Who wants to go to San Francisco on Aug 5th and 6th for free?

[Cid]

Here is an email I received from Electronic Arts:
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Hi Sean:
My name is Brent Dady and I work for Electronic Arts on the upcoming The Lord of the Rings™ RPG, The Third Age™. I am helping to organize a Community Day on August 5th and 6th (a Thursday and Friday), here at our head quarters in the Bay Area. I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and to invite you to come out and visit us for a couple of really exciting days at no cost to you. That’s right, we’re offering to pay for you to come check out our game.
I check Eyes on FF daily and am really impressed with the following you have amassed. There is no doubt that many if not all fantasy fans are equally Lord of the Rings fans and likely have a profound interest in any games that are being developed around the series. Given that you run one of the top community and strategy web sites, we felt it would be of mutual interest to personally invite you to our Community Day. Eyes on FF is a very important site to us since we think it would be valuable to get your community more in touch with our game. And let’s be honest – we watch it because it is a site that our customers frequent and their (and your) feedback is invaluable to us.
More about the good stuff -- Community Day is really going to be a unique day for you to get an exclusive, up close and personal look at our game. It is safe to say we are putting a ton of effort (and money) behind producing a game that reaches into the upper echelon of production values and turn-based RPG gameplay. This is an RPG unlike anything you have ever experienced as it will fully immerse you in the world of Middle-earth™.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending this event, as it is by invitation only. If you decide that you would like to attend, please contact me at your soonest convenience so I can start arranging for your accommodations. I will in turn get back to you about everything you need to know – logistics surrounding your hotel, food, and travel accommodations, an agenda detailing the 2 days of activities we have scheduled for you to see our game and meet our developers, as well as some Middle-earth surprises and a ton of fun.
Regards,
Brent Dady
p.s. - I am curious about what kind of traffic you are getting through your website. How many members do you have? What is your current hit count? Average page views per day? Sorry to ask, but the guys upstairs require it.

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Product Marketing Intern

Electronic Arts

250 Redwood Shores

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I cannot go because of work, but they have offered the oppertunity to someone from the site (preferably staff). Please send me an email at shortpants@sbcglobal.net if you are interested in going (serious apps only, please) and why you should go. I have to make a decision within the next couple days. You get a free flight, food, transportation, and hotel. No guests.

I will probably be making a decision tonite, so I need answers today. BTW, going would mean that you'd have to take a lot of pictures and give a detailed report of everything you saw (for an EoFF article).

[Baloki]

Now thats one hell of an ego boosting letter

[sephxangel]

It would be fun to go, but I have only 3 more weeks of school and I need to go to these few remaining weeks. Personally I really do think a staff member should go. Happiness to person who goes!

[Baloki]

I put my vote down for Leeza as I've been excessivly mean to her recently and shes not banned me so she should be rewarded

[Calliope]

International flights? Pass the peanuts please!

[sephxangel]

I put my vote down for Leeza as I've been excessivly mean to her recently and shes not banned me so she should be rewarded

yea why don't the members decide which staff member gets to go?

[Loony BoB]

I would imagine it would more depend on who is available and how much they're willing to pay. I live in Scotland, I'm not available, and I doubt they'd pay for me anyway, for example. It's not exactly much notice for anyone well outside California. Note that the guy said he frequents EoFF daily - he might already know that Sean's in California so he might not be expecting a high cost.

Awesome stuff, though. It's always so cool when we get these things.

[Citizen Bleys]

Send Unne.

[Raistlin]

Send Yams.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Send me. If I can get a ride there. Plus they're gving free food and hotel and stuff.

[Rainecloud]

Sounds great. It's not often people receive e-mails like that...

I'm sure whoever gets to go will enjoy the experience.

[Shoeberto]

I vote Matt, just because of how excited he said he was about the game.

Or Spiff, just because he's sexy.

Or Unne, because of previously stated reason.

[escobert]

I agree Matt should go.

[edczxcvbnm]

An all expenses payed trip all the way out to san fransico? Sounds like a sweet deal for who ever gets it. Good luck to you people.

[bennator]

That's aan awesome deal...too bad I can't go, nor believe I'm the right one to go. Send Del Murder maybe?