Hello everyone,
first of all, my best wishes for the new year.
As a lot of you may have noticed: 2016 wasn't the best year for VTES in Belgium. A lot of us had things going on in their lives and VTES kinda got backtracked. I myself take some of the responsibility/blame, since I began to lack the motivation to continuously call people and try to get groups together. Since Dennis decided to play a less active role, the superstructure went missing as well and the (temporary) close of the forum kinda gave the final punch.
However, I still have my cards and I really do want to play. Personally, I would like to go to the tournament in Utrecht and to the EC in Berlin. I'd also like to see something organised in Belgium this year. Realizing I can't do this on my own, I started working on a plan to get things going again. I still have to talk to a lot of people (my NC and my fellow price from Brussels haven't returned my calls yet), but those I have heard were optimistic and wanted to work together to play on a more regular basis. Arvid (Ghent), Nick (Bruges) and Bram (Antwerp) have agreed to organise/host a VTES-session once a month. If we could find someone from Brussels (Jonathan? Emiliano? Lucien? ...?) motivated to do the same, that would mean we could have a weekly group going on. The first evening has been fixed on 20/01/2017 (see event:
www.facebook.com/events/1724640301185037/
) and is currently set in Ghent.
There are still some things to discuss, such as this forum and/or facebook or perhaps trying to organise an event ourselves or the timing of play (this doesn't always have to be a Friday evening, as far as I'm concerned). So I hope to see as many people as possible next Friday to talk about these things face to face.
Keep bleeding,
Tom
Prince of Ghent