We are happy to announce that there will be a Nottingham meetup for The My Little Pony Movie taking place on the 28th of October 2017. The plan is to meet outside the Broadway Cinema at 11:30 AM with plans to head inside to find seats at around 12:00 PM. This should give people enough time to arrive at the cinema and to get tickets and snacks.
After the movie, we will be heading to the Lloyds No. 1 Bar for food and drinks and a post-movie meet.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
- You are responsible for buying your own ticket. I would advise you all to buy a ticket online before coming to the meetup. Tickets can bought at this website. It is recommended that you do this well in advance to ensure you get the seat you want!
- Please read this Equestria Daily movie theatre etiquette guide before attending. We do public meets all the time and I’m sure none of you will show us up, however to avoid being the stereotypical bunch of “those guys,” please humour us and give this a quick read. We want everyone attending to enjoy the movie, not just the members of the group.
- We are meeting at outside the Broadway Cinema on the 28th of October 2017 at 11:30 AM (For the 12:30 PM viewing) and going inside at 12:00 PM.
- Please let us know if you can make it by saying are attending on the event page on Facebook, or sending a message on the Telegram or Discord Chanel.
The Venues
Broadway cinema
Lloyds No. 1 Bar
Poll For Next Meetup Date (Early For Once)
I have decided to release the poll for the next meetup early for once, to give people some more time to plan for the next the meetup. This poll will close on the 9th of October at 01:00. this should give people plenty of time to get their vote in.
This time around, the plan is to hang around at the [ALT] Gaming Lounge, to catch up with members of the group, and play games. The ALT bar serves delicious food and drinks and they have been accommodating enough to treat us most excellently during our meet-up events, so if you can, please do buy things at the bar.
Once the poll is closed, the meet date will be decided based on which day is most popular. If the most popular date is one of the November dates, we will be hosting both the November meet and whatever the runner up in October is. This is because there is only two weekends that the Trottinghamshire Event organisers can run a October meetup.
30th Of September Meetup
The Poll for the next Meetup is now closed. The 30th of September was the winning date by a large margin. This should also give people plenty of time to plan for this meetup.
This time round the plan is to meetup at 12 pm around the [ALT] Gaming Lounge, to catch up with members of the group (I’m sure some of us will have lots to talk about), and play games (including card games).
The ALT bar serves delicious food and drinks and they have been accommodating enough to treat us most excellently during our meet-up events, so if you can, please do buy things at the bar.
If you have any ideas’s or suggestion’s for this or future meetups feel free to mention them on our Group’s Facebook Page or Trottinghamshire Discord Server.
[ALT] VIDEO GAMING LOUNGE
Poll Result
Poll For Date Of September Meetup
After this months hiatus due to most of the Trottinghamshire Admins being at BronyCon, it’s time to plan for next month’s meetup.
This time round the plan is to hang around the [ALT] Gaming Lounge, to catch up with members of the group (I’m sure some of us will have lots to talk about), and play games (including card games).
The ALT bar serves delicious food and drinks and they have been accommodating enough to treat us most excellently during our meet-up events, so if you can, please do buy things at the bar.
This Poll is now Closed. The Next meetup is on 30th of September
Poll Result
July the 29th Trottinghamshire Bronies Picnic/Meetup
After some hiccups the date of the next meetup, has now been decided. The date of the next meetup is the 29th of July. This time around, the plan is to go to The Arboretum park, just off the University of Nottingham central campus for a picnic – weather permitting. This park is a fairly decent size, so we should be able to find a space to hold the meetup.
Just in case the weather is poor, we will start the meetup at the [ALT] Gaming Lounge about 12 PM, and then go the Arboretum about 1 PM. Facebook and Discord updates will be provided throughout the day so that if anyone is joining us after we have left the [ALT] Lounge, they will be able to track us down.
Feel free bring your own food and snacks, however put any food in a backpack you will be taking to Arboretum, if you will be meeting us at the [ALT] Gaming Lounge. If you are meeting us at the Arboretum, just wait at the entrance closest to Nottingham Trent University
If the weather is poor, we will just hang around the [ALT] Gaming Lounge, catch up, and play games (including card games).
The ALT bar serves delicious food and drinks and they have been accommodating enough to treat us most excellently during our meet-up events, so if you can, please do buy things at the bar.
The Arboretum Park
[ALT] Video Gaming Lounge
Nottingham Trent University
Poll for Date of Trottinghamshire Bronies July Meetup/Picnic
It’s that time again, when we need to plan the next meetup. This time around, the plan is to go to The Arboretum park, just off the University of Nottingham central campus for a picnic – weather permitting. Just in case the weather is poor, we will start the meetup at the [ALT] Gaming Lounge, and then go the Arboretum once everyone has turned up. Facebook and Discord updates will be provided throughout the day so that if anyone is joining us after we have left the [ALT] Lounge, they will be able to track us down.
If the weather is poor, we will just hang around the [ALT] Gaming Lounge, catch up, and play games (including card games).
The ALT bar serves delicious food and drinks and they have been accommodating enough to treat us most excellently during our meet-up events, so if you can, please do buy things at the bar.
