Any hangouts near london happening!?

JamesBrady

Hey guys/girls!

Just curious as to if any poly-count hangouts are happening anytime soon in the UK ?,

Would be really cool to meet you guys and have a few beers!

Gmanx

I'm bringing a group of media students over in the second week of November to check out universities and visit museums/galleries/VFX houses etc so I could meet up for a beer or two one evening?

almighty_gir

If you want to arrange a meetup one evening while your students are in the country, i'm sure many other will come.

Our london meetups have gotten pretty big (30-ish), so it should be a fun time. what dates?

Gmanx

Tuesday (Nov 10th) and Friday (13th) are no-go for me. Any other evening is good.

ambershee

I'm long overdue being drunk and annoying at a London meet.

JamesBrady

ah crap i dont get paid until the 16th of nov so iam broke until then ..

I can totally hang out that Friday/Saturday if you guys are about! Perhaps we can get more peeps included!

Il ask in work to see if anybody wants to come along!

McGreed

London is boring! Come to Dublin, we got... we got....umm... We got Guinness, straight from the brewery! Ah well. I guess it is easier to arrange in London.

JamesBrady

haha dude iam from ireland, moved over to work with C.A. must admit dublin is nice but London is where its happening yo!

littleclaude

Sounds like a plan, how about Friday 13th or 20th November, Crown and Two chairmen in Soho, Dean Street as you can drink outside on the street and have a cheeky smoke.

I could poke my Alumni who work in the area and we could all occupy upstairs and outside, there's a handy bar upstairs as well

Map - https://www.thecrownandtwochairmenw1.co.uk/findus

Millenia

Neat, should try and make it in!

ambershee

My vote is for the Friday, on account of needing to be in Preston by about 8am on the Sunday xD

Edit: Given how many of us there tend to be, it is well worth finding somewhere we can book a space in advance. I still recall the 'Great Polycount Goose Chase' one time when this didn't happen...

Gmanx

Gah - we fly back on Friday eve.

marks

....we've never booked anywhere in advance for the London meets afaik..? lol

JamesBrady

Haha! Well iam free when you guys are just say the word

@Littleclaude, that sounds good dude but would we all need to make reservations in advance??

@Millenia , I presume you seen my tag on facebook

@Marks, Ive asked Liam to see if he can come along too!. Would be nice to have peeps from C.A. to talk too also!

Id be finish work at 4:30 on the friday 'after the 16th of course' so i could totally train it to london after!..

ambershee

marks wrote: »

....we've never booked anywhere in advance for the London meets afaik..? lol

Yeah, and the aforementioned time resulted in quite a lot of people turning up to a pub with no Polycounters in it. Would be nice to avoid a repeat scenario. IIRC, someone organised the last one and sorted out space in the pub at KGX?

ghaztehschmexeh

I might show up. Whether you like it or not!

Sugus

I would much rather if this was on Friday the 13th as I won't be around the following week

JamesBrady

Well what about arranging it for the week after the 16th?? ..
that being the last week in november!

littleclaude

Friday afternoon into nights are good for me, 13th, 20th, 27th Nov? Soho is also largely open 24-7 so could drink all night into Saturday morning ha-ha!

Could always start at the Crown and Two Chairmen and then move onto to the hundreds of pubs around the area. The Spice of life is cool as they close off the road and you can drink outside.

JamesBrady

Awesome well iam free when ever you guys are 'after the 16th of course! ha'

+ I can catch the 200 gatwick bus home so iam totally cool with hanging to what ever time!

Cant wait to hang with ya'l/visit London!

Disclaimer: I may be Irish but guaranteed, you all could drink me under the table 'As if there is Tea id most likely end up drinking it haha'

fearian

I'm in!

Just a warning, we will probably have to book their function room or upstairs or something. PC meets get pretty big...

mystichobo

I'm highly considering flying back to the uk for a night for this, will wait till you guys work out a date and stuff and decide from there

littleclaude

mystichobo wrote: »

I'm highly considering flying back to the uk for a night for this, will wait till you guys work out a date and stuff and decide from there

If people are travelling would it be better to meet on Saturday day time for all you full time working guys and go into the night?

Also what about the Meltdown Bar or is that just going into over geek drive. Ha-ha!

ghaztehschmexeh

I've been to meltdown. It's pretty cool, a bit awkward and not huge. But it does have video games you can play, so it's appropriate for video game artists I guess!

ambershee

Meltdown isn't bad, but I'm not sure it's going to be big enough for their regular client

JamesBrady

haha! well iam totally for wherever you guys want to go first

Iam free Friday 20th of nov from 4:30 onwards 'as thats when I finish work'
or any-time the Saturday too! soo any of those days suit me!

Il watch this space for updates! , shame we arent all friends on FB would be soo much easier arranging time/location etc haha!... Feel free to add me if you guyz/girlz want!. Username is a clue

McGreed

There is the polycount Google+ group, I wondering if it's possible to arrange something using that.

almighty_gir

i still think the best place for big meetups is the pub upstairs at kings cross. nice central location at a station so nobody has to go too far to try and get home, and the upstairs part of the pub is big and roomy with huge tables.

it's where we had our biggest meetup.

place is called "The Parcel Yard".

JamesBrady

@almighty_gir that sounds good! especially for those who need to catch a train haha

PlasmaticJj

The Parcel Yard rely is the most ideal location, but I'de be willing to go to anywhere that preferred. You can book a room on there website.

CrazyMan09

I'm in, the previous one was really fun. Parcel yard was great, but the idea of starting at Crown and Two Chairmen then
moving on to the Spice of life sounds even better.

Millenia

Yeah, last one at the Parcel Yard was great, since we had a nice space all to ourselves.

almighty_gir

To clarify, we've never actually booked a space at the parcel yard, we've just turned up and uh... taken over the upstairs area which they've always been happy with because we tend to spend a lot there on food/drinks.

I'm not opposed to booking the space, but that would mean taking deposits from polycounters.

JamesBrady

Should we all arrange a google+ hangout perhaps to chat and come to an conclusion!?... Perhaps could arrange a date/time

almighty_gir

In all honesty mate, best thing to do is start a new thread saying "this is the date, this is the time, this is the place. be there".

JamesBrady

Yeah good idea dude!.

Il post a new thread this weekend! with better info!

Just hopefully some show up haha

fearian

Ha... That won't be a problem, haha.

edit: 20th?

Gmanx

During our visit to the city with my students this week I got to the Crown and Two Chairmen (scuse the crappy phone pic). Sorry I won't be there to meet you guys but I did get to have a pint with an animation director from ILM after a visit to their London facility, MPC and Framestore - so it's all good. I even wore my PC shirt.

almighty_gir

So any progress on date/time/location for this?

Next weekend on saturday (28th) seems to be an ideal date.