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This year, Elitemeet (the community organised event) is moving to Bristol.... Last year's in Glasgow was a rip roaring fun time and a chance for commanders to meet in real life, enjoy gaming and a social and raise money for charity.Since the last one, players in the UK and abroad have been organising Mini-meets (affectionately known as Pizza meets as we tend to get together at Pizza restaurants) - the most recent was in OZ.Saturday April 1st at the Mercure Hotel in Bristol until late in the evening. Ticket price includes a hot/cold buffet lunch. There is an option to join us for a 2 course dinner in the evening.co-Hosted by Hutton, from an original name by Alien, hard work by Snos and his handler Alvin and a team of dedicated commanders including Nurse Wyeth, Void Sun, Psykokow and his brother Simoof and our local liaison Kerrash.Last year we had Elite on PC and Xbox, an Oculus Rift, board gaming, a live Hutton Orbital sketch and broadcast performance in the evening, an acoustic set by Ed Lewis of Frontier, Elite Docking Darts organised by Splendour, Artemis bridge simulation for crews to command their own spaceship and a CQC tournament organised in conjunction with commanders from the Pixel Bandits on XBox (yes - we DID saturate with enough commanders to get plenty of game time!). I will be bringing one of the first copies of the strategy game Tak by Patrick Rothfuss (if you enjoy his books - I certainly do and the game is challenging).This year, Specialeffect (one of the two charities we donated to last year) will be sending a representative along with hopefully some of their technology, we have faces and names from the world of Elite, including Kerrash (he of the squee), FireyToad, Paul from HCS VoicePacks (there may be a few giveaways). We will have a special edition of Echoes from the Hold for those that haven't enjoyed a copy yet. Frontier haven't confirmed WHO will be attending yet, but we had some of their team at last year's event and we nailed them down and asked difficult questions until they ran away to hide at the bar.We have also some confirmed representation from player groups including Hutton, Paladin Consortium, Diamond Frogs and Dark Echo confirmed so far - we're hoping for a Fuel Rat or two - we're extending the invitation to everyone who wants to meet and socialise with other commanders to come and have a laugh.As usual there will be a raffle of "items that money can't buy" from the world of Elite. All money from tickets is going to the costs of the venue hire, lunch and if you book it, dinner.... Anything over and above the costs is going to charity... [url]www.elitemeet.info [/URL] and click on 2017! There are hotel spaces at the venue available at a special rate - quote the code from the website if you want to book a space - being a city there are other nearby hotels, but we'll be having fun until LATE in the evening. There is a bar dedicated to our event within the rooms we have hired.More updates as we have them.We will be being joined by CMDR Wotherspoon - if you've not tuned in to Hutton Orbital Radio and heard his unofficial Galnet digests - they're well worth a listen - this is the last one:Galnet - we read it so YOU don't have to.We're going to persuade him to do a LIVE version during the day.10:00 - Check in opens10:00 - 13:00 - morning sessionMeet fellow commandersIntroduction to Artemis & start assembling your teamsElite Docking Darts leaderboard startsVR "Bomb disposal" leaderboard startsElite Dangerous (CQC on XBOX) games startBoard/Card gaming including One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Spyfall, Tak, Carcassonne and many others13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch is served! Hot/cold buffet14:00 - 19:00 - More of the above19:00 - first dinner sittingthen - second dinner sitting (if needed)Evening contentHutton Orbital Live! with D. Chafing and Rudolph HuckerGalnet News presented by CMDR WotherspoonThe Pixel Bandits live podcast recordingThe Holo-Me, Holo-You competition judging and resultsThe Raffle of things money can't buy, hosted by Nurse WyethMore gamingOther content that isn't "timed":Have a go on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, TrackIR, the Z Mouse and Leap MotionHave a go on Minecraft using the eyegaze system installed by SpecialEffect"Red Bear WINS!" - Gang Beasts latest version multi-player tourneyPulsar latest betaWarlock of Firetop Mountain - re-live the book from your youth in digital form