This poll would normally have more dates on, however most of the people running the group are going to BronyCon in August so can not run a meetup that month.
The poll is now closed. The Winning date is the July the 29th.
The Arboretum
[ALT] GAMING LOUNGE
June 10th 2017 – Fighting is Magic Tournament – Write Up
The June 10th meet-up was another great success for the Trottingham Bronies group, with 16 people in attendance, the number of people joining us at [ALT] was above average. Not only was the meet-up good in terms of attendees, but it was also the first time that the organisation team in the Trottinghamshire Bronies community tried their hand at organising a gaming tournament for the fan-made My Little Pony game: Fighting is Magic.
With the help of [ALT], who offered a generous discount on the rental of the computer stations for the day, we managed to pull off a fully fledged tournament with 8 entrants and 7 rounds of 4 bouts.
While the beginning of the day was a bit rocky for organisation, as we didn’t really have any idea how many people would be entering the tournament, and this being our first time at this sort of thing, we did have to pull in some help from the [ALT] staff to set something up so that everyone would fight against everyone. In future, we will want to look at having people enter the tournament before the day, just to ensure we can focus on managing the layout of the matches. Despite this, we are very pleased with how it went and hope to keep on the good side of [ALT] so that we can continue doing things like this in the future.
A special congratulations to Sean Leedell for winning our tournament in a flawless 7 round win streak!
After the Tournament had drawn to a close, the winner announced and all of the computers closed down, we retreated back to the main area of the lounge to engage in conversation, card games, video games and most importantly: Food and drink!
It was at this point that the meet was beginning to wind down. We spent a couple more hours talking and playing together before finally deciding to call the meet to a close and take the usual group photo before we all went our separate ways for another month.
We had a great time doing the Fighting is Magic gaming tournament at [ALT], and while we won’t be doing it every month, we are going to continue to think of fun ways to include gaming and My Little Pony in our outings to the [ALT] bar. Perhaps with another fighting is magic tournament, but we may also look into organising an event to play Legends of Equestria or other fan created pony games. Provided, of course, that [ALT] are happy for us to put it on their computers.
The next meetup we are aiming to organise a picnic at the Arboretum Park, near the University of Nottingham campus. This is, of course, weather permitting. Please note that for the picnic, food would have to be brought along (or bought in town) as we wouldn’t be providing it. If you want to bring along any cakes or sweet treats to share though, you are more than welcome to!
For now though, Trottingham Bronies – Signing off!
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June 10th Trottinghamshire Meetup (Fighting is Magic Tournament)
Following the closure of the poll for the next date for a Trottingham Bronies meet-up, the winner is Saturday the 10th of June 2017.
As usual, this will be hosted at the [ALT] Gaming Lounge, starting from 12:00pm.
Please feel free to bring along your own games of your choosing. However, please bear in mind that on the 10th there will be a Nintendo Switch tournament going on at [ALT], so there may not be as much free space as usual. We are not planning on getting involved with the Switch tournament.
We also hope to be doing a Fighting is Magic tournament on this same day at the computer stations of the [ALT] bar (Pending confirmation from [ALT] staff). Because we need to pay for the usage of these stations, we ask anyone who wishes to be added to the tournament roster to pay a small charge of £2. Of course, If you want to come to the Meetup but do not wish to take part in the Tournament, you do not need to pay a thing (Though putting some money into some food and drinks at ALT would be appreciated).
We may not be able to get controllers that work with Fighting is Magic – Tournament Edition, so there is a chance that it will be a case of having 2 people at the same keyboard.
Trottingham Bronies – Signing off!
Meetup Location
[ALT] Gaming Lounge
Results of Poll
20th of May Meetup Photos/Write Up
The May Meetup was a bit more spread around the ALT Gaming Lounge, with different groups doing different things. Joined by friends old and new alike, our group easily filled the tables provided to us by ALT (and most likely their coffers too!) with games of Secret Shipfic, Tales of Equestria, BUCK Legacy and even a Nintendo Switch! Not only that, but many of our group brought along laptops to play Pony games and watch pony episodes. We also had a few people using some of the ALT provided games and consoles to compete with each other on.
Compared to previous meet-ups at the ALT Gaming Lounge, the May 20th meet-up may not have been the most populated – with a peak turn out of 12 people – however, that is not to say it wasn’t enjoyable.
Joined by friends old and new alike, our group easily filled the tables provided to us by ALT (and most likely their coffers too!) with games of Secret Shipfic, Tales of Equestria, BUCK Legacy and even a Nintendo Switch! Not only that, but many of our group brought along laptops to play Pony games and watch pony episodes. We also had a few people using some of the ALT provided games and consoles to compete with each other on.
Overall, I think it is accurate to conclude that this meet-up was highly successful despite the comparably lower turnout compared to some of our previous meets. We’re now looking forward to our next meet-up, where we plan to host a Fighting is Magic gaming tournament at ALT. With any luck, this will be a lot of fun for all.
Trottingham Bronies – Signing off!
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March 25th 2017 Meetup Photos
25 March 2017 means a Brony meet at the [ALT] Gaming lounge. With a peak attendance of 17, I’d say it was a good one and we all enjoyed ourselves· Taken at ALT Gaming Lounge
