know there's a late spring/early summer convention there), was near BWI airport and had several major flaws. First, we would have had to cap attendance at 135 persons (allowing for MMP employees, owners, etc.) the space was in two separate rooms. We couldn't have "honor keg", we had to use hotel restaurant for Saturday pizza or pay a hefty fee, and had no complimentary breakfast. And most importantly (to us) using this site would cost us 6-8k which is 6-8k we would NOT be giving the The World War II Foundation! To us that's a deal breaker.
SO, we have decided to go back to Bowie, Maryland. The Comfort Inn. HOWEVER, we are paying for private security starting each day from 10pm to 8am. We will have two guards whose job is to monitor/patrol/protect the parking lot. We may try to shift their schedules to gain more evening time, we don't think we need more morning coverage - that has NEVER been an issue.
The dates have moved, they are January 29th through February 1st 2026. Thursday evening (many come early afternoon) through Sunday. Yes, this is the week before the Super Bowl so there will be NO NFL games to miss while you're playing ASL, Gamers games, GCACW, and evening euros.
We will have a registration link on our website shortly, this coming week we hope.
And we will continue to look for a more suitable location. We talk about this on our podcast (check out YouTube look for "We're not dead yet").
We hope to see you at Winter Offensive 2026!!
