Con Newsletter

Dear friends,

this mail goes out to all TDs of last year's European Grand Prix, the 
various persons listed in the contacts section of the Diplomatic Corps and to
our friends across the ocean who keep track of FTF events. Included you'll find
the first version of the EDC2004 newsletter. We'd greatly appreciate if you
could send/hand it around your local diplomacy community or post it in the
relevant national newsgroups in your country. You'll also find a list further
down of the mailinglists and forum to wich this newsletter is already being
posted by us.

If you are editor of a zine or know one;-) (be it postal or web) please 
"print" this newsletter in your zine or spread the news. If you think we 
kept an important person out, notify us or forward this mail directly;-)

For those in non english-speaking countries: perhaps you want to post this in
your own language somewhere? A swedish and a french version will be out within 
a
week and we'll send this to Yann and Aron. An italian version is planned but 
not
yet available. If anybody else wants the swedish version, feel free to ask ;-)

Thanks very much for your help and we hope to see (and stab) you all in 
Germany at EDC 2004!
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Newsletter Text follows.
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EuropeanDipCon 2004 in Germany is drawing ever nearer. And already we, the
organisers, are showered with questions. You clearly needed answers, you needed
a regular EDC news bulletin, and this is its first issue. Here we go:

V.V. from Finland asks:
"when is this EDC going to take place?"

V., the tournament starts september 23rd and ends september 26th. It will be
held in Darmstadt, Germany, a city close to  Frankfurt and its international
airport. We have rented a venue that is located inmidst of a green park, a 
venue
were we will not just play diplomacy, but many of us will also sleep and eat
and, most of all, will meet new friends.

G.B. from England wants to know:
"do I have to stay in that place, I'd much rather get myself a five-star 
hotel?"

Don't worry, G., we'll even help you find the best Hotel in town. While most
players probably want to stay at the venue, not all can. Beds are reserved beds
on a first-come first-served basis. The venue has about 70 beds and we expect
many more people to come, so some will have to stay at the hotel anyway. There
are many different hotels of all categories in Darmstadt. 

E.J. from Norway had this question:
"Darmstadt, isn't that some boring village in east germany?"

No, E., Darmstadt is in the center of Germany, about 30 kilometers/ 20 miles
south of Frankfurt. But you won't have to go to Frankfurt to find pubs and bars
and discos, Darmstadt is a student city and nights won't get boring. Then of
course, we will play the whole day, drink the whole day... I doubt many will
make it to the pubs anyway. As for finding your way to Darmstadt: check out
www.diplomacy-bund.de/cons/edc/int/location.php

Y.C. from France is worried:
"I am guessing 'zat it all will be very expensive"

Just the opposite, Y.! If you stay at the venue, three nights including
breakfast and dinner will cost you 69-77 euro. There is no tournament entrance
fee for foreigners. And transportantion should be cheap too. Just use the
Frankfurt Hahn Airport, flying Ryanair. We will pick you up there (or at
Frankfurt international or the train stations) You see, it's comfortable and
cheap! 

Finally, F.O. from Ireland asked repeadetly:
"Will there be beer?"

Yes, T., there will be. Plenty! First rate german brew.

More answers in the next volume or here:
www.diplomacy-bund.de/cons/edc/int

The answers you won't find at the website yet (and more;-)) are likely to be
answered in the EDC 2004 Yahoogroup to which you can subscribe either by 
sending
an email to:

[email protected]

or via the web at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edc2004


Of course you can email us privately to the following adresses as well:

Sascha Hingst ([email protected])
Frank Bacher ([email protected])


Hope to stab you all soon in Darmstadt,

Frank and Sascha for the German Diplomacy Community

If you get this email more than once we sincerely apologize. We simply posted 
it
to all relevant groups.